Ubah praises ex-internationals

 

Austin Okocha

Anambra State governorship candidate in the November 17 election, Ifeanyi Ubah,   has  commended  former internationals for their performance against Anambra All Stars on Saturday.

The former stars, led by former Super Eagles  captain  Austin Okocha,  defeated the Anambra team 6-3 at the Nanka Stadium. The game was arranged to herald the Anambra  Sports Week.

Ubah, who is the Nigeria Football Federation Youth Ambassador, said he sponsored the game and the sports week  to   show  youths in  the state that they could  become successful through sports.

He urged  them to always use their expertise to better humanity. He praised the ex-internationals for turning up for the encounter.

I won’t make same mistakes against Sweden –Eaglets keeper

 

Golden Eaglets  goalkeeper Dele Alampasu claims he learned  the painful lessons from Nigeria’s 3-3 draw with debutants Sweden in the FIFA Under-17 World Cup  group meeting in Al Ain City, United Arab Emirates, on October 22, promising a clean sheet against the Scandinavians in  Dubai on Tuesday.

Nigeria beat Mexico 2011 runners-up Uruguay  2-0  in Sharjah on Saturday to set   up a semifinal  tie with Sweden, who  defeated Honduras 2-1 in Al Ain City on Friday to reach the stage.

In the  group stage game,  Swede striker Valmir Berisha captalised on Alampasu’s mistakes early in the encounter to  put the Europeans 2-0 up before the Eaglets  came back to level the score.

And the  16-year-old keeper, who has conceded five goals in the tournament, has  vowed  he won’t make the same mistakes on Tuesday.

Ghana set for Lagos Swimming Classics

 

Ghana have become the first foreign team to confirm their participation in this week’s Lagos International Swimming Classics.

Championship coordinator, Babatunde Fatai-Williams, told our correspondent that Ghana was among the six foreign teams expected at the tournament at the Teslim Balogun Stadium, Lagos,  from November 7 to 11.

He said the Main Organising Committee  for the classics was expecting entries from the other countries, while most of the national champions in Nigeria had already entered for the four-day competition.

Nigeria ready for s/final –Manu, Ugbade

 

Golden Eaglets coach Manu Garba

Golden Eaglets coach Manu Garba and his  assistant Nduka Ugbade  believe the team are  in the right frame of mind going into Tuesday’s  FIFA U-17 World Cup semifinal match against Sweden in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Both teams battled to a 3-3 draw in their first meeting in the tournament in Al Ain City on October 22 but the duo insist the story will be different this time around.

“I want to congratulate the boys for a job well done against Uruguay and Sweden should be ready for our fireworks in the semifinal on Tuesday,” Manu told reporters on Sunday.

“We have learned so much playing against Sweden the last time, but we shall be ready for them this time around.”

You are here: Home / Sports / I will beat Tetteh – Emenogu I will beat Tetteh – Emenogu November 4, 2013 by Kazeem Busari Leave a Comment Davidson Emenogu Davidson Emenogu | credits: www.nigerianwatch.com Nigerian boxer, Davidson Emenogu, (16-1, 10 KO) insists he is ready to spill blood for the vacant WBO International light middleweight title when he squares up against Ghana’s Ishmael Tetteh on November 16 in Southampton, England. Davidson is current WBO African light middleweight champion, Australia light middleweight champion and Pan Pacific light middleweight champion. A packed bill will see Davidson fight for the title, which is now vacant after he was stripped of it having failed to defend it in over a year. Davidson opted to defend the WBO title in Nigeria but several factors prevented the fight. If he beats Tetteh, he will get a top 10 ranking with the WBO, which puts him in the position for a world title tilt in the future. “I want to get this out of the way because the biggest picture in front of me now is to destroy this boy and get him out of the way,” Davidson told reporters in Southampton during an open workout on Thursday. “I think in four or five fights I will be there and get to the number one spot. “Winning this fight would put me back in the world top 10 and that is a platform to get ready. I am going to be focussed and training properly. “I will be very professional because I have the back up now and I need to stand my ground properly and pray to God to stay safe from injury and then my dream will come true. “When I went back home (in Nigeria) I was training properly, running every day and now I’m here I am blending it up.”

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November 4, 2013 by Kazeem Busari Leave a Comment

   

Davidson Emenogu

Nigerian boxer, Davidson Emenogu, (16-1, 10 KO) insists he is ready to spill blood for the vacant WBO International light middleweight title when he squares up against Ghana’s Ishmael Tetteh on November 16 in Southampton, England.

Davidson is current WBO African light middleweight champion,  Australia light middleweight champion and Pan Pacific light middleweight champion.

A packed bill will see Davidson fight for the title, which is now vacant after he was stripped of it having failed to defend it in over a year.

Davidson opted to defend the WBO title in Nigeria but several factors prevented the fight. If he beats Tetteh, he will get a top 10 ranking with the WBO, which puts him in the position for a world title tilt in the future.

Uruguay coach hails Eaglets

 

Kelechi Iheanacho

Uruguay coach Fabian Coito admitted Nigeria were too good for his side after their 2-0 defeat in the quarter-finals of the FIFA U-17 World Cup in the United Arab Emirates on Saturday.

Taiwo Awoniyi scored one goal in either half from two Kelechi Iheanacho’s assists as Uruguay struggled to get the ball forward under a barrage of quick attacks from the Nigerians.

Coito told Gulf News  on Sunday, “Nigeria deserved this victory and they move to the next stage of this competition with a good chance. They have a strong team and players with very good skills for this age group.

UK scraps £3,000 visa bond

United Kingdom has cancelled the plan to impose £3,000 on first time visitors from six commonwealth countries including Nigeria, it was learnt on Sunday.
Saturday Punch had reported exclusively that UK may have suspended the plan after affected countries protested against the discriminatory policy.
The scheme failed to take off on Friday (November) as reported in June.
According to a report sighted on BBC news on Sunday, a Home Office spokesman confirmed a Sunday Times report that the policy would be scrapped.
But London Reuters said a government’s spokesman said the pilot scheme which had been due to start this month had been canceled.
“We have decided not to proceed,” it quoted the unnamed spokesman as saying.
Another report sighted on Khaleej Times reported that the AFP spoke with a Home Office spokeswoman who said, “The government has been considering whether we pilot a bond scheme that would deter people from overstaying the visa. We have decided not to proceed.”
Under the plan, visitors from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nigeria and Ghana seeking a six-month British visa would have been obliged to pay a refundable £3,000 ($4,800) cash bond to deter them from overstaying.

Jonathan meets ASUU today, union warns against force

 

President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan
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PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan will meet the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities on Monday (today), apparently with a view to resolve the Federal Government-ASUU face-off that has left varsity gates shut since July 1.

But the union said it had got wind of Presidency’s plan to direct that universities be reopened, saying such directive without amicable resolution of the current strike would deepen the crisis.

Chairman of ASUU, University of Uyo chapter, Dr. Nwachukwu Anyim, said this in a statement in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, on Sunday, saying that the union leaders were invited by the President.

Anyim said the invitation by Jonathan should ordinarily inspired hopes that the four-month-old strike by the lectures would soon end but that the union needed to be cautious in its optimism.

His statement read, “We are aware that President Jonathan intends to meet with the leadership of ASUU tomorrow, Monday, November 4, 2013, in a bid to address the deadlock in the ongoing strike by the members of the union.

Olamide I’m Not Better Than Dagrin

 

Born on March 15, 1989, Olamide never hesitates to promote his roots, Bariga, Lagos, in his music. In 2010 he hit the limelight when he dropped the lead single from his debut album, Eni Duro, which transformed him into an emerging voice on the Nigerian music scene.
Overnight, the final year student of Mass Communication from Tai Solarin University became the beautiful bride as he was courted by established acts for collabos before breaking away from his mentor, ID Cabasa, and starting his own label, YBNL Nation.

Pakistan Demands US Explanation Over Drone Strike Which Killed Taliban Leader

 

Mehsud

A drone strike which killed Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud has been seen by many groups in Pakistan as US’s way of derailing planned peace talk with Tehreek-e-Taliban.

Following this development, the Pakistani government has summoned the US ambassador to protest the drone strike. The country’s Foreign Office said in a statement on Saturday that the strike was “counter-productive to Pakistan’s efforts to bring peace and stability to Pakistan and the region”.
The interior minister echoed that sentiment and said that the drone strike was a “murder of peace”.
“The government of Pakistan does not see this strike as a strike on an individual, but on the peace process,” Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar told Pakistan’s Express-Tribune newspaper.