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So it's an unprecedented 1 hr broadcast build up for the final MD between Rangers Int'l and El Kanemi. It's the first time ever we are having that amount of time for a build up to a domestic league game. We are live from 3pm.... Some serious package I dare say for those who probably have the best seat in the house.... Let's make the day trend on social media with #NPFL2016 Live on supersport and AIT |
WE TOOK RANGERS BACK TO THE FANS – AMOBI EZEAKU With Enugu State Governor, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, and members of Rangers Board The fans of Rangers International of Enugu would certainly be in cloud nine if by the last match day their darling club lifts the season title of the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL). Coach Imama Amapakabo and the Rangers management led by Ozor Paul Chibuzor obviously did huge spade works to turn around the fortunes of the club as they gave and seem now to be fulfilling a promise from the beginning to finish the season’s campaign on high. The feat will bring to end a 32-year title drought since the club last lifted the title and if that happens it would be more of a victory for two important segments of the club – the youth and the fans. Not only did the management assemble a set of very talented youngsters to form the core of the team, Rangers believed much more in youth as they elected to engage a very young Amobi Ezeaku as team manager. Born in 1989 of Nsukka parents, 27 years old Ezeaku, educated as a lawyer, was not yet formed by 1984 when Rangers last lifted the title but he is looking a sure fit to inspire and bring out the best from his peers on the field. Interestingly, even the League Management Company (LMC) also saw value in engaging the young Amobi Ezeaku as team manager of the NPFL All Stars to the LaLiga World tour. In this interview with www.sportstalkafrica.com Ezeaku shares with Fred Edoreh of www.sportstalkafrica.com his experience as the youngest team manager in Nigeria’s elite league and for a club as big as Rangers International. Importantly, he reveals that the tonic in the resurgence of Rangers is in the fact that though the club is funded by the Enugu State Government, it is run by the fans. Sportstalkafrica: As a young hand in club management what has the experience been like for you? Ezeaku: The experience has been memorable. You know, it is my first time as a team manager. I came on board as the youngest team manager in the country. It has been tasking but to the glory of God and following the laid down rules of the LMC and the guidelines of the NPFL, I have been able to cope. Generally, it has been a wonderful experience and there has not been any serious case to complain about. The league has tremendously improved with a lot of innovations and initiatives by the LMC. Sportstalkafrica: As the youngest team manager in the NPFL what challenges have you encountered managing a club as big as Rangers with such huge tradition and array of stakeholders? Ezeaku: The challenges are enormous. You know, people in this part of the world do not believe the youth should be left to do certain things but to the glory of God we have been able to break through this barrier and look at where we are today. I will say that being anxious with the desire to break new grounds has helped us to sustain the tempo. There have been pressures on me as a young person handling a club as big as Rangers. Rangers is a household name, a big brand but it has not been difficult for me by the grace of God and because of the good leaders good put me in their midst. Sportstalkafrica: For about three decades Rangers fired blank as far as the league title is concerned. What has informed the revival of the club this time around? Ezeaku: It is true that after 1984 we have not ben able to win this title. When we came on board this season we realized that the players are good but many are with shallow mentality. We liaised with the board, the technical director and Coach Imama (Amapakabo) and we started series of lectures focused on building their mentality, their psychological strength. That went a long way to rekindle the ‘never say die’ spirit and the will to win. Psychology is very important as far as modern football is concerned. Then, we took action on the welfare of the players. The state government decided to take it upon itself to ensure that the players and officials are very comfortable, happy and enthusiastic. This brought a great departure from what obtained in the past. Rangers now is truly a professional club but the pillar remains God. That makes Rangers a God fearing team and then we choose to remain and abide by the philosophy of the club. The players and the coaches are tactically sound, so the players’ major role is to abide with the instructions of the coaches and I thank God we have come this far. Sportstalkafrica: Talking about God, at a point during the season, you nicknamed your home ground, the Nnamdi Azikiwe Stadium, “The Cathedral.” How did that come about? Ezeaku: (Laughing) Yes, the Cathedral just happened. We have this segment of our supporters called ‘the 12th man’. There was a day they were mobilising fans to come to the stadium on white apparels and some one asked “is this a white garment church?” And one of the 12th man retorted “Yes, it is our Cathedral.” Then everybody caught it and, to the glory of God, we are happy that the Cathedral has not failed us. We bless clubs every time the come to the Cathedral. Sportstalkafrica: And then, there was a great resurgence in your support base with overflowing match day spectatorship. How did you achieve that? Ezeaku: Everybody chose to work together. The government, the board of Rangers, all of us understood and we passed the message to the fans that the club belongs to them. The club does not belong to any of us. It does not belong to the Team Manager nor the Technical Adviser but to them. So, we took the club back to the fans. Every Rangers supporter has that sense of belonging. He has that sense of ownership, that he has a say in Rangers. After some games, we provide a forum where we interact with the supporters. They tell us their fears, they tell us what they feel we should do. Rangers is more or less a community club. Look at our match day 36 game against Sunshine Stars, even in the rain the fans came to support. We organise ad hoc lectures for the fans. We have been able to re-orient the fans. We have instilled in them the understanding that in modern football ‘fanship and supportership’ is not about violence, not about throwing stones and such other objects that are not recognized in the game. The fans are simply orderly and supportive. We believe by next season the level of supportership, the ideas will be greater. You saw the Mexican wave they did in our match against Nasarawa United. It brought out the excitement and enjoyment of the game. We believe that by next season when we play in the NPFL and the continent (CAF Champions League) we will see a lot more good things from the fans. Sportstalkafrica: It was a bit of surprise that being a very young person and still in your first year as team manager of a club, the LMC chose you as team manager of the NPFL All Stars team to the LaLigaWorld tour. How was that experience for you? Ezeaku: It was a great experience. Let me quickly thank the LMC and the NFF (Nigeria Football Federation) for deeming it fit to pick me as team manager for that trip. I must state that we learnt a lot of things in the process. I was able to understand that the LaLiga don’t joke with their football, the culture and the structure of their club sides. We were able to bring that down to Nigeria. We believe that by next season a lot of clubs will exhibit their culture and re-organise their structure. The trip was memorable and instructive tactically, managerially and otherwise. I thank God we embarked on that trip to Spain and we hope for many more similar exposures. Sportstalkafrica: It seems almost certain that Rangers will win the title. The worry for many Nigerian fans is about the quality of game and representation by Nigeria clubs in the continental competitions. Can Rangers make the difference again for Nigeria? Ezeaku: In Rangers we believe in one game at a time. We will win the league by God’s grace and we hope to do well and make Nigeria proud in the continent. We are not just going to the continent to be numbered. We are going to the continent to make an indelible impression, an impression that will last a long time and bring fame and pride to the Nigeria Football Federation, to the League Management Company and to the entire nation. Sportstalkafrica: What has been your involvement in sports or football before getting into Rangers as team manager? Ezeaku: I have been in football from my school days. I captained the University of Nigeria, Enugu campus, and the University of Nigeria team to the NUGA (Nigeria Universities) Games and the West Africa Universities Games (WAUG). I also captained the NYSC national team headed by Coach Rotimi Salau. I was also in the national teams, Flying Eagles and the Dream Team before I ventured into club management. . When I left the Dream Team camp, I tried out with Wikki Tourists before hanging my gloves and, to the glory of God, I did my National Youth Service with the NFF under Barrister Okey Obi. My life has been about football and more seriously so in the past 15 years. December last year the Enugu State Government asked the board to re-organise Rangers and I was invited to the interview and they subsequently appointed me team manager of Rangers. That is the journey so far. Sportstalkafrica: What course did you study in the University? Ezeaku: I studied law at the University of Nigeria. I went to Nigeria Law School, Bwari Campus. Even while in the Law School, we had to build a team and played against the Bwari Community. We did some charity there. We believe football can actually be an instrument of societal peace and promotion of friendship. Passing through law, the laws of football was made easier because after each game your brain opens up to grab the cases and the position of the various laws. Sportstalkafrica: Are you single or married? Tell us about that other side of life and how you cope being almost always away from family. Ezeaku: (Chuckles shyly) Well…I am not married but I am in a relationship. But then my family and parents are coping with the fact that I run the club as team manager. Sometimes they express worries. I remember when we went to play El Kanemi and I called my people to say the pre-match meeting was at night, they kept calling and calling that I had to leave the meeting and go back to the hotel room. Still, they have remained supportive and I thank them for their love and support. Sportstalkafrica: So, you are in a relationship. Tell us about her… Ezeaku: (Bursts into prolonged laughter) Like I said earlier, I am in a relationship and I hope to the glory of God to settle down soon. Sportstalkafrica: What’s her name? Ezeaku: (Can’t stop laughing) I choose not to share that.. (continues laughing) |
Permit me to pay a special tribute to a great
football club this week - Rangers International
Football Club of Enugu.
Many would wonder why I am doing so,
knowing that the football club was the greatest
rival to the club I played for through most of
my football career – IICC Shooting Stars of Ibadan.
Between the two clubs, Rangers and Shooting Stars of
Ibadan, they defined and set the agenda for football
development in Nigeria for almost two decades. Some of the
best and most reliable friends that I cultivated through the
course of my life in sports, even to this day, came from
Rangers FC.
Our friendship has been deep and strong, and sustains to
this day!
Incidentally, the last year of my football career also marked
the last time Rangers International won the most prestigious
football title in the land – the national league. That was
some 32 years ago! That’s how long it has taken them to re-
mount the podium of victory once again.
I will not blame any young person below the age of 32,
therefore, that wonders why I would dedicate my entire
column this week to write about a team that, all things being
equal, will become the next champion of the Nigerian
Premier League this weekend.
It is not the feat itself that is significant but the story of the
team; where it has come from; what it represents in the
story of Nigeria; and what its current achievement means to
football and to the country as a whole.
There will be jubilation and celebration in several towns and
villages around Nigeria today when Rangers finally lifts the
trophy that has eluded them for so long.
This club was raised from the ashes of the Nigerian Civil war
in 1970, its significance rooted in the name given to it by one
of its founders, the late Justice Ikpeazu.
When the war ended and was declared ‘No Winner, No
Vanquished’ by the then Nigerian Head of State, General
Yakubu Gowon, it was clear that the Igbo people needed
more than those words to bury the humiliation of surrender
and to spearhead a full psychological and physical re-
integration into the main stream of social life and political
engagements in the country, devoid of the stigma of a
conquered people.
The Igbos, a very proud and hardworking people, with an
awesome reputation for their industry and commercial sixth
sense, needed a get-out-of-jail card for their re-entry to a
new Nigeria.
The leadership anchored their intention to an innocent
weapon that they believed would not fail - a football club
named after one of their most devastating weapons during
the civil war, a cannon that inflicted massive destruction on
the enemy, called the Ranger!
The political leaders at the time, including Dr. Jim Nwobodo,
the first civilian governor of Enugu State, founded the
football club and called it Enugu Rangers Football Club.
Not many people knew that during the most bloody civil war
in history, that claimed over two million Nigerian lives on
both sides of the conflict, the war was temporarily halted
(voluntarily by both armies) so that the fighting soldiers of
both armies could listen to the radio commentaries of a
football match between Santos FC of Brazil, and a Nigerian
selected side at the King George V Stadium, in Onikan Lagos,
that featured the legendary Pele.
That match was a clear demonstration of how much
Nigerians loved and followed their country’s number one
sport. The Igbos latched onto that passion and presented
this all-conquering football club, to fast-track and catalyse
their return.
In 1970, the march of Rangers Football Club of Enugu began.
That year it got to the finals of the FA Cup and lost narrowly.
The following year, and for the next decade, it dominated
Nigerian football like no other club had ever done in the
history of the country, and achieved for the Igbo people
what guns could not on the battlefield!
Rangers International FC conquered Nigerian football,
winning everything in the land by playing football crafted
from the battlefields of Biafra – physicality, ferocity, skills,
det
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This is the reason why our goverment will never allow our education system to be good because if it's good, youths will know their right and do the needful. Imagine someone who was accused of eating your destiny, paid you peanut from what she might have stolen from you to protest for her! Is that not advance illiteracy perfected by these crooks? What relationships do these youths have with her? Are they her children, bro or what? Why can't she use her children and those who benefited from her when her husband was in power. Abi these youth benefited from her? |
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Sanchez01:No one prays to dead saints, because those in heaven are more alive than we are. The Lord is God of the living, not of the dead. The fervent prayer of a righteous man is very powerful (Jas 5:16). Those in heaven are surely righteous, since nothing unclean can enter heaven (Rv 21:27). Those in heaven are part of the Mystical Body of Christ and have not been separated from us by death, but surround us as a great cloud of witnesses (Heb 12:1). They stand before the throne of God and offer our prayers to him (Rv 5: and cheer us on as we run the good race. Intercession among membersof the body of Christ is pleasing to God (1 Tm 2:1-4) and even commanded by him (Jn 15:17). Those in heaven have a perfected love, so how could they not intercede for us? Christ is the vine, and we are the branches; if we are connected to him, we are inseparably bound together as well. Can the eye say to the hand, "I need you not"? Neither are we to say we don’t need the prayers of our brothers and sisters (alive here or in heaven), because salvation is a family affair. |
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Nigeria's premium lager beer, Star, on Tuesday in a colourful ceremony held inside the Ball Room of the Eko Hotels and Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos, sealed a "multi- year" partnership deal with the League Management Company (LMC) for the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL). The relationship, according to the Portfolio Manager, National Premium Lager of Nigeria Breweries PLC. makers of Star Lager Beer, Tokunboh Adodo. is conceived with the objective of bringing "premium experience to consumers." "Our objective is to bring the standard of other societies where football is at its best to our consumers. We expect to see those activities that will enable consumers to experience football like they have never seen before. We believe in this platform and our partnership is about moving the NPFL forward seeing that the gentlemen in the LMC have shown professionalism and adherence to global best practices. Star is the first beer brand to ever sponsor the NPFL and the partnership is worth every dime we are putting into it. The most important word is partnership. It is a win win for both Star, the NPFL all stakeholders. The National Marketing Director of NBL, Franco Maggi who assured that the partnership is a multi year relationship said the most important thing is that Star and the NPFL are together. "This is almost like a natural thing. Star is the longest selling beer and it has been there at every great moment in Nigeria and it is just natural that we are also with the NPFL which is providing a great leap for Nigerian football. What is important is the fact that we are together. We wouldn't be doing it if we do not intend to stay for a long time. We are here to support the growth of football in Nigeria and if the people who support football in Nigeria support our brand, we will be happy." Elated chairman of the League Management Company, Shehu Dikko, described the partnership as unique, expressing optimism that the relationship will give the league a big push. "Our objective is to get a partner that will work with us at the back end, take the league into the heart of Nigerians, we are very positive that Star lager will contribute greatly towards helping us achieve this and we are very excited with the partnership." First Vice President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF). Seyi Akinwunmi who represented the board at the ceremony described the partnership as a marriage between two excellent entities. "Those who know when the LMC started cannot believe that we are having this ceremony. The LMC has come out with first class in managing the NPFL. Star is a first class brand and the partnership is like a marriage between two first class professionals. The deal is very transparent and the NFF is in total support of it" Already, Star Lager has embossed the NPFL logo on its foil and Adodo who displayed the new branding has assured that the Star Lager with NPFL logo will go into the market "in few weeks time." Dignitaries at the consummation of the partnership includes the Managing Director of Nigeria Breweries PLC, Nico Vervelde, Chief Executive Officer of the League Management Company, Hon Nduka Irabor, Chairman of the Lagos State Sports Commission, Deji Tinubu, representative of the Federal Ministry of Sports, Engr. A Alanamu, chairmen of NPFL clubs from across the country and distinguished players in the football industry.
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GEJ claims he didnt know there was so much corruption in his
regime yet he fired Sanusi when the latter raised alarm about some
monumental stealing at the NNPC. He shielded Dizieni from the
House of Reps when a query was raised on her 10billion naira
expenditure on chatering jets. He kept Stella Odua and Abba Moro
inspite of their involement in high profile scandals. Yet he did not
know there was corruption in his govt. Haba !!! Elders should have
no business with lies |
In all honesty, a lot of things happened during Jonathan administration, unfortunately he was not aware and he solely put his trust and relied on the appointed personalities. This is quite unfortunate! The former president, Jonathan did not bother to supervise or monitor the activities of the people in his cabinet that is why they rubbished his administration with corrupt practices. He was ignorant of the monumental treasury heist that took place under him. In a meeting with President Buhari recently, it was gathered that the Bayelsa born politician was shocked when facts and figures were tabled before him about how corruption reigned supreme under his leadership. According to the report gathered from the private meeting, he was quoted to have said that he’s just realizing this corruption for the first time. Facts, however, are beginning to emerge about the presidential meeting, which was said to have been facilitated by the former Head of States, Abdusalam Abubakar, former President Goodluck Jonathan at the Presidential Villa, Abuja was shocked to see how his aides milked the economy of the country dry. We gathered that the meeting was at the instance of the 2015 Elections Peace Committee, after former President, Jonathan complained that President Buhari was not sticking to the peace accord they signed. Jonathan was reported to have also sought for understanding on alleged corrupt practices and mismanagement of funds under his administration, with a source saying the former President claimed he was hearing about some of the graft allegations for the first time. The report however claimed that President Buhari reportedly insisted that all looted funds must be returned to the nation’s coffers, adding that the President also restated his pledge that Jonathan had nothing to fear at all. According to a source quoted by the report, the outcome of the meeting between Buhari and Jonathan formed the motive behind Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo’s declaration at the weekend that the target of the administration’s anti-corruption war was not Jonathan. The report further disclosed that the former President was not comfortable with the way Buhari moved against his ex-Chief Security Officer (CSO), ex-National Security Adviser (NSA) and some ministers, asking the Abdulsalami committee to prevail on Buhari not to rubbish him. Malok Jerry and Dele Ogunsakin didn’t waste much time to fire him back on reading this statement he made. Amazingly, the former president, GEJ has always been known to take leave of the truth. On so many occasions as president, he spoke from both sides of his mouth. At a campaign rally, he said stealing was not corruption. The case at hand now is so bad that even those he trusted who have come to him for succor are likely not to get the desired shelter because Mr. Jonathan has made it clear to them that everybody should now bear his father’s name whether you knew of corruption or not. A source said, “This man is always economical with the truth. When the allegations against former Minister of Aviation, Mrs. Stella Oduah broke, what did he do? What of those allegation against Diezani Allison-Madueke? Was it not Jonathan who allegedly blamed the House of Representatives of inviting Diezani too much? Was it not under his leadership Diezani took the House of Reps to court? Was it not same Jonathan who allegedly said stealing was no corruption? Where did he get the dollars with which he was bribing traditional rulers from? Lie has strength, but truth has endurance.” Another concerned citizen who were privy of this information said, “It’s so unfortunate to hear a chief executive of a country claiming he is just knowing if corruption perpetrated under his administration after someone’s else has taken over the office, which means he does not have a way of checking people he employed to work for him. Anyway, Law does not know ignorance he should be punished according to the law of the land. The issue on the loot should stand, because it will serve as a lesson those thinking in that direction.” https://nigeriacamera.net/didnt-know-corruption-much-former-president-goodluck-jonathan/
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