This Twitter user has been criticising Oshoala heavily since the Christmas and New Year holiday. Oshoala posted a video that she took in Lagos in which she was at a place with other people and none of them wore masks. This lady criticised Oshoala for that video and has been criticising her for every miss since then.
Oshoala scores brace as Barca beat Real Madrid in El Classico.
Asisat Oshoala scored a brace as Barcelona beat Real Madrid 4-1 in the first El Classico to be played at the Johan Cruyff Stadium.
Barca were on the attack from the beginning of the game and Alexia gave them the lead via an absolutely wicked shot in the 14th minute. The Real Madrid keeper got a hand to it, but she only succeeded in helping the ball into the net because the shot was to powerful.
Jenni Hermoso extended the lead in the 17th minute off a rebound from a shot by Oshoala and then, in the 37th minute, deadly Norwegian winger, Caroline Graham Hansen ran at full speed down the right, while Oshoala was running down the center. CGH centered the ball and Oshoala knocked it into the net. It was a thing of beauty.
There was confusion in the Madrid box in the 70th minute with the ball bouncing back and forth between players and Oshoala was perfectly positioned to profit off the error and give Barca its 4th goal.
Oshoala was bearing down on goal just 2 minutes later and the Real Madrid keeper, Misa, came out of her area to stop her. Oshoala played a shot and the Madrid keeper parried it, but she was out of her area and so she was shown a red card and sent off.
However, Barcelona was also reduced to 10 women in the 79th minute when Mapi Leon was shown a second yellow card for bringing down a Madrid attacker. Olga scored from the resulting penalty kick to bring the scores to 4-1 in the 81st minute.
Oshoala asked to be subbed off in the 88th minute and most Nigeria and Barca fans would hope that she didn't get a serious injury.
This is Oshoala's second brace in as many games. She also scored 2 goals in Barcelona's last match against Rayo Vallecano.
2018 Paris FC scored first, then Oparanozie scored a normal goal, provided the assist for Guingamp's second goal and then scored a long range goal that was voted goal of the month.
Desire Oparanozie scores against Chiamaka Nnadozie in the French Cup.
It seems like Desire Oparanozie loves scoring against Paris F.C. She scored a spectacular long range goal against them in 2018 and scored another spectacular long range goal against them in 2019. She might have achieved the feat again in 2020 if not for the COVID-19 pandemic.
Yesterday Oparanozie's new club, Dijon FC, played against Paris F.C. in the French Cup and Paris' new first choice keeper is another Nigerian, Chiamaka Nnadozie.
Nnadozie moved to Paris (her first European club) in January 2020 and she has gradually worked her way to becoming their first choice keeper and she has had a good run of clean sheets, but that was not to be the case yesterday.
Paris scored first in d 10th minute, but Oparanozie equalized in the 67th minute to take the game to penalty shootout.
Dijon triumphed 4-2 on penalties and are through to the next round.
These Boys Scouts share in a one on one conversation with Governor-General and Chief Scout, Sir Patrick Allen (2nd left) at their annual Founder’s Week Public Meeting held at King’s House on Thursday, February 23. Major Garth Anderson, Aide de Camp to the Governor-General (background) looks on.
naptu2: The UK and former dominions (except South Africa).
In the UK and the former dominions (Australia, Canada and New Zealand) you have to remember that the prime ministers are not the C in C. The Queen is the commander in chief and she is represented in the dominions by the governors-general. They all have ADCs. In fact, in the dominions state, regional and provincial governors have ADCs, just like they did in the First Republic in Nigeria.
In the United Kingdom an ADC is a high ranking military officer or a member of the royal family who assists one of the most senior members of the royal family. For example, Prince Charles is an aide de camp to the Queen. What we call an ADC in Nigeria is called an equerry. The Queen’s equerry is usually of the rank of major or lieutenant colonel.
The Queen has a pretty large entourage, even though you don’t always see the members of the entourage when you watch the news. She has equerries, ladies in waiting and other people who attend to her. This is apart from the members of the Royal Protection Service who guard her. Look out for Volkswagen and Mercedes Benz minivans the next time you see the Queen’s motorcade. These usually contain her equerry, ladies in waiting and other aides.
In the UK, just as in the US, the media would often go to great lengths to exclude ADCs, bodyguards and other security staff from their coverage as you can see in this story in the Independent about Donald Trump’s ADC (his face was blurred). (I remember how Sky News blurred out the face of David Beckham’s bodyguard while reporting stories about David and Victoria Beckham in the early 2000s). As you’ll see in the article, the British media usually blur the faces of such people and they usually try to avoid revealing their names. However, the American media try to avoid showing them at all, but they will show their pictures if they become the story.
What happened, basically, was that President Trump met Japanese Prime Minister Shinzu Abe at Trump’s private club and hotel called Mar-A-Lago. A private guest at the club took a picture with Trump’s ADC and posted it on social media. He mentioned the ADC’s first name and said that, “This is the guy that carries the nuclear codes”. The British media published the picture, but blurred out the ADC’s face. They also did not publish the ADC’s first name. However, the American media published the picture without censoring it (since the ADC has made himself the story) and they also mentioned his first name.
While speaking about the story above, a Defence official told the LA Times.
"There is an understanding that we, as military officials and those who serve our elected officials, typically seek to maintain a low profile,” said a senior U.S. defense official, who wasn’t authorized to speak on the matter. “It's never about us. It's about the mission and the people we serve."
The ADC’s name is actually Ricardo Turner and here he is following President Trump in the picture below. Notice that, although he is walking behind Trump, there’s some space between him and the president and in fact, there’s a bit of space between the Secret Service bodyguards and the president. This is so that photographers can zoom in on the president and keep the aides out of the picture.
LANGLEY, VA - JANUARY 21: US President Donald Trump leaves the CIA headquarters after speaking to 300 people on January 21, 2017 in Langley, Virginia . Trump spoke with about 300 people in his first official visit with a government agency. In the background a military aid carries the 'football', with launch codes for nuclear weapons. (Photo by Olivier Doulier - Pool/Getty Images) www.nairaland.com/attachments/13073263_2611605120064878196085155103060159934093354o_jpega665f76b21af9f92733a543d3773c687
The Pentagon said that the ADC had not broken any rules or laws, but what he did was unusual.
The Queen, as head of state of the countries in the former dominions and several countries in the Commonwealth, usually uses equerries from those countries whenever she visits them.
The Emperor of Japan had ADCs from 1896 till 1945. The practice was established by royal decree and the duties of the ADC included providing military advice to the emperor, accompanying the emperor to formal state occasions and acting as an assistant (chamberlain) to the emperor.
The practice was abolished after the Second World War. People blamed militarism for Japan’s role in the Second World War and everything was done to de-emphasise the role of the military after the war. In fact, Japan did not have a military after the war. They only had a small police force and the United States was responsible for Japan’s defence. A small Japanese defence force was created in the 1950s, due to fears that a communist country (the Soviet Union, China or North Korea) would try to attack Japan, but the emphasis was on the defence of Japan. The Japanese Defence Force was barred from operating outside Japan unless the country was attacked. They did not even take part in UN peacekeeping operations until the late 1990s.
However, like I said earlier, the protocols and traditions regarding the use of ADCs vary from country to country. There is no right or wrong way to use an ADC (or not use an ADC). It all depends on the needs of the C in C of the particular country and the protocols and traditions adopted by the country. You will notice that the commanders in chief of Western nations usually adopt our protocol regarding the use of ADCs when they come to Nigeria. US Presidents Carter, Clinton and Bush had very visible ADCs when they came to Nigeria (which tells you that there must have been more than one ADC on duty). The Queen also had very visible equerries on the two occasions that she visited Nigeria (she was the head of state of Nigeria the first time she visited and she had a Nigerian equerry) and Jacques Chirac also had a visible ADC when he visited Nigeria.
Presidents Obasanjo and Clinton with their ADCs during Clinton’s visit to Nigeria in 2000. I think President Clinton's ADC in this picture was Colonel Dana Pittard, while President Obasanjo's ADC was the late Colonel Solomon Giwa-Amu. There are obviously two US ADCs on duty here, the highly visible ADC (Colonel Pittard) and a less visible ADC carrying the nuclear football. www.nairaland.com/attachments/13071222_1041090714800086889231003413177939385314099n_jpeg057175feb93288cf68978a6695cb3fdd
ADCs to political office holders are military officers who spent almost their entire day with some of the most powerful people in their country and so, there’s bound to be controversies surrounding them. There was controversy in Argentina when former president Nestor Kirchener decided to promote his ADC one year before he was due for promotion. His wife, Cristina Kirchener, who became president after him, became the first president of Argentina to have an all-female team of ADCs.
There was controversy in Ghana when President Nana Akufo-Addo appointed the former ADC to former president John Kufour, Major General Obed Boamah Akwa as chief of defence staff in 2017. Some people questioned whether General Akwa merited the position or whether he got the position because he was close to powerful politicians (Presidents Kufour and Akufo-Addo are members of the NPP political party). However, it must be noted that General Akwa was appointed chief of army staff by President Mahama of the NDC.
You can see President Putin and his ADC in this video of his journey to the Kremlin for his inauguration in 2012. It shows Putin walking out of the presidential palace. His ADC is standing beside the presidential limousine. He salutes Putin, who shakes his hand, opens and closes the door for the president and sits in the front passenger seat of the limousine.
(There’s also a bit of smoke and mirrors in this video. In fact, the video is completely staged. You might notice that Putin has a much smaller guard than usual. In fact, you can’t see any bodyguards at all, apart from the ADC. You might also notice that his motorcade is much smaller than usual. This is possible because they’ve blocked all traffic from the entire neighbourhood. You can see that there are absolutely no other cars on the road, even on the adjoining streets).
Something very similar to what is happening in Russia also happened in Lagos State. Governor Tinubu’s police ADC was summoned to Abuja, detained and harassed in 2007 because the Federal Government felt that he could help the AC to win the 2007 governorship elections in Lagos. He left the Police Force and went to study abroad after that experience. He returned to Nigeria and became a commissioner in Fashola’s administration and he is still a commissioner in the Ambode administration.
Sports › Re: Desire Oparanozie Scores Against Chiamaka Nnadozie In The French Cup. by naptu2(op): 2:16am On Feb 01, 2021
