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The National Association of Nigerian Footballers, NANF factional presidents, Harrison Jalla and Larry Kubenje have traded words over who the legitimate president between two of them is. In a Channels TV program monitored by The SportsBay, Kubenje stated that Jalla had handed over power to him as the president of the players union of his own will after ruling for 26 years. According to him, “Nobody forced him out of office. He called the players together and said he was handing over to me (sic). I gladly took over from him after serving him for 16 years only for him to come back and say he wanted to continue”, he stated. “When he was about to be embarrassed by the players, he went to the Federal High Court to declare him president. If he was the president, why need the court to declare him one?, he quipped. He further stated that Jalla should not be entertained as the president of NANF. He however noted that this leadership tussle would have resolved bar for the agenda of his ‘predecessor’. In his own statement, Jalla stated that he remains the president of the union and there was no contention about that. According to him, the former player of the defunct Bendel United Football Club of Benin stated further that never handed over to him and asked him to show where he did. He further refuted the length of his presidency, saying he was in charge for 15 years as he was always elected by the congress. It will be noted that the National Association of Nigeria Footballers had unanimously installed ex-international Larry Kubenji as president with the hope to end the years of crisis rocking the players union’s body in 2016 http://www.thesportsbay.com/harrison-jalla-larry-kubenje-bicker-over-nanf-presidency/. |
JONNYSPUTE:It's not by force to read my write up, I'm someone who knows a great deal of the whole issues. At least I'm one of them. Dalung is not supporting him. Giwa has asked for reconciliation but the greed and headiness of Pinnick truncated the whole parley. Wish you can click on the links read more. It's hard explaining them here |
JONNYSPUTE:Read more to get better understanding of the whole issue http://www.thesportsbay.com/how-pinnick-milked-nff-dry-giwa/ http://www.thesportsbay.com/nff-crisis-how-pinnick-betrayed-giwas-trust-dalung/ |
etibaba:Read more to get better understanding of the whole issue http://www.thesportsbay.com/how-pinnick-milked-nff-dry-giwa/ http://www.thesportsbay.com/nff-crisis-how-pinnick-betrayed-giwas-trust-dalung/ |
Princeofnigeria:When people complain about glo network being slow, it baffles me cos I enjoy their services. Fast and reliable. Grandmaster of data |
The Chairman, Local Organising Committee for the Confederation of African Athletics, Asaba 2018, Chief Solomon Ogba has taken responsibility for the lapses at the ongoing Championships and has promised to make the event more favourable. He made this known during a media briefing at the mixed zone in the Stephen Keshi stadium, Asaba on Thursday afternoon. According to him, foreign athletes had issues with their transportation because they did not disclose their flight schedule to the organisers. Ogba claimed no athlete slept at the Muritala Mohammed Airport in Lagos as two separate hotels were booked for the stranded teams. “Six days ago, a journalist told me that some countries are boycotting but it’s far away from the truth when I confirmed. Nobody slept at the airport. About 400 were accommodated at a convenient hotel. He said, “They told us that some athletes were at the airport and cannot go to Asaba. The foreign athletes put the organizers under pressure but that is not what we are saying right now because we have passed this stage”. He berated the Nigerian media for not asking questions from the organisers but rather got information from journalists accompanying the stranded teams. “The Nigeria media did not help matters and did not ask questions from the right source. If the team had given us their arrival schedules, we would have known were they would be arriving. This is Africa, people who cannot provide for you when they come, they’ll want to attack because they see Nigeria as a big brother”, he added. “Nigeria got the right to host and after one year, we almost lost it but the governor graciously agreed to host.I want to appeal that we must also collectively try to support this Championship “When I was President of the AFN, we were left stranded for Eight hours at the country’s international airport. The reason for this conference is because I’ve seen some bit of aggression coming from some quarters. This is the second time Nigeria will be hosting this competition, with the first one in 1989 at the National Stadium in Lagos. http://www.thesportsbay.com/asaba-2018-no-athlete-slept-in-the-airport-ogba/
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osomegbe:You should have asked the doctors that advised you against your wife getting pregnant. |
thorpido:Thats her son actually. A close relative of her posted the whole family picture with the father. People that boy is her son and he is expecting a younger one |
Kindas3325:www.thesportsbay.com |
ItzBIM:Well said. He must have tried but the old man must have refused. Convincing old people to relocate is like looking for a pin in sambisa forest |
Barcelona have denied that former president Sandro Rosell illegally bought a liver for ex-France defender Eric Abidal. Abidal, 38, who is now the club’s technical secretary, had a transplant in 2012 after a tumour was found in his liver. The French defender required a transplant during his time at the Camp Nou and it was said at the time that the liver was donated by his cousin Gerard, however it is now being claimed that this was not the case. According to a report in El Confidencial, Rosell acted illegally to ensure the player received an organ transplant. On April 20, 2017, the newspaper state that Rosell spoke to an unknown person in a phone call and that they discussed the situation, with the caller revealing that he had explained the situation to new Barcelona president Josep Maria Bartomeu. “I asked [Bartomeu] if he had a minute and I explained it to him and he got angry,” the caller reportedly said.”We had sold [the idea] that it was the cousin.”We paid him two years of contract, what was remaining.”Exactly one week later there was another phone call, this time with someone known as Juanjo, and the pair discussed Abidal, referring to him as “a son of a bitch” Then, on April 28, 2017, Juanjo and Rosell spoke again and it was during this phone call that it was suggested the liver had been purchased.”Abidal is a son of a bitch and he told me to tell my friend that he’d behaved poorly with him,” Juanjo told Rosell.”I told him, ‘look Abi, if you’re here and talking then it’s because you have a new liver, do you understand?'”And he told me no. “Well, if you don’t understand that then you don’t understand anything about life.”The call ended, before resuming again shortly afterwards.”I told Abidal ‘if you’re here sitting talking with me right now then it’s because somebody bought you a liver, eh?'”At that point they agreed to meet the following week and they said their goodbyes.Barcelona, though, have denied that the claims made are true. “There was no type of irregularity in the player’s liver transplant,” a club spokesperson said.”We have complete confidence in the Hospital Clinic and don’t doubt Abidal’s honour or that of his foundation.” Reports in Spain claim Rosell, who was arrested for money-laundering in 2017, purchased the organ. Barcelona say they “roundly deny any irregularity in the matter”. The claim has also been denied by Abidal and the Hospital Clinic de Barcelona, where the player had the operation. Barcelona added: “The club are saddened by the lack of rigor in the spreading of such information about such a sensitive issue.” Abidal, who spent six seasons at the Nou Camp, made his comeback for Barcelona in April 2013 before joining Monaco three months later. http://www.thesportsbay.com/barcelona-deny-ex-president-bought-new-liver-for-abidal/ cc semid4lyfe, honeric01 |
Super Eagles captain, John Obi Mikel has revealed that his father was kidnapped hours before the World Cup clash against Argentina last Tuesday. According to KweseESPN, Mikel received a call from the kidnappers four hours before kickoff in the decisive World Cup clash in St Petersburg, and they demanded N10 Million ($28,000 US) for the safe return of his father, Pa Michael Obi. The elder Obi was on his way to a funeral in south eastern Nigeria from Jos when he was abducted along the Makurdi-Enugu expressway on June 26. He and his driver were rescued by police, after a “gun duel,” on July 2, nearly a week after the kidnapping. Mikel’s father was then taken to hospital for treatment, with family sources telling KweséESPN that the elderly man had been tortured and required multiple stitches. He returned to hospital on Tuesday after some of the sutures broke, and Mikel is considering flying his father abroad for further treatment. Mikel, speaking to KweséESPN after the rescue, said that he did not tell his bosses at the Nigeria Football Federation, nor did he tell his coach Gernot Rohr, but instead kept the situation to himself and opted to face Lionel Messi’s team as if nothing was amiss. “I was confused. I did not know what to do, but in the end I knew that I could not let 180 million Nigerians down,” Mikel said. “I had to shut it out of my head and go and represent my country first. I was told that they would shoot my dad instantly if I reported to the authorities or told anybody. “And I did not want to discuss it with the coach because I did not want my issue to become a distraction to the coach or the rest of the team on the day of such an important game. So as much as I wanted to discuss it with the coach, I could not do it.” Nigeria lost that game 2-1 to Argentina and were eliminated from the World Cup. The midfielder flew home to England almost immediately to deal with the situation, and is scheduled to return to China, where he plays his club football, later on Tuesday. Pa Obi was eventually rescued by the Nigeria Police on Monday at Egede, near Udi in Enugu State. The news was announced by the Enugu State Police Command via their official Twitter account, and only then did Mikel speak publicly about the incident. Command spokesperson, Superintendent of Police Ebere Amaraizu said in a statement on Tuesday: “The abductors started calling to demand a ransom of N10 million before police operatives acted on intelligence information and swooped on them. “In the process of the rescue, a gun duel ensued between police operatives and the kidnappers which forced the hoodlums to abandon their victims inside the forest and they were promptly rescued.” This was the second time that Mikel’s father had been kidnapped. The first was in 2011, where he was released after 10 days. Security will be enhanced around the player’s family in Nigeria, according to Mikel’s advisor. http://www.thesportsbay.com/mikel-obi-reveals-father-was-kidnapped-before-argentina-world-cup-clash/
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The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) President, Amaju Pinnick has been asked to step down in compliance with the judgment of the Supreme Court delivered on April 27, 2018, which restored the orders of the Federal High Court, setting aside the purported election into the Executive Committee of the NFF held on September 30, 2014. The Minister of Youth and Sports Solomon Dalung said in a statement on Monday that the directive followed a written notification signed for the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice requesting the Federal Ministry of Youth and Sports to ensure compliance. The notification states thus; "I have been directed to notify you of the Orders dated June 5th 2018 made by Honorable Justice M. H. Kurya sitting at the Federal High Court Jos in respect of the above mentioned suit between Yahaya Adama Vs Alhaji Aminu Maigari which states that the election of the NFF held on August 26, 2014 under the leadership of Amb Chris Giwa be given recognition pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice filed in this case and that the purported ban of the Executive Committee elected on August 26, 2014 from football activities of the NFF is unconstitutional, null and void. "It is trite law that court orders are sacrosanct and any acts of disobedience to it constitutes threat to the rule of law. Consequent upon the above, you are hereby advised to comply with the orders of court made therein which for now, is the valid and binding order of court, in the absence of any other subsisting order or judgment to the contrary". Consequently, Barrister Dalung has however directed the parties involved to comply with the court order. “This is a court order and not from Dalung. I will not want to go to Kuje prison because of disobedience of court orders. Therefore, I hereby comply with the court orders of June 5th 2018, while Mr Amaju Pinnick and others are also directed to comply with same.” The order compels the defendants, including the Minister of Youth and Sports, their servants, agents and privies howsoever, the Inspector General of Police and all law enforcement agencies to forthwith enforce the orders made by the court on 19th September 2014 and 23rd October 2014 and give recognition to the General Assembly Meeting and election of the NFF held on 26th August 2014 under the leadership of Amb Chris Giwa pending the hearing and determination of the Motion on Notice filed in this case http://www.thesportsbay.com/amaju-pinnick-sacked/
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Super Eagles midfielder, Wilfred Ndidi has been racially abused by a BeIN TV sports commentator, Gregory Paisley. Paisley made the racist remark during Nigeria’s win over Iceland on Friday. Reportedly talking about Leicester’s Ndidi, Paisley allegedly said: “[He] should take a Banania.” Banania is a chocolate drink which is claimed to be linked with French colonialism. It dates back to 1914 and was touted as providing drinkers with “strength and vigour”, using the slogan: “Y’a bon Banania.” And after alleged condemnation by users on Twitter, beIN Sports issued the following statement. It read: “BeIN Sports regrets that some of the comments that were [broadcast] during the Nigeria-Iceland match may have been judged offensive by some of you. “[We] apologise to all the people who felt hurt and offended.” Paisley, who played for the likes of PSG and Nice, added: “I said Banania as I could have said Poulain, Benco or Nesquik. I think that when you’re short of strength, that’s what you take in the morning, so that’s why I said Banania. “I specify that one of my best friends is Senegalese and so that at no time I could say anything bad about Africans.” http://www.thesportsbay.com/world-cup-ndidi-racially-abused-by-bein-sports-reporter/ |
Super Eagles striker Odion Ighalo has admitted that he finds it difficult playing as a lone striker for the three-time African champions. The Changchun Yatai forward has struggled to get goals in the colours of the national team under the Franco-German coach Gernot Rohr. The former Watford striker says Rohr will decide the best system Super Eagles would set up for matches at the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia. “The coach has to decide how the team set up, but sometimes it is difficult to play as a lone striker in games especially when your opponent system at the back is compact. This is the pattern the coach has decided to play with, we have to work and blend with it,” said Ighalo. Ighalo is optimistic the Super Eagles performance will improve against Iceland on Friday at Volgograd Arena. “I think we did our best against Croatia but we couldn’t create enough scoring chances. Unfortunately, for us the first goal was a deflection and the second goal was a controversial penalty. Even our defenders couldn’t explain it and they were surprised, but we can’t fault the referee and we respect his decision. We have to correct our mistakes, we have learnt our lessons and we shall improve our performance against Iceland,” he added. http://www.thesportsbay.com/i-cant-play-as-a-lone-striker-odion-ighalo/
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Prior to his sack, it has been gathered that Spain’s players had intervened to convince the country’s football association not to sack manager Julen Lopetegui on the eve of the World Cup. Speculation had been rife that Lopetegui could be fired just one day before this summer’s tournament in Russia is due to get underway, having been confirmed as the new Real Madrid manager on Tuesday. New Spanish FA president Luis Rubiales was understood to be furious with the way Lopetegui handled the situation, having reportedly only found out about Madrid’s impending appointment five minutes before it was announced. According to Spanish paper, Marca it claimed that the team’s players had tried to talk Rubiales out of sacking Lopetegui. Spain and Real Madrid captain Sergio Ramos reportedly led the protests in favour of his future manager. La Roja, who are among the favourites to go all the way and lift the trophy this summer, get their campaign underway against Iberian rivals Portugal on Friday evening. http://www.thesportsbay.com/how-sergio-ramos-led-spanish-players-to-save-julen-lopetegui-from-sack/
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Spain have sacked manager Julen Lopetegui just one day before the start of the 2018 World Cup after he was confirmed as Zinedine Zidane's successor at Real Madrid and was due to step down as Spain boss following this summer's tournament in Russia. However, the president of the Spanish FA (RFEF) Luis Rubiales revealed that the decision was made without his knowledge and that he was only informed of Madrid's impending appointment five minutes before the official announcement. The news is a remarkable twist on the eve of the World Cup, with Spain - one of the favourites to lift the trophy prior to this development - due to kick off their campaign against Iberian rivals Portugal on Friday evening. Rubiales confirmed that the players attempted to save Lopetegui's job, but insisted that the RFEF were unable to accept the way Lopetegui handled the situation. "We have been forced to dispense with the national coach. We wish him the best of luck. What the Spanish team achieves, will have to do with the work he has developed," Rubiales told reporters at a press conference in Krasnodar. "The negotiation has happened without any information to the RFEF, just five minutes before the press release. There is a way of acting that must be fulfilled. We have to work on a series of decisions that come two days before the beginning of the World Cup. There is a lot to do. "I do not feel betrayed. Lopetegui, while he has been with us, has done an impeccable job. [However], this has been done without knowledge of the RFEF. We will touch the staff as little as possible, as soon as we have something to communicate, we will do it. I have a very close relationship with the players, as with Julen, it's a very complex situation, the most complex one I could find. "We are in a very complicated situation, but the players and the new coaching staff will do everything in their power to take the team as far as possible. The Spanish national team is the team of the Spanish. You cannot do things this way, two or three days before the World Cup. We have been forced to make this decision. "I admire Julen a lot, I respect him a lot, I think he's a top trainer and that makes it more difficult to make the decision. I'm sure this will, over time, make us stronger. I know it's a very difficult situation, I know there's going to be criticism whatever I do, but the values of the RFEF are set by the RFEF itself. We cannot remain on the sidelines of a negotiation of one of its workers and find out five minutes before the issuance of a statement. We have been forced to act. "The team will do everything to get the best results, we cannot talk about hypothesis, but the RFEF cannot find out five minutes before it becomes public. In the RFEF we cannot not fulfil our own values. It is a difficult and painful situation, we would have liked to finish here with Julen at the top, but we have not determined the way we act." Lopetegui was unbeaten in his 20 matches as Spain boss, having taken over from long-serving Vicente del Bosque following the team's exit from Euro 2016. Spain sporting director Fernando Hierro and Under-21 coach Albert Celades are expected to take the reins for the World Cup. http://www.thesportsbay.com/why-spanish-fa-sacked-julen-lopetegui-a-day-to-world-cup/ |
SalamRushdie:Yes he has!! |
Paperwhite:Rise above hate. Akande said for technical reasons the VP couldnt fly. The chopper emitting thick smoke ain't technical? |
Truly you have gone mad NwaAmaikpe: |
These are obviously two different pictures. One he is in M-benz and other in a SUV and both have the presidential emblem. Fake News |
This is Fake News! There are different pictures from different occasions. The people are seen hailing the president in a mercedez benz and at the same time hailing him in a SUV. Who is decievibg |
These are obviously two different pictures. One he is in M-benz and other in a SUV and both have the presidential emblem. Fake News |
Proudlyngwa:Codeine |
Shugarlord213:Very shallow thinking. You ought not to spew this kind of rubbish from your poverty-stricken mind. It baffles me when men like me think this way but if you are still a teenager between 18-25 years, I will say you are still growing up but if you are above that age, mehn, man you have a long way to go to be a responsible human being. Classifying all women as sluts is a huge disrespect to your mum, sisters, female cousins as well. Real men dont use women as intimacy gadgets that you can use just anyhow. I'm sure you will grow up and realise the folly in this your post. You will. |
EdoBoy90:Well said bruv!!! The Op has no idea what living in Abuja is compared to Lag. He may be right when it comes to accomodation but wrong in all other aspects. You can run different jobs at the same time, wake up 7am to get to your office by 8am, close from work by 5 and get home by 6pm. There is night life here in Abuja, a lot of hangouts where you will catch all the fun u need, even leave club by 2 am and get home safe withoit fear of armed robbery or police stopping you and shooting you. I have experienced both sides, Abuja is far better than Lagos to work. I will prefer to earn 70k in Abuja and spend 10k on transport than earn 100k in Lagos and spend 20k on transport coupled with stress from traffic |
Manchester City who slipped to their first home defeat in the UEFA Champions League since December 2016 have broken the Champions League record for passes completed in a game - 978 - despite losing. This was three days after breaking the league landmark with 902 against Chelsea. City's 4-0 away win meant Wednesday's second leg of the last-16 tie was almost a formality, with Pep Guardiola resting several first-team players as Basel won the second leg of their Champions League last-16 tie 2-1. It was not enough to prevent Pep Guardiola's side progressing to the quarter-finals, with Gabriel Jesus' early goal helping them to an overall 5-2 aggregate success - but it was still an unexpected slip. Jesus put the Premier League leaders ahead inside eight minutes but the Swiss champions responded to take victory on the night with goals from the impressive Mohamed Elyounoussi and Michael Lang. Guardiola made six changes from the side that beat Chelsea at the weekend with the likes of Sergio Aguero, Kevin De Bruyne and David Silva among those not included -- and not surprisingly the intensity dropped. Veteran Yaya Toure started for the first time in 13 games and 17-year-old Phil Foden was also given an opportunity. But manager, Pep Guardiola was not too impressed, saying: "Just to pass the ball for itself is nothing. "The first half was quite good but in the second half we forgot to attack, we forgot to play. When we pass the ball we do it to move through the opponents to attack. The second half was really, really poor. "It is not easy to play with a 4-0 lead. I think in the first half we showed we wanted to win the game. We created a lot of chances and we were good. "But after 1-1 in the second half, it didn't happen. We just passed for itself and when that happens, that is not football." It is only the second time City have reached the quarter-finals of the European Cup or Champions League. Juventus, Real Madrid and Liverpool are the other sides to have clinched their last-eight spots this week. Guardiola - who has won the Champions League twice with Barcelona but not since 2011 - is not worried about a repeat of the performance in the next round. "In the quarter-finals, this kind of situation is not going to happen - to play the second game 4-0 up, the rhythm will be completely different," he said. City's place in the last eight was never in doubt but they went through in subdued fashion and have still never won both legs of a Champions League knockout tie. http://www.thesportsbay.com/manchester-city-break-champions-league-record-for-passes-completed-in-a-game/ |
Ehibiggirl:I cant speak for the parish but it is not allowed for a person who has not been confirmed (Confirmation marks the point in the Christian journey at which you affirm for yourself the faith into which you have been baptized and your intention to live a life of committed discipleship. This affirmation is confirmed through prayer and the laying on of hands by the confirming bishop.) You cant take the Holy Communion if you dont know what it is all about. Just like getting married without going through marriage classes and all that. Its spiritual guidance. As for the parish, it could be their rule as there are specific days for Holy Communion service. Because they are not sure you are confirmed, it was best for them to reject the person. I am just saying while not holding brief for them. Confirmation is the supernatural equivalent of the growth process on the natural level. It builds on what was begun in Baptism and what was nourished in Holy Eucharist. It completes the process of initiation into the Christian community, and it matures the soul for the work ahead |
bigtt76:I prefer water to tissue paper. Its a ritual for me every morning before bathing or going out. I hate to use public toilets even in the best hotels or whatver because there wont be water but tissue. How do people who wear their pants without cleaning feel? Truly digusting |
kingsleyugo41:I am Anglican from birth and still practice Anglicanism till tomorrow. Never heard about this but i may say that such parish dont know you and as you know its not right for someone not confirmed in the Anglican way to take the Holy Communion. And most likely its a parish not in town, maybe in a village. So it is likely is that parish's decision to prevent some people whom they are not sure are confirmed Anglicans in taking part in the Holy Communion |
