One of the Cameroonian ladies was trying to get into our goal during a break in the game for a freekick. Our goalkeeper, Chiamaka Nnadozie, was telling her to go back. Asisat Oshoala saw what was happening and came and physically pushed the Cameroonian back.
While Oshoala was pushing that Cameroonian, another Cameroonian tried to run into our goal, but Chiamaka blocked her. However, the Cameroonian knocked down Chiamaka. Asisat then came and dragged that Cameroonian.
Luckily the lineswoman saw everything. A melee ensued and the lineswoman told the referee about the fact that the Cameroonian knocked down Chiamaka and the referee showed the Cameroonian a red card.
That was the second time that the Cameroonians tried to run into our goal.
Coach Randy Waldrum was asked about the drama in the post match press conference and he said that he doesn't believe in voodoo, so he'll let Deborah Abiodun answer the question.
Deborah Abiodun said (in Yoruba) "Omo ibile ni mi" (meaning, "I am a daughter of the soil). She said that she believes that the Cameroonians were just trying to distract them. She said that she doesn't believe in juju, she believes in God and she believes that the Cameroonians were just trying to distract the Falcons.
This background might be what's affecting Rasheedat.
naptu2: Rasheedat Ajibade is also a two-time Nigerian freestyle football champion. She won the African Freestyle Football competition in 2017 and 2018.
2018 African Football Freestyle Championships semi-final Blessing Faith (Nig) v Rasheedat (Nig)
Super Falcons defeat Cameroon to reach final round of Olympics qualifiers
BY IDRIS SHEHU FEBRUARY 26, 2024
The Super Falcons of Nigeria have advanced to the final round of qualifiers for the women’s football event at the 2024 Olympics.
Nigeria edged Cameroon 1-0 on aggregate in the third round of qualifiers for the quadrennial Games.
The Falcons were held to a goalless draw at the Stade de la Réunification, Douala, on Friday, but they put a vital goal past the Cameroonians at the Moshood Abiola stadium on Monday.
A first-half goal from Esther Okoronkwo was the sole difference in a match on the knife edge.
Okoronkwo was at the right place to tap home the ball from the near post after a brilliant slalom run into the box by Jennifer Echegini.
Chiamaka Nnadozie also made important saves for Nigeria as the Cameroonians poured forward, creating chances to level the game and upturn the encounter with an away goal.
Super Falcons will face Tanzania or South Africa in the final round of qualifiers.
Only two teams will represent Africa at the 2024 Olympics.
The 2024 Olympics is billed to take place in Paris, France, from July 26 to August 11, 2024.
The Falcons played at the Olympics in 2000, 2004 and 2008.
UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP BUYS MAJORITY STAKE IN AFROBEATS LABEL MAVIN
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
Universal Music Group (UMG) has acquired a majority stake in Lagos, Nigeria-based music company Mavin Global (Mavin).
UMG describes Mavin as “the driving force behind many of the continent’s Afrobeats artists”.
Founded in 2012 by artist, producer, music executive and entrepreneur, Michael Collins Ajereh (aka Don Jazzy), Mavin has played a prominent role in breaking Afrobeats artists within Africa, and globally.
Monday’s (February 26) news arrives around five years after Mavin secured a multi-million dollar investment (in 2019) from Kupanda Holdings, a joint venture between pan-Africa investment company Kupanda Capital and TPG Growth.
TPG has now fully exited the business, while Kupanda Capital will a remain minority investor and strategic adviser.
According to UMG, Mavin will “maintain autonomy” over its strategy and future talent development. As part of the agreement, founder and CEO Don Jazzy and COO Tega Oghenejobo will continue leading the company.
The deal remains subject to regulatory approval and is expected to close by the end of Q3 2024.
Mavin is home to a number of top Afrobeats artists including Ayra Starr, Ladipoe, Johnny Drille, Crayon, Magixx, Bayanni, Boyspyce, DJ Big N, Lifesize Teddy and Rema, whose hit single Calm Down [featuring Selena Gomez] rose to No.3 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart in a breakthrough for the genre.
The track has gone on to be one of the biggest Afrobeats songs of all time, becoming the first African artist-led track to surpass 1 Billion Spotify streams.
Ayra Starr’s track Rush was nominated for the inaugural Best African Music Performance Grammy and its music video is the most viewed music video by a female Nigerian artist on YouTube.
Universal said on Monday that Mavin’s operations in Nigeria will be amplified through UMG’s global network of labels and businesses by the investment.
Currently distributed internationally [ex-Africa] through Virgin Music Group with Rema, UMG noted that Mavin and its roster are already “well integrated” into UMG’s network, with multiple signings across U.S. labels, including Republic partnering for Ayra Starr, and Interscope for Lifesize Teddy.
UMG also said on Monday that the partnership will accelerate Mavin’s strategic advancement and create more opportunities to break more talent globally, expand the reach of its existing roster and continue building its business into “a super-serving, pan-African entertainment company”.
This mission, according to UMG, is anchored in two initiatives: Mavin’s Artist Academy, which trains new talent in music and performance skills and builds connections within the roster, and their executive leadership program, which seeks to develop the next generation of music industry talent in Africa.
In 2022 Africa represented the fastest-growing continent for recorded music consumption, with Sub-Saharan Africa growing at 34.7% YoY, according to the IFPI, the only region to grow more than 30% that year.,
Michael Ajereh said: “ I’m proud of the artists, careers and brand we’ve built that have made Mavin the force it is today. In this historic partnership with UMG, we will continue that mission in Africa and across the globe.”
Tega Oghenejobo added: ” With our proven history of collaborations within the UMG family, we have a strong belief that they are the ideal partner for the next phase of our growth, given the diversity and potential of our business.
“UMG is home to some of the world’s foremost music entrepreneurs and artists, making them a perfect match for our aspirations. By collaborating with UMG, we are dedicated to cultivating a vibrant creative environment that propels African music to new heights on the global stage.”
Sir Lucian Grainge, Chairman & CEO of Universal Music Group, said: “Our criteria for identifying partners is straightforward: great artists, great entrepreneurs, great people. With Don Jazzy, Tega, the Mavin Global team and their artist roster, we’ve found ideal partners with whom to grow together.
“Mavin’s brilliant artists have been catalysts in the transformation of Afrobeats into a global phenomenon and we’re thrilled to welcome them into the Universal Music Group family.”
Octopusssy: She didn't drop the name. It is just going to be her work name.
Nicholas Cage did the same thing because he wanted to be recognised in the industry by merit, and not by family connections to F.F Coppola. Malia wants to be recognised through the works of her own hands and not because she is related to a famous father.
I mean, it's very obvious. It's just like a pen name.
Deltamani: SuperFalcons 4 Generation of Goalkeepers..! Baton well Passed..
I wish I had a video of that point in the 2000 Nations Cup final when Anne showed the referee the stone.
She had gone to complain to the referee, but the referee told her to go back to her goal. She went back to the goal, but a big stone hit her. She picked up the stone and ran to the referee and said, "See! See!" That's when the referee decided to end the match.
naptu2: Gaelle Deborah Enganamouit scored the fastest goal in women's football when she played for Spartak in Serbia in 2013. The goal was scored in the 3rd second of the match.
She also played an important role in the Cameroonian team that got to the final of the 2014 African Women’s Championship, scoring 2 goals against Algeria in the group stage and a goal against Ivory Coast in the semi-final and becoming the joint 3rd highest goal scorer in the competition. She made my heart stop in the final with this amazing volley that hit the cross bar in the game against Nigeria.
She moved to Ekisltunna in Sweden in 2015 and became the highest goal scorer in the Swedish League with 18 goals. She also led Cameroon to the 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup in Canada, where she became the first African woman to score a hat-trick. She achieved the feat as Cameroon defeated Ecuador in their first game of the championship. Canadian fans nicknamed her “The Freight Train” because of her powerful surging runs. Cameroon got to the second round before they were knocked out by China.
She was named the African Women's Player of the Year in 2015 as a result of her exploits.
She moved to Swedish giants Rosenborg in November 2015 and she was nominated for the BBC Women's footballer of the year award in early 2016, alongside Amandine Henry, Kim Little, Carli Lloyd and Becky Sauerbrunn.
Unfortunately she suffered an anterior cruciate ligament injury on the opening day of the 2016 season and it ruled her out for the rest of the season.
However, Cameroon were due to host the 2016 African Women’s Nations Cup and they were desperate to ensure that their star striker played in the competition. Enganamouit took part in the competition, but she didn’t score a single goal. Her main role was as a decoy for deadly winger Gabrielle Aboudi Ongunene (Onguene was named the player of the tournament). Cameroon got to the final and lost to Nigeria again.
I suspect that the Cameroonians brought her back to action too early and that this affected her.
In February 2017 it was announced that Gaelle Enganamouit had been signed by Chinese club Dalian. The announcement came a few days after Dalian signed Nigerian star Asisat Oshoala. That meant that the 2 players that had won the most recent African Footballer of the Year title were going to play in the same club.
Oshoala and Enganamouit became best friends at Dalian.
However, Enganamouit and Oshoala had contrasting fortunes in China. Oshoala was the highest goal scorer in the Chinese League in the 2017 season and the second highest goal scorer in the 2018 season, while Enganamouit did not score a single goal. She spent more time on the doctor’s table than on the pitch. Some people believe that the Cameroonians rushed her back to full action too early and that she had not fully recovered from the injury that kept her out of the 2016 season. She left Dalian in 2018 and signed for Avaldsnes in Norway.
Enganamouit scored 4 goals for Avaldsnes and I thought that she had found her scoring form again. She also scored in Cameroon’s 3-0 defeat of Algeria in the group stage of the 2018 Nations Cup. However, she missed her penalty kick in the semi-final against Nigeria and furious Cameroonian fans vandalised her house in Yaounde.
Enganamouit continued to have injury problems and she left Avaldsnes in 2019, ahead of the FIFA World Cup. She signed with Malaga in Spain, but she was let go soon after because she had injury problems.
She became a very controversial figure in Cameroon ahead of the 2019 Women’s World Cup. Many Cameroonian fans did not want her to be in the squad for the World Cup, but the coach stated that she had a good chance of making the team, if she performed well at the training camp.
She was the last player to make it to camp, but she was eventually included in Cameroon’s team to the World Cup. Many Cameroonian fans were furious. They said that she was injury prone and that she didn’t have any club and so she should not be in the team to the World Cup. Some even claimed that she must have paid the coach to include her in the team, while others stated that she was included because of her past performance, rather than her current form and that her inclusion was bad for young Cameroonian female footballers who would have performed better than her.
She only played a few minutes in the first game against Canada (she came on as a substitute).
She has continued to have injury problems and difficulties with getting a club and she announced her retirement on Instagram on June 6th, 2020 (her 28th birthday).
Her best friend, Asisat Oshoala, posted on Instagram that people misunderstood Enganamouit's post and that she had not retired, but Enganamouit never played again.
It was subsequently announced that she had been appointed as the team manager of the Indomitable Lionesses of Cameroon. However, she had serious problems with some members of the Cameroonian FA who tried to bully her. She also suffered a sex scandal and she resigned because of bullying from Cameroonian officials. I suspect that she might return to the Indomitable Lioness setup now that her friend, Samuel Eto'o, is the FECAFOOT president.
The lioness of Cameroon and African Women's Footballer of the year 2015, Gaelle Enganamouit.
naptu2: Nigeria defeated Cameroon 2-0 in the final of the 2014 African Women’s Championship in Namibia.
Desire Oparanozie (freekick) and Asisat Oshoala score as the Super Falcons of Nigeria beat Cameroon to win the 2014 African Women's Cup of Nations in Namibia.
Watch out for Gaelle Enganamouit's amazing shot that hit the crossbar.
In our efforts to prevent a recurrence of the Bodija Incident, we were at Idi-Ayunre, following a tip off about a facility which was being used to process illegally mined minerals.
I can report that those involved have been arrested and are in custody and we are working to prosecute them. Our government has also taken over the facility pending the investigations and prosecution.
We were able to apprehend the culprits because the government and citizens worked together in a timely manner to bust their operations.
Let me take this opportunity to report that we are still trying to extradite the Malians indicted in the Bodija Incident who are on the run. We are having difficulties because Mali pulled out of ECOWAS. We will continue to deploy diplomatic means to ensure they are brought to book.
Please continue to support our efforts to rid our State of illegal activities. If you see something, say something and the authorities will do something. 615 is the toll-free number to call when you notice any security breaches.
Sports › Juju Drama During Nigeria Vs Cameroon Match (Video) by naptu2(op): 4:58am On Feb 27, 2024
