Football legend Ronaldo snubs Cristiano Ronaldo in his all time Top 11. See full list

Brazil football legend Ronaldo da Lima has snubbed Real Madrid/Portugal star Cristiano Ronaldo from his list of all time XI best players preferring to include Lionel Messi instead.

Ronaldo included a couple of his iconic Brazil team-mates with full-backs Cafu and Roberto Carlos getting the nod. There are just two players who Ronaldo never got the chance to play against who made his line-up – and it is no surprise that they are Diego Maradona and Pele. See the list below.

Goalkeeper: Buffon

Defenders: Cafu, Paolo Maldini, Fabio Cannavaro, Roberto Carlos

Midfielders:  Diego Maradona, Zinedine Zidane, Andrea Pirlo, Lionel Messi

Strikers :  Pele, Ronaldo Da Lima

Source: Goal.com

Usain Bolt surrounded by crowds of scantily-clad women in London nightclub as he continues Birthday celebration (photos/video)

It’s been a whirlwind of a birthday for Olympic champion Usain Bolt, who was pictured kissing a mystery brunette in Rio, cuddling up to a Brazilian student in bed, and partying until the early hours of the morning. He has continued his celebrations in another continent as he was pictured surrounded by lots of scantily dressed girls at west London nightclub Cirque le Soir on Monday.

After the party, a stream of sexy girls queued outside waiting for a taxi Bolt had organised to take them all to another venue. More photos below.

Source: Dailymail

Good night to PDP – Obasanjo

… ‘I trust Buhari, he won’t fail’
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Friday bade the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) good night, saying he will not return to the party.
Obasanjo spoke to journalists in Jalingo, Taraba, while assessing some projects initiated by his administration in the state.
The ex- President terminated his membership of PDP in February last year.
Speaking on the lingering crisis in the party which now has two  national chairmen, Obasanjo  said he had already bade PDP good night and cannot return to say good evening.

“In the part of the country where I come from, there is a saying that you cannot say ‘good night’ and come back to say ‘good evening’ in the same place.
“So for me, it is good night for the Peoples Democratic Party and that’s all,” he said.
He expressed confidence that President Muhammadu Buhari will surmount the present challenges confronting the country.
“So far Buhari has not disappointed us. I trust him (Buhari), he will not fail Nigerians. I know he will overcome the challenges the country is currently facing,” the ex-President added.
He also urged the President to complete the hydroelectric project on the Mambilla Plateau in Taraba

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Friday expressed confidence that President Muhammadu Buhari will surmount the present challenges confronting the country.
He gave the vote of confidence while speaking to journalists in Jalingo, the Taraba State capital.

The former president was in Jalingo to assess some projects initiated by his administration in the state.
“So far Buhari has not disappointed us. I trust him (Buhari), he will not fail Nigerians. I know he will overcome the challenges the country is currently facing”, Chief Obasanjo said.
He also urged President Buhari to complete the hydroelectric project on the Mambilla Plateau in Taraba.
Speaking on the lingering crisis in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, which it was rumoured he had returned to over a week ago after terminating his membership of the party in February 2015, the ex-president said he had already bade PDP good night and cannot return to say good evening.
“In the part of the country where I come from, there is a saying that you cannot say ‘good night’ and come back to say ‘good evening’ in the same place.
“So for me, it is good night for the Peoples Democratic Party and that’s all”, he said.

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“God told me to whip them openly” says Pastor who beat 2 church members for fornication and attempted abortion

Bishop Daniel Obinim has broken his silence over a video which shows him beating two members of his church for fornicating and attempting abortion.
The founder and leader of the International Godsway Church said that he was forced to discipline the two after God revealed to him in a vision during prophecy time in his church that the two had not only been engaging in amorous acts but also tried without success to abort a pregnancy which resulted from that.
In the video that has gone viral on social media, Angel Obinim as he calls himself is seen beating 16-year-old Illiasu and a young girl, Gyasiwaa,14, for having sex. Calls have been made from persons and groups for the arrest of the man of God for abusing the right of the two teenagers.
According to Bishop Obinim, the two who are his adopted children have been staying with him for up to eight years and he had been in charge of their upkeep all these years. He told Adom FM’s Kofi Adomah in an exclusive interview that the male, Illiasu has been staying with him since he was eight after his father died while Gyasiwaa has also been staying with him for the past four years. He was forced to take the lady out of school to learn a vocation (makeup) after she told him that he cannot continue with school.

The male on the hand, is still in school and “last week, I even paid his fees of up to GHC76million so he could still be in school.” He said he wasn’t aware of the amorous relationship between the two due to the nature of his work. He found out for the first time during church service last Wednesday.
“Due to the nature of my work and that of my wife who has also been producing a TV show, we have not been staying at home and hence are unaware of the relationship between them, all I do as a man is to just provide the necessary money for their upkeep…,” he said.
“It was during church service that God opened my eyes and I saw that something like that had occurred, so I asked the lady and she said it was true. I was perplexed and queried further to know that if it is true that she is pregnant, and she said that it was true. So I called the boy and asked him, he also confirmed…if God had not revealed this to me I wouldn’t have known that something of that sort was happening…,” he added.
Bishop Obinim said he was forced to whip the two because the lady had attempted unsuccessfully to abort the pregnancy.
“The fact that the lady had attempted to abort the pregnancy caused me to discipline them…that is what caused me to quote Proverbs 3:24 which states that: ‘Whoever spares the rod hates their children, but the one who loves their children is careful to discipline them,’ before whipping them…,” he said.
Angel Obinim added that he is shocked at the reaction of Ghanaians who are calling for his arrest especially as the “same people would accuse me of killing her for ritual purposes if she dies through the attempt at aborting a pregnancy”
“I disciplined them as I would do to my own child…,” he said, adding that he would not allow the pregnant lady to commit abortion.
“As I speak the two children are still staying with me but I don’t know what to do, I don’t know whether I should sack them or not, their parents are here begging me but I still don’t know what to do because as a Pastor I won’t permit the lady to abort the pregnancy…,” he said.
Bishop Obinim also described persons and groups who are calling for his arrest and punishment as ones who are not ‘more sensible than God’. God would not have showed the vision of their amorous act in public if he did not want him to punish them openly, he insisted.

Rio Olympics: Nigeria’s Blessing Okagbare qualifies for 4 x 100m relay final

Team Nigeria has one more chance to win a Gold medal at the Rio Olympics before it ends this weekend after Blessing Okagbare alongside Gloria Asumnu, Jennifer Madu and Agnes Osazuwa qualified for the finals of women’s 4x100m relay.
The Nigerian quartet who finished in 42.55 seconds came second in heat two behind Germany who clocked 42.18seconds. Nigerians will hope the team can do well on the finals slated for 2.15am Saturday in Nigeria to win the country’s first medal at the sporting event.

In the other heat, Veronica Campbell-Brown and former 100m champion, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce led Jamaica to the final in 41.93secs.

New sprint queen, Elaine Thompson did not take part in the heat but is expected to lead the Jamaican push for the 4x100m gold in the final race.

“What will happen to anyone who does this to Buhari? Alibaba on public display of life-size na ked statue of Donald Trump

A life-size, flesh-coloured statue of a completely na ked Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump created by a group of artists known as Indecline, popped up at Union Square in downtown Manhattan, New York but has since been removed by authorities.
Comedian Alibaba shared his opinion via Instagram, asking what would happen if anyone dared to do such to President Buhari. He wrote, “Beauty of democracy… I must say this is too extreme though. But can you imagine what will happen to anyone who does this to Buhari? Especially after what happened to the person who named a dog after him… shoot at sight straight!”

FG Shuts Down IDPs Camps In Yobe, Adamawa

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The federal government on Friday said it has closed down most of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps in Yobe and Adamawa States.
The Director General of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Mohammad Sani Sidi made the disclosure while addressing a Press Conference to mark this year’s World Humanitarian Day in Abuja on Friday.

“We have camps in Yobe, Adamawa and Borno states but as we mark this day, I want to tell you that most of the camps have been closed down”, Mr. Sidi said.
According to the NEMA boss, 12 camps in Adamawa have been closed while six of the seven in Yobe have been shut down as displaced persons have started returning home voluntarily following the liberation of their communities by the military and the establishment of state structures.
“Most of the remaining camps are in Maiduguri and over 1million of the IDPs in Nigeria are from Borno state alone.
“We have 26 formal camps in Maiduguri but displaced persons in the camps in other states are voluntarily going back home. I can tell you that almost 40% of the camps have been closed”,
He, however, added that there were still some 80,000, 26,000 and 55,000 Nigerians in refugee camps in Cameroon, Chad and Niger Republic respectively.
While pointing out that Nigeria has been offering assistance to the refugees in the neighbouring countries, Sidi said the federal government was in discussion with the United Nations and the Governments of Chad, Cameroon and Niger to ensure a voluntary return of the refugees.
“We don’t want to remove them from one camp to the other, hence we need to complete the rehabilitation of their communities before we encourage them to return”.
The NEMA boss, who said the humanitarian challenges in the Northeast were overwhelming, assured that the government in partnership with development bodies, will continue to do its best to cater for all humanitarian challenges of IDPs.
He also paid tributes to those who died on humanitarian duties in the Northeast, pointing out that five NEMA staff were killed after a bomb attack on a camp in Yola, the Adamawa State capital on September 11, 2015 while a UN convoy was attacked on their way from Bama, Borno State last month.
While responding to questions on the compensation packages for families of staff, who died in the line of duty, Mr. Sidi said “no compensation to pay for one’s life, the tribute we are paying today is a recognition of their efforts”.
“This [tribute] is bigger than any millions and all over the world; no compensation is paid to families of humanitarian workers”.

Buhari Holds Closed-Door Meeting With Dogara, Tunde Bakare In Aso Rock

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday had a closed-door meeting with Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, at the State House in Abuja.
The president also met behind closed-doors with his running mate in the 2011 presidential elections and General Overseer of Later Rain Assembly, Pastor Tunde Bakare, in Abuja.

The meeting with Dogara, which took place inside Mr. Buhari’s office at the State House and lasted about one hour, is the second in less than two weeks between the president and Speaker.
Mr. Dogara, who stands accused by a former Chairman of the House Committee on Appropriation, Abdulmumin Jibrin, of padding the 2016 budget, was accompanied to the Villa by some lawmakers from the National Assembly including Senator Suleiman Nazif (APC/Bauchi North).
The Speaker snubbed all questions from State House correspondents at the end of the meeting.
Meanwhile, the meeting with Pastor Bakare was still ongoing at the time of publishing this report.

I was placed under house arrest in Port Harcourt-Fayose on why he didn’t attend PDP convention

Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose has claimed that he was under house arrest in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital.
The governor who was in Port Harcourt for the party’s botched convention, said he was not at the convention ground, because he was placed under house arrest at the old Presidential Lodge of the Government House, Port Harcourt ,as an Armoured Personnel Carrier (APC) was used to block the gate of the Presidential Lodge.
Fayose’s Media Assistant, Lere Olayinka,in a statement titled “I was under ‘house arrest’ in PH – Fayose” said:
“Fayose Governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti State has lamented that he was not at the national convention of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) because he was placed under ‘house arrest’ at the Old Presidential Lodge, Rivers State Government House where he lodged.

“All entreaties to allow Fayose to step out to attend the convention were rebuffed by the security personnel on ground.”
The State Commissioner of Police, Mr Francis Odesanya, however, dismissed Fayose’s claims, saying it cannot be true.
He also noted other Governors got out of their lodge to attend the PDP meeting, wondering how Fayose’s case was different.

“We are not ready for any negotiation or dialogue with the Federal govt” – Niger Delta Avengers reacts

In a statement released today by the supposed spokesman for the dialogue group, Ballantyne Agiri, Militant group, Niger Delta Avengers, reportedly agreed to dialogue with the Federal government to find a solution to the lingering crisis in the Niger Delta region. (Read here)
Niger Delta Avengers spokesperson, Brig.Gen Mudoch Agbinibo, has now debunked the report via his Twitter account, insisting that the militant group is not ready for any negotiation or dialogue with the Federal Government. He also encouraged the Nigerian Army and DSS to declared the supposed spokesperson for the ‘dialogue group’, Ballantyne Agiri, wanted.

S/Arabian Authorities Arrest 3 Nigerian Pilgrims For Drug Trafficking

Saudi Arabian authorities have arrested three pilgrims from Kwara for alleged possession of substance suspected to be cocaine.
Hajia Fatima Abolore-Jimoh, the Executive Secretary, Kwara Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board, confirmed the arrest on Wednesday from Saudi Arabia in a telephone interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).

She said the three pilgrims, who were among the first batch of 505 Pilgrims from Kwara, were arrested in Medinah by Saudi Arabia security operatives.
The executive secretary, who did not disclose the identities of the three suspects, said they were still in the custody of Saudi Arabian authorities.
Abolore-Jimoh said the Saudi Arabian law would certainly take its course on the three suspected drug traffickers.
She described the arrest as unfortunate and painful in spite of several appeals to them to be good ambassadors of Kwara and Nigeria.
The executive secretary said that other pilgrims from the state were still inMedinahh, hale, healthy and in good spirit in spite of the unfortunate incident.
NAN reports that 1,978 pilgrims from the state are performing the 2016 pilgrimage exercise. (NAN)