Nicolas
Anelka's promise not to perform a gesture offensive to some may not be
enough to keep his team's jersey sponsor from canceling its deal.Ian Kington/Agence France-Presse —
Pepe
Mel, the new manager of West Bromwich Albion, is looking forward to his
first match in charge when his club hosts Everton on Monday in
England’s Premier League.
What
he perhaps did not bargain for is the continuing controversy over a
gesture made by Nicolas Anelka after he scored a goal against West Ham
United on Dec. 28. The gesture, called a quenelle, was performed by
Anelka when he placed his right hand on his left arm in what some people
have called an anti-Semitic salute. The quenelle was invented by thewho last week had his performances banned by a French court for mocking the Holocaust.
The English Football Association,
if any, to take against Anelka. The delay in a decision comes against a
backdrop of increasing awareness of racism in European soccer. The Kick
It Out anti-racism group said that it was “very frustrated” with the
time the F.A. has taken to reach a decision.
A
spokesman for the club told Reuters that “West Bromwich Albion will be
making no further comment until the Football Association has concluded
its investigation and the club its own internal inquiry into the
matter.”
Zoopla has been West Brom’s jersey sponsor since 2012. The deal is to expire at the end of the season.
After
the uproar set off by Anelka’s gesture, the 34-year-old French striker
said he would not perform it again, but he also did not apologize for
his actions.
Richard
Garlick, the club’s technical and sporting director, told The Daily
Express: “There are investigations ongoing. While they are ongoing, we
won’t make any comment. People can speculate that there is a turn of
events where we might be two strikers down. It would help everyone for
that investigation to be over as soon as possible. The F.A. have given
their statement about how quickly they will do that.”
West Bromwich recently sold striker Shane Long to Hull.
Woman slumps, dies in Governor Aliyu’s office
In an attempt to see the Niger State governor, Dr. Babangida Aliyu in
his (Aliyu) office in Minna, a woman identified as Hajiya Bilkisu
Mahmoud on Monday slumped and died. Her death has been attributed to
delay on the part of the protocol officers who failed to make it
possible for her to see the governor on time, as she had to wait for
several hours before been allowed into the governor’s office.
Report says the 46-year- old woman had slumped three minutes after she was allowed into the governor’s office.
In an attempt to revive her, she was rushed to the Minna General
Hospital in a Government House Ambulance, but was later confirmed dead
by the doctors who attended to her.
The late Bilkisu, before her death, was suffering from asthma and was also a former Staff Officer to the Deputy Governor.
Sources from the Government House, Minna, said the deceased’s name
was not on Monday visitor’s list, as she was only paying a private visit
to the governor.
The mother of three was a staff of the State Emergency Management Agency before her death.
Governor Aliyu is yet to make any official statement regarding the incident.
However, DailyPost has gathered that arrangement towards Bilisu’s final interment has already commenced.
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Super Bowl 2014: Rapper Lil Wayne has a great story about Peyton and Eli Manning
Rapper Lil Wayne shared a story on Peyton Manning's legendary work ethic
(Doug Pensinger/Getty Images)
By on January 27, 2014 at 10:48 AM
Lil Wayne is not exactly the guy you would think of in the same story as Eli and Peyton Manning.
Well, welcome to Super Bowl week.
The Louisiana rapper recently spoke with , sharing a story he once heard about the legendary work ethic of Peyton Manning -- and his little brother Eli. “I have a story about Peyton. A guy who has been on the road with
us, he was like an uncle to us, he told us this story. When he was in
jail, about to come home, he was put on one of those work-release things
in New Orleans. Every morning, real early, he would clean the
schoolyard of the (Isidore) Newman School (where the Manning kids
attended). Because he was a prisoner, he would have to clean the
schoolyard at 4 or 5 in the morning. There was not one morning, 4:30, 5
in the morning, he wouldn’t see Archie, Peyton, Cooper, or Eli out on
the field. He’d see Archie throwing passes to Cooper, or Peyton throwing
routes to Cooper. I don’t know if people know this, but it was Cooper
who was the prodigy. He [the roadie] would tell us the story, you know,
like it was destined.”
Cooper, who many believed would play in the NFL as a wide receiver,
had to quit the game when he was diagnosed with a spine condition.
Lil Wayne also offered his opinion on the player everyone is talking
about leading up to the game -- Seattle Seahawks' cornerback Richard
Sherman. “To me, the Richard Sherman thing … I think he does it, I don’t
want to say for attention, I don’t believe it’s for attention, but I
believe there is a technique to what he is doing. It all of a sudden
doesn’t seem so natural. It seems like it used to be Richard Sherman
loves to trash talk, but now, it’s kind of a technique. Not natural.
I’ve seen people go back at him, and when they tell him something back
or he gets his face busted, there’s no more barking. That tells me, I’m
really not like this, I’m really not aggressive. I think it’s Richard
Sherman mouthing off … I know the media likes to say he’s backing it up
with his play. Well, Richard Sherman comes from the same place I come
from, the street, and he’s doing a lot of talking where he really can’t
back it up. I think he’s a shutdown player. But a great player? No.
Great? I don’t think he’s a great player. Now if he plays great against
Peyton, that will be huge. If he performs tremendously, that will
[change things].”
Saying Sherman isn't great? Lil Wayne might have just given the cornerback fuel for another rant. Follow Eliot Shorr-Parks on Twitter at @EliotShorrParks
Amaechi To Jonathan: Stop Pitching Christians Against Muslims
Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State on Thursday maintained that
he, along with other G5 governors, who defected to the All Progressives
Congress, APC, will not return to the Peoples Democratic Party.
Amaechi explained that their defection to the APC was not basically
because of the former PDP Chairman, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, who recently
threw in the towel, but as a result of President Goodluck Jonathan’s
refusal to address issues of constitutionalism and accountability.
He stressed that the only way to address such issues was through Nigerians and not President Jonathan.
Amaechi, who is the chairman of Nigeria Governors Forum spoke on
Thursday when Knights and Ladies of St. John International, Port
Harcourt Grand Commandery paid him a solidarity visit in Government
House.
He said, “The reason we broke away from PDP and joined the APC is not
basically because of Bamanga Tukur. Bamanga Tukur is not the big
issue. There were issues we raised before the President and he has not
addressed them.
“He (President Jonathan) said oh! I have removed Bamanga Tukur, so,
you people can come; come to do what? There are other issues; there are
issues of constitutionalism.
“There are issues of accountability, we raised them before Mr.
President and those issues have not been addressed and we think that the
only way to address them is through you Nigerians. The President is not
our problem; we are our own problem”.
Assuring his visitors that the APC would restore sanity to the
country’s polity, the governor urged Nigerians to vote out the PDP in
the 2015 general elections.
Amaechi explained that the APC would not be a religious party, even
as he lampooned those attempting to fan the embers of religious crisis
in the country ahead of the next elections.
He added that leadership transcended religion and ethnicity, saying,
“Don’t let anybody confuse you, they have been going from church to
church, telling you it is Christians versus Muslims. No! The money they
are stealing does not have Christian or Muslim emblem.
“So, it is not Christ versus Mohammed. They are using that to
hoodwink you to continue to siphon our resources. Their wives are
building houses all over, hotels all over and we are watchi
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The rank of the APC in the Senate swelled Wednesday with the defection
of 11 Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, senators to the All Progressives
Congress, APC.
Among the senators that defected are Bukola More...
Ministers With Political Ambitions Should Resign – President Jonathan
President Goodluck Jonathan may have given ministers who have
political ambitions to resign voluntarily latest by first week of
February.
It was gathered from a very competent source in Abuja on Monday,
that most of those affected are ministers who plan to contest
governorship elections in their states.
The source, who added that Jonathan was mulling a cabinet shake-up in
February, however, said the minister had not resigned because they
were not sure that they would get the governorship tickets in their
states.
He said, “The President cannot wait endlessly for them. That is
why he has given them the directive to resign voluntarily between now
and February. Definitely, there will be further changes in the cabinet.”
The source, who asked not to be named, did not say when the President ordered the ministers with political ambitions to quit.
The Minister of Police Affairs, Navy-Cpt. Caleb Olubolade (retd.) is
eyeing the Peoples Democratic Party ticket for the Ekiti State
governorship election in June this year.
Others who are eyeing governorship seats are the Minister of
Information, Mr. Labaran Maku (Nasarawa); the Minister of Niger Delta
Affairs, Mr. Godsday Orubebe (Delta), and the Minister of the Federal
Capital Territory, Senator Bala Mohammed (Bauchi).
Our source explained that the impending cabinet shake-up would see some of the current ministers dropped.
It was gathered on Monday that the exercise would take place after
the ministerial nominees would have resumed work after being cleared
by the Senate. Their screening begins this week.
The Presidency source explained that the ministerial nominees would fill existing vacancies in the cabinet.
He said, “The cabinet shake-up will definitely be in two phases.
One was the one we witnessed in September 2013. The list before the
Senate is meant to fill the current vacancies in the cabinet. “What is clear is that by the time those ones are cleared and they resume work, more ministers will still be asked to leave.”
When asked if the embattled Minister of Aviation, Ms Stella Oduah, would be dropped, our source replied, “What I don’t know for now is those that will be affected in the imminent purge but it is certain that some will go. “It is also almost certain that some of the ministers who will still be part of the new cabinet will be redeployed.”
The ministers who were relieved of their appointments in September
were Prof. Ruqayyatu Rufa’i (Education); Prof. Ita Okon Ekwa (Science
and Technology); Ambassador Olugbenga Ashiru (Foreign Affairs); Hadiza
Mailafia (Environment); Dr. Shamsudeen Usman (National Planning) and Ama
People (Housing, Lands and Urban Development).
Others were Minister of State, Defence, Chief Olushola Obada;
Minister of State, Agriculture, Alhaji Bukar Tijani and Minister of
State, Power, Zainab Kuchi.
It will be recalled that Oduah had been in the eye of the storm since
last year over the N255m BMW bulletproof cars bought for her by the
Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority.
[SHOCKING] Pregnant Wife Caught In The Act By Husband In Hotel Room With Another Man[See Photos]
According to reports, a husband who suspected his wife of infidelity
has caught her red-handed in the arms of another man. (names withheld)
Sources revealed that the woman, who is already a few months
pregnant, has been seeing her lover and having extra-marital affairs
with him for a while now. The husband has reportedly been hearing the
rumours of his wife’s affair and decided to take action.
On this fateful day, the wife and her lover, met at their usual location to have their lovemaking session.
The husband, at this time, got a call from his informant. He then busted into the room and caught his pregnant wife in the act.
The husband reportedly took photos and started distributing them on social media.
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Good Job!! Enyimba Win League Pre-season Tournament Known As The “Super 4″
Enyimba have emerged Champions of the Nigeria Professional Football League Pre-season Super Four.
The Aba side won all three games against Bayelsa United, Warri Wolves
and Kano Pillars, scoring six goals and conceeding none, garnering nine
points.
Warri Wolves came second, winning two matches against Kano Pillars and
Bayelsa United and losing one to Enyimba and have six points, while Kano
Pillars are third with three points after beating Bayelsa United.The
team that could not muster a point was Bayelsa United after losing all
three matches.Enyimba’s Abdulrahman Bashir emerged the highest goal
scorer with four goals from three matches.
Enyimba have thus won the N1.5 million prize-money on offer, while
second placed Warri Wolves go home with N1 million. Kano Pillars go home
with N750,000 and Bayelsa United will receive N500,000 for their
efforts.
I Can Act Nude For $50m? Nollywood Actress, Amanda Ebeye
Nollywood actress, Amanda Ebeye in an interview tells why she does more of soap operas than Nollywood movies. You became popular in the television series, Clinic Matters;
is there any difference between you and the character you portrayed in
the soap?
Yes, it’s a world of difference between the character, Abigail and I.
Abigail is known to be very nosy, she is two-faced and has issues and
controversy surrounding her. She also gossips a lot. I talk but not to
the detriment of other people. I was only portraying a character to the
best of my understanding at that time. But do you gossip, and are you temperamental in real life as you act in the soap opera?
Yes. I could be a little bit temperamental but not a big time gossip
like Nurse Abigail. I talk too but who doesn’t? I can never scandalise,
lie or bring people down; never. On several occasions I’ve had a lot of
people say, maybe when I get upset, I yell. They assume I am just as
Nurse Abigail in reality.
It is very funny because whatever I portray is what I would have done
if I was truly that character. It is not who I am. If I was a gossip, a
liar, a prostitute, a pilot; it is all in my head, it is my
imagination, my creation and not who I am in real life. But when people
talk like that, I feel honoured because I feel I gave the character my
best shot. Why do you do more of soaps than movies?
There was a time I stopped doing movies and concentrated on soap operas.
That was between 2009 and 2011. And since 2011, I have been doing
strictly movies apart from Bella’s Place that is owned by Royal Roots. Can you act nude?
I cannot act nude but like I have said before, if you pay me about $50m, I will. Please who is the first to pay?
EXPOSED: Dirty Secrets About Nollywood Actors and Actresses Revealed
EXPOSED: Dirty Secrets About Nollywood Actors and Actresses Revealed
One of the organizers of Nollywood awards has exposed the dirty
secrets of many actresses in the Nollywood movie industry and how they
pay to get awards.
Hear what one of them said recently, “It depends on how you hold
yourself. I remember in the third edition when the nominees list came
out, one actress sent somebody to call me and offer me money in order
for her to win.
I told the person that the money they offered me wouldn’t change my
life in any way. It is just the money I could spend in less than 24
hours. If I collect money from anybody, before the next award, the
person would easily tell a nominee to just go and pay a certain amount
to me if she or he wanted to win. We have a long way to go.
Award ceremony is very sensitive. Once you get it wrong the first
time, you are doomed. There is no second chance. Because of that, I
cannot collect money from anybody. But then again, I noticed that once
the nominee’s list comes out, some people start giving us jobs for our
other businesses.”
It did not matter that the voting went mostly as expected; Cristiano Ronaldo cried anyway.
Ronaldo,
the star forward for Portugal and Real Madrid, broke down in tears on
Monday night after being named FIFA’s world player of the year. He beat
the Barcelona maestro Lionel Messi, who won the award the previous four
years, and Franck Ribéry, the indomitable French midfielder for Bayern
Munich.
Ronaldo,
who scored 66 goals in 56 games last year, did not win a team trophy
(Ribéry won five with Munich), but he did lead his national team to a
place in the World Cup with a memorable performance against Sweden in
the European playoffs. That star turn, in which Ronaldo scored all four
of Portugal’s goals in the two-leg matchup, came — coincidentally — just
as FIFA extended the voting period for the year-end award, citing an
unusually low response rate in the balloting.
That
extension surely helped, though considering Ronaldo’s productive
scoring, as well as Messi’s injury-plagued season and Ribéry’s lack of
gaudy statistics, his victory in the voting of national team coaches and captains and select journalists was largely expected. Ronaldo received 1,365 points, Messi 1,205 and Ribéry 1,127.
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Ronaldo, left, with Pele, right, broke down in tears on Monday night after being named FIFA’s world player of the year.Fabrice Coffrini/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
In
truth, the player closest to Ronaldo in sheer quality, at least
recently, was not on the final ballot: Liverpool’s Luis Suárez, who has
scored 22 goals in 16 English Premier League games this season. Suárez
received only two first-place votes, but each came from a teammate. In
other voting oddities, neither Messi nor Ronaldo listed the other in his
top three, and Jurgen Klinsmann, the United States coach, left off
both: Klinsmann voted for Ribéry, Gareth Bale of Wales and the Colombian
striker Radamel Falcao.
Nonetheless,
Ronaldo was ecstatic after his name was called at the end of FIFA’s
annual gala in Zurich. He dabbed at his eyes and was embraced by the
Brazilian legend Pelé after the announcement. Ronaldo brought his young
son, also named Cristiano, to the stage with him.
“I am very happy; it is very difficult to win this award,” he said. “It is a tremendously emotional moment.”
While
Ronaldo’s victory was not especially dramatic, the naming of the World
XI — a global all-star team of sorts that is based on votes from as many
as 50,000 professional players around the world — was emblematic of a
growing parity among the top international teams.
In
the past, the World XI had been dominated by Spanish and Brazilian
players, with last year’s edition being almost comically Iberian: all 11
players played in Spain, and 10 of the 11 played for either Real Madrid
or Barcelona.
This
year, however, for the first time since the World XI’s inception in
2005, Germany was represented among the all-stars. The inclusion of
Philipp Lahm, Manuel Neuer and Ribéry was fitting; after all, many
observers saw last year’s Champions League final between Bayern Munich
and Borussia Dortmund as a symbol of the fast-rising stature of German
soccer heading into this summer’s World Cup.
Lahm,
Neuer and Ribéry were not the only Munich representatives honored; Jupp
Heynckes, who retired after Munich’s sterling season, was also named
the coach of the year.
“Maybe
10 years ago I wouldn’t even have dreamt of this,” said Heynckes, who
saw Munich drop only 2 points in the second half of the season and
clinch the Bundesliga title in April. “I am humbled and happy to be
standing here.”
Perhaps
the biggest stunner of the evening came during the announcement of the
women’s player of the year. Abby Wambach, the United States national
team’s productive forward and the winner of the award in 2012, figured
to be favored along with Brazil’s Marta. But Germany goalkeeper Nadine
Angerer won for the first time.
“I have to say that I’m a little surprised,” Angerer said.
