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PrinceOfLagos:
This one don collect brown envelope

Tinubu will be jailed after APC is out of power

Why was he not jailed when PDP was in power?

slimfit1:
We know the US military will never ever join unprofessionals to rade. they would have invaded at night pick the terrorist up then disappear. They know that Bihari's government is a terrorist sympathizer. We know that the US Government can never share security information with Nigerian security agencies.

And you think the US soldiers can enter Nigeria without the knowledge of the Nigeria govt and arrests people? They can't invade just like that. Make we try to rate our country nah

WibusJaga:
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"Rico was drunk" - Hospital
"Rico was not drunk" - Family, Uber Driver
Whose report do we believe now?

Anyway, prevention is always better than cure:
1. If you Drink, Do Not Drive
2. Avoid or Minimise Night Driving
3. Avoid Overspeeding & Cut Down Speed at Night.

Even if he was drunk, does that mean he shouldn't be attended to immediately. Thats gross carelessness and ineptitude from the medicals. Normally, they ought to be sued and have their licenses revoked

How do you mean Daily Trust is a bokoharam newspaper?

TooMuchStuff:
BBC ! How dare you to EXPOSE Buhari boys in action inside Jungles for the whole world to see and know what is going on in Nigeria??

Even you Daily Trust too wey be Bokoharam people newspaper too?.... Habaaaa!!!!

avsadeeq0:
What makes you think I'm not from kano ?

Alright then, you will know better than me

avsadeeq0:
He should choose Lagos , north is not safe

Who told you North is not safe? I'm Yoruba and I know well that Kano is safe to a very large extent. Its not as bad as it is pointed in the media.

ArchiLimited:
Sincerely whenever I check into a new hotel room these days, I first switch off the lights and scan the room with my phone camera. So many sick people out there today.

How does this work pls?

Bashir that I know can never write this letter. His lawyers or someone else must have written this. To smooth, flawless and direct for him to compose and pen them down.

I suspect one of them is a Senator Bala Mohamed

All of a sudden, Putin is a dictator. Before he was called Russian President

I completely agree with you on this. Anything above 3 months is disaster

KillIgbohoN0W:
Not more than 3 months' salary.
Anything more and you're living beyond your means.

So who come be the first or second wife

slawormiir:
Damnnn niggar
Ain't got nothing to say about that c300....

Just go for voltron or lexus es 350.....although I prefer the lexu rx 350 anyday anytime twice on Monday

Still cruising my low budget ass voltron and venza though ....I know am gonna get that lexus rx350 soon...i just love that ride

I have been seeing the Lexus more frequently these days. Seems people are buying the car more. That means there is something unique about the car. My only problem is just the see through boot

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has reduced the life ban slammed on former international, Samson Siasia to five years following his appeal against the decision rendered by the Adjudicatory Chamber of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) on 11 April 2019.

It will be recalled the former Super Eagles coach was found guilty of infringement of article 1 (bribery) of the 2009 FIFA Code of Ethics and sanctioned with a life ban from taking part in any kind of football-related activity at national and international level (administrative, sports or any other) and a fine of CHF 50,000 (N22.3m) was imposed on him.

In 2010, a match fixer tried to involve Mr Siasia as a coach of a club under his strict instructions. With the promise of employment benefits, Mr Siasia would have had to always field several players under the control of the match fixer.

The negotiations between the match fixer and Mr Siasia in relation to the conditions of employment were conducted by email over a period of two months.

Read more at https://thesportsbay.com/cas-reduces-samson-siasias-life-ban/.html

It is the dream of every young, aspiring footballer to make it to the top in his or her chosen career and it’s important to know exactly what professional football scouts is looking for.

Almost every established club in the world with good structures usually employ scouts, either on part-time or full time basis to help search for talents that can potentially take over the baton when the older ones leave the stage.

Football scouts attend football matches on the behalf of clubs to collect intelligence. Primarily, there are two types of scouts: player scouts and tactical scouts. Player scouts or physical scouts evaluate the talent of footballers with a view to signing them on a professional contract for their employers.

As such, these scouts go round the globe to fulfil their mandate where they organize football trials to carefully pick the kind of talents they need.

So as young, budding footballer, there are certain traits these scouts search for beyond the raw talents you have.
In as much the raw talents and natural abilities a young footballer has play a huge role, they are not enough to get him or her that platform to develop. It is an open secret that most football scouts hate nothing more than unfulfilled talent.

So what other attributes are these football scouts looking for beyond raw talents and natural ability.

TECHNICAL ABILITY

Technical abilities are the skills and knowledge needed to perform specific tasks, in this case, football.
Having these skills doesn’t mean you need to be performing fancy flicks and tricks like Neymar.

Rather, the scouts will assess you on your physical attributes, your dribbling, tackling, shooting, heading, passing and first touch will be assessed in the context of the game.

So, as a young footballer, you will need to demonstrate a good first touch and ease on the ball regardless of your position. If you lose the balls too much, your chances of being picked fades away.

Basically, having all the skills but you don’t know how to use them will not in any way give you that space. It will count for nothing if these skills are not used positively on the field.

Take for example, Cristiano Ronaldo is a talented player but he worked his ass off to get to level he is now. Talent didn’t just take him to the top but using the talents well.

TACTICAL ABILITY

This refers to your tactical awareness to read the game well and identify the spaces that can be exploited during the game. We can call this ‘football IQ’ where the scouts will be watching every move you make with and without the ball. A lot of scouts spend more time looking at players without the ball than with it.

A players like Andres Iniesta, Xavi are regarded as one of the most intelligent players because of his abilities to read a game well and orchestrate proceedings on the field of play.

PHYSICAL ATTRIBUTES

In the modern football, size and appearance are not as important as they used to be but the player must demonstrate an element of strength, balance and poise on and off the ball.

Football is a physical game and it is very important the players have the stamina to complete a game.

Let’s take for example, N’Golo Kante who has a small body but is a work horse. The Chelsea man has so much stamina despite his small frame.

A lot of scouts will simply want to make sure that your physique and other physical attributes don’t put you at a disadvantage.

A player’s ability to take a knock and still stay on your feet while keeping up with the pace of the game is a major plus for the scouts.

[b]Read more at [/b]https://thesportsbay.com/how-to-win-the-hearts-of-football-scouts/.html

Super Eagles coach, Gernot Rohr has listed four Nigeria Professinal Football League players for the friendly game against Cameroon in Austria on Friday, 4th June 2021.

The players are among the 31 others listed for the game which will take place at the Wiener Neustadt in the Austrian capital, Vienna starting from 8.30pm Austria time.

Headlining the list unveiled on Friday is Captain Ahmed Musa, with deputy captain William Ekong, goalkeeper Maduka Okoye, defenders Kenneth Omeruo and Chidozie Awaziem, midfielders Wilfred Ndidi and Oghenekaro Etebo and forwards Victor Osimhen, Kelechi Iheanacho and Samuel Chukwueze also called.

Portugal-based Abraham Marcus is called for the first time and Enyimba FC’s energetic forward Anayo Iwuala, whose tenacity and drive has helped the People’s Elephant to the quarter finals of the CAF Confederation Cup, has opportuntity to fight for a place and continue on his international footprints, following cameo appearances against Benin Republic and Lesotho in AFCON qualifiers in March.

The provisional list of 31 will be whittled down to 23 before the Super Eagles fly to Vienna for the clash with perennial rivals Indomitable Lions.

Cameroon wrestled down the Eagles for three of their five AFCON titles (1984, 1988, 2000) but have not beaten Nigeria in regulation time since a 1-0 triumph in a 1990 FIFA World Cup qualifying match at the Stade Omnisports in Yaounde on 27th August 1989.

The Eagles lashed the Lions 4-0 in a 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifying match in Uyo in September 2017 and were forced to a 1-1 draw in the reverse fixture in Yaounde, setting the stage for Nigeria’s qualification for the finals in Russia.

FOR THE THE FULL LIST, CHECK https://thesportsbay.com/41246-rohr-lists-four-npfl-players-for-cameroon-friendly-in-austria.html

To the Muslims in the house, pls why is baba sitting on a chair with a special mat for him?

Former Super Eagles goalkeeper Emmanuel Okocha has admitted that he was in the stand to watch his young brother Austin Jay Jay Okocha scored one of the best goals in the history of German Bundesliga.

Jay Jay Okocha stole the headline during his days in the Bundesliga after he dribbled about seven defenders, including Germany great Oliver Kahn and scored the iconic goal for his Eintracht Frankfurt in 1993.

Emmanuel who is the older brother of the former Bolton Wanderers captain told Nigeria Football Federation media team in a live Instagram session that he cried while watching his brother in Germany.

“I was at the stadium with my brother, Okocha was playing for Frankfurt he had the ball facing Oliver Khan, when he started dribbling, I put my hands on my head and I was saying if you miss this goal, everyone was in awe, even players stopped moving and when he scored I buried my head in tears. I could not hold it.”

Emmanuel who was part of the Super Eagles silver medal-winning squad to the 1990 African cup of Nations in Algeria, admitted that his younger brother exceeded his expectations in the game.

“He was better when he was younger. I could not see him much because I was always away playing for my club. He highly exceeded my expectations, sometimes I go back to YouTube to watch him.”

“He knew what he wanted. He knew his background and took hard decisions to achieve his goal, he was really wise”, he said.

Austin Okocha is regarded as the greatest Nigerian player ever and was the first African player to command a 24 million dollar transfer fee following his move from Fenerbahce to French side Paris Saint-German.

Source: https://www.brila.net/i-cried-watching-jay-jay-play-in-germany-emmanuel-okocha/

Nigeria international and Paris FC goalkeeper Chiamaka Nnadozie has revealed that her career in becoming a goalkeeper was orchestrated by her brothers, the SportsBay.com reports.

Nnadozie shone brightly as the Falconets reached the U20 Women’s World Cup quarter-finals in France – the same country where she inspired the Super Falcons to the Women’s World Cup Round of 16 for the first time since 1999 last year.

Her biggest achievement at her maiden senior World Cup was when she emerged as the youngest goalkeeper to keep a clean sheet at the tournament in Nigeria’s 2-0 win over South Korea – the country’s only triumph at the event.

Before the World Cup, she had put her brilliance on display in a penalty shootout as she helped the Super Falcons win the Wafu Women’s Cup in Cote d’Ivoire, and also replicated her goalkeeping heroics in Nigeria’s African Games triumph.

The former Rivers Angels star, who moved to the French top-flight outfit in January, shared how she started out in several positions before settling to be a goalkeeper according to Goal.

“I was told my father played football. My elder brothers and cousin’s sisters also play football but not as professionals,” Nnadozie said in an Instagram interview with the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF).

“I got to train with my brothers and their friends. One them enrolled me into an Academy in Owerri named Nwudu Football Academy now Heartland Queen FC.

“I started as a right wing-back, then I switch to a striking role. But most times when there’s no space for me to play, my brothers send me between the posts to keep for them.

“At the Academy, I was a player until one faithful day when we are playing against Campus Academy also in Owerri, our goalkeeper looked so tired after conceding two goals. I turned to the coach and said – let me replace her, she looks tired already.”

The 19-year-old had starred for Nigeria at the U17 Women’s World Cup in Jordan, where they failed to progress from the group stage in 2016 and further disclosed how she was discovered.

“My coach looked at me and laughed with an unserious facial expression, he said ‘we are trailing two goals with a keeper and you want me to play without a keeper’,” she continued.

“He later agreed and made some fantastic saves in the first five minutes. After seeing my performance that day, he wanted me to switch to goalkeeping. We were preparing for the National Sports Festival when he approached me and said ‘we have senior and better players than you in the team.

“There’s no assurance you are going to make the team except as a goalkeeper.’ He promised to teach me the basics of goalkeeping and trained me to be a professional one. I started keeping with bare hands.

“He later bought me my first gloves and boots to encourage me.”

https://thesportsbay.com/36490-how-nnadozie-became-a-goalkeeper.html

Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) stakeholders and fans have been urged to descountence a fake news that suggested that the suspended 2019/20 season would be concluded in China.


The purveyors of the news which seem to have enjoyed viral circulation, claimed that Chairman of League Management Company (LMC), Shehu Dikko disclosed the decision to a Lagos based Radio Station.


But Dikko said he could not have said so after a recent online meeting of the LMC and Chairmen of the 20 NPFL Clubs which agreed on possible options to conclude the season.


"Why would I suggest that we will conclude the season in China with all the logistics nightmare and attendant cost this would entail", began Dikko in reaction to the story and declared, " this is an absurd attempt at fake news".


The LMC Chairman said the decision reached at the meeting with Club Owners still stand and "we will continue to liaise with the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), the Sports Ministry and relevant government agencies working on the COVID 19 pandemic for advise on when it is safe for football to return".

Former England coach, Sven-Göran Eriksson has revealed that the then Aminu Maigiri-led Nigeria Football Federation had given him a condition before he could be appointed Super Eagles in 2010.

In an interview with branschen.se, Eriksson said he was approached after the 2010 World Cup and he was told by an official of the NFF that his salary would be paid into two different bank accounts.

The 72-year-old was among the coaches shortlisted for the Eagles’ job after late Shaibu Amodu was relieved of his job despite a third-place finish at the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations in Angola and qualifying the squad for the Mundial.

Asked if he ever applied for a job as a coach, Erikson said, “I’ve never applied for a job in my entire life.

“All my assignments have come about through the results I have achieved. I have never gone through any traditional job interviews, never sat down and conducted any tests or been analysed.

“The closest I have come to an interview is that I met the owner or chairman of the club or national team during a dinner or some other context. But then it was really just about meeting to talk about terms and contracts.”

Erikson added, “The only time I can remember having undergone any form that resembles an interview was when I was asked about the job of Nigeria’s national team coach in 2010 ahead of the World Cup in South Africa.

“I went down in the belief that I would meet the chairman of the national team association (NFF) and that it was really only contract formalities that we would go through. But when I arrived, several coaches had received the same invitation, including Lars Lagerbäck. I was very surprised but found myself quite quickly.

Read more at https://thesportsbay.com/36261-eriksson-nff-wanted-my-salary-divided.html

Nigerian track and field athlete, Blessing Okagbare has said she is no longer interested in dating and consequently, marriage but may reconsider her choice if she sees a man that will write her 500 words essay, the SportsBay.com reports.

Blessing Okagbare who took to her Instastories to declare that she has lost interest in dating, however gave conditions on what her next suitors must do to win her heart.

It will be recalled that she recently filed for divorce from her husband, Otegheri, after six years of marriage.

The Olympic and World Championships medalist stated that any man who might be interested in getting into a relationship with her should write an essay of 500 words on how he would not waste her time.

This coming following reports that Nigeria’s star athlete filed for a divorce suit to end her six-year marriage to husband, Mr. Igho Otegheri.

It was reported that Okagbare gave her all to the marriage but had to file for divorce following long-standing rows between her and her hubby, which led to a face-off between the families of the couple, with the ex-footballer’s parents reportedly asking for a refund of the bride price they paid during the traditional rites six years ago in Sapele.

https://thesportsbay.com/36242-im-no-longer-interested-in-dating-marriage-okagbare.html

Taribo made us pray for hours – Zanetti

Former Inter Milan defender, Javier Zanetti, has revealed how former Nerazzurri teammate, Taribo West, invited himself and other colleagues over for dinner but turned it into a prayer session, much to the frustration of the players.

Zanetti revealed the hilarious incident during an Instagram live session with Christian Vieri, another former Inter star.

The former Nerazzurri captain added that after Taribo made them pray for hours, they had to leave without waiting to have the dinner they came for.

He said, “A month disappeared in January. He returned after a month and said ‘I got married; a month of vacation is expected in my country’.

“Another time he invited us to dinner, we arrived at 8-9 and he prayed. An hour, two hours, three hours. We went away without dinner.”

Taribo and Zanetti both shared the same locker room between 1997 and 1999 at the San Siro, where the defender turned pastor made a total of 44 appearances and was able to find the back of the net on one occasion.

He won the 1997-98 UEFA Cup for Inter Milan in an all-Italian final against Lazio, being their third title in eight years in the competition.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/punchng.com/taribo-made-us-pray-for-hours-zanetti/%3famp=1

The Nigeria Football Federation president, Amaju Pinnick has opened up that the federation is at a loss on how the Super Falcons can be celebrated following their exploits in Africa, thesportsbay reports.

He stated this during a breakfast show on Arise TV on Monday while lamenting over the disruptions in the football calendar caused by the COVID 19 pandemic.

On the impact of the pandemic on the Nigeria football sector, with the game having been shut down since 19th March 2020, Pinnick stated: “We will sit down with our (official premium) partners AITEO with regards to the AITEO Cup competition, to see how we can still put this year’s edition together.

“There is also the AITEO/NFF Awards (in its third edition). This year’s edition is meant to celebrate the Super Falcons. We have plans to celebrate them but we don’t know how to go about it. So, we will sit down with our sponsors to figure things out, ” he said.

Speaking further, Pinnick expressed his displeasure with the family of late Nasarawa United defender, Chineme Martins over the delay in undertaking an autopsy to determine his death.

It will be recalled that the defender collapsed and later died during a recent Nigeria Professional Football League clashh.

“The committee has worked to an appreciable level; done with its report. The members have done a great job in a short time and I must commend them.

“I am however, worried that the family of the late player has so far refused to give the go-ahead for autopsy to be done on the corpse.” he said.

Meanwhile, he has lauded the efforts of the Federal Government in containing the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, describing measures taken so far as “effective and re-assuring”.

https://thesportsbay.com/35849-we-can-celebrate-super-falcons-pinnick.html

IbroSaunks:
sadly i didn't experience Balogun, though we heard Alot about him. when i entered, it was ojemuyiwa that was in charge. in my opinion, it was when they stopped making it compulsory for the pkc to be a kcob that things started getting wierd. i guess u have to go through kc life to understand it well. im sure Mr Balogun was a kcob.

No he wasnt

The first Nigeria Professional Football League game in 2020 between MFM FC and Nasarawa United ended goalless at the Agege Stadium, Lagos on Wednesday evening.

The Match Day 11 clash which is also the first game of the new decade saw a struggling Nasarawa United looking to secure its second league win against an average MFM.

The Olukoya Boys at the early stages of the game were in controlling possessions while pegging their visitors in their own half in search for an early goal.

In the 10th minute, the away side should have opened the scoring through Tayo Fabiyi but for the heroics of MFM goal tender, Abayomi Folarin.

As the game wore, the Olukoya Boys began to fashion out goal scoring chances but were wasteful in front of goal.

In the 16th minute, MFM’s Akanni Elijah picked out Oriyomi Lawal with a defence-splitting pass, who beats his marker to the ball but couldn’t get a shot on target to the agony of the coaching crew.

Interestingly, towards the end of the first half, the visitors had a good spell as they played some tiki-taka football which the Lagos fans acknowledged and applauded them for.

At the restart of the second half with both sides remaining unchanged in terms of playing personnel, MFM once again had one of the best chances in the game but just as they did in the first half, they failed to take them.

In the 60th minute, Elijah found Adeniji in space in the box who slided the ball with his right foot but it narrowly went off target.

Desperate to score, the home side were being kicked and got freekicks in the process which they failed again to utilize well.

In the 83rd minute, it was a major scare for home side as Nasarawa substitute Dauda rounded off Folarin but his effort was cleared off the line by defender Joshua Akpudje who injured himself in the process to help his team share the spoils.

Following this result, MFM dropped down to 10th position with 16 points while Nasarawa Utd overtook Enugu Rangers to take up the 19th position with 7 points.

https://thesportsbay.com/34372-first-game-of-the-decade-ends-goalless.html

The minister of Youths and Sports Development, Sunday Dare on Monday walked out on top Nigeria Football Federation officials for coming late to a crucial meeting.

The president of NFF, Amaju Pinnick who in company of the second vice president of the federation, Shehu Dikko, and the chairperson Nigeria Women’s League, Aisha Falode came 4:20pm for a meeting scheduled for 4:00pm at the MKO Abiola National Stadium office of the minister.

In what was a like drama, Dare who is a stickler to time was on his way out for another meeting when he was stopped by the Pinnick who made frantic efforts to explain why he came late, but was unable to have the minister stay back.
Shortly after the minister and his entourage had left the scene, it was alleged that Pinnick who was shell-shocked and asked ‘we are just 10 minutes late, how can the minister leave us like that’?

According to a reliable source, the minister had been tolerating the overbearing nature of the NFF who seemed were trying to undermine his authority as the head of the sports ministry.

It was also gathered from the source that the meeting was to discuss about the welfare of the national U23 team who are preparing to leave Nigeria for Egypt for 2019 U23 African Nations Cup.

The meeting will also give both parties the opportunity to discuss on the commencement of the Nigeria Professional Football League next Sunday.

At press time we could not ascertain if the minister rescheduled the meeting with the NFF officials, but journalists who witnessed the scenario claimed that the minister by his action has shown to the NFF he has no acceptance for “African Time” ideology.

Earlier, the sports minister started that no federation is bigger than it supervisory ministry as the ministry top agenda is to open a new page for sports development in the country.

https://thesportsbay.com/33109-sports-minister-walks-out-on-pinnick.html

The Minister of Youth and Sports Sunday Dare has approved the refund of the money International Association of Athletics Federations mistakenly sent to Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN).

It will be recalled that the IAAF sent $150,000, in 2017, to the AFN, instead of the $15,000, which the world body was expected to contribute to the development of athletics in Nigeria.

Dare confirmed the approval via his social media handle on Wednesday evening and promised that the money will get to international body soon barring bank delay.

“I have approved the release of funds to refund the IAAF overpayment wrongly credited to the Athletics Federation of Nigeria. In a few days from now the funds should hit the account of the IAAF baring any interbank delays. With this Nigeria’s reputation is regained,” he wrote.

IAAF had warned Nigeria would incur sanctions if the $134,000 that was overpaid was not returned which the immediate former sports minister, Solomon Dalung had interpreted as a threat that the IAAF would ban Nigeria from international competition.

This was later categorically denied by the IAAF, which insisted it had “no intention” to suspend the AFN.

Few hours to his departure, Dalung returned 50% of the missing money to the IAAF.

It was gathered that Dalung in a phone call with the IAAF’s president, Sebastian Coe promised to return some money which he did before he left office.

The IAAF revealed at the time that it had received an unspecified “small amount” from the AFN.

https://thesportsbay.com/32866-nigeria-refunds-iaaf-missing-money.html

Another scandal is brewing from the Super Eagles camp following a revelation that the three-time African champions landed in Singapore without training kits.

The Super Eagles are in the Asian country for a blockbuster friendly match against the Samba Boys of Brazil on Sunday.

According to a member of the Nigeria Football Federation’s Reforms Committee, Osasu Obayiuwana on his verified twitter handle said the players were flown in Business Class while all the coaching staff except for Coach Gernot Rohr were put in Economy Class.

In a series of tweets, Obayiuwana revealed that the team trained in all kinds of gear, for their opening training session in Singapore.

Read more here https://thesportsbay.com/32063-eagles-train-in-singapore-without-kits.html