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Ishilove:
Smarty pants

Okay dear, I've noted, although there seems to be an upsurge in useless 'news' since the advent of social media and blogs.

One man's "useless" is another man's "useful". That's why it's good that you can now pick and choose the news that you consume.

Konquest: You might also be interested in this. Ireti Doyle says that Joke Silva's performance in Mind Bending inspired her to want to be an actress.

Then, there was Mind Bending, a TV series produced by Lola Fani Kayode, which starred Joke Silva at the time. There was a particular scene where ‘Aunty J’ took me through an emotional journey. I looked on so steadily at her, as she tugged at all my emotions. After that scene, I knew that was what I wanted to do. It may sound weird, but it was a light bulb moment for me.

http://sunnewsonline.com/i-spent-15-years-learning-the-art-of-acting-ireti-doyle/

Ishilove:
Must everything find it's way to blogs? Bloggers play a big part in the rottenness of today's generation

This is not the fault of bloggers. He is (1) a celebrity and (2) he is doing something unusual, so therefore this is legitimate news. This story was on most of the biggest international news outlets.

BBC
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/46295919


Sports Illustrated
https://www.si.com/soccer/2018/11/21/patrick-evra-thanksgiving-raw-turkey-instagram-video


Daily Mail
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-6415013/Patrice-Evra-horrifies-pretty-Thanksgiving-video.html

Bleacher Report
https://twitter.com/brfootball/status/1065295075528400896

etc.


(From my memory. I hope I remember correctly)

Many centuries ago at a “Writing For Mass Media” class:

”What is news?

1) An account of unusual events in society (e.g. It might not be news if a dog bites a man, but it is news if a man bites a dog).

2) It is information about well-known people in society (what they do, where they go to, who they are with, etc.). These “well-known people” are the “newsmakers”, e.g. politicians, sports and entertainment celebrities, etc.

3) It is information that affects a lot of people in society (e.g. JAMB result has been released, there’s an Ebola outbreak, or there is a curfew).

4) It is recent and useful information, e.g. new ways to protect your car from armed robbers, etc.

5) (This is my favourite) News is news is news is news.

I wrote this yesterday.

naptu2:
I'm not giving up hope, because we've been here before.

We had a terrible preparation for the 1990 Nations Cup in Algeria. Back then, there was no FIFA rule that mandated clubs to release their players and so most of our foreign based professionals refused to play at the Nations Cup.

Stephen Keshi was our captain, but he was also a very important player for Anderlecht at the time. He was in a dilemma. He had an idea and he made an offer. He said that he could rent a private jet that would fly him to Algeria for the Eagles' matches and fly him back to Belgium for his club's games. Westerhof obviously rejected the offer, so Keshi was out of the squad.

We took a home based team to the Nations Cup. If I remember correctly, Andrew Uweh and Friday Elaho were the only Europe based players in our squad.

Our first match was against the hosts, Algeria. Algeria’s captain was Rabah Madjer and he was probably the biggest African superstar at that time. The Algerians trashed us 5-1. Rabah Madjer scored 2 of the goals (I still hate him till this day) and Emmanuel Okocha (Jay Jay’s elder brother) scored our only goal.

People criticised the team and Coach Westerhof (who was relatively new at that time). The team picked itself up, talked to themselves, motivated themselves and Yekini became our savour. Yekini was playing for Africa Sports of Ivory Coast at that time, so he could attend the Nations Cup.

Yekini scored the only goal as we defeated Egypt in the second match. He scored the only goal again as we defeated Ivory Coast in our third match and we thus qualified for the semi-final.

Yekini was not done. He scored again in the semi-final and Uche Okechukwu added another goal to help us defeat Zambia 0-2.

We ended up playing Algeria again in the final and we lost 1-0, but Nigerians were satisfied that the Eagles had improved greatly after the humiliation of the first game.

Hopefully, the story will be the same with the Falcons and they will overcome their poor preparation to win the tournament and qualify for the World Cup.


Algeria 1990 first match.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9suU5kUILm8

Algeria 1990 final

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJiqZ5RZQZU

Samunique:
Kick off time ?

4:30pm

Players and officials of the Super Eagles of Nigeria and the Cranes of Uganda slugged it out on the dance floor yesterday night at a reception organised by Governor Okowa of Delta State. Providing the music was Paul Okoye (RudeBoySquare) of PSquare.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVzADhnJ5Pw

Wow! Mali defeated Ghana 1-2!


Meanwhile, Gabrielle Aboudi Onguene contonues from where she stopped two years ago. She has just scored for Cameroon against Algeria.

I'm not giving up hope, because we've been here before.

We had a terrible preparation for the 1990 Nations Cup in Algeria. Back then, there was no FIFA rule that mandated clubs to release their players and so most of our foreign based professionals refused to play at the Nations Cup.

Stephen Keshi was our captain, but he was also a very important player for Anderlecht at the time. He was in a dilemma. He had an idea and he made an offer. He said that he could rent a private jet that would fly him to Algeria for the Eagles' matches and fly him back to Belgium for his club's games. Westerhof obviously rejected the offer, so Keshi was out of the squad.

We took a home based team to the Nations Cup. If I remember correctly, Andrew Uweh and Friday Elaho were the only Europe based players in our squad.

Our first match was against the hosts, Algeria. Algeria’s captain was Rabah Madjer and he was probably the biggest African superstar at that time. The Algerians trashed us 5-1. Rabah Madjer scored 2 of the goals (I still hate him till this day) and Emmanuel Okocha (Jay Jay’s elder brother) scored our only goal.

People criticised the team and Coach Westerhof (who was relatively new at that time). The team picked itself up, talked to themselves, motivated themselves and Yekini became our savour. Yekini was playing for Africa Sports of Ivory Coast at that time, so he could attend the Nations Cup.

Yekini scored the only goal as we defeated Egypt in the second match. He scored the only goal again as we defeated Ivory Coast in our third match and we thus qualified for the semi-final.

Yekini was not done. He scored again in the semi-final and Uche Okechukwu added another goal to help us defeat Zambia 0-2.

We ended up playing Algeria again in the final and we lost 1-0, but Nigerians were satisfied that the Eagles had improved greatly after the humiliation of the first game.

Hopefully, the story will be the same with the Falcons and they will overcome their poor preparation to win the tournament and qualify for the World Cup.


Algeria 1990 first match.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9suU5kUILm8

Algeria 1990 final

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJiqZ5RZQZU

I'm not giving up hope, because we've been here before.

We had a terrible preparation for the 1990 Nations Cup in Algeria. Back then, there was no FIFA rule that mandated clubs to release their players and so most of our foreign based professionals refused to play at the Nations Cup.

Stephen Keshi was our captain, but he was also a very important player for Anderlecht at the time. He was in a dilemma. He had an idea and he made an offer. He said that he could rent a private jet that would fly him to Algeria for the Eagles' matches and fly him back to Belgium for his club's games. Westerhof obviously rejected the offer, so Keshi was out of the squad.

We took a home based team to the Nations Cup. If I remember correctly, Andrew Uweh and Friday Elaho were the only Europe based players in our squad.

Our first match was against the hosts, Algeria. Algeria’s captain was Rabah Madjer and he was probably the biggest African superstar at that time. The Algerians trashed us 5-1. Rabah Madjer scored 2 of the goals (I still hate him till this day) and Emmanuel Okocha (Jay Jay’s elder brother) scored our only goal.

People criticised the team and Coach Westerhof (who was relatively new at that time). The team picked itself up, talked to themselves, motivated themselves and Yekini became our savour. Yekini was playing for Africa Sports of Ivory Coast at that time, so he could attend the Nations Cup.

Yekini scored the only goal as we defeated Egypt in the second match. He scored the only goal again as we defeated Ivory Coast in our third match and we thus qualified for the semi-final.

Yekini was not done. He scored again in the semi-final and Uche Okechukwu added another goal to help us defeat Zambia 0-2.

We ended up playing Algeria again in the final and we lost 1-0, but Nigerians were satisfied that the Eagles had improved greatly after the humiliation of the first game.

Hopefully, the story will be the same with the Falcons and they will overcome their poor preparation to win the tournament and qualify for the World Cup.


Algeria 1990 first match.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9suU5kUILm8

Algeria 1990 final

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJiqZ5RZQZU

I'm not giving up hope, because we've been here before.

We had a terrible preparation for the 1990 Nations Cup in Algeria. Back then, there was no FIFA rule that mandated clubs to release their players and so most of our foreign based professionals refused to play at the Nations Cup.

Stephen Keshi was our captain, but he was also a very important player for Anderlecht at the time. He was in a dilemma. He had an idea and he made an offer. He said that he could rent a private jet that would fly him to Algeria for the Eagles' matches and fly him back to Belgium for his club's games. Westerhof obviously rejected the offer, so Keshi was out of the squad.

We took a home based team to the Nations Cup. If I remember correctly, Andrew Uweh and Friday Elaho were the only Europe based players in our squad.

Our first match was against the hosts, Algeria. Algeria’s captain was Rabah Madjer and he was probably the biggest African superstar at that time. The Algerians trashed us 5-1. Rabah Madjer scored 2 of the goals (I still hate him till this day) and Emmanuel Okocha (Jay Jay’s elder brother) scored our only goal.

People criticised the team and Coach Westerhof (who was relatively new at that time). The team picked itself up, talked to themselves, motivated themselves and Yekini became our savour. Yekini was playing for Africa Sports of Ivory Coast at that time, so he could attend the Nations Cup.

Yekini scored the only goal as we defeated Egypt in the second match. He scored the only goal again as we defeated Ivory Coast in our third match and we thus qualified for the semi-final.

Yekini was not done. He scored again in the semi-final and Uche Okechukwu added another goal to help us defeat Zambia 0-2.

We ended up playing Algeria again in the final and we lost 1-0, but Nigerians were satisfied that the Eagles had improved greatly after the humiliation of the first game.

Hopefully, the story will be the same with the Falcons and they will overcome their poor preparation to win the tournament and qualify for the World Cup.


Algeria 1990 first match.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9suU5kUILm8

Algeria 1990 final

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJiqZ5RZQZU

3 Live Chicks

Tosyn Bucknor, Oreka Godis and Omalicha (formerly Toke Makinwa).


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1rlJRNPmZA

So sad. I remember when she co-hosted the Fanta show with Lakeside on Cool FM in the early 2000s. She was still in Unilag at the time.

Rest in peace.

Tosyn Bucknor's Tedx talk


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM4-ANddP8s

Mace0lane:
Very funny, even a mad man from birth knows that is one hopeless Igbo masquerading as a fool like many bigoted Biafrans. They stink of nothing but cheer bigotry hate n disdain. I know cos I can sniff them light years away.

Isn't she the one that caused controversy in 2015?


She's the one!


She made a lot of fantastic claims before during and after the 2015 elections.


Buhari's Daughter Allegedly Walks Lady Out Of Boutique In Abuja
https://www.nairaland.com/2356041/buharis-daughter-allegedly-walks-lady

She continued trending until 2016. She always had a fantastic story to tell and many people on Twitter thought that her stories were made up in order to attract attention (for political purposes).

Girl Who Paid For Her Fiance's M.sc Cusses Him Out As He Marries Someone Else
https://www.nairaland.com/3361933/girl-paid-fiances-m.sc-cusses

She went quiet in 2016. Now it's election season and she's back!

Super Falcons captain, Onome Ebi has apologised to Nigerians for the loss against South Africa yesterday. She apologised at a media conference at the team’s base in Ghana today. She said the following at the press conference.

First, I want to say to Nigerians, we are sorry for the loss yesterday. The players are down. . .the players were down, but now, I think, we’ve motivated ourselves. We’ve spoken to ourselves and, em, we know the reason why we are here. We are not here to lose. We are here to retain our trophy and qualify for the World Cup. So, I want to assure Nigerians, they should not give up on us. They should keep praying for us, because we are not leaving here without the cup

Watch a video of the press conference here

In a press conference at team's base today, Monday in Elmina, our captain @EBIONOME told media :"We are sorry (for the loss to South Africa). We were down but not out...we're not leaving here without the trophy." #TotalAWCON18 #SoarSuperFalcons #Team9jaStrong @thenff @CAF_AWCON pic.twitter.com/KUCbWLijd1

— NGSuper_Falcons (@NGSuper_Falcons) November 19, 2018

From left to right: Rasheedat Ajibade, Rita Chikwelu (vice-captain), Thomas Dennerby (coach), Onome Ebi (captain) and Asisat Oshoala at the media conference.

Konquest:
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Hello @Naptu2

Where is Lola Fani-Kayode [Nigeria's FIRST female TV soap opera
producer of "Mirror in the Sun," and the very professionally produced
TV classic "Mind Bending" featuring Joke Silva] right now?

I wonder what she is doing since I'm aware she is NOT dead yet!
I Read today as well that she got married to an actor by the name
Wale Macaulay a couple of years back.

I have been having occasional recalls of her and decided to use the internet
today to find out and your post on NL popped up. I think her excellent
production - "Mind Bending" which ran in the late 1980s should be shown
on TV again. I loved the production because of the crystal-clear quality
and the awesome story line...



Shockingly, this is what I found in her Wikipedia entry.
It is a very, very short. I was expecting something more
robust than this in her entry!

==>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lola_Fani-Kayode


I also found this family lineage information on her
cousin's Website [Femi Fani-Kayode's Website] below:
==>http://www.femifanikayode.org/lineage/


P.S: Also found this info online:

Lola Fani Kayode, writer of Mirror in the Sun, a Nigerian soap opera, and Amaka Igwe,
late movie producer and director, were profiled in 'Ladies Calling the Shots', a
book on female film directors in Nigeria.

The book, written by Niran Adedokun, a Lagos based lawyer and writer, will be launched
on November 13 in Lagos, at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, on Victoria Island.

Source: https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2018/09/21/female-talents-are-still-calling-the-shots/


P.P.S:
Mabel Akomu Oboh is also the SECOND female producer in Nigeria after Lola Fani-Kayode who did Mirror in the Sun.
Victims later took over from Mirror in the Sun in the ‘80s.
Source: http://sunnewsonline.com/men-were-my-greatest-headache-as-broadcaster/

By the way, there are clips of Mirror In The Sun on NTA2 Channel 5's YouTube channel.

Konquest:
^^^^^
^^^^^
Hello @Naptu2

Where is Lola Fani-Kayode [Nigeria's first female TV soap opera
producer of "Mirror in the Sun," and the very professionally produced
TV classic "Mind Bending" featuring Joke Silva] right now?

I wonder what she is doing since I'm aware she is NOT dead yet!
I Read today as well that she got married to an actor by the name
Wale Macaulay a couple of years back.

I have been having occasional recalls of her and decided to use the internet
today to find out and your post on NL popped up.



Shockingly, this is what I found in her Wikipedia entry.
It is a very, very short. I was expecting something more
robust than this in her entry!

==>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lola_Fani-Kayode


I also found this information on her cousin's
Website [Femi Fani-Kayode' Website] below:
==>http://www.femifanikayode.org/lineage/


P.S: Also found this on info online:

Lola Fani Kayode, writer of Mirror in the Sun, a Nigerian soap opera, and Amaka Igwe,
late movie producer and director, were profiled in 'Ladies Calling the Shots', a book on
female film directors in Nigeria.

The book, written by Niran Adedokun, a Lagos based lawyer and writer, will be launched
on November 13 in Lagos, at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, on Victoria Island.

Source: https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2018/09/21/female-talents-are-still-calling-the-shots/

I think she's in the UK. She was involved in a programme that aired on BBC World Service Radio in the mid 2000s and I think she now works with the BBC.

COOL10:
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I still don't understand how a very talented player in Sophia Omidiji didn't make the final team. Any reasonable explanation for this?

In my view, everything boils down to us not playing enough friendlies. Nigeria has a lot of very talented female footballers. That includes both the players that are in Ghana and those that are not in Ghana (Courtney Dike, Ini Umotong, Sophia Omidiji, Folashade Ijamilusi, etc), but you can never say if they can fit into the team properly or if they are in form unless you see them play a grade A match.


South Africa played a lot of friendlies in the last 2 years and they used a lot of players in those games. This includes their established stars and players from their junior teams. This enabled them to pick the best group of players for the tournament.


Our first team did not even play throughout 2017! In my view, we only played 3 top class games in the past 2 years, the friendly against France and the two games against Gambia. How can we succeed with that kind of preparation?

South African captain, Janine Van Wyk, celebrating the fact that they were going to play a friendly against Sweden (they actually played 2 friendlies against Sweden, home and away). The Super Falcons page complained that Nigeria was not doing anything. Asisiat Oshoala hit up Ghanaian captain, Elizabeth Addo (amapele10) to find out if they were in the same situation. Elizabeth Addo said that they were going to play France (I thought that she was joking, but they did indeed play France. I think that Oshoala also thought that she was joking, because she joked that we are playing Germany).

The Super Falcons Predicted This

The Super Falcons complained about the way that they were being treated last year (see screenshots below) and I created a thread about it.


Since then, the full national team have only played a match against France (in which they lost 8-0) and two qualifying matches against Gambia.

Meanwhile, Ghana and South Africa have been playing against Sweden, France, Kenya, Chile and against each other.