Super Eagles’ striker, Peter Osaze Odemwingie has denied comments credited to him in some media reports which quoted him as saying the Eagles failed to qualify for the 2012 Nations Cup due to a prophet’s prediction. According to the reports, Osaze told reporters at the Transcorp Hilton that “yes, I would say I am sorry to Nigerians for not playing according to expectation and I believe I did not play well in the match. But the prediction of Prophet TB Joshua really affected us.
We thought we could see him and see how he could overturn the negative prediction but the officials came with another prophet who prayed for us and told us that all was well.
But in all we did not do our own bit of the job well as players and we are not happy that we won’t play at the forthcoming Nations Cup.”
Osaze made the denial via the social network, Twitter where he wrote “I was quoted in Tribune Newspaper, if even one of the word was from me, make thunder fire me and if not thunder fire their editor.”
He also wrote “Luke 6: 26. No man is an island. One tree doesn’t make a forest so make una free me like my brother Terry G.”
Responding to a question on why he blamed the prophet for the Eagles’ performance, Osaze wrote “how can I blame TB Joshua? Probably his people making a PR for him using my name. I don’t say he is not real though. I don’t know.”



The bible verse quoted by the footballer reads “woe to you when all men speak well of you, for their fathers used to treat the false prophets in the same way”.

Nothing bad in that.

Good citizen

FILE – In this March 20, 2009, file photo mounds of fresh …
As the old saw goes, money doesn't grow on trees. But sometimes it sprouts up in the garden. An unemployed man in northern Illinois was out working in his backyard when he came across some serious green: bags filled with $150,000 cash.

Wayne Sabaj was headed to pick some broccoli to go with his roast. The carpenter spotted duffel bags that looked like trash by the peppers -- but they turned out to be a cash crop: stacks of $20 bills that added up to about $150,000. The 49-year-old, who is living with his dad, did not exactly jump for joy.

The out-of-work carpenter told ABC7, "I could really use this money." But with this money comes trouble. He explained, "With my luck, it would be bank robbery and I'd get caught and say I'd robbed a bank."

So the honest man with money troubles alerted the police to his amazing backyard treasure.



For now, police haven't a clue to where the cash came from: There are no reported burglaries in the area, and no banks have been robbed.

Then there was the concern that whoever left the money behind would be back, and that's a problem the Sabaj men would rather have solved by the police.

If nobody comes forward to legitimately claim the cash, there may be a happy ending for the man tending his garden: Police will help figure out if Sabaj can keep the money. The carpenter has retained an attorney just in case.

For now, the cash is in custody with the country sheriff, who left behind a card on the lawn where Sabaj found the bags, bearing the simple message, Please call.

Gruesome. This make me sick

http://youtu.be/2qEqdJEI5Bw

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In continuation of his defence this morning at a Lagos High Court, Southwest Nigeria, Major Hamzat Al-Mustapha, the former Chief Security Officer to the then Head of State, the late General Sani Abacha, has dropped another bombshell.

On Monday, he accused Yoruba leaders of collecting money to scuttle the mandate of Chief MKO Abiola but stopped short of mentioning their names.

Today, he lifted the veil, alleging that the late Chief Bola Ige and Pa Abraham Adesanya were among the dignitaries from the southwest who kept visiting Aso Rock after the death of Abacha. Both Ige and Adesanya died years ago.

He claimed Chief Ige was the one liaising with the Presidency earlier to either release Abiola or restore his stolen mandate. But he was the one used later to scuttle the mandate.

Al-Mustapha said he has the graphic details of how some dignitaries visited Aso Rock after the death of Abiola. One of them was Pa Adesanya, who after the death of Abacha, was angry.

He said Pa Adesanya granted interview to pressmen at the Villa.

However, he said the same dignitaries who were in Aso Rock angry were very happy when they were leaving. This event, he said, were recorded by both the Nigerian Television Authority, NTA and his camera.

As the CSO at the Aso Rock when Abacha died and General Oladipo Diya, one-time second in-command to Abacha was in detention for coup plotting, he had the responsibility of handing over to the incoming CSO.

It was at that time he made the photocopy of a letter written by the National Security Adviser, endorsed by General Abdulsalami Abubakar, the then Head of State, to the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria to withdraw $200 million, 75 million pounds and N500 million.

These monies were shared to so many people, according to Al-Mustapha.

He added that a large sum of money was also shared to some people, but he did not mention the recipients of the money.

His lawyer, Olalekan Ojo, tendered a copy of the letter. But the prosecutor, Olabisi Odugbesan objected to the admissibility of the letter.

He said it was a photostat copy. Ojo said the letter was important because the documents were weighty.

The former CSO added that the elder brother of the former Inspector General of Police, Alhaji Ibrahim Coomasie (whose name he did not mention) brought his own copy of the letter from the CBN.

He said the former IG’s brother was poisoned and killed when they realised that he was about to release the letter to the press for publication.

Part of the letter was read in the open court by Al-Mustapha. The letter requested the money for the purpose of offsetting the presidential fleet, estacode for Nigerians in Liberia and Sierra Leone and outstanding medical bills.

He said when Abdulsalami took over, government had 16 national agenda, top on the agenda was to release Abiola, put in place, a short transition programme whereby Abiola will be given his mandate after a period of time.

He said, thereafter, Abdulsalami changed the programme and many people were brought to Aso Rock to share money. Julius Berger, the company in charge of security maintenance building was moved to Minna, Niger State to construct a house with underground tunnel for Abdulsalami.

Thereafter, all bullion vans that used to bring money from the CBN to Aso rock now moved money to the home of Abdulsalami in Minna. And when Abdulsalami knew he had these things on record both in audio and video tapes, he transferred him. He said when his house was searched, his properties were removed.

He said up till now, he has made several appeals, especially when he appeared before the Oputa Panel for all the documents and his properties to be released, all to no avail.

He also appealed that the inventory of what was taken from his house be released. Even in his house, he said shoes were removed because they believed his shoes could contain tape recorders.

Al-Mustapha said these are the reasons why Gen. Abulsalami wanted him dead in order to nail him at all costs.

He said some of his loyalists like Garba, a body guard at Aso Rock then, Yari Gadzama, his body guard and Aminu Mohammed, were severely tortured by the leader of a Special Investigative Panel headed by Lt. Col. Kayode Are.

He said Kayode Are was constantly in touch with the prosecution in Lagos and induced some of the witnesses to incriminate them in their testimony and their statements.

He stated that another grouse of Abdulsalami was the prison note of Yakassai who was convicted by a military panel. His notes put together, the former CSO said, contained propaganda, falsehood, all in an attempt to incite the people against him.

He said, unfortunately, the media were used to echo the former Head of State’s falsehood agenda and propaganda against him.

As at the time of going to the press, Al-Mustapha’s defence was still ongoing.

The trial of suspects connected with the murder of Kudirat Abiola, wife of the acclaimed winner of the June 12, 1993 presidential election, MKO Abiola, resumed on Monday, 1 August with Al-Mustapha slamming southwest leaders of trading the death of Abiola for loads of cash in local and foreign currencies.

Al-Mustapha, who opened his defence in his ongoing trial alleged that he had documentary evidences to show that the then Head of State, Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar ordered the Central Bank of Nigeria to release various sums of money that was subsequently given to the southwest leaders to pacify them.

The former CSO told the court that the sums of $200 million, 75 million pounds, and N500 million were withdrawn from the apex bank to appease the southwest leaders. Al-Mustapha, who came into the court armed with a television set and video recorder on Monday, claimed that he was close to the late business mogul, who he had known since 1995.

He said that he knew Abiola’s killers, whose motive at the time was ‘a balancing of the equation’ , following, according to Al-Mustapha, the killing of Abacha.

Immediately he dropped the bombshell, he was challenged to mention names of those he claimed collected money from the Federal Government to scuttle Abiola’s mandate.

Former Super Eagles captain, Sunday Oliseh, believes Nigeria would have got better results from Rashidi Yekini at USA ‘94 FIFA World Cup and the team could have done better but for the deep-rooted division in the Nigerian team.

He told SuperSport.com that “the only reason I am saying this is for the future and for the country, for people to learn and because I feel that honour has not been given to Yekini like it should…some players had scores to settle with Yekini and all that.”

So many people have always wondered why Yekini would celebrate alone after scoring Nigeria’s first ever goal in the FIFA World Cup when he opened scoring against Bulgaria on that hot afternoon in Dallas. It was a sweeping move began by Oliseh who won the ball deep in Nigeria’s half. His quick change of pace and precision passing to Daniel Amokachi, who brilliantly guided the ball down the right flank to Finidi George .

The winger would explode down the flank and would pick out Yekini for the simple tap in, score and the stadium erupts into a sea of green and white and joyous chants of Nigeria.

The world would watch in amazement as Yekini rushed into the net and alone, all, all alone like that famous line from the rhyme of the Ancient Mariner. He would chant, scream all by himself, an image that personified the legendary goalscorer supreme and one of the defining moments of USA ‘94. No one came to meet him.

“Yekini had some beef with some players because I was in the background, I was watching everybody and I know those who were involved,” he said.

“Some of our players were madly, sickly, mentally jealous the moment Yekini was honoured. He was leaving for Panathinaikos, and there was some jealousy there. Yekini himself was not smart enough to calm things down.”

Oliseh believes Yekini was special. “Which other striker do we have in the history of Nigeria, who strikes 30-metre shots? If Yekini can count the number of goals at the highest level, it will be over a hundred… of all the strikers we talk about in Nigeria, which other striker?” he asked.

AIT is showing it LIVE

newmusic:

Which station is showing the match ?

Red Card to Nigeria Player

Ibenegbu score for Nigeria

Nigeria 0 - Tog 2

Nigeria 0 : Togo 1 - 2 mins

Not final, Its Semi Finale

Thank u man, it worked

kulutempa:

Try http://live.awooze.com.

I am watching it live right now.

Any link to watch please ??

Goalllllllllllllllllllllllllllll Kuyt

http://atdhenet.tv/35192/watch-liverpool-vs-manchester-united


Watch online

Yes now,

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