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SportsRe: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by jieta:
President Paul Biya humiliated by CAF as Ahmad Ahmad settle scores with Issa Hayatou



CAF's recent decision to increase participating teams in the African Cup of Nations tournament from 16 to 24 teams, has made the Cameroon government believe that CAF is just biased , and wants to push Cameroon to ' surrender' the organisation to either Algeria , Morocco or Zambia, who are already openly
manifesting interest.


Algeria's Football Federation President Kheireddine Zetchi rumours had already cracked the Social Media that Cameroon was going to lose its hosting rights to Algeria, when Algerian Football Federation
President Kheireddine Zetchi openly declared that Algeria was ready any time any day to take over the
competition from Cameroon should the opportunity presents itself. Other Countries like Zambia and Morocco too did not hesitate to voice out their
intentions.


All these happened, because close door discussions among African Football Managers had been centered on a conspiracy theory on how to get back at
Issa Hayatou (who is their target ) and humiliate Cameroon by giving them tough conditions that they won't be able to fulfill, so that they can snatch away its
rights to host the 2019 African Cup of Nations.


The Cameroon government earlier last week, made a giant press outing together with the Italian Contractor, who is responsible for constructing the Olembe
Stadium, to encourage Cameroonians not to be discouraged with the flying news on Social Media about Cameroon losing its host rights.


Pierre Ismael Bidoung Mpkatt, Minster of Sports and Physical Education During the Press outing, Minister Pierre Ismael Bidoung Mpkatt of Physical Education reassured Cameroonians that' Cameroon was up to the task ', and thatthe 2019 TOTAL AFCON, will and must happen in Cameroon.The Italian team with Italian Ambassador to Cameroon Samuela Isopi in the middle On his part, the ' Italian Contractor ' Piccini , who won thebconstruction contract of the Olembe
Stadium in Yaounde also assured the Cameroonian people in another Press Outing earlier this week, that the Stadium will be up and ready in October
2018. The Press Outing was chaired by the Italian Ambassador to Cameroon Samuela Isopi, and
was assisted by the Architect Eloy Saurez , the Project Manager Mark Debantz and the Charge deMission Gabriel Ngah , who all equally took the floor to explain how far preparations have gone, and that the
construction materials that are being fabricated in an Italian Factory in Italywill soon arrive Cameroon.


However, while the Cameroon Government was trying to raise hopes and expectations, amidst the difficulties of hosting the traditional 16 teams in terms of infrastructures( stadiums, hotels, roads, medical etc ..), the Confederation of Africa Footbal CAF, was holding a Symposium on the African Football in
Rabat Morocco , in which FECAFOOT's President Tombi A Roko was a participant.


During the Symposium, some resolutions not favourable to host country Cameroon were arrived at, among which was increasing the Africa Cup of Nations participating teams from 16 to 24 beginning 2019.


Another resolution also stated that the tournament will now be held in the months of June and July , and that it will remain a biennial event (every two years), odd years and exclusively held on african soil with African national teams. conscious of the economic, political, social and financial difficulties plaguing
Cameroon right now, CAF further went on to provoke that the competition which will be sponsored by Total will hold in Cameroon , and that Inspection on their
readiness will be conducted early September .


CAF's decision to move the tournament from January and February to June and July , is something Issa Hayatou categorically refused to implement when he was President of CAF. Issa Hayatou backed up his decision with the fact that June and July were delicate periods in Cameroon , because not only will games be played under heavy rains since these months fall in the heart of the rainy season, but also that spectators and supporters will not be comfortable to go out and support their teams under the heavy rains.


Ahmad Ahmad's decision as CAF's President, from all angles, challenges and out-rule everything Cameroon's Issa Hayatou had implemented during his 29 years mafiaic reign at the helm of the Confederation. in-house wagging tongues in high places say Issa Hayatou had spent Cameroon's fortune, to buy people to side with him and carry the competition to Cameroon, since he was not expecting to be defeated during the elections. When Ahmad Ahmad beat Issa Hayatou in the election with the help of World football lords who played their cards under the table to oust Issa Hayatou from the African football glass house, Issa Hayatou returned home to his master President Paul Biya, who comforted him with the position of the board Chairman of the National Football Academy.


During an interview after his CAF's defeat, Issa Hayatou rightly bluffed to the press that: ' he will never lack a job while in Cameroon '. And truly, his
words came true after Biya appointed him. He again told pressmen and women that he did not regret the fact that he lost the elections to Madagascan Ahmad
Ahmad , but regretted the fact that red joker cards and underground work by external forces were used to get rid of him from his CAF Kingdom. according to him, the present CAF President was ' no match' to him during the 16 march 2017 elections , he only won
because there were external manipulative influences. " I am not sad that I lost the elections. But I am very
upset with the way it was done. Honestly, i don't see who can beat me at the level of CAF. But there were external forces that got involved with the General Assembly, who could not vote me again". The 7 6
years old lamented.


Mr. Hayatou further revealed that his close relations knew he wanted to resign from CAF after the 2019 African Cup of Nations , and acknowledged he sweated to have it brought to Cameroonian soil,
reason why he decided to run the 16 march 2017 race , which unfortunately did not favour him. With all the corruption scandals that Issa Hayatou created during his 29 years of reign as President of CAF, the hundreds of millions of F CFA he allegedly spent on
corrupting some group of individuals to bring the 2019 AFCON to Cameroon, his press declarations that Ahmad Ahmad was ' no match' for him if some underground godfathers did not assist him during the elections, and the fact that Cameroon has become a Lion's den for its own citizens, CAF officials want to
get their own pound of flesh from Issa Hayayou and his master, and that is the only reason sources say CAF took the recent resolutions.


Knowing fully well that Cameroon willnot be able to meet up with the technical and administrative standards of the 24 competing teams , due to its internal commitments especially with 4 elections
coming up in 2018, CAF says they will be coming for inspections in Cameroon in September. ' Is it September 2017 or September 2018?'. http://www.henrietteslounge.com/2017/07/president-paul-biya-humiliated-by-caf.html?m=1#dvBj3jsz2UPDglYc.01
PoliticsRe: What Do You Have To Say About This Waec Result? by jieta: 3:06pm On Jul 23, 2017
good result
Christianity EtcRe: For Christians: How To Be Free From Masturbation, Other Addictions by jieta: 2:52pm On Jul 23, 2017
nothing to say
EducationRe: Richard Ogbon: DELSU Confers Honorary Doctorate Degree On 100+Year-Old Monarch by jieta: 1:41pm On Jul 23, 2017
delsu and good face honour are like five and six
CelebritiesRe: Gifty: 'I Quit My Job In Ghana Because My Boss Asked For Sex' by jieta: 8:46am On Jul 23, 2017
NLTroubleChild:
So Gifty is now a celebrity?
When i quit my bread job Cus of too much sex advances from my female boss e no enter news o.
Nigerians got the highest number of useless and empty headed celebrities.
1. EFE
2. Gifty
3. SMALL Doctor
4. Pasuma
5. Saheed abupa or whatever he's called
6. Buhari
7. Buhari
8. Buhari
9. LIE Mohammed
10. Buhari
lol buhari no go forgive you. hahahahahaha my belle oooo i no fit laugh.
CultureRe: Ifa Devotees Who Engaged In Fraudulent Activities Beg Alaafin 4 Forgiveness(pics by jieta: 7:16am On Jul 23, 2017
in as much i don't want to get involve in this nairaland tribal issue.i can't just see this and pass by. How can a grown man lie down straight on the floor not that he even prostrate the fool just put all his reg aria on the floor just to show respect to a mortal human like him is beyond me.
SportsRe: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by jieta: 4:51pm On Jul 20, 2017
Nigeria goalkeeper crisis:Who will replace lkeme?






Nigeria goalkeeper Carl Ikeme's recent leukemia
diagnosis has exposed the gaping canyon that is
the country's shot-stopping stocks.
It wasn't so long ago that the Super Eagles could
trot out a trio of excellent goalkeepers in Vincent
Enyeama, Austin Ejide, and Dele Aiyenugba, but
these may not be the most viable options.
While Enyeama retired after a bitter bust-up with
former coach Sunday Oliseh, the latter two were
gradually eased out of the side. The holes
created by their exits were plastered over by the
introduction of Ikeme, whose size, athleticism,
organisational skills, and talent made up for the
fact that there was no decent backup beyond
him.


FC Ifeanyi Ubah goalkeeper Ikechukwu Ezenwa
has not won the trust of national coach Gernot
Rohr, while Daniel Akpeyi has lost that trust after
his below-par performance in the defeat against
South Africa recently.
With World Cup qualifiers against Cameroon
looming on the horizon, here are the options
available to Rohr and his coaching staff.


VINCENT ENYEAMA

Although currently retired, such is Rohr's belief in
the 34-year-old that he has held multiple
conversations with the former captain in a bid to
convince him to make a comeback.
It is easy to see why. Despite his international
retirement, Enyeama continued to be one of the
best goalkeepers in Europe, consistently keeping
his place as the Lille's number one goalkeeper.
Only injury and subsequent surgery kept him out
of the last eight games of last season.
Although the club's new coach has frozen him
out, there are no shortage of suitors and
Enyeama is expected to start the new season
with a new club. If Rohr can convince him to
return, he would get an instant, quality solution
to his goalkeeping headache.


PROS
A 14-year Super Eagles veteran, Enyeama comes
with natural talent, hard work, bags of experience,
great organisational skills, and an ability to spot
and snuff out danger. With his foot skills, he can
also play a sweeper role. He would command the
respect of his defenders and instill confidence in
them. Additionally, his very name puts a fear
factor into opposition forwards


CONS
He might not want to return, and if he does, there
are already questions being asked about what is
return could do to dressing room unity and his
relationship with new captain John Mikel Obi.


DELE AIYENUGBA


For a long time, Aiyenugba was Enyeama's
deputy. While he's not always the most confident
of goalkeepers, he has the build and athleticism,
not to mention the experience, to come in and do
a good job in a pinch.

Aiyenugba has been starting goalkeeper during
his tenure in Israel, first with Bnei Yehuda --
where he was brought in as replacement for
Enyeama -- and since last season, with Hapoel
Ashkelon.

He never officially retired from the national team
and as expressed his willingness to come running
if called up.


PROS
Like Enyeama, Aiyenugba is an experienced
goalkeeper who has not only been playing
regularly at club lebel, but has done so at
international level, facing some of the world's top
strikers, including Lionel Messi.


CONS
He's been out of international football for a long
time. His last appearance was in 2011, when
Nigeria lost 1-3 to Argentina in an international
friendly in Bangladesh. Coming back to the side
for such a high-stakes game could lead to
disaster.


IKECHUKWU EZENWA


FC Ifeanyi Ubah goalkeeper Ikechukwu Ezenwa
has been a consistent Super Eagles squad
member since 2015.
But it spoke loudly about the lack of confidence in
him that the first time Ikeme withdrew from the
Nigeria squad with an injury, Daniel Akpeyi was
called up from South Africa, and immediately
installed as starting keeper.


Ezenwa has shown ability when called upon, like
in games against Senegal, Togo and Corsica. The
28-year-old has a chance to make his case over
two legs of the 2017 African Nations
Championship (CHAN) qualifiers in mid-August.


PROS
Despite the seeming the lack of trust in him,
Ezenwa is quick off the mark and instinctively
reactive. Plus, he has been in the set-up since
2015 and is thus comfortable with the team and
the backline.


CONS
His biggest drawback could be that he does not
quite inspire confidence in the coaches, and that
somehow translates to his teammates and the
fans. Seeing his name on the starting sheet might
actually have the effect of giving confidence to
the opposition.


DELE ALAMPASU


A member of Nigeria's U-17 World Cup-winning
team in 2013, Alampasu is expected to be a long-
term goalkeeping option for the Super Eagles.
At a touch over 6 foot 6 inches, the 20-year-old
has the height and reach to cover the post. But
more importantly, he has natural talent, as he
proved at the cadet World Cup. What is missing
is experience. He is gradually gaining that in
Portugal, and as part of the Nigeria squad.


PROS
He's talented, tall, confident, and has strong
hands. His extended time with the senior squad
should help with adding a few feathers to the
confidence bow.


CONS
A lack of senior matches, especially at
international level, so he might not yet have the
presence to command his area and defence. http://kwese.espn.com/football/nigeria/story/3161193/nigeria-goalkeeper-crisis
PoliticsRe: Smoked Fish Seller Beaten To Coma In Benin By Obaseki Boys (Photos) by jieta: 4:25pm On Jul 20, 2017
obaseki and his boys are like bubu and London you can't separate them.
PoliticsThe Game Has Just Started By Femi Fani Kayode by jieta(op): 1:26pm On Jul 20, 2017
APC vs PDP: The game has just started by
Femi Fani-Kayode






“The Supreme court did not raise a dead PDP,
they only brought out the rotten corpse of a
dead PDP for all to smell the bad odour”- Alhaji
Lai Muhammed, Minister of Information, Daily
Post, 15th July 2017.


APC & PDP
I am trying my best to remain magnamonious
in victory and to remain restrained but this
APC Minister of Information has once again
brought out the worst in me

Not only has he told yet another dirty and
collosal lie but his deeply offensive and
disrespectful characterisation and depiction of
our great party the PDP is as inappropiate as it
is provocative.

The truth is that it is the APC that are the
stinking corpses and the rotting cadavers and
not the PDP. They smell like rotting Chinese
fish and a Calcutta brothel all rolled into one.
They stink to high heavens and they have
fouled up the Nigerian space with their
compelling and overwhelming stench and their
fecal aroma.


They should bury their heads in shame. They
sought to bury the PDP but by the grace and
resurrrection power of the Living God we have
risen again.

They commited blasphemy and heresy by
bestowing divinity and infallibility upon their
ailing leader and by deifying themselves.
They came to believe that they were all-seeing,
all-knowing and all-powerful. They thought
that they were omnicient and omnipresent and
they equated their power with that of the God
of Heaven.


They sought to turn us into a nation of
quislings and slaves. They attempted to cage
and impose their will on the Judiciary, the
Legislature, the fourth estate of the realm (the
media), the civil institutions, the opposition
parties and groups and indeed all of their
perceived enemies and detractors by the most
violent, crude and aggressive means and
through the usage of naked tyranny.
They attempted to crush, with an iron fist and
steely will, all those who refused to remain
silent and continued to opppose them with a
lethal display and cocktail of abusive power,
impunity, arrogance, brutality and propaganda.
If there were ever such a thing as a civilian
dictatorship in Nigeria this was it.
They became blinded by their own delusions
yet the bitter truth is that they are nothing
more than a rabble-rousing gathering of
incompatible bedmates, wandering spirits and
vagrant souls.


They are not a political party

It is no wonder that they have cut out the
heart of our nation and almost killed Nigeria .
What a tragedy these misfits have proved to be
and what a terrible affliction and spiritual
plague they have brought upon our country.
Yet it does not stop there but rather it gets
worse as they become emboldened by their
madness and insatiable lust for even more
power.


I say this because the APC spokesman, one
Bolaji Abdullahi who I gather used to be a PDP
Minister until he decamped to the APC, added
his own brand of disjointed verbiage to the
discourse when he advised the PDP “not to
push their luck too far” by thinking that they
will come back to power in 2019.


One question is relevant here: is this faceless,
conflicted and strange little man God? Can he
tell us what will or will not happen tomorrow
with any precision or certainty? Is he led and
guided by the Holy Spirit or by his own carnal
delusions and lust for everlasting power.
What a cheeky, self-serving, self-righteous and
intellectually dishonest young man this is. What
a nerve he has.


Let him be warned that the game has just
started and now that the PDP has reclaimed its
soul again we shall provide the kind of
relentless and unspairing opposition that will
keep them on their toes and that will give him
and his other party members grey hairs and
sleepless nights.


He mocks those of us that are facing
politically-motivated criminal charges and
malicious prosecution and he seeks to indict us
for, according to him, “failing Nigerians for 17
years”.
He forgets that his mentor, the Senate
President, has just been through a similar
ordeal and barely escaped it by the skin of his
teeth.


He forgets that when they are kicked out of
power in 2019 both he and virtually the entire
APC Federal Government will most certainly be
called to account, prosecuted for the
monstrous atrocities that they have committed
in the last two years.


And if his contention is that the PDP failed
Nigerians he, together with virtually all the key
stars and players in the APC Federal
Government, APC-controlled Senate and
amongst the APC state Governors, were part of
that failure because virtially all of them used
the PDP platform to serve our country in one
capacity or other before decamping.
They not only abandoned the PDP ship after
benefitting from it and using it to come to
national prominence but they also sought to
scuttle and destroy it by demonising its key
players and actors and using the coercive
organs of the state to criminalise, humiliate
and attempt to destroy each and everyone of
them.


Honestly this little Bolaji Abdullahi should keep
his mouth shut and bow his head in shame and
he should meditate on the fact that the day of
reckoning is surely coming. It is just a question
of time.
After 2019 he and his party will pay a heavy
price for their deeds and sheer insolence and
the Nigerian people will get to know the bitter
truth about how the 2015 presidential election
was ‘conducted’


After 2019 the Nigerian people will also get to
know the true story about the Chibok girls and
those who were really behind their abduction.
They will also get to know who is behind Boko
Haram, who sponsored it and what its real
purpose is.
They will also get to know the names, nature
and identities of the evil cabal that has
highjacked the Federal Goveenment and that
runs the affairs of our nation.
They will also get to know who gave the order
to butcher over 1000 Shiite Muslims and
thousands of IPOB youths and bury them in
mass graves.


They will also get to know who the forces are
behind the Fulani herdsmen and why they
unleashed them on the good people of the
Middle Belt and the south.
They will also get to know why the Federal
Government sat back silently and refused to
arrest even one Fulani herdsman after they
murdered 808 innocent Christians in the
sanctity of their homes last christmas eve and
last Christmas


They will also get to know why the so-called
“war against corruption” is subjective
They will also tell us why they are intimidating
members of the opposition
And finally they will also tell us why they would
not allow their ailing party leader and President
to resign
The truth is that the APC has many questions
to answer and in spite of whatever weaknesses
the PDP may have had whilst in government
they never treated Nigerians with the brutality,
impunity and disdain that the APC has done
over the last two years.
And most importantly they never brought us to
the brink of conflict, civil war and
disintegration.


Bolaji Abdullahi and the party he speaks for
should prepare themselves for a very rough ride
in the next few months because the Nigerian
people will call them to account and the new
PDP will give them hell. Of that they can be
rest assured and all the grandstanding and
veiled threats in the world cannot stop it.
Permit me to conclude this contribution with
the following.


As if the scurrilous commentry of the Minister
of information and the weak and tepid purring
of the APC spokesman were not bad enough, a
celebrated and notorious APC mole also felt
that he had to jump into the fray and kick the
PDP in the teeth

Truly the APC and all their friends, moles,
associates and agents need to be swept from
power in 2019. It is our duty to do this and to
pull our nation back from the brink.
This is a solemn promise that we have made
and this is an obligation that, by the grace of
the Living God, we shall honor and fulfil. http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/07/apc-vs-pdp-game-just-started-femi-fani-kayode/
CrimeRe: Plateau State Polytechnic Student Commits Suicide After Impregnating A JSS2 Girl by jieta: 1:11pm On Jul 20, 2017
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SportsRe: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by jieta: 12:17pm On Jul 20, 2017
Time for Chelsea's Kenneth Omerou To Settle Down


lt must come as something of a mild surprise
that little-seen Chelsea defender Kenneth Omeruo
has already made 31 appearances for Nigeria.
For Omerou, a 23-year-old at the relative
beginning of his career, that is an impressive
number to hold for one so young.


For perspective, that is around half the
appearances made by some former Nigeria
defending greats. The legendary Stephen Keshi
made 64 appearances, Ben Iroha made 50. Uche
Okechukwu recorded 46 caps, while Celestine
Babayaro made just 27 appearances.
Despite the impressive number, though, there
remains the nagging suspicion that Omeruo has
not quite settled at either international or club
level.


He made his international debut at 19, helping the
Super Eagles win their third Africa Cup of Nations
in 2013. Since then, he has been a regular
member of the team without exactly stamping his
authority as a defensive bulwark, largely due to
injuries.


At club level, Omeruo has been shipped from club
to club by Chelsea since joining them in 2012
from Standard Liege, and could be on the move
this pre-season again.


So far, he has been loaned out to ADO Den Haag
in Holland, Middlesbrough in the Championship,
and Turkish sides Kasimpasa and Alanyaspor.
He's never appeared for his parent club's first
team.


To his credit, he has shown up brilliantly
everywhere he has been loaned, making regular
appearances for each of the clubs and earning
wonderful reviews, for both his ability and his
character.


Kasimpasa even had an option to buy him, but
decided to pass when they could not find the
money to meet Chelsea's valuation.
Each pre-season, Omeruo has returned to
Chelsea to mark time before being sent out again
on loan, and this time appears to be no different.
Last weekend, he captained a team of loanees
and development squad players to a 1-1 draw in
a kick-about with Crawley Town, while the main
team scrimmaged with Fulham.


It was a clear indication that the Nigeria defender
would be on his way out on loan again.
This follows a disappointing summer with Nigeria
where he was left to warm the bench in favor of
20-year-old Chidozie Awaziem as Nigeria lost 0-2
at home to South Africa.


Nigeria coach Gernot Rohr justified the decision,
according to a source close to the team, by
saying Omeruo's confidence would be shot from
his previous experience with the South African
strikers in 2014. As dubious as the argument
sounded, it was still a poor reflection on
Omeruo's mental strength.


At 23, Omeruo should be on the verge of his most
productive years as a footballer. Being loaned
from club to club does not help that development
and consistency.


It doesn't do him much good at international
level either. He has to put his imprint on that
Super Eagles defense. At 6ft2", he has the build
to be an imposing centreback, and is nimble
enough to operate as a quick central defender or
a decent full back.


His contract with Chelsea is up in 2019. Omeruo
has to either find a way to establish himself at
his parent club, or push for a permanent move
elsewhere. His career will be better for it. http://kwese.espn.com/football/nigeria/story/3161254/time-for-chelseas-kenneth-omeruo-to-settle-down/?ex_cid=Omeruo_fb_gb_ng_pd_RC
CareerRe: Quitting My Lucrative Job For A Degree In Canada by jieta: 9:17am On Jul 20, 2017
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PoliticsRe: Ganduje Has Already Lost 2019 Election, Kwankwaso Tells Tinubu by jieta: 8:08am On Jul 20, 2017
situation like this always occur when your predecessor did a good work before living office. people expect you to achieve more than what he did and if you are not meeting up you start having problem.
CelebritiesRe: Toyin Lawani Shows Off Her Son's New Hairstyle (Photo) by jieta: 5:23pm On Jul 19, 2017
Tolexander:
Life don spoil finish! cry cry cry

When I was about years (older than this boy o), wey I go "jerry coil" my hair, na broom my mother take beat me reach barber shop. She comanded the barber make he commot all my hair with anything (blade, cutlass, hoe, tractor) and barb "bololo" for me. I no chop for house that night.

Well, see Toyin Lawani self. Like mama, like pikin!
no mind that yeye hoe
CelebritiesRe: Adekunle Gold Turns African Priest In UK Shoot [PICS] by jieta: 4:04pm On Jul 19, 2017
Tolbanks:
Na you create her huh You people sha like make ladies dey decieve una...
If she get yansh, you go say na fake... If she no get, na wahala...
IDIOTA!!! angry
with those your small small breast you still dey talk

you even get boyfriend self?
CelebritiesRe: Adekunle Gold Turns African Priest In UK Shoot [PICS] by jieta: 2:56pm On Jul 19, 2017
see as the woman yansh flat
BusinessRe: Nigeria’s Steel Sector Comes Alive Despite Failed Ajaokuta by jieta: 9:25am On Jul 19, 2017
good development.
PoliticsGhosts Of Presidents Past: Who's Is Haunting The White House? by jieta(op): 7:20pm On Jul 18, 2017
President Harry Truman once wrote in a letter to
his wife that the White House was “haunted sure
as shootin’.” This country’s most famous
address, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, may also be
its most haunted house.


Plenty of reputable people have reported seeing
the White House’s various ghosts:


[b]Abraham Lincoln[\b]
The most well-known White House ghost is the
shade of Abraham Lincoln, who was
assassinated in 1865. He is usually seen in
what’s now called the Lincoln Bedroom but
which, at the time of his administration, was
actually a meeting room.


The first person to report seeing Lincoln’s ghost
was First Lady Grace Coolidge, who lived in the
White House in the 1920s. She reportedly saw
him standing at a window in the Oval Office,
looking across the Potomac to what had once
been Civil War battlefields.


A well-known Lincoln ghost story was reported
by 20th-century British Prime Minister Winston
Churchill, who was a guest at the White House.
After a long bath, and naked except for a cigar,
he walked into the adjoining bedroom — and
there was Lincoln at the fireplace. Churchill said,
“Good evening, Mr. President. You seem to have
me at a disadvantage.” He reported that Lincoln
smiled softly and then disappeared. Churchill
refused to sleep in that bedroom after that
encounter.


Another interesting Lincoln sighting was in 1942,
when Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands
answered a knock at the door of the White
House bedroom where she was staying, saw
Lincoln standing there in a coat and top hat, and
fainted.


Others said to have seen Lincoln within the
White House include Presidents Theodore
Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover, and Dwight
Eisenhower; First Ladies Jacqueline Kennedy and
Lady Bird Johnson; and presidential children
Susan Ford and Maureen Reagan. Both Maureen
Reagan and her husband saw Lincoln at the
fireplace in the Lincoln Bedroom, like Churchill.
Several of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s
administration’s staff members claimed they saw
him, as did FDR’s personal valet, who ran
screaming from the White House.
President Truman’s daughter, Margaret Truman,
said she heard rapping at the door when she
stayed in the Lincoln Bedroom and believed it to
be Lincoln, and President Truman himself was
once awakened by mysterious raps at the door
in that room. Some who’ve stayed in that room
have seen Lincoln sit on the edge of the bed,
putting on his boots — including Eleanor
Roosevelt’s secretary Mary Eben, who ran
screaming from the room.
The most recent Lincoln sighting seems to have
been in the early 1980s, when a White House
operations foreman came into the White House
and saw Lincoln sitting in a chair at the top of a
staircase.


Willie Lincoln
People have also reported seeing Abraham
Lincoln’s 11-year-old son Willie Lincoln, who
died in the White House in 1862 of typhoid fever.
Staff members of the Grant Administration first
saw Willie’s ghost in the 1870s.
He was seen as recently as the 1960s, when
President Lyndon Johnson’s daughter Lynda Bird
Johnson Robb saw Willie’s ghost — he had died
in the room in which she was staying — and she
says she talked with him.


David Burns
David Burns owned land on which some of the
city of Washington D.C., including the White
House, was built, and in 1790 he was forced to
sell it to the government. Various people in the
White House, including one of Franklin D.
Roosevelt’s valets and a Truman security guard,
have heard a disembodied voice saying, “I’m Mr.
Burns,” and “I am David Burns.” (George
Washington referred to him as “the obstinate Mr.
Burns,” as a descendant has proudly noted on
Burns’s 1790 census record on Ancestry. )


Abigail Adams
When Abigail Adams and her husband, John (the
second president, 1797-1801), moved to the
newly built White House, Washington D.C. was
just a swampy little town. Abigail used to hang
the wet laundry to dry in the East Room because
it was the warmest and driest part of the White
House.


Her ghost, still clad in a cap and a lace shawl,
has been seen, arms outstretched as though
carrying a laundry basket, heading toward the
East Room.
These are not fly-by-night accounts; it was
President William Taft who first saw the first
lady’s ghost floating through doors on the
second floor, as though taking the laundry to
hang up to dry.


There were quite a few sightings during the Taft
years, but some tourists reportedly saw her as
recently as 2002. (Lincoln has also been seen in
the East Room; it’s where his body lay in state
after he was assassinated.)


Dolley Madison
First Lady Dolley Madison planted the famous
White House rose garden in the early 1800s, and
then 100 years later, First Lady Ellen Wilson
requested the garden be dug up. But garden
workers reported that Dolley Madison’s ghost
appeared and refused to let them tear up her
garden. Since then, an unexplained smell of
roses is sometimes experienced inside the White
House and it’s attributed to the ghost of Dolley.


Andrew Jackson
The Rose Bedroom was President Andrew
Jackson’s bedroom, and many White House
employees claim to have seen or heard the
former president in this room; they say he is
either laughing heartily or swearing heavily. First
Lady Mary Todd Lincoln is among those who
heard him cursing in the room.


Random Sightings
The North Portico entrance of the White House is
noted for its ghosts, including a British solder
wielding a torch who is often seen just outside
its door. People also sometimes report seeing
dead White House doormen still on duty.
One of the eeriest ghosts is that of Anna Surratt,
whose mother, Mary, was hanged in 1865 for her
part in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
Anne’s ghost has been seen pounding on the
door of the White House, begging for her
mother’s release, and it’s said that every July 7,
Anne’s ghost sits on the White House’s front
steps. That’s the anniversary of her mother’s
execution. https://blogs.ancestry.com/cm/ghosts-of-presidents-past-who-haunts-the-white-house/
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CHAN Qualifier: Home Eagles to hit camp on Thursday.




The home-based Super Eagles are expected to
be in camp on Thursday to start preparation for
their second round 2018 African Nations
Championship (CHAN) qualifier against either
Benin Republic or Togo.


This was announced on the Super Eagles
official Twitter handle on Sunday.
The 2018 CHAN will hold in Kenya from
January 11 to February 2.
It however stated that the venue for the camp
will be made known in a later date, although
Kano has been mentioned as a possible host
city.


“Our camp for the #2018CHAN qualifiers vs
Benin Rep/Togo will now open on Thursday,
July 20, 2017. Camp site will be communicated
later,” the Super Eagles handle wrote.
The home-based Eagles, coached by Salisu
Yusuf, will be away to either Benin Republic or
Togo in the first leg on August 11.
They will host the second leg on August 19
with the winner qualifying for the 2018 CHAN
tournament.


The first leg, first round qualifier between Togo
and Benin Republic, comes up today (Sunday)
in Lome. http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/07/chan-qualifier-home-eagles-hit-camp-thursday/
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