Newcastle appoint Rafa Benitez as new coach

In what could be termed the most shocking managerial appointment of the year, relegation threatened Newcastle have this afternoon appointed Champions League, Premier League and Spanish League winner Rafa Benitez as new coach after sacking Steve McClaren.

With 9 games to go,  Benitez has a huge job on his hands if he is to steer Newcastle to safety but with an annual salary of £4m one can see why he accepted the three year contract offered to him.

Speaking of his appointment, Rafa Benitez who has coached Valencia, Liverpool,  Inter Milan, Napoli and Chelsea said:

“I have the pleasure to confirm I have committed to a legendary English club, with the massive challenge of remaining part of the Premier League.

“It will be a challenge not just for me and my staff but for the players, the Club and the fans. All of us must push together in the same direction and with the same target in mind. This is the reason why I’m going to ask for your total support to successfully complete this task.

“Personally, it means my return to the Premier League, closer to my home and my family. I can’t be happier.C’mon Toon Army! The club and I need your total involvement!”

Guinness resolves dispute with NAFDAC

Guinness Nigeria can now confirm that a Notice of Discontinuance of the court action instituted against the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) and the Attorney General of the Federation has been filed. The action was started following the receipt by the company of a letter dated 9th November 2015 from NAFDAC which, among others, imposed administrative charges of one billion naira (N1billion) on the company.

The termination of the court action was predicated on the letter dated 15th February 2016 from NAFDAC to the company which was stated to “supercede the decisions contained in the Agency’s letter dated 9thNovember 2015”. As part of the resolution,NAFDAC would be present during the destruction of the expired raw materials in its rented warehouse and both parties agreed that this would be the procedure for the exercise in future.

Guinness Nigeria also agreed to pay administrative and service charges to NAFDAC to cover the cost of the investigative inspection of raw materials carried out by the Agency as well as the supervision by NAFDAC of the destruction of the raw materials which would be carried out by Guinness Nigeria. The administrative and service charges of approximately N11.4m has since been paid to NAFDAC. Guinness Nigeria is home to some of the most iconic brands in Nigeria including Guinness Foreign Extra Stout.

As part of the Diageo group of companies, Guinness Nigeria operates to the highest standard of quality in its production and processes, being guided not only by Nigerian but global best practices. Guinness Nigeria acknowledges the support received from the Honourable Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, the Honourable Minister for Industry, Trade and Investment, Dr. Okechukwu Enelamah and from the former Director-General and senior management of NAFDAC towards the amicable resolution of the matter and expresses its commitment to maintaining and fostering a strong and mutually beneficial relationship with NAFDAC.

We don't need 36 state governors and their deputy- Sanusi calls for natioanal restructuring

Emir of Kano, Sanusi Muhammad II, has called for the restructuring of Nigerians system of governance, arguing that Nigeria cannot afford 36 state governors and deputy governors in the face of this economic hardship.


Sanusi said this while speaking at the inaugural lecture and launching of a N250 million endowment fund for the Oba Sikiru Adetona Professorial Chair in Governance, Department of Political Science, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State, yesterday March 10th.

"If you really reflect on the problems of this country, it seems to turn common sense on its head. You sometimes wonder if anyone needs to tell any group of people that if you are a poor country, you do not need 36 governors, 36 deputy governors, with members of house of assembly, commissioners and advisers, Special assistants, a president, a vice president, 36 ministers, special advisers, federal legislature and so on. Simple arithmetic will tell you that if you have that structure, you are first of all doomed to spending 80 or 90 per cent of everything you earn maintaining public officers.  

It is really common sense but it seems to be a problem for us to understand it,” he added.

Photos from LeBron James' final duel with rival Kobe Bryant last night

Kobe Bryant and Lebron James, the Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo of Basket ball, battled for the last time last night at the Staples center and it was an emotional as well as magical night.

LeBron James sent out an emotional tribute to Bryant before tip-off. "Best of luck with your new journey after you leave this beautiful game behind," James wrote on Bleacher Report's Uninterrupted. "I'll do my part to grow it, to make it as great as you made it and leave it for the next group that comes behind me and the rest of the guys."



Kobe Bryant scored 26 points compared to Lebon's 24 as the retiring Kobe still showed he was the better player despite his imminent retirement.

Photos: David Beckham shows off his £200,000 watch

 

 

The 40 year old football star was spotted looking dapper as he attended a charity exhibition of some of his most iconic portraits, which held at Phillips Gallery in London. During the event, Beckham, flashed a look at the latest in his collection of expensive watches, a Patek Philippe timepiece with the celestial design retailing for around £200,000. More photos after the cut...

 

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Photo of Lekki Garden MD in court today..in handcuffs

Richard Nyong, (with his head down) pictured in court today. Himself and his contractor were arraigned at the Magistrate Court in Ebute Metta today over the collapse of his Lekki Gardens structure on Tuesday March 8th. 35 people lost their lives in the collapse. See another photo after the cut.

Gallant Soldiers Catch Boko Haram Most Notorious Leader

It was another day of victory for our gallant soldiers in the battle field and defeat for Boko Haram as troops of the Nigerian Army accosted a gang of the insurgents at a border community in Borno state, shot and arrested one of most notorious leaders who has been on the list of ‘100-wanted terrorists’.

According to Army sources, a gang of Boko Haram were intercepted at a fishing community known as Daban-Masara in Kukawa area of Borno while trying to ferry over 200 litres of Petrol.

The insurgents, led by their arrested leader, who was labelled Number “95” on the ‘100 Wanted Terrorists’ list, attempted to resist the Troops of 7 Multinational Joint Task Force Brigade’s stationed in Baga and 118 Task Force Battalion, but were effectively overwhelmed.

Spokesman of the Nigeria Army, Colonel Sani Kukasheka Usman, confirmed the development and said the troops “sprang an ambush along Daban Masara axis usually used by Boko Haram terrorists elements to convey logistics on Thursday.

“At the encounter, one of the suspected wanted Boko Haram terrorists leaders who is serial number 95 on the first Nigerian Army wanted list of 100 Boko Haram terrorists leaders, was fatally wounded in the exchange of fire.

“He later gave up while receiving medical attention at the base, while other members of his team escaped with gun shot wounds. The troops recovered 7 Jerri cans of 30 litres containing 210 liters of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), motorcycles and food stuff in addition to arms and ammunitions”.

It was gathered that the dead leader of the Boko Haram had been a major motivational sub-leader of the insurgents in that axis of Borno.

REPLY TO AWUJALE: Where You Got it Wrong on the Yoruba Oba's Ranking

Awujale Was Wrong by Oracle

I am disappointed Awujale of Ijebu story did not include his root from Whadah with no connection with the DNA of Oduduwa.

Among Oduduwa children Awujale has no seat, he is just a tolerated king in Yorubaland without the true blood of Oduduwa.

Alake came to Abeokuta as a KING and as a descendant of the direct sixteen children of Oduduwa who finally settled in Abeokuta.

If Alaafin was chased out of Old Oyo Empire after the Fulani attacked Oyo Ile will that destroy his role as first among equals when he finally found another location in the present Oyo town?

NO!

Like Awujale told Gov. Bisi Onabanjo in 1981, the Ijebu were never Yoruba or had the DNA of Oduduwa they came from Whadah and must not be given a seat among Oduduwa Children.

For Awujale to down grade Alake to junior king is to show that he got too comfortable with history and forgot how he manipulated his ways into the hearts of Oduduwa children, trust me, he has just reopened the primitive war files between the Egba and Ijebu. And it is not going to look good.

Awujala should stay away from the history of the Egba because the history is about the children of Oduduwa not where they relocated to after wars, he can't use internal politics in Abeokuta to score a political point.

Awujale was economical with the true position of Alake as a direct descendant of Oduduwa and the politics of the Egba.

Alake supported his position with a 1937 photograph with Ooni, Oba of Benin, Awujale, Alake , at the grade of the Kings in Yorubaland. Awujale did his own with the hatred between the Egba and Ijebu before colonization. I am disappointed in him.

O ma se o.o

- this piece was dropped on zimsglobal page by Bello Okanlawon Adetunji

UPDATE: Saraki Delays His CCT Trial Again

If you remain poor in this Nigeria, just blame yourself! Those who have money have a way of turning the law into some kind of child's play with Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SANs) working for them.

A case of jurisdiction which Bukola Saraki and his lawyers dragged from Tribunal to Appeal court and to Supreme court and were defeated, he changed lawyers and brought in Kanu Agabi, another SAN.

Guess what? When the case resumed today, Kanu Agabi says he's challenging that same jurisdiction of the Code of Conduct Tribunal and as such the trial of Saraki cannot go on until that is first heard.

OluFamous.Com observed that efforts by Government lawyer, Rotimi Amaechi (SAN) to tell the court that this is another delay tactics by Saraki and his lawyers where frustrated as Kanu Agabi was making joke with Rotimi Jacobs in the open court, asking him 'Rotimi, should I beg you'?

Rotimi Jacobs complained that he has come under different forms of attacks and intimidation in the course of prosecuting Bukola Saraki. But Agabi threw the court into another laughter as he embarked on what seemed a charm offensive, declaring his love for the active federal government lawyer.

Justice Umar intervened and asked the defence counsel, Agabi, to serve the prosecution the motion on the challenge of the Tribunal’s jurisdiction afresh.

Jacobs said ok, the Tribunal should adjourn till Monday for argument of the fresh application.

But Agabi again asked for adjournment till next week Friday, arguing that as an old man who will be 70 soon, he would not be able to respond to the prosecutor’s brief on time. Just imagine!

When the drama became too much, Justice Umar had no choice but to adjourn the case to Friday, 18 March, 2016 for moving of the motion and possible hearing of the jurisdiction matter all over again.

Rotimi Jacobs reacted:

“The defendant [Saraki] keeps saying that there is no case against him and that he is being persecuted. Why doesn’t he let the trial start so that the whole world can see the persecution?”

Don't be surprise if Saraki change his legal team again at the end of another 6 months, when they finish the case of jurisdiction, claiming Kanu Agabi is too old and they start afresh. That's Nigeria for you!