According to Nnamdi Kanu, they had planned to attack both Ekweremadu and John Nwodo (the president of Ohaneze). In fact, they particularly wanted to attack Nwodo, but he didn't show up at the event.
Nnamdi Kanu said that he has given orders to his followers to attack Igbo politicians, particularly John Nwodo and governors of the 5 eastern states, where ever they are found in the West.
Chief Israel Adebajo (Stationery Stores), Chief Lekan Salami (IICC Shooting Stars), Chief Daniel Idama (Julius Berger), Chief MKO Abiola (Abiola Babes), Chief Jim Nwobodo (Rangers International), Mr John Mastoroudes (Leventis United), Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu (Iwuanyanwu Nationale), Alhaji Grema Mohammed (Grema Babes), Chief Oyuki Obaseki (Bendel Insurance), etc.
Much later (much much later)
Chief Oscar Udoji (Udoji United), Chief Adewale Teluwo (Vigilance Insurance Professionals [VIP], later Obanta United) , Chief Jude Ezechukwu (Jasper United), Chief Igbinowahia Ekhosuehi (previously owned Bendel Insurance, then bought Bendel United after he was forced to sell his shares in Insurance), etc.
This victory does not automatically qualify Nigeria for the Olympics. The top 6 teams from Afrobasket 2019 will play an African qualifying tournament and the top 2 teams from that tournament will play a world qualifying tournament in order to qualify for the Olympics.
The draws for the African qualifying tournament were held on Saturday.
Draw results in for African Pre-Qualifiers of the 2020 Olympic Qualifying Tournament
DAKAR (Senegal) - The official draw for the African Pre-Qualifiers of the 2020 Olympic Qualifying Tournament took place on Saturday in Dakar, Senegal.
The ceremony featured FIBA Vice-president Hamane Niang, newly elected FIBA Africa President Anibal Manave, FIBA Africa Regional Director Alphonse Bile, members of the FIBA Africa Central Board and National Federations.
The top six countries at the ongoing FIBA Women's AfroBasket will play at this tournament including the two Finalists - hosts Senegal and the reigning champions Nigeria who were also Africa's two representatives at the FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup 2018 in Spain. The teams have been drawn in two groups.
The results of the draw are as follows: Group A:
Nigeria, Mozambique, Democratic Republic of Congo
Group B: Senegal, Mali, Angola
The African Pre-Qualifiers for the Tokyo games will take place from November 14-17 at a country yet to be determined.
Teams will play a round-robin format in their specific groups with the winner of Group A facing the second team in Group B while the winner of Group B will come up against the second ranked team in Group A in the Semi-Finals.
The two winners of the Semi-Finals will not play a Final as they will automatically advance to the 16-nation FIBA Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament (WOQT) where teams will be divided into four tournaments (groups) in February 2020.
The top three teams from each of the three WOQTs will qualify for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
The Pre-Qualifiers for the Tokyo Games is part of FIBA's major new qualifying system, which also changes the way of qualification for the next FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup.
Speaking at the draw ceremony, FIBA Africa Regional Director Alphonse Bile said, "We need to play with other teams from other continents. It is not a surprise that the two teams that played at the FIBA Basketball Women's World Cup are the ones that will play the [FIBA Women's AfroBasket 2019]Final tomorrow."
Prior to this format, the winner of the FIBA Women's AfroBasket automatically qualified for the Summer Olympics.
Both the reigning Olympic champions USA and hosts Japan will take part in the new pre-olympic qualifiers.
BREAKING: Nigeria’s D’Tigress beat Senegal to remain African champions
August 18, 2019 Tunde Eludini
The Nigeria women national basketball team, D’Tigress, have successfully defended the FIBA Women’s AfroBasket title they won two years ago.
In a keenly-contested final match played on Sunday at the magnificent Dakar Arena which had as much as 15 thousand fans watching, the Nigeria women beat host Senegal 60-55 to win back-to-back continental titles.
As in previous Senegal games over the past few days, there was a deafening atmosphere at Dakar Arena but D’Tigress held their own.
With Sunday’s feat, D’Tigress became the first team to win back-to-back FIBA Women’s AfroBasket titles since Angola followed up their 2011 triumph with another in 2013.
To make it to the final, Nigeria eased past Mali, 79-58, in Friday’s first semifinal. Hosts Senegal needed to work extra hard to overcome a fearless and determined Mozambique team, 60-57, to return to the championship title game for the third time in a row.
Both Nigeria and Senegal have emerged as the best teams from the 12-team tournament and it has come as no surprise that each reached the final after four wins in as many games.
Nigeria defeated Tunisia (75-26), Cameroon (106-39), DR Congo (79-46) and Mali (79-58) by an average of 42.5 points while Senegal beat Cote d’Ivoire (77-36), Egypt (85-47), Angola (88-54) and Mozambique 60-57 by an average of 29 points.
After losing to Nigeria two years ago – not once but twice in Bamako – 12-time African champions Senegal were hoping to become the first team to win the tournament at home since the D’Tigress claimed the 2005 continental in Abuja.
With D’Tigress successfully completing their mission, attention will now shift to the male team, D’Tigers that are meant to compete at the FIBA World Cup in China once the needed funds are provided.
DAKAR (Senegal) - The dominance of Nigeria continued at the FIBA Women's AfroBasket as they won their second straight title against Senegal 60-55 in a tightly contested Final on Sunday night at the magnificent 15,000-seater Dakar Arena.
D'Tigress, who registered a perfect five-game unbeaten run at the biennial competition, looked perfect all tournament on their way to win their fourth African title.
Otis Hughley Jr and his side ensured that Nigeria become only the second team to defend their title having won it in 2003 and defended it at home in Abuja in 2005.
Nigeria started the game on top of the proceedings and led both the first and second quarters to enter the half time break with a 32-24 lead and even though Senegal made a strong comeback in the third quarter to tie the game at 54-up with 2:24 to play in the last quarter, D'Tigress dug deep to eventually win the coveted trophy.
"We have been here before. We prepared ourselves as though every game would be like this. It is just that the previous games did not give us live training outside of playing ourselves so when that came, we had already been programmed. It is entrenched in our DNA to be ready for a tight game, make smart decisions and take care of the ball and that is what we did," explained Hughley Jr.
Evelyn Akhator scored 14 points and made nine rebounds and her amazing performance throughout the tournament earned her a place in the Tournament Five.
Her teammate Ezinne Kalu will smile her way back home after being named the undisputed TISSOT MVP as she joined Akhator in the Tournament Five.
Astou Traore stood out for Senegal with 13 points and six rebounds to earn her place in the Tournament Five deservedly so.
Earlier in the day, Mali saw off Mozambique 66-54 to win bronze for the second edition in a row much to the distress of the southern Africans who put in a good shift this tournament.
Touty Gandega, who inspired Mali with 12 points and six assists, earned her way to the Tournament Five for guiding her side to the podium.
On the other hand, Leia Dongue scored a game high 22 points and five rebounds but her efforts were not enough to help Mozambique win a medal at this tournament.
Oshoala Scores Again As Barcelona Beats Montpellier 0-1.
Asisat Oshoala scored in the 6th minute to give Barcelona victory over Montpellier in their last pre-season friendly. The goal was Oshoala's 7th in 4 pre-season games.
Oshoala came close to scoring again 6 minutes later, but her effort was stopped by the Montpellier goalie.
It was a very physical came, but the Barcelona defence were able to keep out Montpellier.
El Classico
Barcelona will play in the Copa Catalunya on Thursday and then they will play their first match of the 2019/2020 season against Tacon next weekend.
Tacon is being taken over by Real Madrid and so this will be the first female El Classico.
Match summary Montpellier , 0 Barça Feminí , 1
Montpellier: Schmitz, Torrent, De Almeida, Dekker, Karchaoui, Toleti, Mondesir, Peterhann, Legger, Pintigam and Le Bihan. They also played: Mayikitch, Banusic, Lendeka, Lakrar, Gauvin, Nicoli, Uffren, Bellolimou, Champagnac and Perrault.
Barçelona: Gemma (Sandra Paños, min. 46), María León (Van der Gragt, min. 71), Losada (Alexia, min. 46), Marta T. (Laia Codina, min. 46), Hamraoui, Patri ( A. Pereira, min. 46), Aitana, Leila (Melanie, min. 61), Graham (Claudia Pina, min. 71), Oshoala (Leila, min. 81), Falcón (Jana Fernández, min. 81).
Goal: 0-1, Oshoala (min. 6).
Referee: Karine Valcke
3rd screenshot) Barca fans are predicting that Oshoala will win the Pichichi title (for the highest goalscorer in the league)
4th screenshot) Barca fans are appealing to France Football magazine to award the Ballon d'Or to Oshoala.
By the way, the criticisms are not solely based on a Wikipedia entry. I posted this video on the first page of this thread. I watched this video years ago and in it Chris Abani talked about his experience on death row.
So, it's not like a random person edited his wikipedia entry. These are things that he often talks about and he talked about some of them in this video.
Sterope: The writer is not even Yoruba or from the North to begin with and it is from Sahara Reporters. So can you not make a lame attempt to make this tribal?
Freeman59: Bro you don't know me, same way the OP doesn't know Chris Abani. I will not share my real name with you. All the op wrote here are lies and I simply will not stand for it. Tribalism and ethnicity has eaten deep into the bones of Nigerians. If the truth I speak sounds like insult to you then so be it
The article was actually written by Ikheloa Ikhide in 2011. Ikhide is a well known writer. I very much doubt that the OP (that is, the person that created this thread) is Ikhide Ikheloa.
The article went viral again yesterday because Ikhide shared it after the news of the arrest of the Invictus guy. Many news outlets and blogs have republished the article.
Ikhide has been attacking Chris Abani online for a long time.
It kind of reminds me of the battle between Professor Wole Soyinka and Professor Ali Mazrui in the 1990s.
12th AAG: Falconets thrash South Africa in Morocco
Nigeria kick started their All African Women’s football Games campaign with a 3-0 thrashing of Basetsana of South Africa at the Stade des Chenes in Rabat, Morocco.
The Falconets showed no mercy to their South African counterparts with a professional performance at the Stade Académie Mohammed VI on Saturday.
Monday Gift, Zainab Olapade and Cynthia Aku were on song for the Nigerian side.
The 2019 African Games women’s football tournament will be the 5th edition of the African Games women’s football tournament.
U20 national teams are allowed to take part in the tournament, with Nigeria drawn in Group B of the competition, to contend with Cameroon, South Africa and Zambia
greypencils: The Malians are taller than our girls and more physical. Same with the Senegalese. It will take something special to beat these two teams.
Draw for Africa's pre-qualifiers for the 2020 Olympic Games set in Dakar
DAKAR (Senegal) - Following the conclusion of Friday's FIBA Women's AfroBasket action, six teams have qualified for the continent pre-qualifiers of the 2020 Olympic Qualifying Tournament.
And as a result, FIBA Africa will host the six-nation pre-qualifiers draw on Saturday in the Senegalese capital of Dakar, ahead of the biennial championship final between Nigeria and Senegal.
Teams qualified include, reigning champions Nigeria, Senegal, Mali, Mozambique, Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The African pre-qualifiers for the Tokyo games will take place from November 14-17 at a country yet to be determined.
And the teams that finish in the first two places in Africa will then advance to the 16-nation FIBA Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament (WOQT) where teams will be divided into four tournaments (groups) in February 2020.
The top three teams from each of the three WOQTs will qualify for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
The pre-qualifiers for the Tokyo Games is part of a major FIBA's new qualifying system, which also changes the way of qualification for the next FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup.
Both the reigning Olympic champions USA and hosts Japan will take part in the new pre-olympic qualifiers.
Nigeria defeats Mali 79-58, Will Play Senegal in Afrobasket 2019 final.
Nigeria booked their slot in the Final and a chance to defend their title when they defeated Mali 79-58 in a one-sided match that saw D'Tigress maintain their unbeaten run at the biennial competition bringing their win ratio to 4-0.
Her big minutes were backed by good performances from captain Adaora Elonu, Evelyn Akhator and Atonye Nyingifa who added 13, 12 and 10 points for Nigeria. Akhator's 13 rebounds for a double double stood out tall as she dealt with the Malian duo of Meiya Tirera and Mariam Coulibaly to the core.
Tirera and Coulibaly themselves scored 14 and 10 points respectively while Djeneba N'Diaye scored 11 points for Mali but the Nigerians were too strong for them and indeed they ended their dream of winning yet another title in Dakar as they did in 2007.
Senegal survive Mozambique scare
Hosts Senegal overturned an 18 point deficit to overcome a strong Mozambique charge 60-57 to book their third straight Final at the FIBA Women's AfroBasket.
Senegal trailed 26-8 midway the second quarter and under immense pressure found themselves between a rock and a hard place as everything they threw at the basket found its way off the mark contrastingly to what Mozambique converted on every other possession.
A true test of Senegal's character that saw the fans drop their jaws at every turnover in absolute shock as their super stars showed signs of weakness in the face of their biggest test at home during this competition.
Senegal head coach Cheikh Sarr said in the post-match press conference that, "I had to shout out a little bit in the locker room at the half time break and bring the team together to play better defence and that helped us a lot."
A full court press strategy on defence and the high tension of the game, Senegal found themselves in foul trouble with their forwards Mame-Marie Sy-Diop and Maimouna Diarra registering four fouls each in the opening two minutes of the game meant that Sarr had to introduce his namesake Oumoul Khairy Sarr.
She did the dirty work in the paint against an unstoppable Leia Dongue who ultimately posted a double double 18 points and 10 rebounds as well as Tamara Seda who picked an incredible 14 rebounds and scored 11 points.
Senegal took their first lead in the game midway the last quarter 52-51 but in a game where the lead changed 12 times in the last five minutes does not even begin to describe the tension in the fully packed 15,000 seater Dakar Arena.
In the end, the hosts won the war to qualify for the Final but the battle awaits them on Sunday as they seek a record 13th African trophy.
Astou Traore as captain once again led from the front registering 16 points and grabing nine rebounds while Bintou Dieme and Sy-Diop added 10 and nine points in that order.
Fatou Babou Diagne continued on a shining run for a debutant recording nine rebounds and seven points to bring her average at the tournament to 11.3 rebounds and 9.3 points.
femeritus: I don't believe this story. The letter looks questionable to me.
It's on FIFA's website.
The FIFA statement.
Adjudicatory chamber of the independent Ethics Committee sanctions Samson Siasia
(FIFA.com) 16 Aug 2019
The adjudicatory chamber of the independent Ethics Committee has found Mr Samson Siasia, a former official of the Nigeria Football Federation, guilty of having accepted that he would receive bribes in relation to the manipulation of matches in violation of the FIFA Code of Ethics.
The formal ethics proceedings against Mr Siasia were initiated on 11 February 2019 and stem from an extensive investigation into matches that Mr Wilson Raj Perumal attempted to manipulate for betting purposes. This large-scale investigation was conducted by FIFA via its competent departments and in cooperation with the relevant stakeholders and authorities.
In its decision, the adjudicatory chamber found that Mr Siasia had breached art. 11 (Bribery) of the 2009 edition of the FIFA Code of Ethics and banned him for life from all football-related activities (administrative, sports or any other) at both national and international level. In addition, a fine in the amount of CHF 50,000 has been imposed on Mr Siasia.
The decision was notified to Mr Siasia today, the date on which the ban comes into force.
Politics › Re: Main Reason Why Ekweremadu Was Attacked? by naptu2: 6:43am On Aug 19, 2019
