₦airaland Forum

Rashidi Yekini (The Goalsfather)

Rashidi Yekini (born 23 October 1963) is a Nigerian retired footballer who played as a striker.

Yekini was born in Kaduna on October 23rd 1963. He started his career playing for United Nigeria Textile Limited (UNTL) in 1981-1982, before transferring to IICC Shooting Stars (1982-1984) and later Abiola Babes (1984-1987), two of the biggest clubs in the Nigerian league at that time. He was part of the IICC Shooting Stars team that won the national league in 1983. He was also part of the famous Abiola Babes team that got to 4 FA cup finals in a row, winning the cup in 1985.

In 1987 he moved to Africa Sports National in Ivory Coast. He played in the African Club Cup championship several times for Shooting Stars and Africa Sports. He played for Shooting Stars against Zamalek in the 1984 final. A memorable moment for me was when he played for Africa Sport against Iwuanyanwu Nationale in 1988. Iwuanyanwu’s goalkeeper was the legendary Edward Ansah, Ghana’s first choice keeper. Yekini fired one of his famous fierce shots, which lesser goalkeepers would have avoided. Not Ansah though, who actually made the save, but was prostrate on the pitch for almost 10 minutes for his troubles.

In 1990 he moved to Portugal, playing for Vitória de Setúbal, where he experienced his most memorable years. He succeeded Richard Owobokiri as the highest goal scorer in the Portuguese league (1993-1994 season) scoring 34 goals in 32 matches.

Yekini was selected for the Nigerian National team, the Green Eagles (later known as the Super Eagles), for the first time in 1984. He played in five nations cup tournaments, 1984, 1988, 1990, 1992 and 1994. He was the highest goal scorer at the 1992 (4 goals) and 1994 (5 goals) Nations Cup tournaments. He also played for Nigeria at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, South Korea and the 1994 and 1998 World Cups in the United States and France respectively.

His most prolific years in the national team were probably between 1991 - 1994. In 1993 he played a major role in qualifying Nigeria for the 1994 Nations cup and World Cup tournaments. Nigerians felt assured that win or lose, they would get at least one goal from Rashidi Yekini in any game he played in. He scored 4 goals in Nigeria’s 7-1 demolition of Burkina Faso at the National Stadium in Lagos on July 27 1991 in an African Nations Cup (Senegal ’92) qualifier. The game marked the debut of Finidi George who would become one of Yekini’s most consistent supplier of passes. He scored two goals in Nigeria’s 4-0 demolition of South Africa on October 10th 1992 at the National Stadium in Lagos. Samson Siasia sent a high ball to Yekini who did the impossible by controlling the ball in the air, bringing it down and firing it into the goal. The other two goals were scored by Richard Owobokiri and Samson Siasia. The game marked South Africa’s first competitive match after sanctions were lifted.

Yekini scored the only goal in Nigeria’s 1-0 defeat of Congo at the Stade Municipal, Pointe-Noire, Congo on December 12th 1992. The Eagles were attacked by angry Congolese after the match.

On May 2nd 1993, at the Stade Houphuet Boigny in Abidjan, Yekini scored in Nigeria’s 2-1 defeat at the hands of the Elephants of Ivory Coast. This game had a massive impact on the career of Samson Siasia. Rather than pass to Yekini, who was free, he attempted to score. A furious Clemens Westerhof decided to bench him after that and his replacement, Daniel Amokachi, grabbed his opportunity with both hands. Siasia was also in trouble at his club, Nantes, which didn’t want him to return to Africa for the game (there were no FIFA free days at the time). His replacement at Nantes, Japhet Ndoram, scored while Siasia was away on international duty and couldn’t stop scoring subsequently. Siasia ended up on the bench at both the Super Eagles and Nantes.Yekini also scored 2 goals in the return leg, which Nigeria won by 4-1.

At the African Nations cup in 1994, Yekini scored a wonder goal in the game against Zaire. Sunday Oliseh played a long ball from within Nigeria’s half, Yekini turned and chased the ball, lobbed it over the onrushing Zaire goalkeeper and after the ball had bounced once, headed it into the net. He took the final penalty in the epic game Nigeria vs Ivory Coast (probably the most exciting game of Tunisia ’94), winning the match for Nigeria. He was the first Nigerian to score a goal at the World Cup, when at the 21st minute in the game Bulgaria vs Nigeria at the Cotton Bowl Stadium, Dallas, Texas, Yekini tapped in a cross from Finidi George. Nigeria won the game by 3 goals to nil.

Yekini won the CAF African Player of the Year award (1993) for his exploits with Nigeria and Vitória de Setúbal, the first Nigerian player to win the award. Yekini was just two goals short of equalling the record of the highest goal scorer in Nations Cup history, when Nigeria boycotted the Nations Cup South Africa 1996. Many believe that he would have surpassed the record had Nigeria participated in the Nations Cup. He is currently the third highest goal scorer in Nations Cup history with 13 goals in 5 Nations Cup appearances. Only Laurent Poku (14 goals) and Samuel Eto’o (15 goals) have scored more goals.

Yekini is also the record goalscorer for the Nigerian national team, scoring 37 goals for Nigeria's national side in 58 appearances.

Yekini starred for Nigeria at the France 1998 world cup, but he was a shadow of his former self.

In the 1994 summer, Yekini was bought by Olympiacos FC, but did not get along with teammates and left. His career never really got back on track, not even upon a return to Setúbal, which happened after another unassuming spell, in La Liga with Sporting de Gijón. He successively played with FC Zürich, Club Athlétique Bizertin and Al-Shabab Riyadh, before rejoining Africa Sports. In 2003, at 39, he returned to the Nigerian championship with Julius Berger FC.

In 2005, 41-year old Yekini made a short comeback, moving alongside former national teammate Mobi Oparaku to Gateway FC.

Can anybody tell me what happened to Casino Cinema, Yaba Lagos, during the civil war?

[quote author=Musiwa,.]so you people were the one behind it.[/quote]

Raymond Njoku welcoming President Nnamdi Azikiwe (note that the president is carrying his bag by himself).

Facebook news feed post by: CNN International

------------------------

CNN International wrote:

UNICEF: 'We know famine is coming' http://on.cnn.com/HWWutD But will #SahelNOW capture the world’s attention the way #Kony2012 did?

Right, so i guess someone from JAMB is answering this question on this thread.

https://www.nairaland.com/907659/how-jamb-marks-utme-result

Probably we can direct our questions to him there.

Emylexray: source?

It was a documentary that was shown on the NTA around the time of the 2011 elections. What source are you looking for

Of course you can have 2 sets in one year, but

1) You would need more facilities (classes, labs, etc). That has always been a HUGE problem with Nigerian universities and polytechnics. (Try and find out the sitting arrangement in Nigerian schools before NUC imposed admission limits).

2) You'll need to change the school system (which we actually did twice: 1987 & 1991).

3) As Mynd said, more room for corruption.

They did a documentary about this during the 2011 elections. They compared INEC, WAEC and JAMB and showed how inefficient INEC was. WAEC and JAMB are able to distribute exam papers and collate results better than INEC using the same resources (Nigerian Airforce, etc) that INEC uses.

tboya1: i agree with you that WAEC is a certification exam ,Jamb is not no doubt about it . what law states that matriculation should be done once a year? and if you think about it well,i think it would have been better to do the certification once a year since its last a lifetime ,and allow the one with a limited life span to take place often.

It's the Nigerian system of education. When you matriculate you get into, for example, year 1 (100 level) economics class in Unilag. If you have 2 matriculation exams in a year, then you'll have 2 year 1 (100 level) economics classes (sets) in one year.

JAMB is a matriculation exam. It is not a certification exam like WAEC (WAEC exams occur twice a year). Matriculation occurs once a year in universities.

This is why you can gain admission into a university in 2012 with your WAEC result from 2003, but you can't gain admission into a university in 2012 with your JAMB result from 2003.

MuyiGL: It seems you have been out of Nigeria for about 4 or 5 years now. JAMB has for the last 4 years or so been releasing results in 3 days. It's not that hard. The esams are all multiple-choice and they use computer answer sheets. Hope you have your question answered?

Exactly! They are marked by computers, unlike WAEC exams that are marked by humans.

The poster "moneylove" uploaded an obscene picture on this thread https://www.nairaland.com/906842/senators-uncover-3b-fake-police that doesn't even have anything to do with the thread topic. Please delete the picture and ban the poster.

.

Colonel E.A Etuk (Utuk) and Major Ted Hamman.


Part 1 http://www.dawodu.com/omoigui24.htm

Part 2 http://www.dawodu.com/omoigui25.htm


Part 3 http://www.dawodu.com/omoigui26.htm

Part 4 http://www.dawodu.com/omoigui27.htm

Part 5 http://www.dawodu.com/omoigui28.htm

Part 6 http://www.dawodu.com/omoigui29.htm

Part 7 http://www.dawodu.com/omoigui30.htm
Part 8 http://www.dawodu.com/omoigui31.htm

Part 9 http://www.dawodu.com/omoigui32.htm


Part 10 http://www.dawodu.com/omoigui33.htm

Senators uncover N3b fake pension account.

By Onyedi Ojiabor and Kamarudeen Ogundele, Abuja

•Panel summons bank MDs

 

Another illegal police pension account with N3billion cash has been discovered.

The discovery, which was announced yesterday by the Senate Committee probing the management of the pension fund, deepens the scam in the pension system.

Permanent Secretary Atiku Abubakar Kigo and five other top civil servants are standing trial for the alleged theft and mismanagement of N32.8 billion police pension fund.

The Senate Committee said the account is with an old generation bank.

The N3 billion, the committee said, was deposited the same day the account was opened. 

The committee said its preliminary findings showed that the account did not have the blessing of the Accountant General of the Federation.

The committee said the questionable account was opened in the name of Adamu Salihu but with different codes.

Senator Aloysius Etok, head of the Joint Senate Committee on Establishment and Public Service and States and Local Government Administration, which is probing the fund, vowed to get to the root of the suspicious account.

Etok announced the invitation of Managing Directors of seven banks and the Chairman of Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC), Mr. Ibrahim Lamorde, to unravel the mystery behind the series of controversial accounts on the pension fund.

The banks whose chief executives were invited by the committee are First Bank, Union Bank, Zenith Bank, Diamond Bank, Fidelity Bank, GTB and Skye Bank.

The banks’ chiefs are expected to appear before the committee on April 16.

The Executive Director (North), United Bank for Africa (UBA), Mr. Dan Okeke, who appeared before the committee to clarify issues surrounding another pension account in his bank, noted that it was not possible for one account to bear two names.

Okeke also said it was not possible under normal circumstance for two persons to operate one account.

The bank official said there was approval before the account was opened but could not say if the approval was granted before or after the controversial account was opened. 

He urged the committee to give him time to fetch a copy of the approval letter for opening the account.

Okeke said: “It is highly unlikely for such to happen. If you let us have the specific case, we can go back and confirm, but under normal circumstance, two names are not supposed to bear same account number.”

Etok sought to know whether interest is paid on the account or not.

Okeke said UBA would not pay interest on such account, except it is a fixed deposit account.

He is to give the committee details of all the pension accounts of the police, Head of Service, Customs Service and others with his bank.

Kigo and five others standing trial over N32.8 billion Nigeria Police Pension Fund, got bail yesterday.

Also granted bail are a director, Esai Dangabar; Ahmed Inuwa Wada, John Yakubu Yusufu, Mrs. Veronica Ulonma Onyegbula and Sani Habila Zira.

They are facing a 16-count charge of criminal breach of trust slammed against them by the EFCC.

The alleged offence is punishable under Sections 97, 115 (ii), 119, 309 and 315 of the Penal Code Act Cap. 532 Laws of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, Nigeria 2007.

Justice Abubakar Talba granted them N10m bail each and two sureties each in the like sum. The sureties must be residents of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). One of them must be a civil servant not below Grade level 14.

Ruling on the bail application argued by Chief Adegboyega Awomolo (SAN), Justice Talba agreed that the court has discretion to admit the accused persons to bail.

The court after weighing the balance of convenience, decided that the accused persons are presumed innocent until proven otherwise.

The Judge disagreed with the EFCC’s claim that investigation into the case had not been concluded and also dispelled insinuations that the accused will interfere with the trial.

According to him, with the proof of evidence placed before the court, it is presumed that investigation had been done.

Awomolo urged the court to grant the accused bail on the grounds that they did not abuse the administrative bail granted them by the anti-graft agency before being brought to court.

But EFCC counsel Mr. Rotimi Jacob argued that the accused failed to place enough material before the court to enable it exercise its discretion in their favour.

The accused, between January 2009 and June 2011 in Abuja, allegedly diverted N14,518,567,724, being part of the police pension fund from an account domiciled at First Bank Plc.

 Between January and December 2009 in Abuja, they also allegedly breached the public trust with N8,920,371,822 police pension fund kept at First Bank Plc.

 The charge sheet also indicated that between January 2010 and February 2011, also in Abuja, they diverted N4,739,894,896 police fund and another N858,301,006 between February and June 2011.

They were also accused of stealing N656,559,289 in January 2011 while in March 2009 another N462,963,012 was allegedly diverted from the same source while working at the police  pension office among others.

The case has been adjourned till April 28 for trial

http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/index.php/news/41999-senators-uncover-n3b-fake-pension-account.html

Facebook news feed link by: CNN African Voices

------------------------

CNN African Voices shared the following link and had this to say about it:

We are in Chad covering this story, as we work on an upcoming African Voices.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRg9izN6T3s&feature=youtu.be

Right now in the Sahel, the lives of one million children hang in the balance. Crops have failed in eight drought-hit countries, leaving families with almost...

Facebook news feed link by: CNN iReport

------------------------

CNN iReport shared the following link and had this to say about it:

It's amazing to see all the stories that continue to pour into iReport about life with autism, from all over the spectrum. We've heard inspiring testimonials from high-functioning adults, and watched heart-breaking footage from families who say there's nothing positive about this disease. We hope you'll take a minute to hear some of them. In this video, an 8-year-old boy talks about his life -- and his plans to become "really famous." http://on.cnn.com/H9P2AN

http://on.cnn.com/H9P2AN

For World Autism Awareness Day I decided to interview an expert in autism...my 8 year old son Jacob.

The US has got even more untapped oil in the nature reserves of Alaska.

Tower Fernandez

[quote author=Sam_Ikenna]What happened to the fellow above, was he mentioned in error in the post?[/quote]Sir Ahmadu Bello was the Sardauna of Sokoto. His cousin Sir Siddiq Abubakar III was Sultan of Sokoto between 1903–1988 (there are rumours that Ahmadu Bello envied his cousin and longed to be sultan).

Sir Siddiq Abubakar III was Sultan of Sokoto between 1903–1988

I read that story in my primary school textbook. Nostalgia.

THANK GOD! THANK GOD! THANK GOD! It's not perfect, but Thank God!

THANK GOD! THANK GOD! THANK GOD! It's not perfect, but Thank God!

I just saw one of iice's old posts...I couldn't read a thing! What'll happen to posts in pink or red coloured fonts? They've suddenly become unreadable.

There are 3 colour types: bright, dark and soft. It's important to blend them properly. You could damage people's eyes if you use predominantly bright colours or dark colours. It'd be much better if you use, say 70% soft colours, 20% dark colours and 10% bright colours.

It's also important that you contrast the colours properly.

The old scheme was getting better before the change today.

He needs to learn how to blend dark, bright and soft colours. He was just getting it right before this bizarre change today.

You can't have all dark colours or all bright colours. It'll hurt people's eyes. You need, say, 70% soft colours, 20% dark colours and 10% bright colours. And you need to know how to contrast them.

What just happened The colours are awful! Is this an April fool's joke? The contrast! The contrast! The contrast!

Gosh! The colours are awful!

What just happened The colours are awful! Is this an April fools joke?