Enyeama’s Wife Reacts To Husband’s Retirement

Vincent Enyeama released a statement on quitting Super Eagles as the
team goalkeeper today, October 8, 2015.
The goalkeeper's wife, Promise took to Instagram to show love to her hubby.

She wrote,

"#Yes! You did well! Hold your head up high my love! I'm so proud of
you and your dedicated service to your fatherland for 13 good years. I
have witnessed your passion and commitment firsthand. You spent
sleepless nights just to analyze every goal you conceded, even if
there was nothing you could do to save them. You played through
injuries, pains and fatigue. You took the bullets of unjust
criticisms, biased and false reporting/information, just to let peace
reign. You missed important family moments to honor national call-ups.
Thank God for the opportunity/privilege to serve the nation. Thank God
for the strength/skill to carry out your duties. Thank God for all the
memories( good and bad). You leave as a hero. You bow out as a legend.
Our children, grandchildren and future generations will hear and speak
of your great deeds. God bless you my husband @vinny2908 God bless
Nigeria."

Glo Blesses P-Square With Brand New Cars

Telecom giant, Globacom has blessed the music duo Peter Okoye and Paul
Okoye with brand new cars.

Peter was gifted with a 2015 G Wagon while Paul Okoye was gifted with
a 2015 Range Rover.

The excited Peter wrote, "Just back from our successful #USTOUR and
now these! thanks to @globacomlimited for the gifts. Proud ambassadors
#Gwagon2015 #RangeRover2015 Cc @judeengees #BrandAmbassador"

Vincent Enyeama Retires From The Super Eagles- Read His Farewell Message

Super Eagles' captain/goal keeper, Vincent Enyeama has announced his
departure from the National team. He left a heartfelt farewell message
to Nigerians via his Instagram page.

He wrote:

I have fought a good fight for more than 13years.I have finished my
course,I have kept the faith and sang the anthem with
passion.henceforth,there is laid for me a crown which only GOD can
reward me for my 13years of national services.God bless NIGERIA.from
HENCEFORTH, I am no more the captain of the NIGERIAN senior football
team,I am no more the goalie of the team,I am out of the team.i am no
more available for international duties.i want to say thank you to
every Nigerian fan and supporter world wide.its been the most trying
period of my life but I know that Nigerian are there for me and God is
with me. God bless NIGERIA.

-GistReel

African Football Leader, Issa Hayatou Emerges FIFA President

African football leader Issa Hayatou, was on Thursday named acting
President in charge of FIFA after Sepp Blatter was "relieved of his
duties" following his 90-day suspension.

Hayatou, 69, is president of the Confederation of African Football,
and takes over as senior vice president of FIFA. He has in the past
been reprimanded for misconduct by the International Olympic
Committee.

Ebola Hits Nigeria Again, 1 Dead, 10 Quarantined In Calabar

According to reports, Nigeria might have an Ebola scare, over a year
after we successfully defeated the deadly virus which killed 7 people
in Nigeria and thousands across West Africa.

According to Vanguard

The University of Calabar Teaching Hospital has quarantined ten
persons following the death of a patient in the hospital on Wednesday
with symptoms suspected to be Ebola virus.
Dr. Queeneth Kalu, Chairman of Medical Advisory Committee of the
hospital who made the revelation on Thursday in Calabar while
addressing pressmen said blood samples have been sent to the Ebola
Diagnosing Centre in Benin Edo State.

"On Wednesday, 7thOctober, 2015, we managed a patient who presented
with symptoms mimicking viral hemorrhage (Ebola Virus) and have
decided to take the necessary measures".

Dr. Kalu stated that those quarantined are principally nurses who
attended to the patient and those who came in contact with him before
his death.

Fulani Herdsmen Attack Falae Again

For the second time in two weeks, the former Secretary to the
Government of the Federation, Chief Olu Falae has been attacked by
Fulani herdsmen, in Ilado village, Akure North Local Government Area
of Ondo State. This time, it's the cows belonging to Fulani herdsmen,
that overrun the farm of the former presidential candidate.

This happened barely two weeks after Falae, also a former Minister of
Financ,e was kidnapped by suspected herdsmen from the farm but was
released four days after.

The Farm Manager, Mr Bruno ‎Akhigbodemen, alleged that the cows
brought to the farm by the Fulani herdsmen, destroyed over one
kilometre plantation of maize on Monday morning.

Akhigbodomen, who conducted journalists round the farmland on Tuesday
evening, explained that the herdsmen invaded the farm at about 2am on
Monday, leading to the destruction of the plantation.

He explained that ‎one of the workers, who saw them raised the alarm
but before other workers could come around, the invaders had left with
their herds.

The Farm Manager added that immediately the National Chairman of the
Social Democratic Party was informed of the incident, he reported it
to the state Police Command after which some operatives of the Special
Anti-Robbery Squad were deployed in the farm.

A police source said the detectives combed the neighbouring villages
for the suspects but they were unable to make any arrest as the
herdsmen were said to have left the area.

Describing the incident as devastating to his boss and the entire
workers of the farm, the manager appealed to the government and the
security agencies in the state to be proactive on the security of the
farmland.

The state Police Public Relations Officer, Mr Femi Joseph, said on the
telephone that he had yet to be briefed on the incident at the time of
filing this report.

—Professional Nigeria Website Design

FIFA Suspends Blatter For 90 Days

World football governing body, Fifa, has suspended its president, Mr
Sepp Blatter, provisionally for 90 days.

Members of Fifa's ethics committee met this week after the Swiss
attorney general opened criminal proceedings against Blatter last
month.

He is accused of signing a contract "unfavourable" to football's
governing body and making a "disloyal payment" to Uefa president
Michel Platini.

Blatter, who has run Fifa since 1998, and Platini, who wants to
succeed him, deny any wrongdoing.

A final decision is likely to be made on Friday by Hans Joachim
Eckhert, the head of Fifa's ethics adjudicatory chamber.

Rochas Foundation To Build School For Adamawa’s Less-Privileged

The Adamawa State government has allocated a large parcel of land to
the Rochas Foundation to build a school for the less-privileged.
Governor Jibrilla Bindow said on Sunday, in Yola, that the move was an
expression of the government's sacrifice, in the interest of
education.

He called on well-meaning Nigerians to invest more in education,
adding that the sector was vital to social development.

He commended Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State for the provision
of a secondary school for the less-privileged in Adamawa.

He added that the state was one of the educational disadvantaged,
assuring him of support from the state government.

The land allotted to the Rochas Fundation was a former golf field.

He said that the public interest surpassed the interest of an
individual or group of individuals.

He said the gesture would go a long way in propagating the change the
people had been yearning for.

"We can sacrifice anything for education because it is only peace that
is as important as education. I commend Governor Rochas Okorocha for
this kind gesture and I pray that the lord will grant him success in
his future political endeavours. I am calling on well-meaning
Nigerians to take a cue from Rochas to invest more in education,
especially by supporting the less-privileged.

"We will negotiate with the golfers and provide an alternative place
for them, because even the constitution states that public interest
surpasses any group interest."

Earlier, Okorocha, who is also the chairman of the Rochas Foundation
said the construction of the school would start in January 2015.

He said that the gesture was to fulfil the promised he made that his
foundation would build a school for internally displaced persons
(IDPs).

He said that the foundation would incorporate the Attorney General,
Commissioner for Education and the Speaker of the State House of
Assembly as board members, adding that the board members would ensure
that the beneficiaries of the educational gesture were genuinely the
less-privileged.

He said that 75 per cent of the students would be orphans, adding that
the foundation would train the students to the university.

He said that the foundation had partnered with some universities in
around the world.

He said that the school would have a hostel, staff quarters and sports
complex, amongst others.

—DailyTimes

Buhari Must Be Screened If He’s Petroleum Minister — SENATE

Strong indications have emerged that today's plenary session, where
the Senate would unveil the ministerial list sent by President
Muhammadu Buhari, may be stormy as senators are saying the President
must, in line with the constitution, submit himself before the Senate
for screening if he appointed himself Minister of Petroleum.

They are also set to reject an incomplete list, saying the
constitution provides for a nominee from each state of the federation
and that any list that did not cover the 36 states would suffer
serious opposition on the floor of the Senate.

The senators have also vowed that they would not be cowed by the trial
of Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, at the Code of Conduct
Tribunal, CCT, just as they promised to adopt stringent measures in
line with the provisions of the Constitution during the screening of
ministerial nominees.

They added that the tradition of take-a-bow for senators coming for
screening as ministers would be jettisoned, adding that they were
prepared to send names of nominees to the sender of such a list.

Senate President, Dr. Saraki, is currently facing trial at CCT,
following a 13-count charge levelled against him by the Code of
Conduct Bureau, CCB, bordering on alleged corruption and false
declaration of assets in 2003 and summoned him to appear before it,
which he did.

'We'll stick to rules'

Speaking with journalists yesterday in Abuja, Senator Mao Ohuabunwa,
Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Abia North, who noted that the list was
expected to be complete, in line with the Constitution, said: "The
list will be unveiled tomorrow( today). The Senate President kept to
his words that the envelope will remain sealed until tomorrow
(yesterday).

"We know that all we have been reading could be speculations until it
is opened. It will be read on the floor of the Senate and we will
know. Even the 21 that people are speculating will be ascertained
tomorrow (today) on the floor.

"The Constitution does not support ministers by batches. Every state
must be represented but if the number is not complete, some of us may
raise constitutional issues. If we have to wait for another three
months for him to send another list comprising representatives of
other states, it means those states would be non-functional.

"We will be guided by the constitution and the rules of the senate.
This time around, we resolved that we are going to be quite stringent.
We are going to ensure that whoever is coming as the minister of the
Federal Republic of Nigeria must be somebody worth the salt; somebody
we can rely upon and somebody that would have met the constitutional
requirements.

'We'll stick to the rules'

"We are not considering waving any rule. Why should we wave the rule?
If we want to do that, it should be before the screening. I believe
that at the end of the day Nigerians will be happy because some
Nigerians are already saying that the names being speculated were not
what they have been waiting for these five months.

"This government has tagged itself as the government of change. If
that is the cardinal thing, it will be against this Senate and,
indeed, against the President and Nigerians for us to see a very
strong allegation that hinges on corruption and we ignore it. If we
see a strong petition, definitely we will look into it and follow it
to a logical conclusion.

"If it requires writing to the anti-graft agencies like ICPC or EFCC
to give us a report on such a person, we will do that because that is
what screening is all about. Screening is not a tea party. In Cross
River State the appointees are going to write aptitude test."

Days of take-a-bow over

On the President's decision to appoint himself as Minister of
Petroleum, he said: "I do not think the President's name will be on
the list and I also do not think that the President will say he is a
minister because if you are a minister, one of the conditions is that
you must be subjected to screening and approval of the Senate.

"He, as the chief minister, can be there to supervise any ministry,
but he cannot be a minister. Whoever is advising him to be minister is
not advising him rightly."

Chairman, Senate ad hoc Committee on Publicity, Senator Dino Melaye
(APC, Kogi West): "In our screening of ministers, it will not be
business as usual. The era of take a bow and go are over. The right
people will be made ministers without any political or religious
consideration."

—Vanguard

Coach Oliseh Sends Enyeama Out Of Super Eagles Camp

Super Eagles coach, Sunday Oliseh, has expelled goalkeeper Vincent
Enyeama from the team's camp in Belgium.

Enyeama, who joined the team on Tuesday (October 6) had questioned
Coach Oliseh's choice of naming Ahmed Musa captain for the friendly
games against DR Congo and Cameroon. The coach did not like it and
asked him to leave the team's hotel and immediately made moves to call
up Dele Alampasu.

In September, the goalkeeper failed to report to camp in Abuja for the
Super Eagles' Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Tanzania, only
for news to break that he had lost his mother.

Coach Oliseh has reiterated that indiscipline and poor show of
commitment from players would not be allowed in his team, particularly
during the rebuilding phase.

Speaking to Channels Sports, President of Nigeria Football Federation
(NFF), Amaju Pinnick, confirmed that he had spoken with the coach and
player.

"When I heard of the situation, I called Coach Sunday Oliseh and he
confirmed he told Vincent to leave the team hotel. Yes, there was a
misunderstanding but the matter has been resolved and Enyeama will
stay in camp," he said.

—ChannelsTV

“El-Rufai Lied, We Never Spent Billions On Independence Anniversary” -- GEJ

In a statement issued on behalf of the former president on Sunday
October 4, Abubakar Sulaiman, the immediate past minister/deputy
chairman, National Planning Commission, branded the Governor of Kaduna
state, Mallam Nasir el-rufai a 'liar' for alleging that his
administration spent N64 billion on October 1 celebrations between
2010 and 2015. He added that Jonathan administration spent only N332.6
million for the celebration in 3 years – an average of N66m per year.
The statement reads:

"We were taken aback by the recent comment reportedly credited to His
Excellency, Governor Nasir El-Rufai where he claimed that the
immediate past President, His Excellency, Dr. Goodluck Ebele
Jonathan's administration spent N64billion to cover the country
independence anniversary spending in five years. The break down,
according to the governor showed that N13billion was spent in 2011,
N15billion in 2012 and N14billion in 2013 and N22billion allegedly
spent in 2014.
This tissue of lies was contained on his facebook comment on Thursday.
Ordinarily, we would have allowed this to go as just ranting of a
favour seeker , but for the sake of ordinary Nigerians who were
abreast of happenings under the administration and also those who
never did, we will like to set the record straight. It is important to
correct the misinformation so that the unsuspecting public would not
be misled. For the record, a breakdown of our anniversary spending
between 2012 to 2014 amounted to N332.6million. We challenge the
Office of the Government of the Federation (OSGF) to publish these
details for the consumption of the public. For the record, a breakdown
of our spending for this event between 2012 and 2104 goes thus;
2012-107.6million; 2013-45million and 2014 had 180million. So, the
question here is where did the billions as claimed by El-Rufai emanate
from? Even though that of 2010 and 2011 are not handy now, but it
should be known that they all fall within the same bracket as the one
stated, except that the 2010 anniversary was a golden one when the
country marked her 50 year of independence. But even then , not such
outrageous sum was either budgeted or expended . Again, it is germane
to explain the increase in the 2013 anniversary spending for the
purpose of accountability. The National Honours Award Investiture was
incorporated into the celebration, thus making it two events in one,
hence the N174,800,000.00 budget. We also want to add that the said
award investiture could not hold in 2013 and the approved budget
rolled over and was utilized to organise the investiture in 2014. It
is high time government functionaries desisted from abusing their
immunity by destroying history and trading on lies just to gain cheap
popularity or curry one favour or the other from certain quarters.
Perhaps President Olusegun Obasanjo was right in his assessment of
El-Rufai when he said in his latest memoir, My Watch that his vivid
recollection of him (El-Rufai)is his penchant for lying, for unfair
embellishment of stories and his inability to sustain loyalty for
long. That exactly is what El-Rufai has done with his ungodly
fabrication of lies against Jonathan government. One hopes that
President Buhari would be on guard against being misled by the likes
of El-Rufai who are hell bent on misinforming the Nigerian publics.

-Linda Ikeji's blog

Our Economy Is Ill And Getting Worse -- Etcetera

Controversial write and singer Etcetera is back again! Read his rants below.

Is Nigeria getting worse? That is a very provocative question. I have
found that most people that hate Nigeria are very eager to agree that
Nigeria is getting worse, while a lot of those that love Nigeria are
very hesitant to admit that Nigeria is in decline. Well, I am proud to
be a Nigerian, but I cannot lie to myself or tell you that Nigeria is
doing just fine. The evidence is undeniable. Our economy is ill and is
rapidly getting worse. God handed us the resources to be one of the
greatest economic machines in the world and we have wrecked it. But
until we are willing to look in the mirror and admit how bad things
have got, we won't be ready for the solutions that are necessary. The
truth is that there are things that we can do to reverse the decline.
It does not have to be permanent. We have got away from the things
that made Nigeria great, and we need to admit that we are on the wrong
path and start fixing this country.

But if we choose to continue down the road that we are currently on,
it will lead us into the darkest chapters in Nigerian history.

If someone had written a story about what is happening now in Nigeria
20 years ago, people would have laughed and said "Wow that is a good
story, but it would never happen here, not in our Nigeria." But now,
the joke is on all of us. Nigeria has turned into one big comedy club
where the audience is wearing a frown as they listen to the president
cracking his "Change" joke. The president speaks of change from the
same mouth that he nominates those purported to be ministerial
nominees. He should tell us what change he expects from the list. How
do you achieve this change doing the same old things with the same old
people? Some governors on the list are still entangled in corruption
allegations levelled against them by their successors. What happened
to your zero tolerance to corruption mantra? This whole change thing
is becoming a gargantuan joke that is not funny at all.

A devastating economic collapse has left the country in a stagnant
decline, where Nigerians are still sleeping under bridges, ghettos
like Ajegunle are overfilled, while almost all houses in Victoria
Island and ikoyi lie vacant with 'for sale' banners hanging on almost
every gate, the kleptocratic politicians openly steal billions of
dollars, and remain free, while people charged with petty thefts go to
jail and have no bonds, protests break out and are quickly stifled by
an authoritarian police force, media houses are getting shut down and
becoming government controlled and relay repeating news stories that
have little to do with real events, and are more focused on propaganda
and nonsense, a politician takes several multimillion dollar vacations
at taxpayer expense, while ordinary Nigerian families cannot afford
the skyrocketing food costs, the senate is hopelessly unable to pass
any kind of legislation that can benefit average Nigerians, but easily
pass legislation benefitting themselves and usurping the constitution,
prisons are built and manned waiting for those who dare to speak the
truth against to power, the roads in estates built by politicians and
their rich cronies are tarred over and over while the areas occupied
by the poor masses are left in ruins, terrorists are granted amnesty
and pacified with fat monthly allowances while law abiding citizens
are gnashing their teeth. Whew! Did I miss anything? What about a
hero? Maybe a small glimmer of hope. Maybe Buhari? hopefully. I would
like the next paragraph of this article to read, "At Nigeria's darkest
hour, the people defied the odds, and ignored the experts and elected
a man of character and convictions to the office of the Presidency,
and the said man restored the constitution, defeated boko haram,
brought back the missing Chibok girls, brought justice to the people
by arresting the evil men and women responsible for years of death and
debt upon this nation."

Now I like that ending. Will it happen? I hope to God it can be so. If
I told a story 30 years ago that Nigeria will be worse off at 55,
would you have believed me?

-GistReel

If Chelsea Sack Me, They Sack Best Manager They Had – Mourinho

Under-pressure, Jose Mourinho has said that he will not walk away from
the club, insisting that if the club sack him, they would have sacked
the best manager in the club history.

"I want to make it clear, I won't run away and if the club want to
sack, they have to. I won't run away from my responsibilities"

"If the club sack me, they sack the best manager the club has ever had."

"I want to work. I have a big self esteem and big ego. I am the best.
These bad results hurt me a lot"

He made the remark in his post-match conference after his team
suffered another defeat.

Manager Jose Mourinho tasted Premier League defeat for the third time
in just seven games, the same amount of reverses the Blues suffered in
the entire campaign last season.

It appeared that Chelsea were set to bounce back from Champions League
disappointment against Porto when Willian fired home a sumptuous
free-kick to open the scoring.

But Southampton were determined to take three points from London, and
after Steven Davis equalised shortly before the break further goals
from Sadio Mane and Graziano Pelle sealed Chelsea's fate.

Twitter User Who Predicted Abuja Attacks Deletes Account

A Twitter user, Chima Okoro, who predicted the attacks in Abuja on
Friday on the social networking site, has deactivated his account.

Okoro, with @chimaokoro63 as his username on Twitter, between 8.34 am
and 9.12 am on October 1, had repeatedly posted: "I pray for Nigeria:
there will be a bomb blast in Abuja &Lagos, Boko Haram is going to
attack and kill police_army &_ Navy their evils (sic)."

In the profile picture of the account, which was captured by other
users before the user deactivated it, a young man of dark complexion
is seen slouching in a room with cream-coloured walls, dressed in a
red T-shirt, while holding up a mobile phone in his left hand and
smiling to the camera.

Checks on Twitter revealed that other users had started raising the
alarm about Okoro's tweets as early as 10 pm on Friday.

One user, Eduozor Henrie, at 10:47 pm, said, "@Omojuwa @toluogunlesi
@ogundamisi, please guys see the timeline of @chimaokoro63… worrying.
He tweeted this yesterday."

Another user, @md_oyereyi at 11:31 pm, said, "The attention of the DSS
and other security agencies should be called to this… @Ifyduoz
@Omojuwa @toluogunlesi @ogundamisi."

Debo Oduola, at 11:32 pm, said, "@Ifyduoz @toluogunlesi @Omojuwa
@ogundamisi @chimaokoro63 he should be arrested asap," while Dame
Jayla Peperempe, in her reaction (11:03 pm), said, "Hmmm this is all
he tweeted yesterday."

Ogundana Michael (11:16 pm) said, "Who is this that tweeted this? He
tweeted this just yesterday!" and Dogoh Orduen @MackDogoh (11:18 pm)
expressing disbelief, said, "@MickeySunny @chimaokoro63 you are
kidding me!!!"

-PUNCH

Pope Expels Gay Priest From Vatican

The Vatican, on Saturday, fired a senior priest, Krzysztof Charamsa,
who publicly came out as gay on the eve of a major meeting of church
leaders to discuss the Church's stance on social issues such as
divorce and homosexuality.

A statement by a spokesman for Pope Francis described the Polish
priest's action as "very serious and irresponsible," adding that he
would be immediately sacked from his post as a theologian in the
Vatican.

The statement read, "The decision to make such a pointed statement on
the eve of the opening of the synod appears very serious and
irresponsible, since it aims to subject the synod assembly to undue
media pressure."

Charamsa, who is a mid-level official in the Vatican bureaucracy's
dealing with church doctrine, flanked by his Spanish boyfriend while
donning his priest's collar, on Saturday, had earlier told a news
conference in Rome that he was compelled to speak out against the
"hypocrisy and paranoia" that he said had shaped the Church's attitude
to sexual minorities.

The 43-year-old priest said, "I'm out of the closet, and I'm very
happy about that. I want to be an advocate for all sexual minorities
and their families who have suffered in silence."

He presented a 10-point "liberation manifesto" against
"institutionalised homophobia in the Church," which he said
particularly oppressed the gay men who, according to him, make up the
majority of priests.

He also revealed plans for a book about his 12 years at the heart of a
Vatican bureaucracy, only just recovering from a scandal under
previous Pope Benedict XVI over the influence of a "gay lobby" among
senior clergy.