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The Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Mr Sunday Dare, has revealed plans to halt the current decline into consistent failure being experienced by Nigeria Football following the surprising ouster of the Olympic Eagles from the ongoing U23 African Cup of Nations championship in Egypt.
Holders Nigeria couldn’t make it past the group stages of the AFCON tournament after securing a 0-0 draw with South Africa on Friday night. Coach Imama Amapakabo’s boys needed an outright victory to leap frog the Amagluglug into the semifinals of the tournament.
This recent setback means that Nigeria will not be represented at the male and female football event of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. The Falcons were also knocked out of the race for the Olympic Games by Ivory Coast a few weeks ago.
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A disappointed Dare has, however, identified the need to return to the basics to develop a ‘long term plan for football development’ in the country to arrest this ugly decay.
“Nigeria’s game against South Africa, which ended in a draw, concentrates the mind. Time to look back and find out where the rain began to beat us. Like I said before, our football needs a return to the basics of grassroots football, pristine sports admin, sound technical coaching…,” the minister tweeted early yesterday morning.
A 46-year-old clergyman identified as Evangelist Chidi Eke has died in the course of fasting for 40 days and nights in Eziala Nguru in Ngor Okpala council area of Imo State.
It was learned that the pastor was reportedly fasting to seek God’s face as he plans to open his ministry.
The pastor identified as Chidi Eke reportedly left his wife and children in Lagos after he claimed God called him to start his ministry.
He relocated to Imo state where he said he would be seeking the face and power of God inside the ”Wilderness”.
He had successfully concluded 21 days fast and decided to go ahead to do a 40 days dry fast.
According to reports, “During the first and second week of his fasting, people who had gone to their farms heard him singing and praying loudly. But after the third week, nobody heard his voice again and most people thought that perhaps he must have gone deep into meditation. But one of his church members, one Cyriacus Opara became worried and insisted that he needed to visit him in the forest.
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“When Opara approached the family that he wanted to visit Chidi Eke in the “Wilderness”, they told him that they don’t actually know the exact location where he was and that Eke had earlier issued a stern warning that he did not want any visitors because he had left his phone and money at home and had only gone with his Bible and gown.” a resident of the village told newsmen.
Opara was told to contact one Cajethan Nwaneri as the only person who knew the location of the “Wilderness” since he had assisted the deceased evangelist in clearing it. Nwaneri led Opara to the place where they found out Eke had long died.
“Eke is the only son of his mother. In fact, it was members of the community under the leadership of Tochukwu Ekeh (Angle 90) who are going to bear the burden of burying him” a relative said
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Mr. Emeka, at his kiosk in Orie Umuaji, a village in the Umuida community, Igbo Eze North local government areas of Enugu state, was busy attending to his numerous customers whose motorcycle tyre either got deflated or punctured by sharp objects.
“I lost my two eyes when I was a kid to untreated cases of measles and other diseases.
My father was a bicycle repairer, and I spent so much time in his workshop, where I gradually learned the works of patching bicycle tyre despite my challenges.
“I lost my sight but not my ‘manhood,’ moreover, my wife delivered two sets of twins.”
Emeka stated that he got married and built a small house from the proceeds of his business.
Nigeria’s super eagles are away to Lesotho in the second fixture of their 2021 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying series.
It is the third time ever both countries will face each other on the international scene.
The Super Eagles go into Sunday’s game top of Group L, following their 2-1 win over Benin Republic on Wednesday.
The Crocodiles fought back to hold Sierra Leone to a 1-1 draw on Wednesday.
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Due to the termination of Lagardere’s media rights, the game will not be live on SuperSport.
However, NTA is expected to beam the game.
Kick-off at the 20,000-capacity Setsoto Stadium in Maseru is 5 pm West African time.
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The Owerri division of the Appeal Court headed by Justice R.A Adah had on Saturday nullified the appeal filed by the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) candidate in the 2019 governorship election in Abia State, Alex Otti, and validated Governor Okezie Ikpeazu’s victory of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Recall earlier that there was a three-man panel of the Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Umuahia, Abia state capital chaired by Justice A.L. Ogumoye.
The tribunal ruled that the petitioner failed to prove the case of over-voting, non-compliance to the INEC election guideline, and the electoral act.
Alex Otti had prayed the tribunal to cancel fifteen out of the seventeen local government areas election results in Abia State.
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Otti claimed that the respondents, Governor Okezie Ikpeazu, who was the governorship candidate of PDP, perpetrated excessive malpractice in those LGAs in the last March 9, 2019, election conducted in the state.
Meanwhile, the details of the Owerri Appeal court verdict dismissing Alex Otti’s suit seeking the cancellation of the results of fifteen local government areas out of the seventeen LGA’s of Abia state during the March 9, 2019, gubernatorial election conducted in the state will be made available shortly.
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By Anayo M. Nwosu
I pray that the virtuous women and Pius people who would read this article will not curse or judge me harshly.
It all started about the fourth year into my marriage, the very year my wife was pregnant with our second child, that Utonwa, a teenager from Awka, Anambra state was brought to our Lagos home as a housemaid.
The arrangement was that while she would be helping my wife with household chores, we would after a probation period of one year, get her a place to learn a trade or enroll her into a part-time educational program.
But Utonwa came prepared and I could read her inner motives using my number six.
Right on the day of her arrival, my wife screened Utonwa’s clothing and seized all her body revealing or skimpy clothes while buying her those dresses that would cover all her temptation-inducing endowments.
Utonwa also received specific codes of conduct from my wife as regards the no-go areas.
She was banned from entering our master’s bedroom for whatever reason or to serve my food unless madam was not at home.
The housemaid was a beautiful pleasant girl who treated our firstborn very nicely. She stuck to the instructions as decreed by my wife and never went beyond her boundaries to the elation and high rating approval of the madam of the house.
But that was to last for about six months.
I was soon to notice the measured but dragged sweetened tone of Utonwa’s voice anytime she greeted me when my wife was not around. I had also observed that she would take time to arrange herself especially the upper areas of her body anytime she noticed that I was looking at her direction.
I also noticed the relish with which she served my food those days my wife traveled out or went for career training.
My house was a three-bedroom rented apartment in which the only toilet and bathroom therein were contained in one small room.
Anyone so pressed to use the convenience would have to wait until the person bathing had finished.
“Imechana!” meaning “Are you done!” was a normal question in my house
The fact that the key to the door of the toilet/bathroom recently spoiled and the convenient behavior of spreading towels on the bathroom/toilet door as someone bathed, prolonged my inertia to fixing the spoiled lock on the door.
The easy-to-open door provided an opportunity for Utonwa to speak to me in parables.
She chose one Saturday morning when her madam was out for training and was not expected home until after 6 pm to go for my fall.
Utonwa opened the toilet/bathroom door feigning ignorance that I was inside even though I had asked her to boil and discharge hot water into my bathing bucket some minutes earlier.
I had barely washed off the soap in my eyes when I heard the door fling opened.
“Who is that?” I managed to blurt out.
“Brother, I am sorry. I didn’t know that you were still in the bathroom. I wanted to use the toilet. I’m having a running stomach!” was all I could hear her say.
I recall that Utonwa artfully pulled off her wrapper as someone actually suffering from diarrhea who upon getting closer to a water cistern or toilet seat to ventilate a bottled stomach pressure.
What startled me was that instead of beating a quick retreat, she stood inside the bathroom looking at my Adamic state while needlessly begging me “Brother, please don’t tell aunty. Please forgive me”.
Utonwa was yet to tie back her wrapper as she kept begging for forgiveness.
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I was now receiving a naked plea from my naked housemaid while I was naked.
Was she trying to entice me with her full, rounded, tantalizing and succulent mammalian glands?” I wondered.
“I will soon finish” was all I could say to her as hurried up to clean my body while assuming that she indeed had a stomach upset.
I righteously reckoned with the fact that diarrhea could make someone behave abnormally.
After deep introspective consideration, I decided not to mention the incident to my wife and to truly forgive Utonwa’s indiscretion.
But the temptress was not done yet.
The second temptation happened so soon. This time, Utonwa threw caution to the wind.
I was in the living room, watching English Premier League as Chelsea were impregnating Arsenal when Utunwa rushed out of the bathroom stark naked to the parlor. She came straight towards my direction crying.
An obviously possessed housemaid said that she had noticed a lump on her right breast while she was bathing and would want me to touch and reconfirm it.
“From where did this girl get the boldness to tempt a whole bank manager?” I wondered. Even if I wanted to mad madness, I should reasonably mad it outside not at home, not with my maid.
With clothes off, Utonwa validated her name which means “the sweetness of a child”. All I could see were as fresh as they could ever be even as they looked untampered with.
The young girl was a bomb and she knew it. She had all that was needed to fell an iroko tree.
I could see in seconds that which had been locked up in those factory workers’ dresses my wife had bought to conceal the beautiful work of God in Utonwa.
I had to muster an act of spiritual courage to invoke the God of Joseph to deliver me from this daughter of the wife of Potiphar.
I ignored Mr. Nwosu who by this time had stood erect waiting for a go-ahead order to proceed.
I was pleased to hear myself command the 19-year old girl, as would an exorcist man of God, to go dress up so that I would take her to hospital.
My effort-sapping triumph was proof that the “spirit of the prophet is subject to the prophet”.
The young girl emerged from her room well dressed only to claim that she could no longer feel the supposedly painful lump again.
I could no longer fight this dangerous war as my John Thomas seemed to have started taking sides with Utonwa. I was no longer convinced that I could survive the next onslaught.
That very evening, I had to narrate to my terrified wife what happened during the day and all that had transpired in the past.
Trust my wife, the girl left our house by dawn the next day.
My wife has never engaged any young lady as a housemaid ever since. It is now either an old woman housemaid or none.
Sometimes I imagine how Abraham, the father of faith and his grandson Jacob felt when they were offered their housemaids to enjoy in lovemaking.
Considering that the male organ is not like a finger that needs no inflation to enter a hole, the mere thought that these men of God had to do some mental exercises for their organs to rise to the occasion was a puzzle to a man of little faith like me.
I also wondered why Nnanyi Abraham didn’t object to her wife’s gift of the housemaid to sleep with. Could it be possible that our father of faith enjoyed that intercourse that led to the birth of Ishmael?
Jacob, also known as Israel, had a good fortune of being bombarded by his two wives with their maids for him to enjoy.
Bible didn’t record any refusal or unwillingness by our great holy ancestors to sleep with their wives’ maids.
I can imagine that Abraham and Jacob must have slept with those maids on many occasions until pregnancies were achieved.
Even in the traditional Nnewi society, housemaids who did so well were promoted by the man of the house to a position of a junior wife or “Mama Obele”.
One of my uncles had to upgrade a wonderful housemaid to his wife. She bore him nine beautiful children. The maid is now a wife.
The civilization in today’s world has closed the gender gap between husband and wife and has also abridged men’s marital fringe benefits.
One of the side effects of the new world order is the installation of a glass ceiling by modern wives on the career progression of well-behaved housemaids. They come as maids and leave as maids.
While we all claim the blessings of Abraham and still address God as the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, our wives have cordoned off the other blessings accruable to us through their housemaids quite unlike it was in the days of Sarah, Leah, and Rachel
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Teebillz has said he is still married to Nigerian singer, Tiwa Savage, in his response to a fan who called his attention to the viral video of Wizkid and Tiwa Savage that was captured in Dubai.
Teebillz and Tiwa have kept their marital status as a secret, and they usually avoid each other since their marital problems in 2015.
Teebillz, who was Tiwa Savage’s former manager but now manages BBNaija star, Tacha, revealed on Instagram that she is still married to Tiwa.
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He made the revelations in a response he gave to one of his fans that called his attention to a viral video where Wizkid was seen touching Tiwa bumbum while they both performed on stage.
The Instagram user identified as @nosatopnotch called on Teebillz to view the video and see how Wizkid molested his baby mama.
Teebillz responded to the comment saying:
“wife is different from baby mama if you have brain!”
See the conversation below:
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It is very reasonable for a bride and groom to arrive at their wedding venue in luxurious cars, motorbikes, or even a bicycle. But what is unusual and weird is when a bride decides to enter in a coffin.
An unidentified bride pulled a stranger than fiction stunt at her wedding as she arrived at her reception venue in a coffin.
The unusual bride immediately started dancing the coffin was opened to the amazement of everyone who gathered to celebrate with her on her big day.
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Some details of the wedding are still unclear at the time of filing this report.
However, recall that a 58-year-old bride, Jenny Buckleff, pulled the same stunt in 2018 by also showing up at her wedding in a coffin.
She said she did it because she wanted to be different.
Jenny said, ‘I just wanted to do something a little bit different. Instead of turning up in a horse-drawn cart, I thought I’m going to turn up in a coffin.”
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The Super Eagles will tomorrow clash with the Crocodiles of Lesotho tomorrow in the second game of the Africans Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualifying match at astroturf, in Lesotho
Media Officer of the team, Toyin Ibitoye, said the arrangement for the team to arrive Lesotho barely 24 hours to the crucial game was strategic, to reduce the effects of the adverse weather condition of the host country on the players.
“Lesotho is a high altitude region, and we have been advised on when to arrive the country in to avoid terrible conditions that might affect the players.
“So, we will traveling tomorrow (today) for the game on Sunday (tomorrow),” he said.
Further checks revealed that the city of Maseru would be partly cloudy, 30 percent degree centigrade and could be windy on match day.
With Maseru just about six hours from Nigeria, we expect the Super Eagles to arrive the Lesotho capital early enough today, to have a good rest before tomorrow’s match.
The Super Eagles defeated the Squirrels of Benin Republic 2-1 in their first AFCON 2021 qualifying game on Wednesday, at the Godswill Akpabio International Stadium in Uyo, and were expected to travel yesterday for tomorrow’s encounter.
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The Super Eagles top Group L with three points from Wednesday’s victory over the Squirrels, while Lesotho and Sierra Leone are joint second following their 1-1 scores in the other group’s first round encounter.
Victory in tomorrow’s match will shoot Nigeria to six points from two games and put the Super Eagles in pole position for a ticket to the Nations Cup finals in Cameroon in 2021. This will be the third time the Super Eagles would clash with the Crocodiles, with the Nigerian team claiming victory in the two previous encounters.
Tomorrow’s game, which will be played on astroturf, will kickoff at 5pm Nigerian time.