Thursday, 11 August 2016
You Can Earn Doing What You Love
Northern Youths against attack on Buhari
Since Buhari's ascension, Nigeria has been divided into several fractions, the for, the against and the neutrals. Recently Northern Youths released a speech on how they would no longer stand by and watch Nigerians attack the President's image. The Niger Delta Security Watch Organization, NSWO, responded by criticizing the threat saying that former President Goodluck Jonathan was called all sorts of names during his tenure and nobody raised eyebrows.i
President of the group, Dickson Bekederemo, in a statement, said: “We strongly condemn the irrational position taken by Northern youths under the auspices of Northern Youth Leaders Assembly, who threatened not to tolerate any further attack on Buhari's image because he has done so much to put the nation on the path of progress.
“From their utterances, it appears they have forgotten that President Buhari is the President of Nigeria and not the President of Northern Nigeria, and so cannot be free from criticism. May we remind them that when President Jonathan was on the seat of power, he was called all sorts of names, ranging from clueless, incompetent and drunken fisherman.
“The pace has been set. President Buhari’s case will also not be different, as Nigerians from all walks of life have the right to criticize him."
Wednesday, 10 August 2016
Super Come back for Los Blanco Boys
Real Madrid steals the day in an all Spanish supercup against Sevilla.
Sevilla the Europa League winners lost Unai Emery who masterminded their three successive cup triumphs - to Paris Saint-Germain over the summer, replacing him with ex-Chile coach Sampaoli but looked set to claim another European crown, leading 2-1 deep into stoppage time.
Although lacking their super hitters, Zinedine Zidane's boys played one goal down against a ten man sevilla team until late into the game and won, thanks to Ramos late equalizer, which serves as a restitution for Konoplyanka's spot kick, and Carvajal last minute goal that denied viewers an extra 30 minutes of pure Spanish football battle.
This will be Zinedine Zidane's second trophy as Los Blancos boss.
Tuesday, 9 August 2016
Nigerians Set Continental Records in Olympics
This Olympics seems to set sight on Nigerians.
Nigerian athletes in Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games created records of their own, not enough to be on Guinness Book of records but one that will be cherished in a longtime to come.
Three Nigerians with records are two table tennis stars, Segun Toriola and Aruna Quadri as well as Rower, Chierika Ukogu .
The Toriola who is 41 years had his 7th appearance in the current Games, equaling the table tennis record. This has made him the most capped African Olympian.
Nigeria’s Aruna Quadri set another continental record after the 2014 ITTF star became the first African to reach the quarterfinals of men’s singles event at Rio 2016 Olympic Games.
Ukogu on the other hand, qualified for top classification in the rowing event in Rio, she is Nigeria’s first ever rower in the Olympics to have got that far, placing fifth in the third quarter final of the Women’s single sculls after clocking a time of 7:54.44 secs.
She will now participate in the semi finals C/D 1 event on Wednesday. This is her first ever appearance in the Olympics.