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Thomas Dennerby was nominated for Women's Coach of the Year.

Gernot Rohr was nominated for coach of the year

The Confederation of African Football has released the shortlist of players, coaches and teams for the CAF Awards 2019.

The nominees are:

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Odion Ighalo, Victor Osimhen and Wilfred Ndidi are the Nigerians that are nominated for African Player of the Year.


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Asisat Oshoala, Chiamaka Nnadozie and Uchenna Kanu are nominated for the African Women's Player of the year.

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Victor Osimhen and Samuel Chukwueze are the Nigerians nominated for the youth player of the year award.

NwaAmaikpe:



Dear Naptu2,
Thank you so much for this.
Every information is good information.
The more light shed on this issue brings better illumination of the facts so we don't comment and analyze like sentimental dumbos.

You've brought a new dimension to this but forgive me to conclude on the motive behind it.
It is very apparent that this piece is solely aimed at casting aspersions on the genuineness of the source of funds used in floating Air peace.

I respect you as a good writer, I admire your knack for history and research. I personally consider you a living encyclopedia because you are an unrivalled journalist.

But as a law veteran, don't you even remotely believe that posting an unfounded throwback piece from a disgruntled militant will do no good to the overall wellbeing of Allen in his present indictment?

This is quite simple. Everybody is presumed innocent until proven guilty in a competent court of law. When incidents like this break out, everybody should seek for more information on the subject. Information enlightens.

You have concluded that this piece is, " solely aimed at casting aspersions on the genuineness of the source of funds used in floating Air peace." I don't know whether that is true or not. The writer has made an allegation. It could be true or false, but some of the things in his allegation tally with the things in the indictment by the Department of Justice (which is what brought it to my attention). If it is false, then it can easily be refuted by information that debunks it (that's the beauty of a forum such as this. Information is shared to enlighten people and if better information comes along, it is used to refute what was previously there).

What I find surprising is that people are focusing on nonsense like ethnicity, instead of the important stuff, like the details of the case.

I'm a Nigerian and so I hope and pray that he is innocent (I actually found that piece when I was looking for information that absolves him), but that's just my emotions. I always put my emotions aside when I'm searching for information and I simply let the facts lead me.

hammerD:
@naptu2

Is dis suppose to be evidence or conviction?


Do u want us to dig up wat was said about Bola Tinubu or even Buahri and PTA Funds?


The average Afonja have wat is called pull him down syndrome and it seems particularly worst wen they come into contact with Igbos.


I will like to see how it ends wen both extremes meet. i.e Afonja and IPOB

What the heck do you mean by, "Is this supposed to be evidence or conviction"?? Does this look like a court to you?

And how does it concern me if you dig up whatever about Bola Tinubu, Buhari or PTF??

Note: Citizens are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a competent court of law

This piece is interesting because it mentions two of the NGOs that were mentioned in the US Department of Justice indictment.

Kingsley Kuku And Business Partner Floats Airline With Fraud Proceed From Amnesty Programme

July 8, 2014 at 9:02 am

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Kingsley Kuku and Allen Onyema with President Obama and VP Biden during Obama’s second inauguration party

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Kingsley Kuku, Allen Onyema with House of Reps Committee Members on the Niger Delta visiting Proclad Academy, Dubai (Where Allen Onyema’s business outfit ICNPD) is training Niger Delta youths in Welding for millions of dollars.

Initially, there were rumors that Air Peace, a new Airline whose aircrafts have recently been cited at Lagos Airports belong to the First Lady Patience Faka Jonathan.

That is all not true. We believe at this moment, that those who churned out the story that the Airlines belonged to the First Lady did so deliberately to hide the truth and to mislead the people.

The truth did not take too long to come out. Business concerns owned by Allen Onyema, a Lagos based businessman, colleague and close confidant of the Special adviser to the President on Niger Delta & Chairman, Presidential Amnesty Programme Kingsley Kuku have not been confirmed as responsible for the Airlines and more to that, Allen Onyema has now publicly confirmed that he is the Chairman of the Air Peace Airlines.

Allen Onyeama’s business outfit handled the demobilization and orientation of former NigerDelta militants which cost billions of Naira to run. Allen Onyema has also been responsible for high valued training contracts (running into billions) in the areas of welding training as well as aviation training for the Presidential Amnesty Programme in countries such as South Africa, The United States and Dubai.

The appointment of Kingsley Kuku as SA, Niger Delta & Chairman of the Amnesty Programme in January 2011, was a huge blessing for Allen Onyema as it gives him automatic access to a monster chunk of the more sixty billion naira allocated to the amnesty programme yearly.

Two of Allen Onyeama’s NGOs which also double as business outfits are known to be the biggest beneficiary of large value Presidential Amnesty Contracts and we can confirm that none of these outfits has any ties to the First Lady Patience Jonathan.

They include the Foundation for Ethnic Harmony in Nigeria (FEHN) and the International Center for Non-violence & Peace Development (ICNPD).

All the contracts awarded to Allen Onyema and his business run into millions of dollars and are all grossly inflated and over valued in a manner designed to short change the Amnesty Programme and steal the billions of naira yearly allocated to the manage the amnesty program me in the Niger Delta.

Sources close to Kingsley Kuku and Allen Onyeama say that Kingsley Kuku’s fears that the President might not return in 2015 and the need to settle his future spurred Kuku and Onyeama to start the Airlines on time rather than wait for the Presidential election in 2015.

Over time, Ex-militant leaders in the Niger Delta had spoken up about the rot in the Presidential Amnesty Programme but we were not listened to.

Rather, a band of lesser known and less credible leaders are being patronized by the Amnesty Programme and paid to issue press releases that threaten mayhem to Nigerians if President Jonathan is not elected in 2015 as though it was their votes that brought him to power in 2011.

As a group of committed leaders of the Niger Delta, we have over time resolved to work with all Nigerians for the success of President Jonathan in carrying out his responsibilities as a son of the Niger Delta, President of Nigeria and a father to all Nigerians. The journey to success in 2015 will be done in collaboration will all well meaning Nigerians because we believe, like many other Nigerians, that President Jonathan means well.

In the times past, we spoke about the false records of militants that the Amnesty Office parades but we were ignored.

We exposed the faulty award of scholarships to so-called Niger Deltans and we were again ignored even when we made it clear that Kingsley Kuku had been awarding scholarships to girlfriends, children of girlfriends and many others who had no business with the Niger Delta and that scholarship award.

Novena University is one of the Universities used by the Presidential amnesty Programme to train program recipients YET the children of the owner of Novena University are also included in Amnesty Programme.

A scion of a former political rival to President Jonathan, Timi Alaibe, Kingsley Kuku was not the first choice for the position of Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta & Chairman, Presidential Amnesty Programme. The first choice candidate had been Dr Felix Tuodolor, an Ijaw intellectual and highly cerebral first President of the Ijaw Youth Council. Felix Tuodolor was upstaged because there was a believe in certain Ijaw and Niger Delta quarters that he will not ‘SHARE’ money for the boys.

Kingsley Kuku it is, who likes to brag that he has the Chief of Army Staff in his pocket and that he settles the President’s wife very regularly. Quite sordid.

In January 2013, It was Allen Onyema who paid tens of thousands of dollars to the Obama campaign support group to enable Onyema and Kingsley Kuku to enjoy a photo-shot with President Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and their wives.

Clearly, It would therefore not be difficult to start an airline with such heavy financial support.

Question is, will Kuku and his Air Peace Airlines recruit all the Pilots they say that Amnesty has trained? Or will they allow the poor fellows to go out there themselves and make bread for their families?

Our collected call to the President is that Kingsley Kuku be immediately removed as SA to the President on Niger Delta & Chairman, Presidential Amnesty Programme. A reject a thief lording over the collective destiny of the Niger Delta and we call on the President to do the needful as a matter of urgency.

Kingsley Kuku’s loyalty is clearly not to the President but to his pockets and to his former lords.

A word has always been good enough for the wise.

IF our call is not heeded, we will announce a withdrawal of our support for President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan in the 2015 elections. We have suffered enough.

Diepreye Jackson Dikibo
Spokesman, Ex Militant Leaders Forum
Niger Delta

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Allen Onyema Wanted In Canada For Alleged Multi-Million Dollar Fraud In U.S.
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There has been a Twitter war between the present governor of Zamfara State, Dr Bello Matawalle and his predecessor, Senator Abdulaziz Yari, in the past 24 hours.

These are the tweets by Senator Abdulaziz Yari, the governor of Zamfara State from 2011-2019.


Abdulaziz Yari Abubakar @AA_Yari2015

The immediate past governor of Zamfara State, Hon. Abdulaziz Yari, has lambasted his successor, Bello Matawalle, saying the governor knows those behind renewed attacks in the state.

Suspected bandits had killed 14 people in Karaye village, Gummi Local Government Area of Zamfara State on Sunday.

Earlier on Thursday, Mr Matawalle vowed to arrest and appropriately deal with Mr Yari, should there be any breach of the peace in the state while he (Yari) is around.

“I swear, the next time Yari comes to town and there is breach of the peace, I will order for his immediate arrest in the state. In fact, if need be, I will lead the arrest myself in his village of Mafara and I am not joking,” Mr Matawalle warned in a statement by his spokesman

“This was the third time a major breach of peace occured when the former governor is on a visit to the state.

“My victory as the incumbent governor and my success in bringing peace to Zamfara are ordained by God. I will not allow the former governor and his cronies to rubbish our hard-earned peace in the state any more.
“Henceforth,

I will show him that power is now in my hands not in his hands anymore. And we shall appropriately employ it for the benefit and protection of millions of our citizens in the state.”

But in a telephone interview with DAILY NIGERIAN, Mr Yari dismissed Mr Matawalle’s threats and other allegations, saying the governor should check the constitution to see if he has powers to arrest him for visiting the state.

He should check the constitution to see if he has powers to arrest me for visiting my village. My activities are clear.

If my coming to Zamfara is d cause of d attacks, why nothing happens in my village Mafara, where I visit? From Sokoto airport, I go straight to my house in Mafara, & when I finished parley with my relations, political associates & loyalists, I go straight back to d airport from

How and where did I foment any trouble? Let me tell u, I’m not his mate politically. I am far above him. When I was a governor, I mind my business of governance nt issuing empty threats to my opponents. When I was the governor he was too insignificant to even appear in my dreams

My activities in my house at Tatata Mafara are transparent. I visit my village every 30 to 40 days to meet either religious leaders or politicians or traders or local government secretaries or social media promoters.

This is what is bothering him. He is just envious of my political standing in Zamfara.


If he continues leveling wild allegations against me to tarnish my image in the eyes of the public and my supporters, I will sue him for defamation.

The fact of the matter is that the mess is still there in Zamfara. There is no any peace in the state. The governor knows the attackers and killers of Zamfara people because they are his friends.

https://twitter.com/AA_Yari2015/status/1197819565721436161

This is the reply by the current governor.


Dr Bello Matawalle @Bellomatawalle1

Three different attacks were launched everytime the former governor visits the state and that can’t be coincidence, let there be another attack or violence the next time you set foot in zamfara so help me God. Politicizing peoples lives will never hold as long as I’m Governor.

https://twitter.com/Bellomatawalle1/status/1197995452270034946


Since then Senator Yari has been retweeting tweets that are critical of Dr Matawalle.