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Barcelona 6-1 PSG (6-5 agg) UEFA Champions League. Unbelievable! Barcelona complete greatest comeback in Champions League history as Roberto nets stoppage- time winner. Arsenal may have failed with their miracle comeback attempt, now it's Barcelona's turn to try and score four unanswered goals as they host Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League. The Spanish league leaders suffered a 4-0 humiliation at the Parc des Princes in their last-16 first leg clash and now lie on the brink of an early exit from a tournament they have won five times. Here is a brief recap of how the goals flew in at the Nou Camp * 3mins:Suarez 1-0 (agg 1-4) * 40mins:Kurzawa (own goal) 2-0 (agg 2-4) * 50mins:Messi (penalty) 3-0 (agg 3-4) * 62mins:Cavani 3-1 (agg 3-5) * 88min:Neymar 4-1 (agg 4-5) * 90 1mins:Neymar (penalty) 5-1 (agg 5-5) * 90 5min:Roberto 6-1 (agg 6-5).

Following the alleged beating of a corps member Esi Uwakwe serving in Kaura Namoda, Zamfara State, by some officers of the Nigeria Police, the National Youths Service Corps (NYSC), on Tuesday said that the case facts were grossly exaggerated. Authorities stated that the corps member who is serving in a school, went beyond the acceptable approaches to discipline by causing knee injuries to one of his students whom he instructed to crawl on her knees. A statement issued by the Director of Press Unit, Mrs Abosede Aderibigbe, in Abuja, revealed that the act angered the father of the student who took the matter to the police, adding that “in the course of handling the case, an overzealous officer slapped the corps member.” The statement reads in part:”Management wishes to inform the public that findings of investigation launched by the Scheme show that the facts of the case were grossly exaggerated, especially in the social media. “Our findings showed that the corps member, who is serving in a school, went beyond his responsibility of teaching and adoption of acceptable approaches to discipline by causing knee injuries to one of his students whom he instructed to crawl on her knees.” It maintained that the scheme’s position on the matter was that both the corps member and the policeman were wrong in their approaches. However, NYSC noted that the Zamfara State Commissioner of Police, had also invited all parties to his office for amicable resolution of the case. It added that the policeman in question has since apologised for slapping the corps member. “Management wishes to stress that the picture of a man with cuts on his back, which is being circulated online, is not that of corps member Uwakwe, but merely posted by some with intent to cause mischief and further mislead the public. “While we sympathise with both the injured student and the corps member, whose inexperience might have resulted in his excesses in his approach to discipline, we wish to restate that the publicity the case generated would have been normal if not for the exaggeration. “Management remains committed to the safety and dignity of corps members, but wishes to advise those on teaching assignment to always exercise caution in handling disciplinary cases and to, especially, refer serious cases to their school supervisors to be on the safe side,” it added.

Following the alleged beating of a corps member Esi Uwakwe serving in Kaura Namoda, Zamfara State, by some officers of the Nigeria Police, the National Youths Service Corps (NYSC), on Tuesday said that the case facts were grossly exaggerated. Authorities stated that the corps member who is serving in a school, went beyond the acceptable approaches to discipline by causing knee injuries to one of his students whom he instructed to crawl on her knees. A statement issued by the Director of Press Unit, Mrs Abosede Aderibigbe, in Abuja, revealed that the act angered the father of the student who took the matter to the police, adding that “in the course of handling the case, an overzealous officer slapped the corps member.” The statement reads in part:”Management wishes to inform the public that findings of investigation launched by the Scheme show that the facts of the case were grossly exaggerated, especially in the social media. “Our findings showed that the corps member, who is serving in a school, went beyond his responsibility of teaching and adoption of acceptable approaches to discipline by causing knee injuries to one of his students whom he instructed to crawl on her knees.” It maintained that the scheme’s position on the matter was that both the corps member and the policeman were wrong in their approaches. However, NYSC noted that the Zamfara State Commissioner of Police, had also invited all parties to his office for amicable resolution of the case. It added that the policeman in question has since apologised for slapping the corps member. “Management wishes to stress that the picture of a man with cuts on his back, which is being circulated online, is not that of corps member Uwakwe, but merely posted by some with intent to cause mischief and further mislead the public. “While we sympathise with both the injured student and the corps member, whose inexperience might have resulted in his excesses in his approach to discipline, we wish to restate that the publicity the case generated would have been normal if not for the exaggeration. “Management remains committed to the safety and dignity of corps members, but wishes to advise those on teaching assignment to always exercise caution in handling disciplinary cases and to, especially, refer serious cases to their school supervisors to be on the safe side,” it added.

Authorities of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) have ordered the removal of all corps members from a secondary school in Kaura Namoda, Zamfara State where a corps member was beaten up and detained by police for disciplining an erring student. TribuneOnline reliably gathered that the corps member named Michael was serving as a teacher in Nasara Standard Academy, Kaura Namoda, when he reportedly asked a student to kneel down as punishment for misbehaving in class. The punishment reportedly got a big man in town said to be the student’s guardian enraged and he proceeded to get the corps member arrested by the police. One NYSC source said the corps member was assaulted by the police who also detained him. TribuneOnline was told by a credible NYSC source that “the DG has taken up the matter. The assaulted corps member has also been asked to come down to Abuja for proper debriefing and for him to make a formal report while all corps members in that school have been withdrawn.” The source said. Meanwhile, Zamfara State Police Commissioner Shaba Alkali has ordered the release of the corps member, while the father of the student was said to have apologised to the corps member However, other corps members subsequently wrote this SoS which has been trending online: WHO WILL HEAR, AND NOT CRY? The entire corps members serving in Kaura Namoda, Zamfara state are bleeding out purple blood. Our hearts are thumping out: strong rhythms of pain. Our dignity has been trampled and mangled with reckless impunity. God! Today a corps member, Michael, serving his fatherland through sweat and bile; rough roads, hunger, merciless weather; and the shame of 19800 in the face of a smothering economy. Michael—serving in Nasara Standard Academy perceived as the shining light in a tottering secondary education system in Kaura Namoda — was today brutalised, manhandled and reduced to nothingness by a brainless team comprising of the richest man in Kaura Namoda and his equally wanton boys. What was his crime? Michael had punished his student who happens to be this man’s ward. A simple kneel down. Michael who had nurtured these block heads with patience and love. Michael, who had taught with empty stomach till letters on the chalkboard danced like rampant music notes before his eyes. For all of us like Michael, who have stretched the capacities of our strengths and sensibilities to serve a stifling system. For all the ‘ under the sun and in the rain’, what have we gotten as reward? This notorious man, clenching his cash ridden fists, recruits the help of the police and in that shameless trotting of Zombies, storms Nasara Academy to crucify Michael like a criminal. He was punched like a sack of millet and stripped of humanity. He was beaten, beaten, and again beaten like he stole karats of gold in a jungle market. O God! My fingers are itching, and it’s like they will drip blood. Michael was driven to the Police Station where the real torture awaited him. They removed what was left of his pride as a Man serving his country. Then, they flogged and flogged him, and when their energy sapped out, the Evil of a man threw wads of naira notes about, and refueled their animalism. Michael was a heap of sorrow and a container of hot painful tears. As some of Michael’s colleagues arrived and tried to raise their voices against the escalating reign of heartlessness; the Police men, some apparently drunk, threatened with pointed rifles, slapping and pushing them…. Hear me if you are a corps member in Kaura Namoda! We have been abused to our bones. We are now just remnants of pride sliced into irredeemable pieces. Our hearts have been pierced by hot pellets of searing pain. Our heads are now buried in shame. The little essence of our ghostly existence has been thoroughly erased. We are now empty, just plain empty. Who will hear this and not cry? How can we move about when our sinews are depleted? Who will walk the long and dusty paths to schools to teach? Who will serve the masters under a sun that burns through skin and fluid? Who will hear this and not cry? Nothing has been done. The engineer of this massive evil is an untouchable. A stinkingly rich sacred goat. He has played ping pong with our dignity and thinks he will get away with it because he is rich. Because our society is rotten and deceased of sense. Because our policeman are a bunch of kitted area boys. Because ‘money’ has shredded the spines of our moral make-up. Michael is lying in a police cell, writhing in raw pain—- a soul beaten beyond repair. He has been physically wounded but more serious is the mental injury. But he is not alone. We are all wounded like Michael and our soul is burning from strife. Who will hear this and not cry? We therefore call on: The state Government; The State Coordinator NYSC; The Emir of Kaura Namoda; The Commissioner of Police; Every Khaki and Jungle boot in Zamfara state and Nigeria as a whole. Let us roar and be heard. Tell the next person to tell another. Let our tales of woe reach the peak where justice crouches. The brutalisation of Michael in a land where he is vulnerable and hapless will not go without notice. Justice must be done. Corps members must be protected. Our dignity must be restored. The pride of khaki and Jungle boots must be reinvented. Today, Michael was battered for all of us. Shall we hear and look away…who will hear this AND NOT CRY? #IstandWithAcorper..!!!

I'm still thinking if there are some Nigerians that are forced to watch that program - that's the reason for the hate posts/comments I see online everyday. There are many stations you can choose to watch any other thing. This is a frigging T.V show primed to entertain adults. If the show is offensive to you, simply call DSTV and have them block off the channel from your decoder. Personally, I don't like the show because I think it is a time waster. I haven't seen even 1 minute of it but I will not come out here bashing it. Many of you wouldn't mind being one of the contestants if you had the opportunity - You want to be rich and famous like Ebuka, Gideon Okeke, UTI amongst others. Besides, what are they doing in BBN that many of you do not do in real life? Whenever I switched on my TV I don't bother going to watch BBN, I have no interest in it, not because I am claiming saint or whatever - I just don't like it. Why don't you be like me who prefer watching NAT Geo wild, go to other stations to watch educative programmes instead of coming online to rap about BBN. You don't like it, don't watch it. It's that simple.

In this Nigeria, an average Southerner is a weakling. A born coward with serious complex issues. A fool and an idiot. A slave. A typical example of a butterfly who thinks himself a bird. But this is not even the problem. The biggest problem is, he doesn't even realise he is any of those things. The only thing an average Southerner is good at is blowing high sounding grammar and acquiring degrees upon degrees but when it comes to things that matter most, he goes to slumber. An average Southerner has this twisted mindset that the best way to be seen as a patriotic and detribalised Nigerian is by degrading, shaming and disparaging his own tribe for no just cause. Abacha stole this country blind, such that 20 years after, his loot is still being returned to the country. But in spite of this, people like Buhari publicly swore that he (Abacha) stole nothing. But to an average Southern idiot, Jonathan's 5 year rule is the reason we have no fuel, no light, no good educational system, no nothing! Jonathan is the worst thief in Nigeria's history. IBB, Abdulsalam and even Buhari who was accused of stealing billions of dollars as PTF boss were all saints. Why? Because they are Northerners. Was it not a southern he-goat named Obasanjo who publicly accused Jonathan of training snipers in Pyongyang (North Korea) ahead of last year's election?? He made the unfounded allegation just to please his masters upnorth. Now that we have the highest figure of senseless deaths of civilians in the hands of both state and non state actors under a Northern president Buhari, have you read any letter from OBJ?? When Shiites were massacred in Zaria, it took less than 48 hours for Chidi Odinkalu of the National Human Right Commission to establish a commission of inquiry and summon the army chief but when unarmed IPOB members praying in a school field in Aba were murdered by the security agents, did you hear even a loosely worded condemnation from Chidi Odinkalu?? Check out the list of those asking that Fayose to be tried for treason for writing to the Chinese govt over Buhari's $2 loan, they are 80% southerners. And most of them have not even read the said Fayose letter at least to know the reasons Fayose adduced in the said letter. These are the same fools who kept mum when Sango Abdullahi, Sani Kaita and some so called Northern elders publicly threatened to make the country ungovernable if power wasn't returned to the North. When Buhari made his 'dogs and baboon' speech and directly caused the death of southern youth corpers, these morons kept mum. With all the numberless killing of civilians under this regime and its open support for the genocide the world fourth deadliest terror group (the Fulani militant) has continue to visit on Nigerians, have these highly educated southerners bothered to write a strongly worded petition to the ICC just like Nyako, El-rufai and other northerners did to Jonathan?? These southern fools will gleefully yell 'Kanu should rot in jail, he was preaching hate on radio Biafra!' But these clowns maintained sealed lips over the hateful and inciting broadcast by 'Radio Chanji' and Arewa Radio upNorth. Such is the degree of the soulless hypocrisy of these southern senseless hypocrites. These nitwits were on rooftops telling us how incompetent and corrupt Jonathan was and how his removal was a patriotic duty. Today, things have all gone worse under Buhari and you would think that these southern imbeciles would be at the forefront calling for Buhari's resignation but no! They are the ones defending the Daura born ex-soldier even against the worse things for which they crucified Jonathan then. Now I know why Jonathan appeared weak as president and spent his 5 year term trying to please the North. He knew he had nobody behind him. He knew that we Southerners are weaklings only good at blowing high sounding but empty grammar. These 'efulefu' southerners will never question why Buhari has never condemned the murderous activities of his fulani kinsmen but these same 'anumpamas' will read this post and quickly tag me a bigot. Slaves who think themselves masters!!

1. In 2011, Governor Shekarau of Kano State contested for the Presidency on the platform of ANPP against EX- President Jonathan of PDP. So did Nuhu Ribadu of ACN {apc}. Ex Gov. Shekarau was a Minister in Ex- President Jonathan's cabinet & a member of the President's party & Mallam Nuhu Ribadu is the PDP's candidate for governorship of Adamawa State. How many were killed because of them in 2011? 2. President Obasanjo and Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu were thought to be sworn enemies. When President Obasanjo took over SW Nigeria in 2003, Gov. Tinubu became "last man standing" against him in ACN/Lagos.Today, Obasanjo is Tinubu's "Navigator" & Tinubu is treasured guest at Obasanjo's birthday. How many died believing they were enemies? 3. Former Govs, Engr. Segun Oni and Dr. Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti used to be political foes and now they belong to the same party. Both are alive as friends & some folks had died fighting for them. 4.Between 2007 and 2010, Tinubu spent virtually his last kobo to ensure he sent Segun Oni out of the Ekiti State Government House. He did. Today, Oni is the National Vice Chair of APC, a party same Tinubu, not another one o, is the national leader. 5. Former. Governor, Olagunsoye Oyinlola never saw eye to eye with Governor Aregbesola. Now, they belong to the same party, some people died for both, but were they not always friends? 6. President Obasanjo was prepared to throw VP Atiku Abubakar out of Aso Rock. Who would have thought that Atiku would visit Obasanjo in Otta farm after all the brouhaha; politicians belong to one big family. They have their interest at stake, do not die for them especially when you have nothing at stake. 7.Tinubu once told Obasanjo that he was the "problem of Nigeria". But same Tinubu went to Obasanjo that they had finished the construction of the opposition ship. They wanted him to be the navigator! The old fox readily accepted 8. Audu Ogbe once told opposition parties there was no vacancy in Aso Rock. He was national chair of the ruling PDP then. Today, he is a minister under a government being controlled by that same opposition. 9.Nasir el-Rufai, the diminutive governor of Kaduna State, once told Buhari that he was not a presidential material. Today, not only is Buhari president but the loquacious el-Rufai is a governor on Buhari's party. He bashes PDP to no end nowadays. 10. Fayose and Fayemi once mounted same rostrum, campaigning in Ekiti with Fayose carrying placard at his father's burial in 2009 that they should vote for Fayemi. In 2014, same Fayose contested against Fayemi and sent him to the Former Governors' Club. 11. Majority of top politicians shouting 'APC, Change!' were shouting 'PDP, Power!' in 2011! Now, all these took place within the last TWELVE years! Not that they took place before you were born hence, you did not witness them. Therefore, if you still want to kill yourself because of any politician please go ahead. 12. It is no more news that Ex-president Jonathan visited Obasanjo in otta on the 20-01-2017. Obasanjo and Jonathan walk hand in hand and tour Ibogun village laughing and cracking jokes. Hmmmmmmm BY THE TIME THEY ARE BACK IN SAME PARTY IN 2019, WE WILL BE MARKING THE THIRD ANNIVERSARY OF OUR IGNORANTS IN UNDERSTANDING THE ANTICS OF THE Politicians !!!!!"

'I PREFER TO PLAY IN BIG TEAMS' – COURTOIS JIBES AT MIKEL AS HE INSISTS TROPHIES MATTER Playing for big teams and winning titles only matter in football, according to the Belgium international and Blues star Chelsea goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois aimed a thinly veiled dig at John Obi Mikel following his move to China, insisting nothing matters aside winning titles and playing for big clubs. The Nigeria international joined Tianjin TEDA after failing to make an impression on the first team under Antonio Conte, who took charge in the summer. There, the 29-year-old is expected to earn £140,000 per week in the Chinese Super League that boasts of former Brazilian teammate, Oscar. And Courtois, who played alongside the midfielder at the Stamford Bridge, used his point of view to mock Mikel for his move to Asia rather than battle for a place in the star-studded Roman Army – where he is guaranteed of winning trophies. When asked by Mirror on why he never took the same path as his former teammates, the 24-year-old said: “Some players are more concentrated on what they will do after their football career and want to make sure their lives are financially settled. “I prefer to play in big teams, earn a little less money and win trophies.” Mikel, during his spell in England won two Premier League crowns, four FA Cup successes and one Champions League – scoring six times in 372 appearances.

This may not be the best time for me to write on
this because of misinterpretations, but I can no
longer resist the push.
"Husband Scarcity" has become one of the
challenges faced by many young girls today. If you
go to prayer houses, majority of the intentions are
prayer for a life partner. And this calls for concern.
.
Casting our minds back to the time of our
mothers
and grandmothers, was there really much of a
"Husband Scarcity" problem? Or, maybe there
were
more men than women then, or there was an
adequate corresponding numbers of both genders.
I don't think so. Maybe then, the women had
values and were prepared to build a home and not
park into a built home. Then, once a young man
comes of age and can at least feed himself and his
wife, he goes out in search of a wife and the
woman really
appreciates him and helps him to build a future.
.
What am I really trying to say? We created what
we now see as "Husband Scarcity" for ourselves.
Today, the reverse is the case. Ask an average
girl to
define her dream husband; you get things like "he
has to be tall, handsome, educated, fair, and rich,
own a house
at least, and be presentable" and then she adds
"God fearing" in order not to sound so worldly.
Then,
check the number of girls around you and the
number of men that meet that standard, and you
will see the problem. You hear girls say, "I cannot
suffer in my father's house and then go and start
suffering with a man."
What a wonderful dream! What if from the
beginning,
you have everything you want and there is no
suffering, and later in the marriage, the table
turns
around, then comes suffering? Will you run away?
No one prays for suffering, but it is good to start
small and end big, than start big and end small.
The problem is that the description majority of girls
give of their ideal man is virtually the same. When
50 girls want the same kind of man and the man
that fits what they want is just 1 man, and the
man can
only
pick one. Then, what becomes of 49 others? They
simply start lamenting of "Husband Scarcity".
Another irony of our time is that it is hard, due to
the
face of our economy to find a man who is of
marriage age who possesses all those things
these
ladies want, legally (except those involved in
Internet fraud); even the number of those in
Internet fraud is not enough to match all those
searching for already made husbands.(This is why
they always fall for
the wrong ones who would use and dump them.
Then they later carry the "all men are the same
saying".) If you look around, majority of the
ladies of substance, of good value and virtue, who
are ready to build a home with a man who has
prospects, are married and not complaining of
husband scarcity.
.
The easiest way to find a husband now, is to
change
your view of who a husband is.
A husband is that man God made and then saw
that it
may be hard for him to really actualize his
purpose
for making him, without a help mate and then
made the woman and gave to him, and he felt
complete and fulfilled MARRIAGE IS NOT A
POVERTY ALLEVIATION PROGRAM. It is a mission
of building the family of God here on earth.
For those who see marriage as a way out of
poverty, it is a way into bondage. Women are
HOME BUILDERS, not HOME WARMERS... DON'T
CONFUSE A
MAN'S PATH WITH HIS DESTINY. Where he is
today, may only be a route to where God has
destined him to be tomorrow. Another truth is that
YOU MAY BE THE ONLY FAST MEANS TO THAT
HIS DESTINATION.
Join in alleviating "husband scarcity". PICK UP THE
RIGHT VALUES.
.

I am not saying that you should pick anyone that
comes your way and talks of marriage, not all
men are husband materials. What I am saying is
that you should stop setting your standard on
material acquisitions or physical appearances.
Look beyond the physical. WHAT MAKES A MAN
WHO HE IS, IS NOT WHAT HE OWNS OR HOW HE
LOOKS, IT IS WHAT HE IS MADE UP OF. And that
which he
is made of is, most times, not seen with the
physical eyes, only its effects can be seen.
Marriage is a permanent thing. Whatever is seen is
temporal and that which is not seen is permanent.

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Borno state Governor Kashim Shettima
on Sunday flagged off the distribution of
food items and farm outreach targeting
40,000 victims of the Boko Haram
insurgency through the support of the
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation which donated one million dollars to the Borno
State Government as a post conflict
intervention that is meant to support
victims who are returning to their
communities.
Governor Shettima launched at the support with the distribution of 25
kilogram bag of rice and 10 kilogram
bag of beans to each of 1,100
households at Mainok village in Kaga
local government area, 45 kilometers
away from Maiduguri. The Governor announced that officials of the State
Government working with the Gates
Foundation used the $1m to procure the
food items and commenced funding of
100 hectares of farm where beans is
being cultivated. He explained that 200 farm-families will be allocated tilled and
fertile land measuring half hectare each
along with improved seeds, fertilizer,
chemicals and technical supervision so
that they can start growing food crops.
The Governor also announced the release of two trucks of maize grid to
add to the food procured with Gates
donation.
“We are grateful to God for creating
people like Mr Bill Gates and his dear
wife, Melinda. These leading lights of philanthropy across the world have
shown love to the good people of Borno
State at a time we are on the ground and
looking for any hand to hold in trying to
lift ourselves up, the Governor said.
Officials of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) and
United Nations Office for the
Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
(UNOCHA) witnessed the distribution
with good will presented by them.
The Commissioner for Reconstruction, Rehabilitation and Resettlement in Borno
State, Dr Babagana Umara Zulum
explained that two trucks of food items
as well as two farms in Damboa and
Konduga funded through the Gates
donation were ready for immediate access on Sunday while more
communities were to benefit in a
continuous exercise.

After several failed promises of the
payment of allowances to ex-agitators,
the Special Adviser to the President on
Niger Delta and Coordinator of the
Presidential Amnesty Programme,
Brigadier General Paul Boroh (Rtd) has again, appealed to ex-agitators in the
Niger Delta region not to lose hope in
the Federal Government.
He pleaded that the ex-agitators should
continue to have confidence in the
ability of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in effecting the payment of their
monthly stipends despite seeming
hiccups in the payment process.
The ex-agitators had suspended protest
over the non-payment of their
allowances few weeks ago when Boroh promised that the money would be paid
in a matter of days.
However, the allowances were not paid
and there are fears that the ex-agitators
might stage a violent protest in the Niger
Delta region over the non-payment of the allowances as promised.
According to Gen. Boroh, the Central
Bank of Nigeria, which is saddled with
the responsibility of effecting the
payments of stipends directly to the ex-
agitators in the region, in line with the Treasury Single Accounts (TSA) payment
system, is making every effort to clear
the outstanding months, adding that it
was only wise to bear with the payment
process, which may have its challenges.
The Treasury Single Account (TSA) is a public accounting system under which
all government revenue, receipts and
income are collected into one single
account, usually maintained by the
country’s Central Bank from where all
payments are made. One of the leaders of the ex-agitators,
General Yeimowei Ebi, said the ex-
agitators were tired of the many failed
promises of the payment of the
allowances by the Federal Government.
He said the ex-agitators would soon hold a crucial meeting to determine the
next line of action.

The country's number one citizen has praised the
Dream Team VI for making the nation proud
following their victory against Denmark President Muhammadu Buhari has hailed the
Nigeria's U23 team for showing an
'unconquerable spirit of the nation' in
comprehensive 2-0 quarterfinal victory against
Denmark in Salvador. Buhari expressed delight after he saw Samson
Siasia's men reach the semi-finals courtesy of
goals from John Obi Mikel and Aminu Umar at the
Arena Fonte Nova. He urged the team to remain focus and
purposeful and tasked Nigerians to pray and
support the team as well as the Nigerian
contingent in Rio 2016. "Again and again, the unconquerable Nigerian
spirit has come to the fore, showing that where
there is a will, there's always a way," Buhari said in
a statement. "This was a team that was not given much chance,
but which has now advanced into the semi-finals.
Go for it. "Go for the gold, and let the Nigerian banner be
held proudly aloft once again on the global stage.
We are almost there. Let's go. "And this, we shall demonstrate in every sphere of
our national life," he concluded. After Denmark victory, the African U23 kings will
face Germany in Sao Paulo on Wednesday for a
ticket to the final billed for Maracana.

Claudio Ranieri's side have become the first title-
winners to taste defeat on the opening day of the
season since Arsenal back in 1989-90 after
Saturday's defeat to the Tigers OPTA STATS Hull City made history in their 2-1 victory over
Leicester City on Saturday, when they became the
first newly-promoted outfit to defeat the Premier
League winners on the opening day of the
season. Adama Diomande and Robert Snodgrass struck
either side of half time as Mike Phelan’s men
stunned the 2015-16 English champions. Leicester are the first reigning top-flight
champions to lose their opening game of the
following league season since Arsenal in the
1989-90 season, when the Gunners were
crushed 4-1 by Manchester United. Saturday's clash at KCOM Stadium was the eighth
occasion that a newly-promoted side had played
the reigning champions on the opening matchday
of a Premier League season. Nevertheless, Hull hold the recognition of being
the first promoted side that won

The forward was pulled out against Colombia due
to injury, but he could be fit for the Red and White
on Saturday Oghenekaro Etebo may be fit enough to face
Denmark in the Olympics quarterfinals game on
Saturday night, a Nigeria official has revealed to Goal. The forward was pulled out during Dream Team
VI’s 2-0 defeat to Colombia - forcing speculations
that he could miss the quarter final showdown
against the Danish team. However, medics have said he could be feature in
the make or mar encounter billed for Salvador. “The team doctor (Sam Ogbondeminu) has not
rested since Etebo got injured against Colombia.
He has been working round the clock to ensure
the player is available for selection on Saturday,”
the official told Goal. “Coach Siasia believes Etebo is a strong character
whose rating is very high. So we are confident he
will be back in action. “As it is now, the chance of the player featuring
against Denmark tomorrow is 50-50, but the final
say lies with the doctor because if Etebo is certified
fit, it would be a great news for entire team.” Etebo has scored four goals in this championship
and he would be expected to lead the Dream
Team’s forward line as they eye a semifinal ticket.

The midfielder's massive move back to Man Utd is
only the beginning, the manager predicts, while
assuring that clubs on a budget can nevertheless
still compete Arsene Wenger has predicted that football will
soon break the £200 million barrier for a single
transfer, as he insisted Arsenal could still compete
in the money-dominated sport. Paul Pogba caused a stir this week in completing
an £89.3 million move to Manchester United, while
bonuses could push the record fee even higher. And Wenger, whose biggest outlay in the current
window has been £34m on Granit Xhaka, only
sees an upward trend in prices for the future. "It will not be long before we see a £150m or
£200m signing," he told a press conference on
Friday. "Since I started in the game I said, at some stage, it
has to stop but as long as football develops and
becomes more popular you would say that more
money will come in. "What is interesting to see is that in every single
local business you just struggle to survive. "Or you have a world business and the money
comes in — Google, Facebook or football or any
other sport, they are worldwide and you cannot
set any other limitations in the income." The manager, however, pointed to the example of
Leicester City to show that money was not
everything. "Manchester United are the richest club in the
world along with Real Madrid," he said. "Not many people can compete with their finances
but that doesn’t make the difference because at
the moment on the pitch we can compete. "That is the most important thing. It’s not a
financial competition, football is a performance
competition. "It is becoming more like a financial competition
but that does not always reflect the Premier
League table. "We have to make sure that is the case. Leicester
showed that last year. Never before have there
been so many teams who could win the title. "But that can make it easier as well because it
means that everyone can drop points. "There cannot be just one team that walks away
and nobody can catch. The hope will be alive for
everyone in the Premier League longer than ever.
On that front, if you are consistent it could be
easier." Wenger and Arsenal kick off their Premier League
campaign against Liverpool on Sunday.