₦airaland Forum

Let's predict before it happens....
Go people!!

Search
Search the site
Search for:
Search …
punchng.com © 1971-2020 The Punch newspaper

PunchNG Menu:
Video
Spice
Special Features
Education
Sex & Relationship
Interview
Columns
Opinion
Privacy Settings
Burkina Faso vs Tunisia: Burkina players target AFCON ‘joy’ for troubled nation
Agency Report
28 January 2022
Kindly share this story:

burkina faso
FILE


Burkina Faso’s football team are hoping to continue their run at the Africa Cup of Nations all the way to the final to “give joy” to the people of their troubled west African country where the president was this week ousted in a military coup.

The Stallions, who have never won the continental title but did reach the final in 2013, play Tunisia in the quarter-finals on Saturday in the northern Cameroonian city of Garoua.

Their build-up to the tie included receiving a phonecall on Friday morning from the country’s new military leader.

“This morning we had the honour of speaking to our new president who gave us some advice and encouragement and reassured us that they were behind us all the way,” said coach Kamou Malo.

“We are under no obligations but it is our duty to try to go all the way to the final and that begins with the game tomorrow (Saturday).”

President Roch Marc Christian Kabore was seized by rebel soldiers on Monday amid rising anger at his failure to stem jihadist violence ravaging the impoverished nation.

The new leader is Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, 41, a rising star in the military who commands an eastern region badly hit by jihadists.

Socialite and celebrity club owner, Obi Iyiegbu, popularly known as Obi Cubana, says nobody can destroy his name and all that he had “worked so hard to build”.

The Anambra-born businessman also lamented that many social media users were using his name for a lot of “bad” things.

He stated this in a Facebook Live on Friday night just as the social media platform owned by Mark Zuckerberg verified his page.

Cubana said, “This is my only verified Facebook page. A lot of guys are using my name; Obi Cubana, Obi Iyiegbu to do a lot of bad things on Facebook. The name Obi Cubana is not associated with anything bad or evil. Please disregard, block, report.

“For me to come up to do this, you guys should know that it is really getting at me. Thank God that Facebook has verified me right now so we can interact more here.”

“You can’t destroy what we’ve worked so hard to build over the years,” he added.

Cubana, who has been in the nightclub business since 2006, grabbed international headlines last July when he organised a lavish funeral for his mother, Ezinne Iyiegbu, in Oba, Idemili South Local Government Area of Anambra State.
In November 2021, the socialite shut down his Abuja club, Hustle & Bustle, over the death of one of his customers but reopened weeks later even as the police are probing the matter.

He became subject of investigation when three convicts paid monies into his bank account.

He was detained in November 2021 by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for three days as part of investigations into alleged money laundering, tax fraud and other financial crimes before he was released with a condition that he would continue to report back for questioning.

In the second week of January 2022, the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency grilled Cubana for his alleged link to the illegal narcotic business before he was granted bail and asked to return at a future date.

He, however, said he was not involved in any drug deal, noting that he had made a covenant never to traffick in hard drugs.

Cubana has over 1.9 million Facebook followers and over 2.5 million Instagram followers whom he serenades with ravishing photos of himself, his wife, children and friends taken in the cabins of private jets, amongst other exotic places.

In the series, the Buenos Aires-born model gives insight into her day-to-day activities and her relationship with the Manchester United ace.
"I'm Georgina Rodriguez and five years ago my life changed," she says in the documentary.

"I'm the partner of the most followed man in the world. Cristiano is marvellous, he's a normal guy, I dreamed of having a prince by my side and today I have it.

"Thanks to love, now my life is a dream."

The man in her life, Cristiano Ronaldo, also revealed his feelings about Georgina.

"She's the woman I'm completely in love with," Cristiano himself says in the documentary.

Georgina: I know what it's like to have nothing
The 28-year-old celebrity uses the experience to open up on her journey from Argentina to Manchester.

"Jaca is where I grew up, danced, enjoyed the love of my family and all of that has marked me," she admits.