Yaya Touré Retires From International Football Despite His Difficult Moments Under Pep Guardiola At The Etihad Stadium

Ivorian international Yaya Touré has today announced his retirement from international football. The decision is coming at a time the team captain of the Elephants of Ivory Coast is undergoing hard times under his former and current boss Pep Guardiola. The talented and energetic Manchester City midfielder has lost favour since the arrival of Pep at the Etihad stadium at the start of the on going football season.

Earlier today, several reports suggest that Yaya Toure has been told his Manchester City career is over unless he apologises for comments made by his agent. The reports also say that Pep Guardiola issued the ultimatum after he was angered by public criticism from Dimitri Seluk in the wake of Toure's omission from City's Champions League squad. Difficult times are meant to strengthen us!  

Best wishes, Yaya Touré !!!

FC Barcelona destroys Celtic in their 2016/2017 UEFA Champions League opener

It's obvious that FC Barcelona had an upper hand over Celtic before the match even started; Barcelona is a team with one if the best attacking force in Europe namely Messi, Neymar and Suarez. But football being a game if opportunities and surprises, anything could have happened at Camp Nou. The picture below speaks for itself

Reekado Banks releases debut album "Spotlight"

Mavin Records’ pop star Reekado Banks has unleashed his anticipated debut album titled“Spotlight”, after an exclusive listening event which took place last night in Lagos and had music industry giants in attendance.The “Chop Am” crooner who has the Headie awards for “Rookie of the Year” and “Next Rated” in his curriculum vitae, is first act of the Mavin 2.0 trio to release a full body of work ahead of mega pop star Korede Bello and diva Di’Ja.The lengthy 21 track set is entirely produced by Mavin in-house producers (Don Jazzy, Baby Fresh and Altims), and features collaborations with Falz, Sarkodie, Patoranking, Vanessa Mdee D’Prince and a skit with Kenny Blaq.
SPOTLIGHT – TRACKLIST
1. Hey Stranger
2. Killah Whyna ft Patoranking
3. Problem
4.Koloba
5. Biggy Man ft Falz
6. Ladies and Gentlemen
7. Baby Oku
8. All Your Love ft D’Prince
9. Change
10. Skit ft Kenny Blaq
11. Move ft Vanessa Mdee
12. Gbagbe
13. Love My Baby
14. Na Ur Body
15. Olaoluwa
16. Today
17. Dangote
18. Turn The Lights On
BONUS
19. Katapot
20. Oluwa Ni ft Sarkodie
21. Standard 

You candownload the full album here http://bit.ly/spotlightthealbum

GABON 2016: Ali Bongo Ondimba reelected

The Gurdian has it that one of Africa’s longest political dynasties looks set to extend its half-century of rule, after sources inside Gabon’s electoral commission told Reuters the incumbent president, Ali Bongo, had won another term with 49.85% of the vote.The commission was expected to announce that the opposition candidate, Jean Ping, a half-Chinese diplomat who was previously in the Bongo family’s trusted circle, narrowly lost with 48.16%, after a fraught election that observers warned was likely to result in violence.Ping’s party, which claimed victory soon after the vote, rejected the claimed result and demanded a recount in Haut-Ogooué, a Bongo stronghold which, according to the sources, the commission was to claim had a 99.93% turnout.The national election commission (Cenap) was due to announce the result on Tuesday at 5pm local time but delayed repeatedly. It still had not declared the winner 19 hours later.Many Gabonese suggested that five days to count 600,000 votes was excessive. Residents of Libreville ventured out in the early morning to buy groceries but later stayed at home amid fears of violent protests. The army has been deployed to the capital’s streets, and opposition members reported that their houses were surrounded by police.

The Devil Has Invaded The House Of God

I have been looking at people going to church and every time I do this,something tells me that the world is seriously infected with a satanic virus. I don't want to pass any judgement on this issue because I am not better and also because I don't want to have a dirty conversation with sister Mary and brother John. Many critics say the church is the hiding place for criminals. Yeah,it's true. All those who make me feel like going to an area of no return are "people of the big churches."
In my village(Tabenken), just like elsewhere, people go to church and kill their opponents in highly contested church posts.Little girls read the '1st,2nd Readings.. ' and still commit abortions.It's been practically proven that many church leaders are witches and wizards who occupy the front seats of the church and disturb the clergy. Why are we going to church when we can't forgive our fellow brothers and sisters? Why do we call ourselves Christians when we can't stay away from evil charms? Are Christians supposed to to help orphans or make them feel depressed? People of the big churches also discriminate, drink dirty wine in dirty night clubs, dine with b**ches in wild beaches,make human sacrifices to be "great people",jealous everything that is good and invite the devil into the homes of their prosperous brothers and sisters etc. Brother, where's your Bible? Sister, where's your faith? Uncle,why are you killing people to become a church elder? Aunty, you bought charm from baba Ngala to make that innocent man be your slave husband and forgetabout his family. Why are you going tochurch? What do you know about confession? My problem is not the church. My problem is with the people of the big churches who don't want the happiness of their fellow brothers and sisters. These are the realities of life, you cannot serve God and the devil. Serve God, help the poor, pray for the sick,pray for happiness,pray for peace,pray for justice pray for Cameroon, pray for the world.
NB:I'm not an atheist. I love God with all my heart. I rather find faults in many people who claim to be Christians. Non is perfect but we should not embrace evil or glorify no matter the place and time.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is in Nigeria

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has arrived in Nigeria for a business research trip according to the BBC.
According to a press release from his company:Zuckerberg is in Nigeria to listenand learn and take ideas back toCalifornia on how Facebook can better support tech developmentand entrepreneurship across Africa."He first visited a technology hub in Lagos called CC Hub.Facebook says it's the technology entrepreneur's first visit to the continent.He flew in from Italy where, among other things, he met Pope Francis and spoke about the "importance of connecting people, especially in parts of the world without internet access", according to Mr Zuckerberg's Facebook page.
Bellanaija.com has also reported that according toTech Cabal:There’s been a lot of Facebook-related development in Nigeria so there’s a ton of reasons why Mark may be visiting. First,Free Basicslaunched in Nigeria and Mark showed his support for theJobbermanteam. Then theChan-Zuckerberg Initiativeinvested $24 million inAndela. Also, Facebook’s developer workshop is happening tomorrow, and Facebookis partnering withCool Linkto launchExpress Wifiin Lagos some time this week.

Thierry Henry joins Belgium coaching staff as assistant to Roberto Martínez

Henry will be part of the backroom staff alongside Graeme Jones, who was Martínez’s assistant at Swansea, Wigan and Everton. The announcement was made as Martinez named his first squad since taking the Belgium job after Euro 2016.
“Thierry brings something completely different. He’s someone who has been in the situation of having to develop a mentality in a team of chasing the dream of winning something special for his country,” Martínez said. “He is very much an important figure in our staff and we hope he will pass on his experience to the players.“I’m very pleased with the effort of the federation to put in a support staff as impressive as it is. But always remember that the star is the talent ofthe players.“The attacking quality we have in our group is very rich. Thierry Henry’s experience of being able to go throughthat situation that we have as a team is going to be very important. Then when you go into the basics of simple attacking drills, as a player you can get a lot from him. That’s going to be a big role from Thierry’s point of view.””The fitness coach Richard Evans, who like Jones followed Martínez from Swansea to Everton via Wigan, will take up a similar role with Belgium.
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