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David Alaba- It’s Fake News! Nigerian U-17 Coaches Never Demanded Money From Me

Oma Akatugba

POSTED ON MAY 11, 2019

David Alaba* Bayern Munich left back and Austrian international, David Alaba has tagged reports of Nigerian U-17 coaches demanding bribe from his as ‘FAKE’. Alaba, in an exclusive interview with OmaSport said the news is unsubstantiated and false. When quizzed on the veracity of the now viral report, fast making the rounds, Alaba who is on the cusp of earning his 8th league title with the Bavarians said;

‘No! They didn’t demand money from me. It’s fake news.”

Recall that reports on Nigerian locals had flown round about cadet coaches demanding money from Alaba to make him represent the U-17 national team in the 2007 U-17 World Cup.

Just2endowed2:
Pls any link to watch the match..... Ma get joy small

Lovexme:
Make una drop link na.

Amuluonyenaego:
can't view with gotv, which channel pls

Lifestone:
The video of his interview, he showed great interest in Nollywood

Lifestone:
Did you watch the video?

Gistpeeps:
Veteran Filmmaker, Eddie Ugbomah, is dead. The veteran filmmaker died an hour ago at the hospital where he was scheduled to undergo a surgery on Monday.

Chief Eddie Ugbomah has directed and produced films such as the Rise and Fall of Oyenusi in 1979, The Boy is Good and Apalara, a film about the life and murder of Alfa Apalara in Oko Awo, Lagos.

https://www.everyvibes.com.ng/2019/05/Filmmaker-Eddie-Ugbomah-Is-Dead.html

WAFU Cup: Super Falcons determined to sweep aside Niger

African champions Nigeria intend to take all their opportunities when they clash with the senior women team of Niger Republic in Abidjan on Saturday in order to seal a place in the WAFU Women’s Cup Tournament.

The Nigeriens are the standout whipping team of Group B after a 10-0 bashing in the hands of Mali on Thursday evening, just after the Falcons thrashed Burkina Faso’s girls 5-1 at the same Parc des Sports in Treichville.

Former junior international Uchenna Kanu bagged a hat-trick, and was named Woman-of-the-Match. The Burkinabes prosecuted most of the encounter with 10 players after Salimata Simpore was sent off in the 16th minute for the foul that led to the first penalty kick.

Saturday’s clash should be even easier for the nine –time African champions, but they are determined not to take anything for granted as football has continued to prove to be unpredictable.

“We want not just to win, but to win well so that we quickly seal a place in the quarter finals,” said Captain Evelyn Nwabuoku.

A high –score win on Saturday will earn the Falcons an early ticket into the semi finals, take confidence to maximum level and set them in good mood for the concluding stages of the of the sub-regional championship. 

Against the Burkinabes, Uchenna Kanu opened scoring as early as the eighth minute, before Captain Nwabuoku and Amarachi Okoronkwo converted penalty kicks. Kanu scored two more goals in the second period before Charlotte Milogo pulled one back for Burkina Faso.

After Saturday’s clash with the Nigeriens, the FIFA World Cup –bound Falcons will tackle high –scoring Mali on Tuesday evening. 

According to the team’s programme, the Falcons will fly out of Nigeria to Austria on 21st May, where they will spend two weeks at the world –renown Avita Resort in Bad Tatzmannsdorf perfecting strategies for the 8th FIFA Women’s World Cup finals. They will arrive in France on 4th June.

At the World Cup finals, holding 7th June – 7th July, the African champions will file out against Norway in Reims on 8th June, take on Korea Republic in Grenoble on 12th June and tango with host nation France in Rennes on 17th June.

Nigeria 5-1 Burkina Faso: Uchenna Kanu's hat-trick gets Super Falcons off to flying start

Thomas Dennerby's ladies kicked off their outing on a good note with the 21-year-old's treble on Thursday

Uchenna Kanu struck a hat-trick as Nigeria got their Wafu Women's Cup outing off to a flying start with a 5-1 win over 10-player Burkina Faso in Abidjan on Thursday.

After failing to clinch the title last year, the Super Falcons were able to record a winning start this time against the Burkina Babes.

Kanu opened the scoring for Thomas Dennerby's side when she headed home a cross from Alice Ogebe in the ninth minute.

In the 16th minute, Burkina Faso's Salimata Simpore got sent off for a foul in the box and captain Evelyn Nwabouku doubled the lead from the spot for Nigeria.

Four minutes later, Kanu was brought down in the penalty area and Amarachi Okonkwowasted no chance to extend the lead.  

Three minutes after the restart, the Southeastern University striker Kanu netted to put Nigeria 4-0 up before scoring her third of the match in the 73rd minute.

In the last 15 minutes, the Burkina Babes improved and Charlotte Milligo's header gave them a consolation goal in the 79th minute.

Hat-trick heroine Kanu was awarded the Woman-of-the-Match award after capping her impressive display with her first treble for the Super Falcons.

The win takes Nigeria to second of Group B with three points and they will face Niger in their second match of the competition on Saturday.

Nigeria escalates fight over oil block granted to Eni and Shell

Government seeks damages and considers revoking licence for prized exploration asset

Neil Munshi in Abuja and Anjli Raval in London

5 HOURS AGO


Nigeria is seeking damages as well as a declaration that it has the right to revoke the licence for a multibillion-dollar oil block granted to Royal Dutch Shell and Eni, in an escalation of a long-running dispute between Africa’s largest crude producer and two of its biggest foreign investors.

The government “seeks to trace and recover the money paid as bribes” and an entitlement “to rescind the grant of the OPL 245 licence”, a prized exploration and production block that Shell and Eni bought in a 2011 deal, the government said in a legal claim filed in April.

The Anglo-Dutch and Italian companies paid $1.3bn for the block, but Nigeria believes the undeveloped deepwater block could be worth at least $3.5bn and damages should now be calculated on that basis, documents filed in the commercial division of the High Court in London said.


The claim in the English courts alleges that Shell and Eni “both paid bribes” either directly or indirectly and senior executives at both companies “received bribes (or were intended to receive bribes)” as part of the 2011 deal.

Nigerian and Italian prosecutors have alleged that the companies knew that most of the money would be funnelled to corrupt government officials and executives. Both companies, current and former executives deny any wrongdoing.

In his first comments since the documents were released by the court, Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu, Nigeria’s minister of state for petroleum, said the government was simply keeping all options open.

“If we come back and find that the parties were not transparent, and this wasn’t awarded transparently, then obviously the government has an option to decide to pull that [licence] back,” he said.

Mr Kachikwu said the government was focused on reaching a resolution to the dispute. “The participants in this are long-term investors in Nigeria, and they have other investments, and they’re running businesses here,” he said. “So it’s not like we’re chasing them out.”

The attorney-general’s office, which has been in charge of the government’s legal claim, has taken a more aggressive stance saying the 2011 deal was “part of a fraudulent and corrupt scheme” involving the transfer of funds through a local oil company.


OLP 245 was passed back and forth between Shell and Nigerian group Malabu, backed by former oil minister Dan Etete, who first awarded rights for it in 1998 when he was also petroleum minister.

It is at the centre of a Milan corruption trial where prosecutors have alleged bribes of $1.1bn out of the $1.3bn deal were paid to secure the block and settle a multiyear battle over its ownership.

In the Milan case, current and former managers of both companies — including Eni’s current chief executive Claudio Descalzi and Shell’s former head of exploration and production Malcolm Brinded — are facing charges of international corruption.

The international energy majors have said their transaction was legitimate and sanctioned by the government, and that they played no part in what happened to the money afterwards.

Shell said the deal was “fully legal”.

Eni emphasised the “correctness and compliance of every aspect of the transaction”, while adding that the case was a duplication of the one in Milan. It added: “We are unclear on the legal basis or ground for a UK court to deal with an executive decision by a sovereign government.”

Lawyers for Mr Etete have denied any wrongdoing.

In a separate case in London, Nigeria is suing JPMorgan Chase, alleging that the bank enabled the misappropriation of $845m in state funds related to OPL 245 via transfers from Malabu accounts. The bank denies any wrongdoing. Additional reporting by Jane Croft

Octopusssy:
It has been long we heard from her colleague, that fair complexioned muscular lady with buttocks hard enough to break coconuts (she said so herself). I forget her name

naptu2:
Desire Oparanozie's rocket goal against Paris FC has been voted the goal of the month for February by readers of international women's football website Women's Soccer United.

Here's a video of the goal.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaI0CzBQkYY

And here's a link to the previous thread about the goal.

https://www.nairaland.com/4363721/video-pictures-desire-oparanozies-rocket


https://mobile.twitter.com/WomensSoccerUtd/status/974692550085931008