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The Nigerian capped a beautiful
display to score his first Uefa
Champions League goal in his side’s
win against Sporting Lisbon on
Wednseday
Super Eagles midfielder John Obi
Mike l scored his first Uefa
Champions League goal in Chelsea’s
3-1 defeat of Sporting Lisbon on
Wednesday at the Stamford Bridge.
Fabregas swung in a free kick from
the left hand side that was flicked
towards goal by Cahill. Mikel and
Matic were fighting for the ball at
the back post but it was the
Nigerian who got the final touch to
increase the lead for the Blues.
Cesc Fabregas had opened the
scoring from the penalty spot after
Filipe Luis was brought down by
Ricardo Esgaio inside the first ten
minutes.
Andre Schurrle added a second
shortly after, with a fierce shot from
the edge of the box following good
work by Nemanja Matic.
Sporting clawed a goal back in the
second half through Jonathan Silva,
but John Obi Mikel restored the
home side's advantage and secured
all three points, while Schalke's
victory over Maribor meant the
Lisbon side did not qualify for the
knockout stages of the competition.

www.goal.com/en-ng/news/4110/nigerians-abroad/2014/12/10/6959522/mikel-obi-nets-first-champions-league-goal?ICID=HP_BN_1

I really hope they get over this Ebola thing sha. After all d help they have offered to west africa.

whitecat1:
Post the pictures of those girls or you are a liar, post them so that we can judge.

na wa

Damilare Babajide, a 4th year law
student at the University of Lagos
(UNILAG), yesterday took home a
brand new car and other unnamed
perks after emerging winner of the
2014 Miss UNILAG pageant.

Damilare Babajide, a 4th year law
student at the University of Lagos
(UNILAG), yesterday took home a
brand new car and other unnamed
perks after emerging winner of the
2014 Miss UNILAG pageant.

Ms. Babajide’s windfall immediately
ignited a debate among students
and lecturers, with some criticizing
the material rewards bestowed on a
so-called beauty queen when the
same university hands a mere
computer and some cash to winners
of its demanding debate contest.
One lecturer, who asked for
anonymity, said he was troubled that
the car and other gifts to the
university’s beauty queen far
outstripped the prizes given on
September 10 to the winner of the
university debate competition.
Zainab Olaitan, a 2nd year political
science major at UNILAG who won
the university’s rigorous academic
debate competition, was awarded
N100,000 and a laptop computer.
UNILAG vice chancellor, Rahman
Bello, handed the cash and laptop
to the indomitable 18-year-old
debater.
The lecturer also noted that last
year’s winner of the debate
competition, Ms. Mary Adegunloye,
received a laptop and N50,000.
“I understand that the university
management was planning to give
the same paltry sum of N50,000 cash
prize this year to the winner of the
debate, but decided to double the
cash prize because of criticisms from
some lecturers and student leaders,”
said the source.
In addition, he said that pressure
was put on the university’s
management to give N50,000 each to
runners-up in this year’s debate.
Ms. Damilare received her car gift
today after emerging Miss UNILAG in
a beauty contest organized by the
Directorate of Student Affairs (DSA).
SaharaReporters could not
immediately ascertain the amount of
cash and other perks awarded to the
beauty queen, but Ms. Damilare told
our correspondent in a TV interview
that the sum was “encouraging.”
Reacting to the disparity in gifts for
the beauty contest and the debate
competition, a few students told our
correspondent that the relatively
small reward for intellectual
achievement was likely to affect the
academic morale of students on
campus.
SOURCE:
www.saharareporters.com/2014/10/05/beauty-vs-brains-most-beautiful-girl-unilag-rewarded-brand-new-car-while-most-brilliant

A freelance cameraman from Rhode
Island (USA) is now the second person
from New England to test positive for
the Ebola virus. He had been
working for NBC and covering the
Ebola outbreak in Liberia, but will
receive treatment in the United
States.
The cameraman, identified by NECN
as 33-year-old Ashoka Mukpo, joined
an NBC News crew on Tuesday to
work with the network’s medical
correspondent Dr. Nancy Snyderman.
Two days later, he was at a
treatment center showing some
symptoms of the disease and
ultimately tested positive, according
to the Associated Press .
The rest of the crew and Dr.
Snyderman are being flown back to
the United States as well. While they
have no symptoms of Ebola, the AP
reports they will be quarantined for
21 days as a precaution.

Initial reports, apparently based on
a Facebook profile for Mukpo,
indicated that the cameraman’s
hometown was Providence, R.I. This
was later confirmed by NBC.
The cameraman is the fifth American
to test positive for the virus and the
second person from New England.
The other local resident to receive
treatment for Ebola
was 51-year-old Dr. Rick Sacra of
Holden, Mass. Sacra said he may
have contracted the disease while
helping women deliver their babies
in Liberia. He received treatment in
Nebraska and has since recovered
and been released.
The Massachusetts Department of
Public Health emphasized in a press
conference Friday
afternoon that although several
suspicious cases have been
investigated, none has been so
serious as to have tests sent to the
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention.
“There are no Ebola cases in
Massachusetts, and the possibility of
an Ebola case in the Commonwealth
remains very low,” said an advisory
from Mass. DPH on Friday.
“Massachusetts is well prepared to
handle an incidence of Ebola, in the
unlikely event that a case should
occur in the Commonwealth.”
Despite the fact that suspected
cases have yielded negative test
results for Ebola so far, the state’s
public health officials are continuing
to urge hospitals to be especially
vigilent and err on the side of
caution.

www.boston.com/health/2014/10/03/nbc-cameraman-from-tests-positive-for-ebola/5EUDjhtou21kFNJh807TwJ/story.html

labodinho: It's not possible and I don't know if you even have f/maths which will be needed for engineering.

yes, the person has f/maths, but don't know if he can change to engineering

This happened on the day of the salt and water wahala.
I had just come back from class in the d evening and got information that our roommate was rushed to the hospital. They said he had a very high temperature and had vomited like 3 times. What more, he lives in Obalende and had just come back from home I think like 2 days before. We were all hoping it wasn't ebola cos we knew the implications of that on us considering our room conditions. They immediately quarantined him at the medical centre.
But after like a week, he got better and was released. I really pitied him sha. Even when he came back, guys were reluctant to touch him too much.

Pls guys, I want to know if one can do a change of course from medicine to engineering. Thanks in advance guys.

Jarus: Don't be surprised if there are as many as 100 between 20 and 23years.

My friend got his at 29.

100 ke.
probably 1000 self. But i think that unilag doctor was lucky he didn't do his bsc in Nigeria sha. If not...

hungryboy: Before u criticise 'em, Answer this question
Who wan die?
Even me were been dey plan to travel to Lagos don postpone am till Ebola notice

Nawa o, we wey come dey stay directly in front infectious decease hospital here for Yaba wey dem dey keep ebola victims nko. Wetin you wan make we do o.

Whatever damage this ebola virus does Nigeria, it will be on record that an American citizen brought it to Nigeria.

AmericanQueen: Tori Bowie has ran the fastest 100 and 200 meter times this year and has beaten every major sprinter this year. Unlike Blessing , Torie has proved on more than one occasion she can win a big meet with a world class field. Blessing despite winning the CWG has NOT won a "Major A-list" meet!!!!

Now Blessing has had a very good season but she only ranks 3rd in 100m, and 2nd in 200m this season!!!

What do mean by blessing has not won a major meet. Guy, she has won 9 diamond league meeting in case u don't know beating the likes of SAFP and Alyson Felix in the process.
Please don't spread wrong info here.
Btw, Bowie jus started athletics last year and u already think she has proven herself more than blessing, without even attending a major championship yet. Haba

PetroDolla3: you sent me a link to a bogus newspaper story as your evidence? didn't realse you shitnigerians were that stvpid fooolishness is well embedded in your collective DNA, walahi. at least as a human being with a bit of sense cant you apply a bit of rational thinking to whatever you read anywhere. you can't give what you don't have. or can you? shitnigeria does not have electricity so it can nnot give electrity to even the Republic of Benin. as a matter of fact, Ghana suppies electricity to to and benin and there ere plans to extend it to you shithole very soon. the fact that shitnigeria cannot produce electricity for its people in the 21st century is a confirmation that the country is cursed, as OBJ said,huh?

Gosh, i hope not all ghanians r dis dull.
Ok, so u also know, nigeria produces 3 times d electricity u produce in that tiny country of yours.
is it the same ghana that their citizens had to protest the poor supply of electricity b4 world cup. U guys need total rehabilitation.
www.en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_electricity_production

jnrbayano: Nothing prevents you from being patrotic but don't allow it becloud your analytic mind.

Nigeria wouldn't have got past Bosnia in the 1st place if Dzeko's goal which was wrongly disallowed for offside stood, but that's a talk for another day, so don't talk about the Red Card issue which happened later.

There was an improvement in the ranking from 44th to 34th but that improvement doesn't reflect in the team.

I see in our team players without gusto, so lethargic and lacking hunger. Mikel comes to mind and I wonder why he still command regular shirt in the team.

It's a pity, my standard for appraising our team is high, thanks in large part for having seen more than 2 decades of football, how well they played back then, their drive, hunger, will to succeed and so on.

I'm sorry, I can't give appreciation to either Keshi or the NFF if they keep inviting Mikel, Uchebo and co to our team.

I apologise if my comment earlier offended you. but please don't call me a plastic fan.

I totally understand you bro but to me these are the best players we have at least until others come up. Lets just hope we produce better players in future who can compete the the best in the world.
With time, we will get better.
Am also sorry if that name offended you.
As for that bosnia game, as i said, thats football and we can't change it. But that doesn't mean we wouldn't have qualified.

delikay4luv: We need to step up our game

Yeah true talk. this is what we need. Encouragement. Not bad mouthing. totally agree bro

collynzo2: What about when we were 9th in 2009, what happened then?

jnrbayano: He still maintained I am a plastic fan and that confirmed to me that his age is not far away from zero.

I only questioned your love for your national team and you are calling me age zero. Spain had a bad world cup yet did you see the reception they got? Guess that can never happen in nigeria. In 2009
we were 9th and couldn't get beyond the quarter finals of the nations cup, struggled to qualify for the would cup and had a shambolish display in it. So u think that period of our football was better than now. African champions, second round of world cup. We may have even gotten to the quarter finals if the ref gave that red card but at least, that is part of football. Am not going to insult anyone here but since you've decided give insults, instead of defending yourself. I won't reply you again.

jnrbayano: I'm a guy of very few words, I don't know why you are vexed this morning.

"Still languishing behind" edited after a split second adding "Nigeria once ranked 5th in the world, what has happened to my country?"

What's wrong with the post? I hope you know there was a time Nigeria ranked 5th in the world and I have since started watching football by then.

So if I wish things to return as it used to be for the Nigerian team I have committed a crime?

"Appreciation to who"

That's my 2nd post. Asking this question you have quickly adjudged me a plastic fan?

It's well.

yeah, plastic fan because u refuse to acknowledge the efforts of the players and coach in brazil. In case you do not know, this ranking is as a result of their performance in the world cup. btw, that 5th position you are talking about was only possible because the rankings were introduced just as nigeria became african champions in 1994. so u see, everybody started at 0 points then and it was easier to move up quickly than now. And lets not deceive ourselves. To get to fifth position cannot be achieved that easily anymore.

jnrbayano: Appreciation to who?

they were ranked 44th, you complained, they moved up ten places, u still complain. want will ever please us nigerians. Plastic fans indeed. Safari girl is right

busterr: What of spain?? They should drop to 20 places.




Wetin cote d voire dey play sef!!!! We should come first in Africa then Algeria second or vice versa then then ghana and others should distribute from 10th position to 30 in africa amongst themselves

spain ahould definately be out of top ten

jnrbayano: Still languishing behind.

at least they moved up ten places, show some appreciation. Haba

The Super Eagles have risen up ten
places in the latest global rankings
released on Thursday following their
second round finish in Brazil
Nigeria rose up ten spots to 34th
place in the Fifa rankings released
on Thursday courtesy of the Super
Eagles' second round finish at the
World Cup in Brazil.
The Eagles are now the third-ranked
African side behind Algeria and Cote
d'Ivoire who finished in the 24th
and 25th positions.
World champions Germany climbed
to the top of the pile after defeating
Argentina in the showpiece final on
July 13. The South Americans are
now in second place.
Source:
www.goal.com/en-ng/news/4093/nigeria/2014/07/17/4964581/nigeria-rise-to-34th-on-fifa-ranking-after-world-cup

Full Ranking
1 Germany
2 Argentina
3 Netherlands
4 Colombia
5 Belgium
6 Uruguay
7 Brazil
8 Spain
9 Switzerland
10 France
11 Portugal
12 Chile
13 Greece
14 Italy
15 USA
16 Costa Rica
17 Croatia
18 Mexico
19 Bosnia and Herzegovina
20 England
21 Ecuador
22 Ukraine
23 Russia
24 Algeria
25Côte d'Ivoire
26 Denmark
27 Scotland
28 Romania
29 Sweden
30 Venezuela
31 Serbia
32 Turkey
33 Panama
34 Nigeria
35 Czech Republic
36 Egypt
37 Slovenia
38 Hungary
38 Ghana
40 Honduras
41 Armenia
42 Tunisia
43 Austria
44 Wales
45 Japan
46 Slovakia
47 Iceland
48Paraguay
49 Iran
50 Montenegro

I guess anybody who achieves something in like now is lucky abi.

I guess anybody who achieves something in life now is lucky abi.

Looking at his achievements.
1. Coached and qualified Togo for the world cup
2. Coached Mali and masterminded a famous comeback of four goals against the host country during the 2010 nations cup.
3. Coached Nigeria and after just one year, his team lifted the nations cup (first time in 19 years) despite going with 19 debutants becoming only the second African to ever win the trophy as a manager and as a coach.
4. Qualified Nigeria for the CHAN tournament (first time in our history), put up a decent performance including another famous comeback (3 or 4 goals, can't remember) against Morocco and 'unlucky' lost to Ghana the semi finals. Finishing third.
5. Qualified Nigeria for the world cup with relative ease (compared to our previous scenarios).
6. Gave us our first world cup match win in 15 years.
7. Became the first ever African coach to get to the knock-out stages of the world cup.
9. Lost to France controversially in a game the french should have had a player sent off (also, the disallowed goal by Emenike)
10. He aso discovered new players for our national team like Oboabona, Omeruo, Mba, Onazi, Uzoenyi etc.
Any more?
So I wonder if all these achievements were truly achieved by luck.

rahazaqa: D AFOY award will go to d person that deserve it,YaYa Toure...World 2nd best defensive midfielder behind Sergio Boshokoto(bosquet)....

guy, yaya toure no longer plays as a defensive midfielder 4 man city

wat Mikel needs now is 2 be giving more freedom by his managers (keshi and mourinho) 2 move forward and he will get lot more goals. WOW, front page? 'I never knew' I could make front page on nairaland. Amazing.

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FINAL WHISTLE VERDICT: MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
Posted on: Sun 05 Jan 2014

Jose Mourinho was left to reflect on a job well done after this afternoon's 2-0 victory at Derby in the FA Cup.

Like at Southampton on Wednesday, the first half was entertaining and end to end, if shorn of goals, and like at Southampton it needed a second-half header to open the scoring.

After Michael Essien was replaced John Mikel Obi took the captain's armband, and, on his 300th appearance in a Chelsea shirt, capped his day with a goal, thumping home Willian's free-kick with a bullet header.

Oscar added a second soon after, swerving the ball past Derby's keeper Lee Grant with a fine strike, and the remaining minutes were played out in relative comfort as we eventually eased into the fourth round, where a home tie with Stoke City awaits.

Jose Mourinho said he was delighted with his side's attitude against a side going well in the Championship…

'The game was difficult,' said Mourinho. 'In the first half we played quite well, we were not far from scoring but it was still 0-0 at half-time and that is a big risk, because after that if the opponent scores you are in trouble.

'They got the message that in the second half we needed an extra intensity. I decided to change Essien for Eden Hazard to bring an extra attacking player on to make it more difficult for them.

'The team played seriously, we won, job done.'

It was a landmark day for John Mikel Obi, in many respects…
'I never recognise his ability to score goals!' the Portuguese laughed.

'I recognise his ability to play as an anchorman, to play that position in a very comfortable way, with no mistakes. He reads the game well, plays in an intelligent and safe way, but I never recognise his goalscoring appetite.

'There was a smile on my face [when he scored]. For some reason Essien gave him the armband, normally it should go to Ashley Cole, so maybe it made him believe he was a goalscorer!

'It was important for us, we were dominating and dominating, creating and creating but the goal was not arriving. It was like the winning goal.'


http://www.chelseafc.com/news-article/article/3605362/title/final-whistle-verdict-mission-accomplished

Jose Mourinho was left to
reflect on a job well done
after this afternoon's 2-0
victory at Derby in the FA
Cup. Like at Southampton on
Wednesday, the first half was
entertaining and end to end, if
shorn of goals, and like at
Southampton it needed a
second-half header to open the scoring. After Michael Essien was
replaced John Mikel Obi took
the captain's armband, and, on
his 300 th appearance in a
Chelsea shirt, capped his day
with a goal, thumping home Willian 's free-kick with a
bullet header. Oscar added a second soon
after, swerving the ball past
Derby's keeper Lee Grant with
a fine strike, and the
remaining minutes were
played out in relative comfort as we eventually eased into
the fourth round, where a
home tie with Stoke City
awaits. Jose Mourinho said he was
delighted with his side's
attitude against a side going
well in the Championship… 'The game was difficult,' said
Mourinho. 'In the first half we
played quite well, we were
not far from scoring but it
was still 0-0 at half-time and
that is a big risk, because after that if the opponent scores
you are in trouble. 'They got the message that in
the second half we needed an
extra intensity. I decided to
change Essien for Eden Hazard
to bring an extra attacking
player on to make it more difficult for them. 'The team played seriously,
we won, job done.' It was a landmark day for
John Mikel Obi , in many
respects…
'I never recognise his ability
to score goals!' the Portuguese
laughed. 'I recognise his ability to play
as an anchorman, to play that
position in a very comfortable
way, with no mistakes. He
reads the game well, plays in
an intelligent and safe way, but I never recognise his
goalscoring appetite. 'There was a smile on my face
[when he scored]. For some
reason Essien gave him the
armband, normally it should
go to Ashley Cole , so maybe
it made him believe he was a goalscorer! 'It was important for us, we
were dominating and
dominating, creating and
creating but the goal was not
arriving. It was like the
winning goal.' www.chelseafc.com/news-display/FINAL-WHISTLE-VERDICT:-MISSION-ACCOMPLISHED/3605362

mike404: UNA STILL DEY LISTEN TO BRILA FM WHEN BOYS DON PORT GO JOIN FEMI AND GANG FOR NIGERIA INFO FM 99.3

See this mu.mu way no get job. So u go leave live radio commentary on brlla go dey listen to useless talk on femi and d 'crap'. I no blame u. Who even tell u say the safari girl dey Lagos. U no know say brila get station 4 Abuja?

Preboy: try py2exe, dat will do the job

thanks, but do u know how I can get the py2exe package?