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anthing is possible in a football game, Barca was writen off prior to last night comeback against Milan but they made courtesy of a Messi's brace nd one each from Villa and Alba..
The Gunners are facing same fate as they take on bayern in Allianz arena as they look to over turn a 3-1 defecit.. I think its going to be hard to do since they lack a player in the ranks of Messi to do the job.. But nothing is impossible in football..

Super Eagles coach Stephen
Keshi has said he may be
forced to drop AFCON star
Sunday Mba if his transfer
saga rages on.
Top Nigeria league clubs
Warri Wolves and Rangers
are at tug of war over the
ownership of one of the
biggest revelations of the
recent Nations Cup in South
Africa.
Last week, a committee of
the Nigeria Football
Federation (NFF) asked the
two clubs to reach an
agreement on the player
within a week.
And now Keshi has warned
that he may axe the player if
his club future is not sorted
out soon.
”I may be forced to drop
Mba from the team if his
transfer issues are not sorted
out. If by our next game,
they have not resolved the
problem I may not invite
him,” Keshi said .
The Eagles handler also
explained that he was forced
to call up as many as 15
foreign-based pros for the
Kenya match because the
local league has just kicked
off. ”I invited 15 foreign-
based players because the
Nigeria league is just
starting,” he disclosed.
”The foreign-based players
have been regular at their
clubs and as such their
fitness level is very high.
Most of our local boys are
rusty but we see how it goes
in our training camp.''

am so happy for 2baba nd anne.. May God bless their union wit all the best of marriage life... Something dey happen!

Ex-Nigeria star Nwankwo
Kanu has lost N1.4 billion
(about $104m) and a top
executive of his hotel has
been arrested and charged
to court.
Managing director of
Hardley Suites Hotel in
Lagos, Ayoola Gam Ikon, 49,
has been arrested and
charged to court for the
alleged fraud.
Operatives
of the
Inspector
General of
Police
Monitoring Unit arrested
Ikon, the managing director
of Hardley Suites Limited
situated at Waziri Ibrahim
Crescent, off Elsie Femi
Pearse Street, Victoria Island,
Lagos southwest Nigeria, for
allegedly stealing the N1.4
billion belonging to the hotel
owned by Kanu.
Also arrested along with
him over the alleged fraud
is a hotel staff, Oke Samuel.
They were arraigned before
an Igbosere Magistrate’s
court on a 19-count charge
of felony to wit, obtaining
money under false pretence.
The police alleged in charge
suit No. K/8/2013 that Ikon
was arrested following a
complaint by the
management of Hardley
Suites Limited, Nwankwo
Kanu and Ogbonna Kanu,
that Ikon between 2005 and
2012 allegedly defrauded
them of the sum of about
N1.4 billion on the pretence
of using the money to
expand the existing facilities
of the hotel by constructing
and furnishing of additional
blocks of 30 suites and
conference facilities.
But he allegedly failed to use
the money for the purpose
and allegedly converted the
money to his personal use.
He was also alleged to have
forged a special resolution
purportedly made by the
board of directors of
Hardley Suites Limited to
obtain loans of N187 million,
N50 million and N493 million
from Skye Bank Plc without
authorization.
The offences, the accused
allegedly committed,
according to the prosecutor
A.M. Animashaun,
contravenes sections 8 (a) 1
(a) of the advanced fee
fraud and other fraud
related offences Act 2006 as
applicable in LagosState.
The accused pleaded not
guilty to all the charges.
The prosecutor presented
before the court an
application for the remand
of the accused persons in
prison custody pending
advice from the office of the
directorate of public
prosecution, DPP, because
the lower court lacks the
jurisdiction to try the matter.
But the Chief Magistrate,
O.O. Oshin overruled him
with legal facts after quoting
copiously from several
sections of the criminal
justice administration laws of
LagosState to buttress her
claim that the court has the
jurisdiction to hear and
admit the accused to bail.
She admitted the first
defendant to bail in the sum
of N1 million with two
sureties in like sum.
One of the sureties must be
the defendant himself, the
other should be a civil
servant on level 16.
She also admitted the
second defendant to bail in
the sum of N500,000, with
two sureties in like sum. One
of the sureties must be a
level 16 civil servant while
the other must be working
with a reputable company.
She adjourned the matter till
April 4 for mention.
However, the defendants
were moved to Ikoyi Prison,
Lagos pending when they
would fulfill the bail
conditions.
www.vanguardngr.com/2013/03/kanu-defrauded-n1-4bn/

Soccer’s governing body
FIFA has written to the
Nigerian Football Association
over reports that lesbians
had been banned from
playing football in the West
African nation.
A FIFA spokesman confirmed
the letter but emphasised it
was a preliminary inquiry.
Nigerian media reports have
widely quoted Dilichukwu
Onyedinma, head of the
country’s women’s football
league, as saying lesbian
players would not be
allowed to compete.
“Any player that we find is
associated with it will be
disqualified,” Onyedinma was
quoted as saying. “We will
call the club chairmen to
control their players, and
such players will not be able
to play for the national
team,” she added.
Gay rights campaigners
including the Federation of
Gay Games, the European
Gay and Lesbian Sport
Federation said they had
written to FIFA president
Sepp Blatter about the
alleged ban.

www.vanguardngr.com/2013/03/fifa-queries-nff-over-ban-on-lesbianism/

ABAKALIKI-A nine year old
boy, Master Chinedu
Nwangwu of
Echara community in Ezza
South Local government
area of Ebonyi state
was weekend electrocuted
when he tried to pluck fruits
from a Cashew tree in the
area.
Vanguard gathered that the
victim, a pupil of Echara
community primary school in
Ezza South LGA who lost his
life on the fateful day,
climbed a cashew tree
without knowing that one of
the branches of the tree
was resting on a high tension
wire that supplied electricity
to the community.
Lamenting over the incident,
mother of the deceased,
Mrs. Nwangwu who was
filled with pains when she
saw the lifeless body of her
son, stated that similar
incident also led to the
demise of one of her sons.
As the family of the
deceased are still battling
with the loss of their son,
Mrs. Nwangwu attributed
the incident to the activities
of some spiritual forces that
were beyond her control.
“I should blame my God for
allowing me to live in the
land of the living without my
son. It is not up to three
years I lost one of my boys
to motor accident and today
again, it is another
calamity; wouldn’t it be
better if I cease to live as life
is becoming useless without
my children” She lamented.
One of the teachers of
Echara community primary
school who spoke with our
correspondent, attributed
the misfortune that befell
the family of the deceased to
lack of proper home training
adding that if the boy was
well tutored by his parents
he wouldn’t have climbed
the cashew tree in the first
place.
According to the teacher,
the school authority had
earlier directed the pupils
not to climb any tree or
pluck any fruits in the
school without the consent
of the school authority.
Sources close to the family
revealed the deceased boy
had since been buried.

www.vanguardngr.com/2013/03/9-year-old-boy-electrocuted-in-ebonyi/

luis suarez took his premier league goal tally to 21 today after gettin a hat trick in the 4-0 trashing of wigan, this takes him 2 goals clear of RVP with 19 goals. And it leaves me wondering if suarez is a better player givin the fact that RVP plays alongside better and more complete players at Man U.. Whats ur take?

A six- year- old girl, Edidiong Etok Akpan, who was subjected to a harrowing treatment by her father, Edet Etok Akpan, was rescued after she had been locked up in a room with her hands tied and mouth covered with a piece of cloth for five days.

Edidiong said her 42-year-old father started beating her on Tuesday,19th of February, after one Prophetess Endurance, the pastor of the church they attend, told “my father that I was a witch and I was the one making him not to progress in life”.

She said after the severe beatings, which, according to her, lasted for two days, on Thursday, 21st February, her father tied her hands with a cord and covered her mouth with a piece of cloth and “locked me in the inner room of our house and he never gave me food and never allowed me to go to school ”.

The girl, who said she attends Femos Nursery and Primary School, located at 24 Etyin Abasi Street, Calabar, was dying after days without food or water when luck came her way on Sunday, 23rd February, at about 11 am, as another child who lives in the same with her family came to their veranda, looked through the window and saw Edidiong bound on the floor and screamed. “The girl called her parents and neighbours to come and see Edidiong tied like a goat inside their house”, Mr James Ibor of the Basic Rights Counsel, a child rights advocate lawyer, who was called to the scene, said.

Ibor said that when the neighbours saw the girl in that state, one of them called him and he, in turn, informed the officer in charge of legal matters at the Cross River State Police Command headquarters, Superintendent George, and they both drove to the place.

“As we were going there, we also informed the police at Efuk, Mbukpa to join us.When we got there, we saw a crowd outside and we knew that,that was the place and we went in and carried out the rescue by breaking the door”.

He said the girl was “very weak because she had been without food for days and so we had to give her water first, then, after about ten minutes, we gave her milk before solid food an hour later”.

Ibor said the father and mother had locked up the girl in the inner room of their two- room apartment and went to church in the hope that by the time they came back, the girl may have died. “God saved her and she is now living with her grandmother in another part of town,”the lawyer said.

DSP John Umoh, Cross River State Police Command spokesman, said the father, from Akwa Ibom State, had been arrested and would soon appear in court to answer charges of felony. “To tie a small girl hand and mouth and lock her in a room for days without food is a grievious offence; he (the father) will soon appear in court”, Umor added.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/03/child-witch-saga-father-tortures-6-yr-old-daughter-for-five-days/

Nigeria has once again
recorded another victory as
the leading brewer, Guinness
Nigeria Plc, was recently
awarded the certificate for
the world’s largest football
jersey.
The largest football jersey
exploit, was part of Guinness’
Fly with the Eagles campaign
in support of reigning
African champions- the
Super Eagles as they took on
the rest of the continent at
the just concluded AFCON
2013 tournament in South
Africa.
The largest jersey was
unveiled at the Teslim
Balogun Stadium Surulere
Lagos and the Liberation
Stadium, Port Harcourt in a
bid to galvanize the support
of millions of fans for the
Super Eagles in their quest
for victory at the city of
Madiba.
The jersey which measures
an amazing record size of
241ft 3in in width and 294ft
2in in length to set a new
world record as the largest
football jersey in history ,
beating the last record held
at a size of 234ft 1 in by
259ft 8in. created and
displayed in Sukru, San
Istanbul Turkey in 2009.
According to the Managing
Director/Chief Executive
Officer of Guinness Nigeria
Plc, Mr. Seni Adetu, it is a
case for double joy for the
nation.
“We are elated as a
company to have greatly
contributed to these
successes, putting Nigeria on
the world map once again
with this feat. Initially, there
were doubts as to whether
we had broken the world
record when we started out.
However, today, I am proud
to present to you the
Guinness World Record
Certificate for the largest
football shirt in the world
proving that we actually did
break the world record”
Adetu announced.
While the jersey was laid out
during the AFCON
tournament, over 40,000
fans inscribed their goodwill
messages, wishing the Super
Eagles victory at every stage
of the tournament and
Adetu believes it was a great
motivating factor for the
team.

As Nigerians wait with bated breathe to know the fate of injured strikers Emmanuel Emenike and Victor Moses for Sunday’s AFCON final, coach Stephen Keshi has said he will wait on the duo till the last minute.

Nigeria face against Burkina Faso for the continental title in Johannesburg and are sweating over the fitness of the two forwards, who between them have accounted for six of the team’s 10 goals at this tournament.

“I will wait till the last minute and by Sunday we will know whether the boys will play or not, any other opinion is unacceptable,” maintained Keshi.

“I can understand the apprehension of the public over the two players, but we must be a little patient because I know that the two of them want to play in the final and the medical team is working round the clock.”

Information Nigeria gathered that Spartak Moscow striker Emenike suffered a hamstring injury which could keep him out of action for at least two weeks.

It is also speculated that Keshi could take a big gamble on his power playing forward who has been clinical in front of goal throughout the tournament.

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halida Akhtar, a 20-year-old Taliban suicide bomber, decided at the last minute not to blow herself up at the main train station in the capitol of Pakistan because she remembered that she would have to deal with a bunch of virgin guys in heaven, local authorities say Ms. Akhtar, who was dressed in a head-to-toe burqa and strapped with explosives, was seen just hours ago running and screaming through the Islamabad Railway Station before she was apprehended by local law enforcement.

“The young woman realized that she would have 72 virgins on her hands if she sacrificed her earthly life, and apparently the thought made her so sick to her stomach that she decided on the spot to pull the plug on the whole operation and give herself up to the authorities,” police officer Malik Rashid told reporters. In a statement recorded by arresting officers, Ms. Akhtar explained her decision.

“I’d actually never stopped before to think about the reward I would receive for my sacrifice,” Ms. Khalida said. “Unlike my brother and his friends, I’m actually not a fan of virgins. To be fair, I don’t think any woman in the world is. I’m supposed to give my life for a bunch of guys that don’t know anything about the female body or how to please a woman? I don’t think so!” Khalida added.

As she was taken into custody, Khalida Akhtar also reportedly told officers that she would have gladly sacrificed herself for higher causes if she could trade those 72 virgins for two experienced guys, a masseuse, a butler, and a chef..

chucky234: What do you think of the groom's wear?

The bride self looks pissed.. The guy is a clown!.. Ok..