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 ”We purposely stretched the match into penalty shootout because we knew that Nigeria did not know how to play penalty,” says Ghanian Coach, Maxwell Konadu. Konadu made the statement at a post match interview on Wednesday after Black Stars defeated Super Eagles 4-1 on penalty to qualify for the final of the third African Nations Championships (CHAN) in South Africa. Ghana will on Saturday at the final meet Libya which earlier defeated Zimbabwe 5-4 also on penalty shootout. The full and extra times had ended goalless. The two semi final matches were played on Wednesday at Free Town Stadium, Bloemfontein, South Africa. Konadu said that although the Eagles were better tactically, the team lacked penalty shootout scoring skill. According to him, the Eagles would have scored within the 90 minutes time of the match but his boys matched them one on one to stretch the match to the penalty shootout. The forcefully contested match was marred with several yellow cards and on...

              Coach Maxwell Konadu of Ghana says Super Eagles coach, Stephen Keshi, is still the best coach in Africa.This he noted was in spite of the defeat of the Super Eagles, 4-1 on penalties, by his team in the African Nations Championship (CHAN) semi final match.With the defeat, Ghana would now meet Libya which qualified at the expense of Zimbabwe while Nigeria would have to fight for the third place with the Zimbabweans that had earlier lost to Libya.Konadu told journalists on Thursday in Bloemfontein, South Africa, that Keshi had achieved a good record of nurturing local players and exposing them to international match situations.“I do not think this game will change his status in Africa. I know Nigerians are behind him. They all respect him and what he has done with the local team.“We know how African football is and I had said that he (Keshi) is the kind of man we need in African football.“We all follow his step...

A Robin Hood-style charity worker carried out Austria’s biggest-ever security van robbery and stole £3 million – to give it away. The former policeman plotted with two others to hold up the cash van at gunpoint because he wanted to give the money to the needy in Africa. The robber, who cannot be named under the country’s strict privacy laws, had set up his own security firm when he was forced to retire from the police after being shot on duty. But after working in Africa, he was affected by the poverty and starvation he saw at first hand. He planned the heist of the Loomis security van after discovering it was transporting money to fill Christmas time cash-machines in Vienna. The robber then persuaded a former female employee of the firm to join his plot after convincing her to help him “spread wealth around the world”, he later told police. Although they wore masks during the raid, one security firm worker told police she thought the woman caught on CCTV resembled a ...

In 2010, Alapomeji song smith 9ice and his wife Toni Payne announced there was trouble in paradise and called their marriage of two years quits amidst cheating rumours, throwing the entire entertainment sector in fits especially with the lyrical-war that ensued between 9ice and Ruggedman (you all know the story). Days, weeks and months after the break-up, the media could only speculate; Toni Payne  and 9ice systematically left everyone in the dark; they made no public statements and refused to answer any question that probed too far, the silence was chilling. 9ice and Tony Payne on their traditional wedding day 9ice has finally been able to broach the issue in some interviews he granted but this is the first time Toni Payne is going public, denying the rumour of ever cheating on 9ice with a close friend of the singer leading to the eventual collapse of the marriage. Toni, four years after, writes on her blog that the rumour sniffed no iota of truth. Read her… To those who ...

Palpable confusion reigned in Owerri, yesterday, as a father tied his seven children, including his triplet, to a wheel-barrow and was heading to an unknown destination before officials of Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development intervened. The 44-year-old man, Israel Dike,  is a native of Odenkume, Obowo Local Government Aarea of Imo State, but resides in Ugwu Ekwema, Egbu Road, Owerri.The children’s hands were securely tied to a wheelbarrow while the man was soliciting for buyers for the children, saying he was fed up with his dwindling economic fortunes. A staff of the ministry said  “Following a tip off, a high powered team led by the Commissioner for Women Affairs, Mrs. Nma Onyechere, quickly went and rescued the children.” Apart from disclosing that he planned selling some of them with a view to enabling him take proper care of others, Dike equally lamented that Governor Rochas Okorocha put him in the mess he has found himself today. “Owelle Okorocha is the...

The suit filed by over 80 Igbo ‘deportees’ against the Lagos State Government came up on Thursday at the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, with the plaintiffs demanding a compensation of 1 billion Naira (about 6.3 million dollars). Seven plaintiffs filed the suit on behalf of 66 others and they are jointly seeking the compensation from the Lagos State government as general damages for breach of their rights. The seven plaintiffs are; Joseph Aniebonam, Osondu Mbuto, Osondu Agwu, Nnenna Ogbonna, Emily Okoroariri, Friday Ndukwe and Onyeka Ugwu. Joined as respondents are the Attorney-General of Lagos State and the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State. When the case was mentioned in court, the counsel representing the plaintiffs, Mr Ugo Ugwunnadi, told the court that the case was coming up for the first time. He informed the court that he had only been served with the processes from the first respondent, the Attorney General of Lagos and that the second respondent, the commi...