Ethiopia Nigeria-anology of a rivalry

Coach Sewnet Bishaw was smiling after Ethiopia’s workout yesterday. Despite reducing the team’s workload in fear of over training them, he must have been still happy at what he saw from his sweating foals.
Happy as well as confident because the normally reserved helmsman, now issued his sternest of warnings to the African champion when he told supersport.com "We don't only want to beat them in Addis but we want to give them a football lesson and kill them off."
It’s as if there exists bad blood between the two nations and to some it actually does. Let’s go down Memory lane.
Ethiopia costing Nigeria two valuable points in Addis the last time the two teams met there - to many an expert - is the real reason Nigeria did not make it to the Equatorial Guinea/Gabon Afcon. That draw put the Eagles in the precarious position of not just beating Guinea, but doing so by a certain number of goals in her last game. She failed and for the first time in three decades was not invited to Africa’s biggest party. To return the favour, two late penalties by Victor Moses now saw Nigeria expel Ethiopia at the last Afcon in South Africa herself, leaving many an Antelope fan furious and bitter.



Nigeria fans Getty Images 

But even before then there was commotion. This brings us to the notorious “bread game” that involved Paul Hamilton's Flying Eagles, who eliminated their Ethiopian counterparts en route USSR '85 U-19 World Cup finals. The story is that during pre-match formalities before the first leg of this African qualification tournament semi-final kicked off in Lagos, the Ethiopian lads offered The Flying Eagles a live chicken each. While it was a gesture of open warmth as we now know, fearing black magic then, the hosts turned the offer down flatly and proceeded to hammer the East Africans 3-0. The Ethiopians were embittered by the rejection and returned home with tales of wicked Nigeria fans taunting them with loaves of bread throughout the match - in cruel reference to the ongoing famine in the rebellious Oromo and Tigre regions of Ethiopia which the Dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam's scorched earth policies had created. The incident is yet to be substantiated locally and till today is denied vehemently by the NFF.
What can be substantiated is that the Addis Ababa crowd exacted vengeance on Paul Hamilton's team during the return leg when they not only entered the stadium with loaves of bread themselves, but also assaulted the players after the match, which ended 1-1. Monday Odiaka and Mark Anunobi talked about having crouched into fetal positions while being beaten. In fact Nigeria was trapped in the dressing room for several hours and had to barricade the dressing room doors against attempts at forcible entry, and were unable to leave until the crowd had dispersed.
And that is how things have been left smoldering till now.

John Dumelo visits less privileged school children in Cameroon

By Amaka Ojo

John Dumelo Foundation recently visited St. John Of God Catholic School in Bonadikombo, Cameroon and donated school supplies which included pencils, exercise books and erasers to over 100 pupils in the school. Photo: Facebook

The actor, through his non-profit organization, the John Dumelo Foundation recently visited St. John Of God Catholic School in Bonadikombo, Cameroon and donated school supplies which included pencils, exercise books and erasers to over 100 pupils in the school.
Dumelo’s visit to the school in Bonadikombo is his second charity visit to countries outside Ghana as the actor had earlier visited Sierra Leone, where he made similar donations
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PHOTOS: M.I.C shuts down to mourn boss, son and staff

By Ngozi Obiwulu

MIC boss, Tunji Okunsanya and P-Square during their mum’s burial

The management of Magbamawo Industrial Company (M.I.C) Funeral Services has suspended business activities in order to mourn the passing away of six staff members including their boss, Olatunji Okunsanya and his son, Olatunji Okunsanya Jr.
When NET paid the family a condolence visit at their office, 17 Odunlami Street, Lagos Island, the arena was filled with relatives, staff, friends and onlookers who gathered to sympathize with them.
One of Okusanya’s niece, Damilola Okunsanya spoke of her uncle’s attitude to work ‘Uncle Tunji was a very nice man and humble man. He doesn’t just leave the work for his staff but stays in front of them always. He also dresses to suit any occasion so you will see him wear Igbo, Yoruba, Delta, Hausa and other attires’.
Damilola also expressed how cheerful the late Okunsanya was especially with people ‘He plays with everyone. He likes dancing and also snapping pictures. If you look around, you will see that he appears in almost all the pictures here. He even poses for a snapshot here in his office’ she said.
In addition to the boss and his son, other workers who died on the ill-fated Associated Airline plane crash of Thursday, October 3, 2013 are Chijioke Duru, Kings Amaechi, Samson Hassan and Abdul-Hakeem Akintunde (who was buried on Tuesday morning according to the Islamic rites).
We are told that the other five bodies (including the Okusanya’s) are being held by the Lagos State Government for DNA tests which would likely take three weeks after which the date for the burial proper will be fixed.

Charly Boy poses in one of MIC Caskets




Members of the Lagos Island East Council Development join in mourning the late Okunsanya, son and staff





MIC and crew on duty



MIC boss, Tunji Okunsanya and King Sunny Ade
 
MIC boss, Tunji Okunsanya and son
 
MIC Caskets and some pictures inside the office
 
MIC Funeral limited handled the burial of King Sunny Ade’s mum
 
Pictures of the late Chijioke Duru, Kings Amaechi, Samson Hassan and Abdul-Hakeem Akintunde
 
Picture of the late Tunji Okunsanya at work












The condolence register




R.I.P

Who Rocked It Berra? Dambisa VS Dillish Vs Beyonce

Which of these fierce ladies looks much more hotter in this outfit?

Madonna, John Mellencamp, Cyndi Lauper and More Nominated for Songwriters Hall of Fame.

 

By MESFIN FEKADU,  Associated Press

 

NEW YORK (AP) — Madonna, John Mellencamp and Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page and Robert Plant are among the nominees for the 2014 Songwriters Hall of Fame.
They are joined by a number of top acts, including Ray Davies, Cyndi Lauper and Linda Perry.
The Songwriters Hall of Fame gave The Associated Press a list of nominees in advance of the official announcement, set for Thursday. The gala will be held June 12 at the New York Marriott Marquis.
Also nominated are Heart’s Ann and Nancy Wilson, Vince Gill, Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards, Donovan, Cat Stevens and Harry Wayne Casey.
Nonperforming songwriter nominees include “Midnight Train to Georgia” writer Jim Weatherly, Motown songwriter William “Mickey” Stevenson and country music songwriters Bobby Braddock and Bill Anderson.
Mark James, the writer behind “Always on My Mind” — covered by Elvis Presley and Willie Nelson — is also nominated alongside Don Robertson, Graham Gouldman and Tony Macaulay. Writing duos Hugo & Luigi, Sandy Linzer and Denny Randell, and Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham will also compete.
Eligible voters can select two nominees from the list of songwriter-performers and three nonperforming songwriters. Voting ends Dec. 16.

RYOT NOTE: There is no doubt that all these nominees are incredible musicians, but they’re also humanitarians too. Madonna is a supporter of Amnesty International, an organization dedicated to protecting  people wherever justice, freedom, truth and dignity are denied. They investigate and expose abuses, educate and mobilize the public, and help transform societies to create a safer, more just world. Click the gray box to learn more, donate and Become the News!

Lagos State Govt shuts down Lord’s Chosen Church Headquarters

The Headquarters of popular Lagos church Lord's Chosen and Charismatic Revival Church, founded by Pastor Lazarus Muoka, has been sealed off by the Lagos State Government for allegedly defacing and constituting environmental nuisance to its environment.

The church, located in Ijesha on Oshodi-Apapa Expressway in Lagos, was shut down on Sunday Oct. 6th by officials of the Ministry of the Environment and prevented thousands of worshipers from having their Sunday service that morning.

The Commissioner for the Environment, Mr. Tunji Bello, explained why the Church was shut down

The Church does not have proper sanitary system and they discharge their wastes into the canal. Most of their members trade on the expressway and we don’t want that"he said

The commissioner also said the church had a habit of burning its refuse inside the church, an action that is against the environmental and sanitation law of the state. He said the church will be re-opened only after it builds new toilets, build a sewage septic tank for the treatment of waste water, remove all illegal attachments built on drainage channels, keep the environment clean and ensure that none of its members trade on the expressway.

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Kanye West appears on The Jimmy Kimmel Show after epic fight

Two weeks after Kanye West blasted Jimmy Kimmel on twitter for poking fun at his BBC Radio One interview on his show (see it HERE) the two have buried the hatched. Kanye appeared on the Jimmy Kimmel Show last night and the two men resolved their issues... see the videos after the cut...

Seven-year-old leads police to smash Lagos kidnap syndicate

According to a report by Punch, a 7year old boy led police to the smash of a Lagos kidnap syndicate that specializes in the kidnap of little children, weeks after he was kidnapped and released by them...

Punch reports

A university graduate and two other suspects were on Wednesday paraded by the Lagos State Police Command, following their arrest, by a tip off from a seven-year-old victim.

The graduate of Economics of Olabisi Onabanjo University, Gbenga Sholaja; Olalekan Benjamin and Samson Shomorin, who specialise in kidnapping little boys, were arrested by men of the Igando Police Division and the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, Ikeja, Lagos.

The victim (name withheld) was said to have been held hostage at Benjamin’s father’s house at Ikotun, Lagos.

The child, who was later released after ransom was paid by his parents, was said to have memorised the house address where he was kept. It was the child who led police officers to the same house where Benjamin was arrested.

Sholaja, who wept profusely during his interview, told PUNCH Metro that he was pushed by unemployment into kidnapping. He said, “I have a Second Class Upper (Division) in Accounting and have completed my National Youth Service Corps programme.

“I went into kidnapping because since I finished my NYSC in 2011, I have been unable to get a job.”

An ex-convict, who was remanded in prison for kidnapping three years ago, Benjamin, said he met Sholaja at OOU while he was trying to gain admission into the school.

He said, “I was a casual worker at a factory in 2007 before I was sacked; I earned N300 per day. After staying idle for some months, I met a friend, Muyiwa, we were carriers of frozen fish at Apapa. He introduced me to Taofeeq.

“One day, Taofeeq brought a small boy to my house and asked me to take care of him. He claimed that the boy was his younger brother; he was about seven years old. The boy stayed in my house with my family and was well taken care of for four days. Taofeeq even sent money for his upkeep.

“When Taofeeq went to collect N150, 000 ransom, he was arrested by SARS and he led them to my house. We were charged and sent to prison in November 2009. In September 2010, we were released because the complainant refused to show up in court.”

Benajmin and his wife, upon his release, then moved to his father’s house at Ikotun area of the state. In 2010, he was said to have met Sholaja in OOU, where he went to write the post-Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination.

The 30-year-old claimed that Sholaja invited him to take part in another kidnapping; he said Sholaja had read about Benjamin’s arrest in the newspapers.

Benjamin said, “We would kidnap one boy and we would keep the boy in his (Sholaja’) mother’s house at Owode Ijako.

“After a week, the boy’s parents paid the money. We were given N100,000 and my share was just N40,000.”

Describing their modus operandi, Benajmin said they usually kidnapped children while on their way to or from school. All suspects were said to have collected a total of N260,000 on two separate occasions, to secure the release of two boys.

Benjamin told PUNCH Metro that he befriended potential victims by buying them biscuits on their way to school, thereby earning their trust.

He said, “It was the last kidnap that got us into trouble. I drove away not knowing that the boy memorised my father’s house address, where he was kept.

“After he was released, he led policemen to the house and I was arrested along with my dad but my dad was later released on bail.”

Shomorin, on his part, confessed to kidnapping three boys. He urged the government to pardon them, promising not to go back to crime.

Lagos Deputy Police Public Relations Officer, Damasus Ozoani, said the suspects were arrested on September 29, 2013.

Ozoani said, “They confessed to have kidnapped three children -one from Omole Phase 1; one Kola at Alagbado area and the last one in Owode Ijako, Ogun State, and various amounts of money were collected as ransom.”

Prison Break's Wentworth Miller (micheal Scolfield) Gone Fat

        

toned hunk that set thousands of female pulses racing when he burst out of jail and onto our screens in the hit U.S. drama Prison Break.

But we suspect Wentworth Miller may find it hard to flutter those hearts today - let alone escape - after letting himself go a tad.

The British-born actor, 37, was snapped out in Los Angeles yesterday and was almost unrecognisable as he went for a hike with a friend.The sexy shaved head, flat stomach and defining jawline have been replaced by a fuzzy head of hair, a rounder face and a bulging gut.

But Miller didn't appear to be too concerned about his fuller figure as he laughed and joked with his friend, all too aware that the cameras were on him.

The actor, who was brought up in the States but was born in Chipping Norton in Oxfordshire and retains duel citizenship, was dressed casually in a baggy red T-shirt, tracksuit bottoms and trainers.







 




 

Miller shot to fame in Prison Break which told the story of two brothers - Lincoln Burrows, played by Dominic Purcell, who was sentenced to death for a crime he didn't commit and Miller's Michael Scofield, who gets himself jailed to save his sibling.

Scofield creates a tattoo - which took five hours to apply each time onto Miller's body - which also had hidden within it, the blueprint of the prison.

At the height of his Prison Break fame, he starred in two Mariah Carey videos for her songs It's Like That and We Belong Together, singles from her 2005 album The Emancipation of Mimi.But since Prison Break, which ran from 2005 to 2009, Miller has kept a fairly low profile, and has only had a few minor roles.

He appeared in an episode of the hit series Law and Order: Special Victims Unit last year and stars alongside Milla Jovovich and Ali Larter in the upcoming 3D horror film Resident Evil: Afterlife, due out this September.

Last month, he landed a role in upcoming thriller The Mourning Portrait, which is inspired by post-Morten photography that was popular at the end of the 19th century when many people would photograph their recently deceased as a keepsake.

Chioma Chukwuka Akpotha Will Play In Her Upcoming Movie

Chioma Chukwuka Akpotha, born in 1980 in Lagos state, is a graduate of banking of finance from the lagos state university. She married when she was 17, and tries to keep her family out of spotlight.
Chioma has over 50 movies to her credit, and often plays a woman who has to endure hardship, and thus, her characters are always emotional.
In her latest movie, she plays the role of a village girl.
Do you think she, as always, will make the movie real and interesting?

 

Davido gives $3, 000 to the winner of the Skelewu dance competiton

A good day for Mr Kiddy Mizzy. Congrats to him…meanwhile a 20 year old is calling someone a kid. ..lol, Mr Davido! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IF15wchQdzw

Kris Kardashian-Jenner & Bruce Have Separated After 22 Years of Marriage

According to E! News, the Kardashian matriarch Kris Jenner has separated from her husband of 22 years, Bruce Jenner.

They’ve been living apart for a while but officially announced their separation today.
E Online.com Reports:
“We are living separately and we are much happier this way,” the pair exclusively tell E! News.
“But we will always have much love and respect for each other.
Even though we are separated, we will always remain best friends and, as always, our family will remain our number one priority.”
Kris and Bruce are parents to two children together, Kendall and Kylie, and each have four kids from previous marriages.
And oh, momma Kris has already started making money off her separation from Bruce by giving an exclusive cover story to Us Magazine.
“Poor Bruce! OK, so Lamar’s gone, Bruce’s gone, Scott is a Kardashian so he ain’t going nowhere…only remains Mr West.”

Hilarious Photo Of The Day: Afrocandy Swimming in dollars

I Bet This is her Entire Life Savings Heheheh!! The superpornstar shared this pic with caption “You wanna know why you don’t see me in pictures posing with other celebs? It’s cos I don’t do GROUPIES. I’m a one man squad kind of BOOS !!  Lol

Ruggedman ft. Reminisce – 8 Figures

“For those of you who thought he was going into retirement, that’s not the case. Ruggedman has come back harder than ever in this hard hitting Rap track ‘8-Figures’.
It’s good to see that Ruggedman is still able to deliver each and every time he comes back. I guess this is what he meant in his monster classic hit “Baraje” when he said “I blend with the trend/stay forever like Vulture”, because in this collabo with Reminisce produced by Beniesmusic, Ruggedman again shows he can kick it with the reigning trend of music. This track is definitely set to put Ruggedman back in tough with his fans.
When asked ‘Why the title 8-Figures?’ his reply was simple. My bank account is 7 but I’m tryna reach 8-Figures!!!”

Victor Moses Becomes Globacom’s Sports Ambassador

The Nigerian footballer who also plays for Liverpool is now a Glo ambassador. This was made known to the
 public on Tuesday. Big congrats to him.

 

Terry G Attacked by Armed Robbers

Hip hop singer Terry G, also known as GZUS, was recently attacked by armed robbers on his way to perform at an event. Sources close to the singer disclosed that he was not harmed, but made away with some of his valuables including, phones, money, and jewellery among others.

“We tried to keep it secret, but we have to say it out now! GZUS was attacked on Sunday by heavily armed robbers on his way to an event, we thank God they just collected his valuables. Though they later recognized him, but they did not return the valuables. We thank God for life, protection and guidance,”

Photos: Kcee ‘Limpopo’ Spotted With Gov. Adams Oshiomole & Former Cross River State Gov. Donald Duke

Musician, Kcee and Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole and former Governor of Cross River State, Donald Duke were spotted in Abuja… See another photo below…

PHOTOS: Tuface Idibia Smoking

And he calls it spiritual healing, things are looking good….. #InspirationThings