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Interesting. Lalasticlala |
Former Super Eagles midfielder, Finidi George has revealed what prompted his goal celebration style at the 1994 FIFA World Cup. Recall that Finidi netted Nigeria’s opening goal in the second group match against Greece and trotted towards the corner flag to celebrate the now-infamous urinating dog goal celebration. Finidi in an interview with TribalFootball stated that he could hardly explain what prompted the goal celebration. “My celebration at the World Cup was not planned. https://i1.wp.com/www.completesports.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/finidi.jpg “I did not even know that I was going to score at the world cup, but after scoring the goal, I wanted to celebrate and I just did that spontaneously, and till date people still talk about the celebration. “I just got carried away after the scoring a goal at the World Cup.” Nigeria, however, was knocked out in the Round of 16 by Italy after losing 2-1. https://www.completesports.com/how-i-came-about-my-goal-celebration-at-1994-world-cup-finidi/ |
Too much money lalasticlala |
The world’s best athletes have plenty of opportunities to bank on their popularity. Besides lucrative sports contracts, most of them earn even more significant profits from heavy endorsement deals.https://www.completesports.com/connor-mcgregor-racked-up-180m-in-2021-more-than-messi-cristiano-ronaldo-or-lebron-james/
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Paul Onuachu has won the Ebony Shoe award for the Best African player In Belgium for the 2020/21 season, reports Completesports.com.https://www.completesports.com/onuachu-wins-ebony-shoe-award-for-best-african-player-in-belgium/
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Environmental and development experts have provided insights on how drylands can contribute to the growth of agriculture and the larger economy in Africa. The experts spoke at the first-ever digital Global Landscape Forum (GLF) conference held between June 2nd and 3rd. The major theme of the conference focused around Africa’s drylands and integrative restoration practices. While delivering a keynote speech on Africa’s perspective on ecosystem restoration at the conference, the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification(UNCCD), Ibrahim Thiaw, explained that drylands are significant to economic growth in countries across Africa, Mr Thiaw also debunked misconceptions he claimed were undermining the potentials and uniqueness of Africa’s dryland amidst ongoing restoration campaigns across the world According to him, claims that drylands do not contribute much to the economy are untrue because in most drylands, people have lands as their only assets. He argued that in Africa, up to 70 per cent of the population depends on the primary sector, including drylands that represent up to 45 per cent. Agriculture, livestock, inland fisheries, and tourism revenues are seamlessly possible in drylands, he explained. Mr Thiaw stated that there’s a need to debunk myths being concocted and circulated about dryland regions across the world. Drylands According to Aridity Index (AI), the United Nations’ Environment Programme ( UNEP ) explained drylands as the ratio between average annual precipitation and potential evapotranspiration, noting that drylands are lands with an AI of less than 0.65. Mr Thiaw said the myth that drylands are not productive are untrue, adding that they provide the inhabitants with unique products and produce such as cereals, animal feed and non timber products. He noted that almost 3 billion people live on the drylands globally. This people, he said, include 100 million pastoralists, adding that half of the world’s range land is found in dryland. “The cotton industries would not survive without cotton coming from dryland,” he said. “The world is just about to discover the nutritional and health values of shea butter, baobab and other cosmetic products that are uniquely produced in drylands.” Speaking further, the UNCCD official also said the claim that drylands are not rich in biodiversity, and that they have little to offer in the climate crisis, is not true. “The largest terrestrial behaviour found in the magnificent savannahs of African to the tiniest microorganism found in the large diversity of dryland habitats (Savannahs, ponds, rivers, wetland etc) are in the drylands,” he said. Mr Thiaw noted that the large open spaces in dryland are major carbon sinks, adding that their management and mitigation provides a range of opportunities for organisms. Similarly, the environmentalist said it is not true ‘drylands are wasteland, and they are not worth investing in’, adding that dryland harbors major extractive industries from oil production in the Middle-east to mineral extractions in dry Africa and Australia. “The world is amazed by the clean energy potentials found in drylands,” Mr Thiaw said, adding that drylands are sources of healthy products and tourist attraction because of their unique landscape, wildlife and great diversity of people. He noted that people living in dryland areas use little biomass and they are generally water efficient. “People living in drylands either scarcely use the environment or they are forced to migrate because there would be no resources to sustain them. “Change is homemade; it’s time to change our narratives on drylands in Africa. It’s time to reset, rethink Africa’s development and it is time to turn challenges into opportunities,” he said. Insights Providing additional insights in her remarks, Inger Anderson, Under- Secretary-General, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), explained that in order to reverse the damages that humanity has caused to the natural world, “there is an urgent need to mobilise and make a social movement”. The official called for “a mass movement, a youth movement, a finance movement and a science movement to speed up Africa’s dryland restoration efforts”. “It is a great opportunity to start delivering on sustainable development goals so that we can create that world of prosperity, equality and of peace,” she said. Meanwhile, Salima Mohamoudou, a research associate at World Resource Institute(WRI), explained that ‘copy and paste solutions’ have proven not to be the best option to explore in drylands restoration efforts across the continent. “There is no one-size-fits-all option. What has worked elsewhere like in the UK and U.S. may not work well for Africa,” she said. https://i2.wp.com/media.premiumtimesng.com/wp-content/files/2021/06/2018-04-09_rivers-scaled.jpg Dryland [PHOTO CREDIT: International Institute for Environment and Development] https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/more-news/465848-how-drylands-contribute-to-economic-development-experts.html |
Shame on buhari |
President Muhammadu Buhari’s controversial statement that his government will deal with violent secessionists in the South-east “in the language they understand” has been condemned by Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka. Mr Soyinka, in a statement sent to PREMIUM TIMES Friday, said Mr Buhari’s “recent deployment of this language is thus wrongly targeted, and tragically untimely.” “Those of us in the fields for 30 months, who went through the war, will treat them in the language they understand,” Mr Buhari had said in reaction to attacks on state institutions and personnel in the South-east and South-south regions of Nigeria. The president’s statement has stirred controversy across Nigeria and beyond with critics describing it as insensitive and suggesting genocide against the Igbos. The president’s supporters, however, say the statement was simply a stern warning to violent insurrectionists in the South-east. On Thursday, Twitter deleted the president’s post with the Nigerian government later saying the social media giant has a hidden agenda in Nigeria. On Friday, Nigeria announced an indefinite suspension of Twitter. In his Friday statement, Mr Soyinka compared President Buhari’s statement to the statements and actions of former U.S. President Donald Trump while the latter was in office. Read Mr Soyinka’s full statement below. To SHOCK And AWE! We heard it last during the heydays of Donald Rumsfeld under George Bush – and judge in what condition it has left that part of the world, and beyond. Rumsfeld’s namesake – a sobering coincidence – also spat the same gung-ho rhetoric. That Donald once ordered his uniformed forces to “go out there” and “dominate the environment”, following civilian protests at extra-judicial killings of blacks by state police. Soon enough, leaving nothing to chance, that Donald II seized on the first opportunity to personally mobilize a mob to “dominate” Capitol Hill, his own seat of government that was clearly slipping from his control. Optimists are free to underplay that threat to the much-acclaimed democratic beacon. Study that scenario carefully however, and you find It is not a question of: it could never have succeeded. Such surmises are wrong, It COULD HAVE SUCCEEDED, albeit with unpredictable consequences for America and the world. And so, when the elected head of a democratic state like Nigeria, not perched precariously on the knife edge of power but with a couple more years in the kitty, threatens to “shock” dissidents, we should indeed be shocked out of any complacency. Even if History has been deliberately eliminated from the school’s curriculum, Memory suffices to jerk us into a watchful, precautionary alert. I hold no brief for those who resort to burning down police stations, slaughter their occupants simply for the crime of earning a measly monthly pittance, torch electoral offices, assassinate politicians in calculated effort to set sections of the country against others in the promotion of their own political goals. These are largely nihilists, psychopaths and/or criminal lords, soul mates of Boko Haram, ISWAP, Da’esh and company, not to be confused with genuine liberators. All over the world, throughout history, elections are denounced, boycotted, and generally delegitimized without recourse to wanton butchery. When, however, a Head of State threatens to “shock” civilian dissidents, to “deal with them in the language they understand”, and in a context that conveniently brackets opposition to governance with any bloodthirsting enemies of state, we have to call attention to the precedent language of such a national leader under even more provocative, nation disintegrative circumstances. What a pity, and what a tragic setting, to discover that this language was accessible all the time to President Buhari, where and when it truly mattered, when it would have been not only appropriate, but deserved and mandatory! When Benue was first massively brought under siege, with the massacre of innocent citizens, the destruction of farms, mass displacement followed by alien occupation, Buhari’s language – both as utterance and as what is known as “body language” – was of a totally different temper. It was diffident, conciliatory, even apologetic. After much internal pressure, he eventually visited the scene of slaughter. His language? Learn to live peacefully with your neighbours. The expected language, rationally and legitimately applied to the aggressors, was exactly what we now hear – “I shall shock you. I shall deal with you in the language you understand”. That language was missing at the moment that mattered most. It remained “missing in action” for years until a belated “Shoot at sight” outburst. Too late, and of course, inappropriately phrased. The precedent had been set, the genie let out of the bottle, consolidating a culture of impunity that predictably spread its bloody stain all over the nation. Buhari’s recent deployment of this language is thus wrongly targeted, and tragically untimely. Even while he was threatening dissidents, an agenda of both secessionism and alien occupation was taking place not too distant from Aso Rock. ISWAP was taking over the already excised territories of Shekau’s Boko Haram, appointing new warlords of the occupational forces, sectioning Nigeria into vassal states and unfurling their replacement flags of domination. Soon, logically, ISWAP’s letters of diplomatic accreditation will be presented in Aso Rock? We must however backtrack a little – that is the function of memory. It would be false to suggest that these eggs of impunity are newly laid. They have been incubating in loathsome hatcheries of power and domination for years, even decades, and now the raptors have been hatched and taken wings. The political culture of the devil’s bargain, of denial, evasion, avoidance of constitutional mandates, the culture of “appeasement of the unappeasable” – to quote myself – in order to gratify the vested interests of a narrow, power obsessed elite has blossomed. Finally, the chickens have come home to roost. The evocation of the Civil War, where millions of civilians perished, is an unworthy emotive ploy that has run its course. In any case – and this has been voiced all too often, and loudly – the nation is already at war, and of a far more potentially devastating dimension than it has ever known. Every single occupant of this nation space called Nigeria has been declared potential casualty, children being pushed to the very battlefront, without a semblance of protective cover. We have betrayed the future. We need no breast beating about past wars. The world has moved on, so have nations. Some, however, prefer to move backwards. The continent is full of these atavists. In Nigeria, powerful cliques of this persuasion still roam the corridors of power We are indeed at war. It does not take the formal declaration of hostilities, with or without lethal bombardments, for a nation to find itself shell-shocked. The populace of this nation is already in that shell-shocked condition. So, what is there left to shock? It is time to think “outside the box”. That many, in so doing, find no landing place except dissolution, is not a crime. It is not peculiar to any peoples, and is embedded in the ongoing history of many, and not only on this continent. It is their natural right as free citizens, not slaves of habit and indoctrination. Where disillusion rides high, sentiment tumbles earthwards, and the only question becomes: what can be salvaged? It thus remains the responsibility of leadership to persuade them, through both discourse and remedial action, that there are other options. Attempted bullying is not a language of discourse, nor the facile ploy of tarring all birds with the same feather. I shall end on a personal note. It was not intended but, in view of breast thumping rhetoric by one president after the other over military sacrifice – undeniable, certainly – such recalls should be considered salutary. The heroic exploits of our military in confronting some of the deadliest internal forces of dehumanization deserve their place of honour, not only in history, but in contemporary consciousness. However, let not the military fail to take its place centrally in the nation’s ongoing, unavoidable soul searching. And so to an instructive intervention by this “bloody civilian”, in what should be an exclusionary portfolio of the keepers of a nation’s mandate for secure existence. It took months for me to effect a meeting, agreed in principle, with a former National Security Adviser. It took that long only because I refused to meet him within the country, since it had become clear that the +security forces, in addition to high levels of governance, had become infiltrated by the very vicious elements that have fully established and sustained a lethal dimension. I was not about to let myself be “sold out” to unseen forces in my eagerness to sound an oppressive warning. We eventually met in London. The records, I am certain, will be found in the National Security files and, in any case, I went accompanied. My mission was straightforward – to let him know that the nation was under siege, that the nomadic herdsmen that then threaded the forests were of a different breed from those whom we normally encountered in that environment that was also close to second home to some of us. We met. That National Security Adviser assured me that the military was aware of this, and that his mission to the United States was to negotiate the purchase of spotter planes to patrol the forest routes. I retreated, satisfied, to my normal preoccupations. No, not entirely true – I did take other supplementary steps internally, including meetings with high level state officials in the West. Now comes the rub! imagine the chagrin, this past week or two, as revelations emerged, ten years after that meeting, of humungous amounts from oil resources being found in the US off-shore accounts of that pivotal figure of any nation’s security architecture! Is that an exceptional tale? Not in the least! He is not the first multi-starred general to be thus exposed, some even brought to trial. While Boko Haram was consolidating, a Nation’s Security Czar was also consolidating his nest egg with funds meant for elimination of a national scourge. Shock? No. Civil Society already has a superabundance of the military shock treatment! Wole SOYINKA. https://i0.wp.com/media.premiumtimesng.com/wp-content/files/2020/06/cropped-i-would-have-told-wole-soyinka-to-stand-up-daddy-freeze-supports-young-man-who-sent-wole-soyinka-packing-2-1.jpg https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/465636-soyinka-tackles-buhari-over-civil-war-comment-other-matters.html |
President Muhammadu Buhari has transmitted to the Senate, a bill to increase the retirement age for teachers in the country from 60 to 65 years. The bill also seeks to extend the years of service for teachers from 35 to 40 years. The bill was conveyed in a letter to the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, who read it out at the start of plenary on Wednesday. In the letter, the president explained that the piece of legislation would provide for a harmonised retirement age for teachers in Nigeria. The decision to increase the retirement age and service years of teachers, he said, was pursuant to Section 58(2) of the 1999 Constitution as amended. “Transmission of the Harmonised Retirement Age for Teachers in Nigeria Bill 2021 to the National Assembly for consideration. “Pursuant to Section 58 subsection 2 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended), I forward herewith the harmonised retirement age for teachers in Nigeria Bill, 2021 for consideration by the Senate. “The harmonised retirement age for teachers in Nigeria bill 2021 seeks to increase the retirement age for teachers from 60 to 65 years, and also increase the possible years of service from 35 to 40 years,” part of the letter read. Further details of the legislation will be discussed on another legislative day when the lawmakers begin the process of its passage. Mr Buhari’s letter comes about five months after the Federal Executive Council approved the extension of teachers’ retirement age as well as service years. Meanwhile, Mr Lawan, during plenary, also referred the president’s request for the confirmation of Farouk Yahaya as Chief of Army Staff of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to the Committees on Defence and Army. The Defence Committee, which is chaired by Aliyu Wamakko (APC Sokoto), was mandated to be the lead Committee to screen the newly appointed army chief. https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/465245-buhari-transmits-bill-extending-retirement-age-service-years-for-teachers-to-senate.html |
middlebelter:what is good for the goose is good for the gander |
is there a way they can the revamp the scheme |
The Sultan of Sokoto, Sa’ad Abubakar, says agitation for the scrapping of the National Youth Service (NYSC) scheme is not in the interest of Nigeria’s unity. Mr Abubakar spoke when he hosted some selected members of NYSC Batch A stream 2 Corps members posted to Sokoto state in his palace on Monday in Sokoto. The Sultan said that those agitating for the scrapping of the scheme did not mean well for the country. The emir explained that the NYSC scheme was established to foster the nation’s unity and strengthen ties among Nigerians. “I heard there are efforts for the scrapping of the NYSC scheme, I assure you that those behind that struggle do not mean well for this country,” Mr Abubakar said. According to him, the NYSC scheme is the most needed programme in view of the present situation when Nigeria is almost divided along ethnic and religious lines. He welcomed youth corps members posted to the state, saying that the state was the most peaceful state in Nigeria. Mr Abubakar urged the youth corps members to consider the state as their second home and explore the opportunities therein. The paramount ruler, who advised them to respect the customs and traditions of their host communities, urged them to be security conscious as there are security challenges in parts of the state. “I urge you to be security conscious while staying in Sokoto, you know there are security challenges now all over the world, we have our own share also. ”You should not keep late nights and if you have any challenges contact your district head because they are like your father and guardian ” he said. He gave assurance that there would not be any reprisal “because a northerner had been killed in Owerri, Enugu or Aba”, saying that another person could not be punished because of what someone did elsewhere. He said that the two major religions in Nigeria, Christianity and Islam are against the killing of innocent people, saying life is sacred and no one has the right to kill anybody at will. He implored leaders to speak up when things were going wrong, saying injustice must also be addressed to calm tension and agitations. Earlier, Philip Enaberue, the Sokoto State NYSC Coordinator, thanked the Sultan for his unflinching support to the scheme in the state. Mr Enaberue said as it was a tradition and that they were in the palace to pay homage to the Sultan and seek his fatherly advice. He said that 1,414 youth corps members were undergoing orientation in the state, out of which 714 were males while 700 were females from the 36 states of the federation and the FCT. https://i0.wp.com/media.premiumtimesng.com/wp-content/files/2021/03/Saadu_Abubakar_-Sultan_of_Sokoto.jpg https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/464954-scrapping-nysc-scheme-not-in-interest-of-nigerias-unity-sultan.html |
The Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, has recommended that 20 per cent of the revenue be given to states where solid minerals are mined, up from the current 13 per cent. The federal government had, in 2016, approved the implementation of the constitutionally guaranteed 13 per cent derivation from mineral revenues to deserving states. But Mr Bello, at the North Central Zonal public hearing for constitution review exercise being held in Lokoja, Kogi State, said 13 per cent is not commensurate to the effects of mining activities in the state. “13 per cent derivatives is not commensurate to degradation and other effects of mining in host communities. I recommend 20 per cent equity share for states on solid mineral mining,” he said. Welcoming other states in the North Central zones to the event, Mr Bello said Nigeria is at a crossroads, critical to its development. According to him, the present security situation is both a threat and an opportunity. “Of course, it depends on our responses as citizens to these threats. The ongoing constitution review is one of the tools to address issues in the national polity, so I support the National Assembly.” https://i1.wp.com/media.premiumtimesng.com/wp-content/files/2021/06/North-Central-Zonal-public-hearing-for-constitution-review-exercise-scaled.jpg North Central Zonal public hearing for constitution review exercise The two-day event, organised by the House of Representatives Special Committee on Constitutional Review, started on Tuesday and is billed to end on Wednesday. Recall that the Senate version of the event was held last week. This is part of the effort to meet the demands of Nigerians on the need for restructuring, which many believe to be long overdue. Members of labour unions, traditional rulers, political office holders and other groups are present at the Kogi State Government House in Lokoja, where the North Central section of the event is holding. Also speaking at the event, the Speaker of the Kogi State House of Assembly, Matthew Kolawole, clamoured for the creation of six additional states. He also called for harmonisation of the 1999 and 1963 constitutions for the betterment of the citizens. “Most people (are) agitating for Nigeria to revert back to 1963 constitution. There is (a) need to harmonise both the 1963 constitution and 1999 constitution for the betterment of Nigerians,” he said. https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/465066-constitution-review-yahaya-bello-proposes-20-per-cent-derivation-on-solid-minerals.html |
Even Gombe |
hensben:Need i remind you, Chicharito benched berbatov to be top striker |
hensben:John Carew: Played for lyon and aston villa. Notable for his sublime goal against real in 05. Flo: Played for chelsea and norway at the world cup |
Kilishihunter:Its a compensation. Ronaldo brought attention to serie a |
Ibime:Arsenal under arteta plays low block. Watch closely |
Gombe State government on Monday said a communal clash between Shongom and Filiya districts over farmland had resulted in the death of one person and the burning of over 50 houses. The state’s Commissioner of Information and Culture, Julius Ishaya stated this at a briefing after a Security Council meeting in Gombe. He stated that the clash, which took place on Saturday, May 29, left one woman dead and no fewer than 50 houses, food and other essential items burnt. Mr Ishaya said the state government condemned the attack and called on members of the affected communities to embrace peace, while directing the immediate engagement of all residents, led by the Mai Kaltungo, Saleh Mohammed, to find solutions and restore lasting peace in the affected areas. “The council reiterated that the banning of militias or hunters’ groups still stands and all security agencies have been alerted in that regard,’’ he said. He said that the government had also asked leaders of the affected communities to meet with their youths as part of measures to prevent further escalation of the clash. Peace returns Also speaking, Adamu Dishi, the state’s Commissioner of Internal Security and Ethical Orientation, said the affected areas were now calm as peace had been restored. Mr Dishi said security operatives in the state had been directed to fish out those responsible for the clashes, “as crises do not erupt on their own, so that the perpetrators would be dealt with according to the laws of the land”. Saleh Mohammed, the Mai Kaltungo, appealed for calm, stating that peace was needed for the emirate to make meaningful development and progress. Conflict The Commissioner of Police in Gombe, Ishola Babaita, confirmed to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that there was a clash between Shongom and Filiya Districts. Mr Babaita said that the police on receiving the report on Sunday, May 30, deployed its personnel to prevent further breakdown of law and order. He added that peace had been restored to the affected areas and his men were still patrolling the areas to ensure the maintenance of law and order. He confirmed that one death was recorded and no fewer than 50 houses razed, saying that those involved in the crisis would be brought to book as soon as investigations were concluded. (NAN) https://i2.wp.com/media.premiumtimesng.com/wp-content/files/2019/09/IMG-20190904-WA0007-e1567598129402.jpg Security Operatives used to illustrate story https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/464960-one-dead-50-houses-razed-in-gombe-communal-conflict.html |
EXCLUSIVE: Seven soldiers killed, five injured as terrorists ambush Nigerian troopshttps://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/464923-exclusive-seven-soldiers-killed-five-injured-as-terrorists-ambush-nigerian-troops.html
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kinzation:welcome to northocracy |
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