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civilserva:
@Odunnu, i am single presently lets roll out, this is great opportunity for you.

It'll cost you 50k. . ._{to be deposited into her account.}

Just be careful where you roll onto cos she keeps a fully loaded Ak47 under her bed

As the 17th National Sports Festival tagged the Garden City Games is set to come to a close today, accusations and counter accusations continues to trail host, Rivers State as other participants believe the state’s medal haul were achieved by dubious means.

[b]Rivers is ensuring its aim of hosting to win by leading the medals table with 105 gold, 54 silver and 59 bronze medal at the time of filing this report, while Delta State is at distance 2nd spot with 34 gold, 23 silver and 29bronze medals. position, having 64 gold, 72 silver and 62 bronze medal, with Edo holding up to the 3rd position

Many of other teams that either failed to win or their qualification for medal slot were dashed by Rivers have been pointing accusing fingers to the host for buying medals and fielding ineligible athletes.

Some of the states that accused Rivers includes, Kaduna, Delta, Niger, Edo and Benue, whiles states like Akwa Ibom and Bayelsa believes it was the early preparation by Team Rivers that was responsible for the domination of various sports they partake.

Reporting his grievance, the Director of Sports, Benue State, Gilbert Ikaso said the host resulted to use alien athletes to prosecute some of the competitions they participated in.

"I can tell you that aliens are being used by the host. One of my coaches who informed me about the incident said he was nearly lynched by athletes who were against the National Sports Festival that is aimed at discovering hidden talents, to be used at the All Africa Games and the Olympics. If we don’t have the athletes that will represent the country there by depriving our own indigenous athletes the chance of representing their country at international level", he said.

In his reaction, the public relations officer to the Edo State Sports ministry, Precious Igbonwelundu accused the host of using mercenaries (professional players) to prosecute the female football event of the games.

"It is so shameful that Rivers State is using professionals to compete. As I speak to you, it appears it's only Edo State that brought amateur players in football. How can we develop sports in Nigeria when States have refused to abide by the rules guiding the National Sports Festival? The goal of the National Sports Festival is to develop new talents that can be groomed to professional level, but with the use of professionals in the games, I think one will not be wrong to say that the aim is defeated’ she was quoted to have said.

Also, the Leader of Kaduna State delegation, Abdul Azeez Muhammed, Perm. Sec Ministry of Youth and Sports, Niger State, including the Executive Chairman, Delta State Sports Commission, Amaju Pinnick joined in accusing the host of not adhering to the aims and objectives of the festival.[/b]

"We (Delta State) are satisfied with our second place so far because we won our medals decently. We have no reason to question our position," said the Delta sports boss.

But rising in the defense of the host, the Chairman National Sports Commission (NSC), Patrick Ekeji believes the accusation is unfounded and has no evidence of truth.

"Let us not reduce it to beer palour allegation because the allegations are not true because the National Sports Commission have no team. We are responsible for organizing festival through the Local Organising Committee, we have the rules that have been laid down.

"It is malicious for anybody to make such statement without giving proof. Of course in Nigeria when you lose, everything is bad and when you win everything is in order. From the NSC angle, as the custodian of the National Sports Festival, we keep looking at the way we could improve it and I can tell you, we have recorded milestone in the organization and conducting the festival."

Collaborating Ekeji’s point, the Per. Sec Ministry of Sports, Akwa Ibom State, Mrs Roselyn Ekweme believes Rivers State took the festival seriously as they have been preparing for the games early enough.

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THE 17th National Sports Festival, the Garden City Games 2011 witnessed one of its most exciting times when a seven-year old girl Iyefu Onoja representing Benue state in Chess stunned the experienced participants at the event to win a bronze medal at the conclusion of the Chess games yesterday, at the Multi-Purpose hall of the Alfred Spiff Diette Sports Complex, popularly called Civic Centre.

The young girl who incidentally also turned seven yesterday, does not even understand the import of what she performed but was only excited playing her game as a way of catching her fun and went the first four games unbeaten until she lost in the semis and finally emerged third in the category that she featured.

Her size and age baffled many who understand the game of Chess and what it takes and that has led to her winning the award of the youngest participant and medallist at the 17th National Sports Festival. Little Iyefu told NationSport that her uncle taught her how to play Chess three years ago and that she likes playing the game.

"My name is Iyefu Onoja. I am seven years old. My uncle is teaching how to play chess for about three years now. I am in Primary three. The name of my school is God of Abraham Primary School, behind Modern Market. I have beaten five people, big people. My Uncle brought me to this place, he too he used to play Chess, his name is Sleames Anderson".

Speaking with Mr. Andrew Onoja who is the proud coach of the young star, NationSport gathered that she was picked up when she was three years old and has been at various competitions including the Benue State Sports Festival where she won two gold medals.

" My name is Onoja Andrew but am popularly called Sleames Anderson. I’m both a Chess player and a Chess coach. What actually motivated me was that the first time she saw the game, her interest rose and she began to learn it fast. When I introduced her to the first champion ship, international Chess tournament in Lagos, she chose to play a lady but she was classified as U-14 category but I knew that she was far above that level and so I had to introduced her to the 17th National Sports Festival which is an open tournament that has no category involved and my intention was to use this medium to open the eyes of the Nigeria Chess Federation. I want them to know that it is the spirit and not the body that actually rules a man. "When I picked her up, she was three years old, with mucus in her nose and that is because experience has taught me that it is better to work with little kids than adults. At the Chess event in Lagos she was rated 3/9 but at the Benue State Sports Festival, she had two gold medals, including one from the classic events. and that is what gave her the entry into the 17th National Sports Festival, the Garden City games".

The coach did not end there, he explained that he intends to help her get to more international competitions and to win laurels for Nigeria as they actually foresaw her performance yesterday.

"Today she turned seven. 07/07/2011 and she has won a bronze medal today. We saw this coming and my intention is to expose her at world tournament to represent her mother land Nigeria at the Olympics, Commonwhealth games and other international events and we know that nothing stops the rising sun and what I know is that the manifestation that has taken place today will surely also manifest more at those events."

He also explained that Iyefu's parents did not buy the idea at first until they started seeing her make news in the local tabloid in Benue before they realised their child was a star in the making.

The monthly Saturday Boxing Show in Lagos paid off handsomely for the state's boxing team as it recorded seven Gold medals on the last day of the National Sports Festival in Rivers State.With this feat, the Team Lagos brought its total to 11 gold medals.

Taiwo Agbaje defeated Lasisi Aliu of Rivers in the 52kg, while in the 51kg, Adebayo Mutiat defeated Adeniyi Fajoke of Ekiti to win the gold medal. 54kg Fatai Sikiru got the better of Sanusi Abiodun of Ogun.

Oladosu Rilwan beat Edo State's Osamudiamuwen(11-1). Fijabi Olaide competing in the 64kg defeated Umea Ugochukwu of Rivers (20-0), while female boxer, Kate Peters beat Obiwunmi Martha of Edo State (7-2) to win in the 64kg category.

However in the 81kg category, Sango Muri lost to (1-11) to Nehikhare Nosa of Oyo State, while the 7th gold medal of the day came in the 81kg of the female category, where Temi Are of Lagos defeated Amusa Zainab of Benue (9-0).

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The male volleyball team representing Ogun State in the ongoing 17th edition of National Sports Festival, Port Harcourt was disqualified from the games as some of the players were discovered to be foreigners.

The discovery was made at the Adokie Amiesimaka Stadium following a protest by Edo State officials after Ogun State had defeated them in the quarter-finals.

Efforts by Ogun State officials to convince the technical committee of the games that the players - Kabril Lawal, Are Timothy, Quadri Shittu and Timothy Stephen - are Nigerians from Ipokia, Ado/Odo Ota in Yewa area of the state failed and the team were eventually sent packing from the competition.

However, as at the time of filing this report, Ogun officials have protested the disqualification

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Mild drama was recorded during the quarters-finals of the female boxing in the ongoing 17th National Sports Festival in Port Harcourt as Kemi Aliu representing Ondo State insisted on remaining in the ring after her defeat by her Lagos State opponent, Yetunde Alimi.

The four-round fight was full of tension as the two boxers engaged themselves in what could be described as fight to finish to secure a berth in the semi-final. The fight drew ovation from spectators as the boxers battled each other.

However, at the end of the fight, Alimi was declared winner by the referee, a development that drew the ire of Aliu who felt she had been robbed of victory. She decided to remain in the ring in protest and in the process delaying the commencement of the next bout.

Aliu maintained her stance of not leaving the ring, shouting on top of her voice and rolling on ground. She turned deaf ears to all pleas by the authorities to leave.

The protesting boxer did this for over twenty minutes but following persistent appeals, she later walked out from the ring maintaining she had been cheated:

"The referees robbed me of victory. I will not agree; I won the fight and am only been cheated, it is clear that I defeated my opponent" the crying boxer said as she was led out from the ring.

The world would watch in amazement as Yekini rushed into the net and alone, all, all alone like that famous line from the rhyme of the Ancient Mariner. He would chant, scream all by himself, an image that personified the legendary goalscorer supreme and one of the defining moments of USA ‘94. No one came to meet him.

“Yekini had some beef with some players because I was in the background, I was watching everybody and I know those who were involved,” he said.

“Some of our players were madly, sickly, mentally jealous the moment Yekini was honoured. He was leaving for Panathinaikos, and there was some jealousy there. Yekini himself was not smart enough to calm things down.”

Is this supposed to be breaking news?

legendarys:
Kobe is the highest paid basketball player. He made 52 million total last year, $25 million of that coming from his salary. Johnson is making $18 million, and in the year that Johnson's contract reaches it height of roughly $25 million, he still would not have reached Kobe's lowest yearly salary in Kobe's current extension. In the last year of his extension, Kobe will be making more than $30 million.

Where are the Nigerians?

Dem take am swear for una? Shey na everything una go take slight Nigeria and Nigerians?

aieromon: . . . . .Still waiting for this thread to hit the frontpage

Seun creates this thread and doesn't put it on the frontpage and you think it'd still make it? FORGET IT!. . .and by so doing, he's saying no one else should put it there

mukina2:
why don't you go and hug another transformer, make sure you are really wet, so you'll really pafuka this time around

Lol. . .nice tactic there. If you can't wriggle yourself out, turn everything into a joke

Anyway, I don make my point and I nor wan make the thread turn into a back and forth between us, so make we just ex the matter.

Enjoy your day on NL and have a blessed day off it.

mukina2:
You were obviously not checking the homepage then, because if you were, you would know what was on it.  anti-gej ke i laugh.

Deny and laugh all you like, na you know

You probably were unbiased and did it unknowingly but still you posted mostly anti-GEJ threads (perhaps you  thought they were of news value & frontpage stuff and didn't see the threads that way) to the homepage during that period. . .and please I was checking the homepage and monitoring the shout-archive daily then so I know

Katsumoto:
The practice of moving threads to other sections after several posts have been made on such threads is absolutely exasperating. Not every poster is interested in trawling all sections seeking threads.

mukina2:
sharrap dia.

can you hear yourself?

as a mod how many topics have you 'sent' to the homepage?

only two people update the homepage and they  search for those topics themselves , geddit?

Even if  a mod sends a topic Miss ITK, it gets verified before being posted . .again geddit?

now run along and stop trying to be a nuisance. it does not suit you 

moonraker:
Arsene Wenger

This summer, can you spend more than £20 million on a player who is not a French youngster with a name that is not almost impossible to pronounce?

We all know Cesc Fabregas is going to end up at Barcelona sooner or later, so can you please make sure the transfer is done sooner than later because quite frankly, everyone is sick of hearing about it.

Alex McLeish

Surprise, surprise! You’re in charge of Aston Villa. All I can say is, best of luck and don’t be too sad when you lead Villa to relegation at the end of the season. Of course, you’ll be sacked after Aston Villa find themselves in the Championship, but don’t be too sad, some poor club will unknowingly appoint you as their manager, and your lack of managerial skill will lead them to their worst ever season.

Andre Villas-Boas

Calling yourself ‘The excreta One’ to avoid comparisons to Jose Mourinho was not the smartest thing to do, since that will most likely be your new name if you fail to lead Chelsea to a trophy or two in the upcoming season.

With most of the top clubs having already made some signings, you should really get a move on if you wish to have any of your targets available.

David Moyes

Since taking over Everton in 2002, you’ve made sure the Toffees have maintained a decent position in the English Premier League. However, that never was and still isn’t good enough for anyone. The fact that your greatest achievement with Everton is a FA finalist medal, is quite pathetic. I suggest you change things around and try to build a team that is good enough to challenge Manchester United for the title or at least a cup win in the upcoming season.

Kenny Dalglish

Are you trying to make Liverpool into the next Manchester City? We know you have new rich owners, but that does not mean you spend £35 million on Andy Carroll and £16 million on Jordan Henderson. The ridiculous sums of money you have been splashing around make you worse than Roberto Mancini, and that’s saying something.

Roberto Mancini

You’ve turned Manchester City into quite a circus, with all the useless expensive signings since you took over the club. You have also had your fair share of drama with the likes of Carlos Tevez’s transfer request during the time he was club captain and Kolo Toure’s failed drug test, which had happened apparently because the player had been taking his wife’s weight loss pills.

Word of advice, next time you back up your coke-sniffing players, make sure their excuses are plausible.

Sir Alex Ferguson

Most people, including many Manchester United fans will agree with me when I say this, I think it’s high time you retired. You’ve been hogging the manager’s post for 25 years now, it’s too much.

While we all agree you’ve done a fantastic job, it’s time you gave someone else a chance to prove themselves at one of the best club’s in England.

PS. Just curious, don’t you ever run out of gum?

Tony Pulis

Did you actually bid £6 million for Daniel Sturridge? Yes? Wow. I have nothing else to say.

Harry Redknapp

Let Luka Modric go. I’m sure what you’re doing with the Croatian midfielder is against the law in some part of the world.

You have more than exploited the fact that he has not yet handed in a transfer request out of respect for the club and supporters.

There have even been rumours that you are holding the player hostage in your basement to keep him from talking to the media.

If he wants to go to Chelsea, let him go.

Moving on to more serious things, use some sun screen next time you’re in the sun. You look like a lobster


http://blogs.bettor.com/Dear-English-Premier-League-managers-a78962

Classic!

krendo: If u have no intention to reveal the name, why the topic?

Basseti:
But the jinx has been broken.

If my memory serves me right, those super ducks have not won any match in all the world cups they have been to. So its a right step in the right direction.

dayokanu:
With Turkish and Polish players Germany has been able to dominate

England with all the players they poach are still wack

TRUE!

Make dem do release Victor Moses for us jare. . . . .

England sucks in everything but make Germany sef softly softly to dey poach players from Turkey, Poland and other countries o

A late winner from Perpetua Nkwocha has seen Nigeria defeat Canada 1-0 in an action-packed encounter and claim their FIFA Women’s World Cup™ win since 1999.

Canada coach Carolina Morace rang the changes for the match with goalkeeper Karina LeBlanc coming in for Erin McLeod, while Marie-Eve Nault and Melissa Tancredi started ahead of Brittany Timko and Christina Julien.

The north Americans started well creating several openings most notably with Jonelle Filigno bursting into the penalty area, but unable to overcome goalkeeper Precious Dede who claimed the ball.

The match then kicked into gear and approaching the 20-minute mark, there was a great chance for Nigeria with Ebere Orji sending a powerful effort on goal, which LeBlanc blocks but Rita Chikwelu is unable to convert the follow up.

However a few minutes later it was Canada’s turn and a ball from deep is headed into the left post by Melissa Tancredi.

Within minutes it was the turn of Nigeria’s Ebere Orji to hit the post, this time with a close-range effort.

The woodwork yet again ensured the match was scoreless at the interval. This time Stella Mbachu passes from the right into the middle but Perpetua Nkwocha is unable to grasp the opportunity.

The early stages of the second half saw Canada striker Christine Sinclair, again wearing a face mark following the broken nose she suffered in the tournament opener against Germany, hits a shot from inside the penalty area but Helen Ukaounu blocks the ball.

With just under 20 minutes to go, the lights at the stadium in Dresden went out necessitating a delay of around ten minutes.

Nayah:
Now yes I prefer Miss Taraba

donobi:
They should just lose the match and come back home, what are they playing. Rubbish.

In the last round of Group A matches at the FIFA Women's World Cup 2011™, the Super Falcons of Nigeria meet Canada with only pride at stake, as neither team can qualify for the quarter-finals. After two defeats apiece so far, each is now determined to bow out on a winning note.

The game
Canada-Nigeria, Tuesday 5 July, Dresden, 7.45 pm (Nigerian time)

The stakes
Canada and Nigeria have only met once before at the FIFA Women's World Cup. The 1995 clash ended 3–3, and ranks as historic for both nations. The game brought Nigeria their first goal and first point at the women's global showdown, as they lost all their matches without scoring at the first edition of the tournament in 1991, and were thumped 8–0 by England in their opening match at the 1995 finals. The Canadians, who were not present in 1991, also picked up their first FIFA Women's World Cup point.

Canada have not missed the finals since then, posting their best-ever result at USA 2003, where they finished fourth. In 2007, they failed to survive the preliminary stage after finishing third in Group C.

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_{Canada's Women's Team}

The Super Falcons are a regular on the world stage having contested every FIFA Women's World Cup, although they have only once made it past the group stage. That was back in 1999, when they fell at the quarter-final stage, 4–3 after extra time to the powerful Brazilians.

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_{Super Falcons of Nigeria}

The stat
3 - In their solitary meeting at the FIFA Women's World Cup, Canada and Nigeria scored three goals apiece. Current Nigeria boss Ngozi Uche was an unused sub in that match.

The words
"We're looking to bow out with our heads held high, and we don't intend to let the opportunity pass. As for me personally, I want to score in this game," Nigeria forward Desire Oparanozie

"When we play Nigeria, we want to prove to ourselves, our country, and our fans that we're capable of more. We have more ability than we've shown so far," Canada forward Jonelle Filigno