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Tomorrow Thursday 9th of January, 2014 is the day fixed for Glo-CAF Awards. The Gala event will be held in Lagos, Nigeria.

The event has since been held in five cities; the 2005 edition was held in Abuja (Nigeria), 2006 in Accra (Ghana), 2007-Lome (Togo), 2008-Lagos (Nigeria), 2009-Accra (Ghana), 2010 in Cairo (Egypt) and the last two editions in Accra Ghana.

Ivorian midfielder Yaya Toure is the current African Player of the Year having won the last two editions while the 2013 African Player of the Year – Based in Africa winner is Mohamed Abou Trieka of Egypt.
With 24 hours to the next Glo-CAF Awards, football analysts have been making different permutations with clear-cut justifications on who deserves to wear the crown of African Player of the Year for 2013.

Majority of the opinions however favour Nigerian international and Chelsea midfielder, John Mikel Obi to win the award.

The top three nominees for the 2013 Glo-CAF Footballer of the Year Award was announced last week by Africa's highest football authority, the Confederation of African Football (CAF).


The top three lists released includes Nigeria's John Mikel Obi, Cote d'Ivoire's Yaya Toure and his compatriot, Didier Drogba.
Drogba plies his trade with Turkish club, Galatasaray while, Toure, winner of the 2012 edition plays for Manchester City.


Mikel is a regular feature for Chelsea FC and last Sunday, capped a virtuoso performance with the opening goal, his fourth since joining the London club in 2006.


According to Mohammed Aderibigbe of Precise Sports, Mikel holds the ace having won the African Cup of Nations with the Super Eagles and Europa Cup with Chlesea FC of London.


The same view was corroborated by Sam Smith of Sports Degrees who opined that Mikel deserves the Award due to his exploits with Chelsea FC and the Super Eagles, adding that if Mikel succeeds, Nigeria will be returning to the list of countries producing Glo-CAF Award winners with Nwankwo Kanu the last of such in 1999.


A Sports Pundit, Chris Abraham, however differs in opinion. He is tipping Toure for the award. According to him, “Yaya will nick it again, he is the leading contender and the fact that he recently won the BBC African Player of the Year makes him a clear favourite”.


However, Sports 24, an on-line sports outfit also tipped Mikel. “ The award goes to Mikel, a regular in Chelsea line up, European‎ Champions League winner, Europa Cup winner and African Cup of Nations Champion, what else? ”
Who wears the crown? All roads lead to the Convention Centre, Eko Hotel and Suites, Lagos on 9th January, 2014 where the king will be crowned.




Glo – CAF 2013 Awards Categories

1. African Player of the Year

2. African Player of the Year - Based in Africa

3. National Team of the Year

4. Women’s National Team of the Year

5. Club of the Year

6. CAF Fair Play Award

7. Coach of the Year

8. Most Promising talent

9. Women’s Footballer of the Year

10. Referee of the Year

11. CAF Legend

12. Africa Fines XI

13. CAF Platinum Award

emmyoha87: If you are streetwise and can see through the lies in the words of men, read Genesis to Revelation, if you still see a lie in the book then don't bother yourself.

The bible (original one) is a scripture from God but today's bibles contain many contradictions due to human errors.Infact there are 101 errors in today's bible

e.g 1. Who incited David to count the fighting men of Israel?

God did (2 Samuel 24: 1)
Satan did (I Chronicles 2 1:1)
2. In that count how many fighting men were found in Israel?

Eight hundred thousand (2 Samuel 24:9)
One million, one hundred thousand (I Chronicles 21:5)
3. How many fighting men were found in Judah?

Five hundred thousand (2 Samuel 24:9)
Four hundred and seventy thousand (I Chronicles 21:5)
4. God sent his prophet to threaten David with how many years of famine?

Seven (2 Samuel 24:13)
Three (I Chronicles 21:12)
5. How old was Ahaziah when he began to rule over Jerusalem?

Twenty-two (2 Kings 8:26)
Forty-two (2 Chronicles 22:2)
6. How old was Jehoiachin when he became king of Jerusalem?

Eighteen (2 Kings 24:
Eight (2 Chronicles 36:9)
So therefore bible version of Noah's Ark may not be true.

Noah's ark story is actually truth but the only problem is that Bible exaggerates it.Actually the ark was not built for all the people and different animal species in the world but for the people and the animals around him.This is because Noah was not sent to the whole world but to his people only.

ASUU don call off strike?

you can all be saying negative things about Mikel but what i know is that the guy have achieved a lot by lifting ucl cup,europa,premiership,Fa cup,Carling cup,nations cup and the next is world cup.

That is not the kind of sin God is referring to.wetin concern God with your WAEC certicates.I will just compare these people with one of my friends that always pray and fast whenever Chelsea want to play football.wetin concern God with football?

@OP how much did average staff of glo earn on monthly basis?

I am both B.sc and HND graduate.I discovered that HND courses are more technical and practical than B.sc courses.Both suppose to be equivalent and this discrimination should stop henceforth.

[quote author=Demain_man]And monday is MOONday i belief Even saturday is SATURNday[/quote]

The Bus go need at least 2 conductors.abi na d same bus stop all of them go drop?

My own is black soap, "ose dudu"

Rad1cal: . ASUU don finish, dokitas wan start their own.

ASUU never finish ooo

Ojoro!my name is not on the list bcs i'm best movie washer of d year due to ASUU strike

Arsenal na caretaker for that top.landlord is coming very soon.up. blues!

cutieemperor007: STOP PATRONIZING THAT WOMAN, HER WEEDS ARE CHEAP AND FAKE...

what is weed?I dont understand.may be u explain further since you know the original weed.

I'm very sure that chelsea will lift not less than 3 trophies this season.if u agreed with me, click like.

adepojuot: that means prophet Muhammed will be in heal by now, because there is no different between Muhammed and boko haram members...see brief atrocities committed by your so call prophet of God: year 623- Muhammed orders raids on meccan caravan,624-battle of Badr, 624-prophet evicted Qaynuqa Jews from Medina, 624-prophet Muhammed orders the assissination of Abu Afak, 624-prophet also orders assissination of Asma bint Marwan,624-Muhammed orders assassination of Ka;b al-ashraf,625-battle of Uhud,625-Evicts Nadir Jews,627-Battle of the Trench:note:during trench battle: prophet Muhammed murdered 800-900 Jewish men and he took there wives captive.627-Massacre of the Qurayza Jews,628-Muhammed disruction and Subjugated the Khaybar Jews,629-Muhammed orders first raid into Christians at Muta but he was defeated,630-conquered Mecca by suprice along with other tribes,632-prophet dies......Ask google if you are doubting my write up....Muhammed is an Narcissist,a paedophile,a mass murderer,a terrorist,a misogynist,a lecher,a cult leader,a rapist,a torturers,an assassin and looters...compare life style of Muhammed with shakau,Na same same.so stop blaming boko haram,blame Muhammed teachings and legacy.....

yor av serious problem so is it from google that u learnt abt other people's religion history?no responsible muslim will ever talk nonesense abt Jesus.u think bcs u av access to post on Nairaland u can post rubbish history on our prophet.u better seek for forgiveness.

Happy birthday to u sir.i'm still waiting for my own share of d cake oo.i mean national cake sir!

YoUr mama head still they follow u may be the soldIer man for ask u to do this for 4hrs.

I don't how some football fans argue.Eagles qualified for world cup they are still complaining that they do not play good football.Ethiopia is not a small team even in the last AFCON we defeated them thru penalties.If you want to watch good football wait till Tuesday to watch Eagles vs Italy friendly match.

Today Super Eagles will defeat Ethiopia and Ngige will defeat his opponents in Anambra election also.If u agree with me click like.

Jenams: hello! Wat is dis praise singin all abt? Did he use his personal money to buy d sandals for all d kids or state govt money? To me, he is doin dat to secure his wards for security purpose. He was nt elected to buy shoes but to develop edu infrasture and provide other social amenities.

whether he used his money or govt money to buy the sandals,we are less concernd.what we are saying is that let other leaders emulate this man afterall some of them embezzled billionaires of naira without doing anything for the masses.For him to take his children to public sch,he needs to be applauded.

Even my grandma wey dey village know say na Ngige go win the election

[quote author=Cele-pope]OP thanks for the info but kindly edit your post.Your use of English doesn't seem good for a front page item[/quote]what we need is the major head line in the post,"karu market in Abuja demolished today".nobody is perfect.I don't know why most people are so insultive on this forum.

Nigeria 2 Ethiopia 0

A woman of 65 years telling her children what she experienced when she was 20years and MTN banner was spotted at the flash back

DTSV?is it a political party?abeg Emma help me on that my Gotv jare

Why Gov obi is doing that now when election remain just few days?

Judolisco: is she a boy,omg illitracy

two of you don't know book.

sCun: We have to play Italy 2 days after the Ethiopia match and we need a good result in that match for our rankings and pride as African champions. We can only use 14 out of the 23 players for the Ethiopia match, meaning we have 9 fresh players left to play the Italy match 2 days later. Keshi should have invited players who are good enough to start any of the 2 matches. Ezekiel Imoh in place of useless Ameobi, Lukeman in place of useless Reuben, that way we could have had a good striker to start the Italy match in place of Emenike who must have played against Ethiopia 2 days earlier, Haruna could have replace Mikel from the Ethiopia starting 11. Is it Ameobi that will lead our attack against Italy? Who replaces Mikel? Keshi has no excuse o! We can't lose to Italy

Shola Ameobi and Reuben useless?may be you don't watch Ameobi against chelsea yesterday.I'm surprise about this comment.Haruna should also start against Ethiopia while Mikel should be on bench?wonder shall never end

emsheddy: i wonder why u Chelsea fans just wont shut up. That u won a League Cup match nw means u r a better team abi? Didnt Liverpool beat Man u in the league and yet lost to them in the League cup? Does dat mean Man u is better than them? You guys should quit talking like kids. No wonder chelsea is the most hated club in Naija. Una too dey make mouth. Did arsenal not beat Chelsea last two seasons 5-3 at stamford bridge? Yet person chelsea fans said they've been beating arsenal since 1909. Una mumu dey samsung galaxy s4.

e be like say u dey BBM (Bad Belle Man),e dey pain u bcs I wire Arsenal abi?we are talking about currtent season,u are talking abt lasty TWO SEASON.As d moment Chelsea is baba for England.Up blues!

They asked all animals with horns to come out,snail want to join them.Arsenal ko,assi-nal ni.Up blues!