The Best FIFA Football Awards 2024 nominees announced
Published 29 Nov 2024
Football fans from across the globe can now cast their votes in a host of categories, including The Best FIFA Men's 11 and The Best FIFA Women's 11.
🔴Voting is now open for the ninth edition of The Best FIFA Football Awards™
🔴Fans can vote for The Best FIFA Men’s 11 and The Best FIFA Women’s 11 for first time
🔴New FIFA Marta Award added to celebrate the best goal in women’s football
FIFA has announced the shortlist of nominees for The Best FIFA Football Awards™ 2024, which will recognise the leading lights in another thrilling year of women’s and men’s football at both club and national-team levels.
Voting is now open on FIFA.com across a number of award categories, with fans set to play a key role in choosing the winners. Voting for The Best FIFA Men’s Player, The Best FIFA Women’s Player, The Best FIFA Men’s Coach, The Best FIFA Women’s Coach, The Best FIFA Men’s Goalkeeper and The Best FIFA Women’s Goalkeeper will be equally weighted between fans, the current captains and coaches of all women’s/men’s national teams, and media representatives.
The winner of the FIFA Fan Award will be chosen entirely by fans, while the recipient of the FIFA Fair Play Award will be decided by an expert panel. Voting for the new FIFA Marta Award and the FIFA Puskás Award will be split equally between fans and a panel of FIFA Legends.
The biggest change in terms of voting for this year’s edition of The Best FIFA Football Awards is that fans will have their say in selecting The Best FIFA Men’s 11 and The Best FIFA Women’s 11. They will be able to choose from a list of 77 nominated players – 22 defenders, midfielders and forwards apiece, plus 11 goalkeepers – slotting them into one of several preset tactical formations to build their team. Votes will be weighted equally between fans and an expert panel.
The FIFA Puskás Award has been redefined as being bestowed on the scorer of the best goal in men’s football regardless of championship or nationality. To honour the best goal scored in women’s football in any league around the world, the FIFA Marta Award, named after the Brazilian legend, will be presented for the very first time.
Voting is open on FIFA.com until 23:59 CET on Tuesday, 10 December 2024. The rules of allocation for all awards are available at the FIFA Digital Hub.
The constitution states that local governments are in charge of markets.
A local government got a developer to build a segment of a market. The developer died while the market was still under construction. The local government named the market in honour of the developer.
Later some people began calling the market a different name.
The local government chairman inaugurated a new management of the market and he informed them of the original name of the market and that the local government voted that the market should be referred to by its original name, yet some people are frothing at the mouth, why?
CONSTITUTION OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA (1999).
Fourth Schedule
Functions of a Local Government Council
1. The main functions of a local government council are as follows:
(a) the consideration and the making of recommendations to a State commission on economic planning or any similar body on -
(i) the economic development of the State, particularly in so far as the areas of authority of the council and of the State are affected, and
(ii) proposals made by the said commission or body;
(b) collection of rates, radio and television licences;
(c) establishment and maintenance of cemeteries, burial grounds and homes for the destitute or infirm;
(d) licensing of bicycles, trucks (other than mechanically propelled trucks), canoes, wheel barrows and carts;
(e) establishment, maintenance and regulation of slaughter houses, slaughter slabs, markets, motor parks and public conveniences;
(f) construction and maintenance of roads, streets, street lightings, drains and other public highways, parks, gardens, open spaces, or such public facilities as may be prescribed from time to time by the House of Assembly of a State;
(g) naming of roads and streets and numbering of houses;
(h) provision and maintenance of public conveniences, sewage and refuse disposal;
(i) registration of all births, deaths and marriages;
(j) assessment of privately owned houses or tenements for the purpose of levying such rates as may be prescribed by the House of Assembly of a State; and
(k) control and regulation of -
(i) out-door advertising and hoarding,
(ii) movement and keeping of pets of all description,
(iii) shops and kiosks,
(iv) restaurants, bakeries and other places for sale of food to the public,
(v) laundries, and
(vi) licensing, regulation and control of the sale of liquor.
2. The functions of a local government council shall include participation of such council in the Government of a State as respects the following matters -
a. the provision and maintenance of primary, adult and vocational education;
(b) the development of agriculture and natural resources, other than the exploitation of materials
(c) the provision and maintenance of health services; and
(d) such other functions as may be conferred on a local government council by the House of Assembly of the State.
THE NAME OF OUR MARKET IS PARAMO INTERNATIONAL SPARE PARTS MARKET, NOT AGUIYI IRONSI - The Executive Chairman of Mushin Local Government, Hon. Emmanuel Bamigboye
Jubril A. Gawat @Mr_JAGs
UPDATE: The Executive Chairman of Mushin Local Government, Hon. Emmanuel Bamigboye @HonEOBamigboye, has re-affirmed PARAMO International Spare Parts Market as the original name of one of the market segments at Ladipo market in Mushin.
Speaking during a briefing with members of the newly constituted board of the market, the council boss confirmed that the name; PARAMO is in honour of the late developer of the market, Alhaji Hassan Olajoku, who constructed the market through his company "Paramo Development Ventures Limited" in 2002.
The complex is opposite Dodan Barracks (the army barracks), State House Dodan Barracks (the Presidency) and it is beside Voice of Nigeria (the international radio station) and Ikoyi Cemetery.
Broadcasting House, Ikoyi is a historically significant complex on Ikoyi Road in Old Ikoyi. It is called Broadcasting House, but it is actually a complex of many buildings.
Broadcasting House, Ikoyi was established in 1950 when the Radio Redifusion Service became the Nigerian Broadcasting Service (NBS), later known as the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation (NBC).
Professor Wole Soyinka, Professor Chinua Achebe, Cyprian Ekwensi, Uche Chukwumerije and other famous personalities worked here in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Wole Soyinka said that he hated the Lagos traffic, so he used to drive to Unilag and then take a canoe to Broadcasting House and then a canoe back to Unilag when he had finished for the day.
This complex became a heavily militarised complex from the 1970s till 1999. I saw main battle tanks and armoured fighting vehicles in the compound. There was a machine gun nest beside the gate (there was a square hole in the wall of the gatehouse and it was surrounded by bags of sand and covered with camouflage nets. There was a general purpose machine gun in the hole). The soldiers used to maltreat Radio Nigeria workers.
The coupists placed soldiers in this complex during the January 1966 coup, but Ironsi later appeared at the complex and changed the soldiers.
Joseph Garba made his coup speech from this complex in 1975 and one of the soldiers told him that he was worried because there weren't enough soldiers at the complex. He needn't have been worried. Broadcasting House is opposite State House, Dodan Barracks and Ibrahim Babangida had surrounded Dodan Barracks with tanks.
General Murtala Muhammed was killed near this complex and Dimka walked to the complex on foot to make his coup speech. General T.Y. Danjuma sent Ibrahim Babangida to remove Dimka from Broadcasting House and he was angry that Babangida said that he had spoken to Dimka. He ordered Babangida to blow down the radio station if necessary, but he must stop Dimka's speech from being broadcast on the airwaves (Babangida did not want to harm the staff of the radio station, that's why he chose to talk to Dimka, rather than attack the complex). Dimka was eventually flushed out after a firefight.
Sani Abacha and Joshua Dogonyaro also made their coup speeches from here in 1983 and 1985.
Broadcasting House is not too far from my former house and I was woken in the middle of the night by loud explosions on April 22nd, 1990. Coupists had used the armoured vehicles at Broadcasting House to attack Dodan Barracks. It was from this complex that Gideon Orkar made his coup speech and Sani Abacha made his counter speech (after Brigadier Ishaya Bamaiyi had recaptured the complex).
A nightly curfew was declared on Ikoyi Road after that coup. Soldiers would seal off the road from 6pm till 6am. Some people that I know refused to heed my warning that they should go home early back in 1997. They got Okada riders to take them to Obalende around 6pm. They were able to get onto Ikoyi Road, but soldiers at the Obalende end stopped them and told them to walk back to Ikoyi on their knees.
Broadcasting House, Ikoyi was the headquarters of the NBC, later FRCN from 1950 till the mid 1990s when the headquarters moved to Abuja.
President Obasanjo appointed Dr Eddie Iroh as the director general of the Federal Radio Corporation (FRCN) in 1999 and he said that he got his greatest pleasure by ordering the soldiers to pack their equipment and leave the complex.
Broadcasting House, Ikoyi was the home of Radio Nigeria 1 (now Radio One). Radio Nigeria 2 (now Metro FM) was started here in 1979, but it moved to Martins Street shortly afterwards. It moved back to this place after the Martims Street station burnt down in the 1990s. Radio Nigeria 3 (now Bond FM) was started here in 1989.
Yes, this is the same complex from which legends like:
Dr Christopher Kolade Ikenna Ndaguba Princess Banke Ademola
Sonny Irabor, Joseph Akinyemi Johnson (J.A.J), Boniface Onogwu, Vin-Martin Ilo, Momoh Kubanje, Willy Egbe, Ohi Alegbe, Jones Usen, Ihria Enakhimio, Aloma Nwogbe, Godwin Asuquo, Ndidi Osaka, Femi Sowoolu, Phil Ushie, Jim Lawson Maduike, Ohi Alegbe, Femi Sowoolu, Ihria Enakhimio, Zachary Mohamed (Captain ZM), Manny Onumonu, Evelyn Russell, Veronica Osawere, John Chukwu, Emeka Odikpo, Ernest Okonkwo, etc. spoke to Nigeria.
In fact, Dr Kolade was trapped in Broadcasting House during Dimka’s coup.
The Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service is attending to a Fire outbreak at the Radio Nigeria on Plot No. 35, Ikoyi Rd, Ikoyi, Lagos.
The Agency which was alerted at about 17:30 hours had Firefighters from Dolphin, Ebute Elefun and Oba On iTunes Fire Stations as first responders who met the Fire well-alight due to the substances involved in the material composition of the studio section.
The public is however assured that the collaborative efforts with the Federal Fire Service and other Emergency Responders including the @PoliceNG has put the situation under control and confined it to the studio section of the U-shape one storey building where it emanated.
While the cause of the Fire is yet unknown with no report of any casualty, damping down of the Fire embers continue. Update to follows as situation demands.