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This time a year ago, former Super Eagles chief coach, Stephen Okechukwu Keshi took a bow of the stage of life yet love or hate him the following things make him unforgettable

1 He died on the same day with another Nigerian maximum ruler, General Sani Abacha and the day is June the 8th. Humorously he met General Sani Abacha in 1994 after Nigeria’s victory at Tunisia in the African Cup of Nations

2 He experienced three African Nations Cup finals, in 1994 as a player and skipper of the Super Eagles, in the year 2000 as an assistant coach to Bonfrere Jo and in 2013 as the coach of the Super Eagles

3 He tasted victory at the African Cup of Nations in 1994 as a player and in 2013 as the coach of the same team, the Super Eagles a record he shares Pharaoh’s former coach Mahmoud El-Gohary

4 He qualified two African countries for the World Cup but only lead one of them. He qualified Togo for Germany 2006 but was sacked after the African Nations Cup in Egypt and qualified his nation for Brazil 2014 where he got to the second round

5 He experienced World Cup as player in USA 94 as a player and in Brazil 2014 as coach of the same team he captained twenty years ago

6 He, Steven Gerard and Steven Appiah are three former football captains that share one thing in common, the name Stephen.

7 He remains Nigeria’s second most capped player with 60 caps

8 He remains Nigeria’s only home based coach to have lifted the African Cup of Nations

The Big Boss maybe dead and gone but his legacy lives on, what other fond memories do you have of him?

8 Incredible UEFA Champions League Facts That You Musn’t Ignore

D-Day is finally come and gone the gladiators have done battle with defending champions Real Madrid holding onto to their title for the twelfth time and challengers Juventus the gallant losers. Juventus, the Old Lady of Turin were no pushovers and Real Madrid kept their record of never losing a final yet there are some UEFA Champions League facts that you should pay attention to.

1 Believe it or not UEFA Champions League is the most watched annual football event in the world.

2 The final of the 2012-2013 played between Bayern Munich and Chelsea played at Bayern which Chelsea eventually won was the most viewed final with an incredible 360 million viewers

3 Real Madrid remains the highest winners of the UEFA Champions League, they have won it 12 times 1955, 1956, 1957,1958,1959,1965, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2014,2016 and 2017

4 Clarence Seedorf is the most decorated player of the UEFA Champions League winning 4 different titles with 3 different clubs, Ajax, Real Madrid and AC Milan

5 Liverpool is the most successful club in UEFA Champions League winning five titles

6 Zinedine Zidane is one of the most successful persons in the history of the Champions League winning it as a player in 2002 as an assistant coach in 2014 and as a coach in 2016 and claiming a double in 2017

7 Ajax is the most successful Dutch club in UEFA Champions League history winning four titles

8 Ron Makaay of Bayern Munich scored the fastest goal in the UEFA Champions League history at an amazing 10.12 seconds ten years ago
(Source theincrediblecom.)

The English Premier League 2016/2017 season is gradually drawing to a close with the Blues crowned as the Kings of English football. The English Premier League has come a long way with ups and downs, shocks, surprises and upsets as well as shocking facts and here are some

1 Alan Shearer has missed the highest number of penalties in the EPL (11) he has also scored the most penalties (56)

2 Bobby Zamora and Obafemi Martins are the only two players in the history of the EPL to score penalties with both feet

3 Peter Crouch has scored more goals with his head than 15 teams who played in the EPL, he scored an incredible 48 goals

4 Terry Connor is the only manager to have played 10 league games without winning 1 of them

5 Ryan Giggs has the most appearance of the EPL, 632 appearances

6 There have been 103 different foreign FIFA-affiliated nations who have played at least one game in the EPL

7 Fulham’s Matthew Briggs in 2007 became the youngest player to play in the EPL at 16 years and 65 days

8 Everton have finished at the bottom half of the EPL more than any other team, they did so on twelve different occasions

9 James Vardy holds the EPL record for most consecutive games with a goal

10 Richard Dunne has scored more own goals than any other player in the EPL, he scored ten of them
Source theincrediblecom.

Shocking! 3 Gandhis Who Were Assassinated

I have found it most intriguing about I am writing, the three people from India sharing the same name Gandhi, two of them a mother and a son, Indira and Rajiv held the same political office, Prime Minister while Mohandas popularly known as Mahatma never held a political post yet till today is regarded as the father of the Indian nation. Sadly three of them though people of peace died violently, they were all assassinated

1 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi ‘Mahatma’

Born as Mohandas but renamed Mahatma meaning ‘great soul’ was also referred to as ‘Bapu’ which means papa as well as Gandhiji. Unofficially he is called the Father of The Nation. Through his efforts he helped India secure independence from the British through non-violent means referred to as passive resistance, a move which was also used by African-American civil rights leader, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. As his admirers and followers grew so did his enemies and on the 30th of January 1948, the worst happened, Mahatma Gandhi was shot dead on his way for prayers by Nathuram Godse. Gandhi was aged 78

2 Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi

The daughter of India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and the first and only female Prime Minister of India who served first from 1966-1977 and from 1980-1984 when she was assassinated. She was the longest serving Prime Minister after her father. Though not related to Mahatma Gandhi by blood she met him during one of his fasts in 1924, she was only seven. She said a day before her death on 30th October 1984 which was actually her last speech on the Parade Ground Orissa, ‘ I am alive today, I may not be here tomorrow…. I shall continue to serve until my last breath and when I die, I can say that every drop of my blood will invigorate India and strengthen it’ A day later she was assassinated by her bodyguards, Satwant and Beant Singh on the 31st of October 1984 true to her words. She was aged 66

3 Rajiv Ratna Gandhi

The only surviving son of assassinated Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi. Like his mother who created a record of becoming India’s first and only female Prime Minister, Rajiv created a record of his own, he became the youngest person to become Prime Minister at the age of 40. Rajiv was apolitical and reluctantly joined politics after the death of his brother in an aeroplane crash in 1980. Rajiv like his mother was assassinated only this time by a suicide bomber from Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) a group he hand open conflicts with. He was 47 years of age.
Source theincrediblecom.

8 Incredible Facts You Need To Know About President Macron

Emmanuel Jean-Michel Frederic Macron is now the President France, the youngest ever at the age of 39 still there are some things that you need to know about the new leader of the French nation.

1 Emmanuel Jean-Michel Macron though born into a non-religious family was baptized a Roman Catholic at the age of 12 at his own request

2 Like all great leaders in business and politics, he served political apprenticeship under former French president, Francois Hollande where he served as Deputy Secretary-General as well as Minister of Economy and Digital Affairs

3 He shares the same birthday with other world greats like Kiefer Sutherland, Ray Romano, Samuel L. Jackson, Late Florence Joyner Griffith, the date, 21st December

4 He is an accomplished pianist yet little is known about his knowledge of music

5 He paid 50,000 euros to buy himself out of his government contract in 2008

6 On April 6th 2016, he formed an independent political party called ‘En Marche’ in Amiens

7 Emmanuel Macron is the first president of France born after the establishment of the Fifth Republic in 1958

8 He is married to Brigitte Trogneux who not only is 24 years his senior but was also his teacher in La Providence High School in Amiens
( Source: theincrediblecom.

5 Incredible Things You Never Knew About The Acting President Yemi Osinbajo

The Acting President of Nigeria has been in the news from the day of his swearing in to this present moment yet there are some incredible things about the man presently stirring the ship of the nation which is known to few and hidden to many

1 The Acting President shares the same month with the late sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo who was born on the 6th of March, Professor Osinbajo was born on the 8th March

2 Not only does he share the same month with the late sage, his wife, Dolapo is his granddaughter which means that in a way they are related

3 He once served under the Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu Babatunde Raji Fashola administration from 1999-2007 where he served as Member of Cabinet, Lagos State Ministry of Justice as well as Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice

4 Ten years ago he served under Babatunde Raji Fashola who was the newly elected governor of Lagos State, now as acting President the former governor is one of the ministers that answer to him, how time changes

5 Professor Osinbajo was a Senior Leturer of Law both at the University of Lagos and Lagos State University

The secrets of men are in their stories, one thing I have learned from life is to give the best to whatever task you are given for you never know where you will find yourself tomorrow, what is your take on this article?

(source: theincrediblecom.)