Austin Okocha Early life and career: Okocha was born on 14 August 1973 in Enugu, Enugu State.His parents were from Ogwashi-Uku, Delta State, Nigeria. The name Jay-Jay was actually passed down from his older brother James, who started playing football first. His immediate older brother Emmanuel was also called Emma Jay-jay, but the name stuck with Okocha. He began playing football on the street just like many other football stars, usually with a makeshift ball.In 1990, he joined Enugu Rangers. In his time at the club he produced many spectacular displays including one where he rounded off and scored a goal, against experienced Nigerian goalkeeper William Okpara in a match against BCC Lions. Later he travelled to Germany to meet a friend, where he was asked to train with his team after impressing in training, and landed a deal with German Third Division side Borussia Neunkirchen.
Club Career: Eintracht Frankfurt: Okocha joined Eintracht Frankfurt in 1992, where he linked up with many well-known players including Ghanaian international striker Tony Yeboah and later Thomas Doll. He continued to shine for the German side, one highlight being a goal he scored against Karlsruhe, dribbling in the penalty box and slotting the ball past Oliver Kahn even going past some players twice. The goal was voted Goal of the Season by many soccer magazines, and also voted as 1993 Goal of the Year by viewers of Sportschau (an ARD German TV sports program). In 1995, Okocha, Yeboah and Maurizio Gaudino were all involved in a feud with manager Jupp Heynckes, which led to their departure from the club.
Fenerbahçe: Okocha joined Turkish club Fenerbahçe following Eintracht Frankfurt's relegation to Bundesliga 2. In his two seasons with the team he amassed thirty goals in sixty appearances, many of them coming from direct free kicks which had become something of a trademark for him at the club. While at Fenerbahçe, he also became a Turkish citizen as "Muhammet Yavuz
."Paris St-Germain: In 1998, French side PSG splashed around $ 24 million on Okocha, making him the most expensive African player at the time. During his four-year stint with PSG, he played 84 matches and scored 12 goals. He has also served as a mentor, at the time, for young Brazilian footballer Ronaldinho during his time in Paris.
Bolton Wanderers: Okocha joined Bolton Wanderers on a free transfer after leaving PSG in the summer of 2002 after the FIFA World Cup. His debut season, despite being hampered by injury, made him a favourite with the Bolton fans. He steered the team away from relegation with seven goals, including the team Goal of the Season in the vital league win against West Ham United.This was voted Bolton's best Premier League goal in a fans vote in 2008. The next season saw Okocha receive more responsibility as he was given the captain's armband. As captain he led Bolton to their first cup final in nine years where they finished runners-up in the 2004 Football League Cup.Following Bolton's relegation from the Premier League in 2012, Okocha stated that his time at the club was a waste of time, saying the club had not improved since his time there.
Hull City Football League Championship side: Hull City signed Okocha on a free transfer in 2007, after the player had been linked to Real Salt Lake and Sydney FC. He however was not able to contribute greatly to Hull's promotion campaign due to fitness and constant injury problems, playing only 18 games and scoring no goals. At the end of the season, after changing his mind on a proposed retirement due to Hull's promotion, he was released by the club, which sent him into retirement.
International career: Okocha made his official debut for Nigeria in their 2–1 1994 FIFA World Cup Qualifier away loss against Ivory Coast in May 1993.In 1994, he was a member of both the victorious 1994 African Cup of Nations squad and the World Cup squad who made it to the second round before they lost in a dramatic match against eventual runners-up Italy. In 1996, Okocha became a member of an arguably more successful Nigerian side, their Olympic gold winning side at the Atlanta Games.In the 1998 FIFA World Cup hosted by France, Okocha played for a disappointing Super Eagles side who failed to live up to expectations again reaching the round of 16, albeit with less impressive performances save for their 3–2 opening win against Spain. Okocha again joined the Super Eagles in the 2000 African Cup of Nations co-hosted with Ghana. He scored three goals in the tournament. After a disappointing Nations Cup in 2002 where Nigeria ended up finishing third, Okocha was named Nigeria captain after Sunday Oliseh and Finidi George were axed from the side.
Okocha later led the Nigerian team to a third place finish at the 2004 African Nations Cup in Tunisia, with some breathtaking displays, scoring four goals which include a spectacular free kick against Cameroon in the quarter finals and most notably the 1000th goal in Nations Cup history against South Africa, and winning the Player of the tournament and joint Golden boot winner. After failing to help Nigeria qualify for the 2006 World Cup, Okocha announced that he would retire from international scene after the Cup of Nations in Egypt. Injury prevented Okocha from featuring in any of Nigeria's opening fixtures and he did not regain fitness until the semi final loss against Ivory Coast. He then played in his final international appearance in a 2–1 victory in a third place playoff against Senegal, he was then given a standing ovation by the nearly 60,000 attendance when he left the field. Read more: https://www.naij.com/tag/1740-austin-okocha.html
awards: Okocha never won the African Player of Year award, becoming arguably the best player never to win the award despite coming second twice in 1998. He did however win the inaugural BBC African Footballer of the Year and the successive one, becoming the only player to retain the award and win it more than once. In 2004, he was listed in football legend Pelé's FIFA 100 (a list of the greatest 125 living players of all time). In 2007, he was voted number 12 on the greatest African footballers of the past 50 years list, on a poll conducted by CAF to coincide with their 50th anniversary. 1995, 1997, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 Nigerian footballer of the year 1996 Nigerian footballer of the year runner up 1998 African Footballer of the Year runner up 1998 FIFA World Cup All-Star Team (Reserve) 2003, 2004 BBC African Footballer of the Year April 2003 Goal of the Month (England) November 2003 Premier League Player of the Month 2004 African Cup of Nations: Golden Boot 2004 African Cup of Nations: Best Player 2005 Bolton Wanderers footballer of the year FIFA 100
TheFreeOne: Same question I asked the other day. And I hope this OsborneGate will not be swept under carpet with mere suspension of the grasscutter Baschir and NIA DG but prosecuted if involved in the crime.
Even Baschir asked "who is the presidency" when reporters told him of his suspension.
Is it Buhari presidency, Mamman Daura presidency, Grasscutters presidency or Ameachi presidency?
Sheik Bubu wants to appoint more Muslim fulanis to the offices of SGF and NIA DG.....Shikenan kawai...!!
13 people killed by Fulanis last Saturday in Southern Kaduna..... not a single comment from Buhari.... Only to wake up today with Sacking upandan... Is that one still a President ??
michoim: Don't be deluded and don't think you can mislead anyone. How can they say such things when they are going to account for the money? Also were they trying to deceive the international media, when they recently recover about $10million cash from the former NNPC boss? Which money the NNPC boss has already admitted in court that he was in possession of.
how come then Magu doesn't know the amount the agency have recovered since?
michoim: Saraki you are evil, sent by the looters to support corruption. You ought to know that investigations as to who owns the money is ongoing; and moreover it has been revealed that your cohorts in PDP, the wife of one of Jonathan appointees owns the flat where the cash was found.
sarrki: Senate President Bukola Saraki has said the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), is poorly managing the controversy surrounding the $43million recovered from an apartment in Ikoyi, Lagos.
Saraki, speaking on Arise News Network, stated that the anti-graft agency had a duty to inform Nigerians who the money belonged to.
The Senate President said the whole confusion surrounding the recovered money, was not good for Nigeria’s image and warned that the National Assembly might need to step in.
“I believe this is something simple that the organisation (EFCC) should manage, even before the speculation started coming out. The circus has to come to end as to whether it belongs to individuals, companies, agencies or a state government.
“We, however, believe they will sort it out and eventually tell Nigerians who owns the money. Nigerians deserve to know. The circus must stop,” he said.
When asked if the EFCC made an error by not monitoring the Osborne Towers, Saraki said: “I would rather not comment and prejudge them because they might come before us.
“But clearly, Nigerians must know, to save us this embarrassment. I believe they should come out and tell us who owns the money. I believe an agency like this should monitor and clear this
this bubuhari govt.is expert in diverting Nigerians attention. What happened to naming the owner of the ekoyigate? If the money didn't belong to one of bubuhari friend or APC scammers,EFCC would have announced the owner since even publish and uploaded his pictures in all social media.
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Adieza: How To Start An Intensive Catfish Farming Catfish farming is one of the profitable agribusiness venture for youths. One could easily make a lot of Money venturing into commercial Catfish farming. I will give a detailed guide on how I started my own catfish farm. Just do me a favour by patiently reading till the end. The species of catfish I'm farming. For my fish farm, I am culturing the African catfish known as Clarias gariepinus. Clarias gariepinushas an average adult length of 1–1.5 m, it reaches a maximum length of 1.7 m and can weigh up to 60 kg. My target is to achieve a live weight of at least 4kg. The African catfish was realized to be a very suitable species for fish farming for the following reasons: *.It has fast growth rate and feeds on a large variety of agriculture byproducts *.It is hardy and tolerates adverse water quality conditions *.It can be raised in high stocking densities, resulting in high net yields *.The selling price is higher due to its demand *.It tolerates difficult conditions in fish farming System of management The System of management I used in this catfish farming is Semi-intensive system. It mainly involves fertilizing the pond so that algae will grow as supplementary feed and source of dissolved oxygen for the fishes, and occasionally flushing the pond. I am using this management option because I stay in a place where there is no constant water supply. Fertilization of Pond water Fertilizers are natural or synthetic substances that are used in ponds to increasethe production of the natural food organismsto be eaten by the fish. These organisms includephytoplankton, zooplankton,and insects. They are all part of a complexfood webconverging toward fish production. By increasing the availability of major nutrients,fertilizers promote the development of planktonic algae, which provide food for many fish. Fish pond can be fertilized with two types of fertilizers. 1.Mineral or inorganic fertilizerswhich contain only mineral nutrients and no organic matter. They are manufactured industrially to be used in agriculture for improving crop production and they can be obtained from specialized suppliers or agro-allied companies. 2.Organic fertilizers, which contain a mixture of organic matter and mineral nutrients. These include poultry droppings, pig faeces, cow dung, rabbit faeces e.t.c I used poultry droppings for the fertilization of my pond. See the video demonstration of how to fertilize pond. After fertilizing the pond I let it stand for more than one week. After one week I noticed the growth of algae which is the natural food of the fishes. I then removed the bag of poultry droppings from the pond water. Stocking with fingerlings of Clarias gariepinus When I wanted to stock my fish I removed three-quarter of the pond water which is now very green and filled up with clean water. The reason for this is to reduce turbidity and light penetration into the water. The Catfish I want to farm is the African Catfish scientifically known asClarias gariepinus. I now introduced the fishes into the pond water. Feeding of the fingerlings I fed the fishes three times daily; morning, afternoon and night. For the first three weeks(April 4th- April 25th) the fishes were fed 1mm of extruded(floating) fish feed rich in protein content. In the evening of April 25th, I started to feed the fishes with 1.8mm feed and that is what they are eating up till now. The video below is me feeding the fishes. Flushing of Fish pond(partially changing pond water) Although I use the semi-intensive culture of catfish where algae is allowed in the pond water as supplementary fish food and source of oxygen, it is important to flush the pond for a number of reasons. 1. Water changing remove excess nitrates, heavy metals (which will just concentrate if the pond water is only replaced through evaporation). So reducing like three-quarter of pond water and refilling with clean water will reduce the concentration of this compounds. 2. Flushing of pond reduces pond water turbidity which impedes light penetration into the pond water. This turbidity is usually caused by high concentration of organic matter in the pond. 3. It reduces algae boom; a condition in which the green algae becomes over-populated in pond water and harm the fishes by greatly reducing oxygen content of fish pond water. 4. It also helps reduce the foul smell that might be coming out from the fish pond. Other points to note: Always examine your fishes well and make sure they are well fed with the best feed at the fingerlings stage.
stop,stop,buhari and your scam men,I said stop trying to play over the intelligence of over 180m Nigerians. You and your men are not smart, for trying to fool Nigerians with what is very simple to understand, even by a 3yrs old baby. So,lagos state govt.didn't know who they give C of O of the property? So the house have no landlord ? landlord doesn't know the name of his tenant? No agreement before the house or the apartment was sold/rent? the whole building doesn't have security?
Sweetnik22: Can't this grandfather talk to dullard about all these Fulani kinsmen killings They all kept quite cos they didn't attack them or any of their relations
NextGovernor: Amaechi is the greatest criminal on earth. APC BMC group were all mastibating over the 43million dollars on Wednesday expecting to hear PDP stalwart as its owner but to their greatest surprise it was Amaechi's stolen wealth. It would have been talk of the media all week but now they are diverting from it. They are no where to be found except that shameless one above me who will always top comment to increase his pay.
I wonder a man who said he hate money and have never taken bribe doing with such huge amount of money.
praise010: That's the only thing the illiterates brag about - land mass and population. They practically add little or nothing to the economy of the association called Nigeria.
They prefer status quo....docile States and parasitic local governments that relies only on Niger Delta Oil for Survival.
I no blame them sha. The brown roof enclaves caused it all
Youngadvocate: The vociferous progressive muslim, Emir Of Kano and Former CBN Governor, Lamido Sanusi has yet again sought to speak meaning and reason into his conservative and seemingly intellectually disadvantaged northern brothers and sisters, charging them to learn from the commercially minded and productive Igbo people as well as other progressive southern tribes that have set the pace of development in the country and apparently left them (the north) behind.
He wrote on his Instagram page:
"I choose to fight for the progress of Nigerians and suggest solutions to their problems. It's my duty to speak the truth about the ill-effects of conservative Muslims who are harming Islam rather than helping it. I condemned their refusal to expand their knowledge outside their own religion and failure to realise that knowledge is power.
I also correctly concluded denying the right to pursue scientific and technological knowledge and restricting people to Islamic knowledge is the best means of ensuring that Muslims in Northern Nigeria will be remain economically backward. I'm upset at the legion of beggars on the streets and is trying to bridge the gap between the backward North and the Southern parts of the nation.
I still believe that conservative Muslims are still stuck in the 13th Century and their claim that children need no other knowledge than Islamic studies flies in the face of reality. All the poverty, under-development and immense suffering in the North are a result of uneducated masses refusing to learn work or a trade.
The majority of technicians in Kano are from the South while untrained indigenes beg. How does that make sense? Why is it that conservative Muslims who claim to be against scientific progress enter aeroplanes and fly to perform the Hajj in Mecca rather than using camels to cross the desert! Why do they watch sermons beamed by TV live from Mecca and read the Holy Quaran on their laptops yet profess to abhor modern technology? I'd like to point out that there is no harm in copying from the West if it brings succour to the masses of poverty stricken Muslims in Northern Nigeria.
After all Saudi Arabia, the "home" of Islam is known for its highly-rated airline, modern hospitals, indigenous oil industry and space program all of which make it a world leader. In our backward nation, we insist on denying the truth. Unless Northern political leaders like Governor Yari pay attention to me, there will never be a day when anywhere in the North will be like the modern Muslim cities of Kuala Lumpar, Istanbul, Jakarta, Lahore, Greater Cairo, Dacca, Karachi, Dubai, Riyadh or Faisalabad"
Iamvictor: We celebrate frivolities in Nigeria, that is why our Nation is deteriorating day and night. # GodblessNigeria # ChangeYourmindset # BBNaija Recorded 11 million votes few days before the final vote. A vote costs N30. 30 multiply by 11 million = 330million naira. If Nigerians are ask to donate N30 each to IDP for the improvement of lives i am sure many will wave it off and call it nonsense.
But the fact is that...most of the housemates are CHRISTIANS
So sad...the so called christians are now conformed to the world, The world is gradually cripping into the church, am sure some of the housemates will go to their various churches to share testimonies
God bless you abundantly for standing up against the anti-Christ program and their supporters. All so called belemen of goodies have kept quite and secretely endorsed it
Now, this is a country that reserves different laws/treatment for different folks.
So, these men who have killed and supervised the killing of innocent people can be so treated like VIPs in law courts. On trial for mass killings, treason and terrorism, yet no handcuffs while in court. Dude even sat like he's in his living room. Perhaps there was no presiding Judge sitting when the picture/video was taken. Guy in the middle tried to hide his smile when he noticed the camera.
All the same, this picture bears an ominous message. As if the men on trial knew they would be off the hook soon.
I only blame the afonjas who are blindly and ignorantly following and supporting the tyrant Monkey Mohammed Mumubuhari. watch out how the afonjas will come to defend him or they will isolate this thread
Andrewkinggg: Me I'm not concerned that they are smiling I'm concerned that they were not handcuffed. It makes me to wonder what crimes did olisa metuh cimmited that warranted him to be handcuffed and legcuffed at the same time. Nnamdi Kanu handcuffed all in the name of treasonable offenses but these boko haram guys were not handcuffed and yet still had the effortery to be smiling in court.
Sirheny007: They were not handcuffed...criminals..terrorists..murderers..rapists.. Yet I have never seen Nnamdi Kalu without Handcuffs in the court.. What a diabolic country
ProsperOkec: The Boko Haram commanders were not handcuffed.
But Buhari the tyrant,commanded his Daura S S to be handcuffing Nnamdi Kanu. Any one who will say that Buhari is not Boko Haram sympathizer ,have to go for brain check up
Sports › Re: 3-Year-Old Jay Jay Okocha Holding A Football (Throwback) by 2016v2017: 4:37pm On Apr 20, 2017
