* Drogba wins Premier League Golden Boot
Drogba wins Premier League Golden Boot
Chelsea striker Didier Drogba has pipped Wayne Rooney to the Premier League Golden Boot after scoring a hat-trick in his side's 8-0 win over Wigan.
The 32-year-old finished the campaign with 29 goals in 33 appearances, two more than Manchester United's Rooney.
The England striker was level with Drogba before the game with 26 goals, but failed to score in United's 3-0 defeat of Stoke City.
Since joining Chelsea in 2004 Drogba has hit 83 goals in 165 Premier League appearances.
Sunderland striker Darren Bent finished third with 24 goals in 38 appearances.
Carlos Tevez meanwhile hit 23 goals in 36 appearances.
Monday, May 10, 2010
Sunday, May 9, 2010
श्रीड्ण्टीऴ VISIT
Jonathan visits Yar’adua
L-R: Wife of the late President Umaru Yar’Adua, Hajia Turai; President Goodluck Jonathan; Mima Yar‘Adua, Governor Ibrahim Shema of Katsina State; and First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, during the President’s condolence visit to the Yar’Adua’s family, in Katsina… on Saturday
President Goodluck Jonathan on Saturday visited the family of the late Umaru Yar‘Adua in Katsina, pledging to continue to implement his predecessor‘s policies and programmes.
Accomplishing this, Jonathan said, would be the greatest respect his administration would give in memory of Yar‘Adua who died in the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Wednesday night.
Jonathan who was dressed in light chocolate kaftan and flowing babariga with a dark brown cap, arrived at the Katsina International Airport at about 10:56 am aboard a Nigerian Air Force Presidential jet marked 5N-FGS in company with the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Alhaji Yayale Ahmed; Senate President, David Mark, the governors of Delta (Emmanuel Uduaghan), Lagos (Babatunde Fashola), Kwara (Bukola Saraki) and Zamfara (Mahmud Aliyu Shinkafi).
Also on the president‘s entourage were the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Odein Ajumogobia and Nigeria‘s High Commissioner to South Africa, Buba Marwa as well as other top government functionaries.
Security was, however, tight from the airport to the family home of the late president even as it took some time before Jonathan‘s heavily guarded sleek black Mercedes Benz pulled up outside the Yar’Adua’s house.
Jonathan attended the third day prayer session led by the Chief Imam of Katsina Central Mosque, Liman Aliyu Abba, and Liman Ibrahim Sabiu Jibia of Jibia Jumat Mosque from 11.28 to 11.45 am.
The president who was received into the Yar‘Adua family house amid the outpouring of emotions and shedding of tears by sympathizers told the mother of the late president, Hajia Dada, that the sudden death of her son had left him traumatised.
He described the late president as a patriot and a man of honour, respect, and humility.
The president told Hajia Dada who was shedding tears profusely and the former First Lady, Hajia Turai, that the contributions of Yar‘Adua to the nation‘s socio-economic development would remain indelible on the sands of time.
Jonathan and his wife, Patience, who had earlier arrived at the Yar‘Adua family home met with Turai and her children in a room where they also met former first ladies, including Mrs. Ajoke Murtala Muhammad, Hajiya Maryam Abacha and Justice Fatima Abdulsalami Abubakar.
Signing the condolence register, Jonathan wrote, ”It is sad to express my feelings over the death of my boss, my brother, my friend who asked me to join him to run the affairs of this country will leave me behind at this time. I lack words to express my personal feelings, God knows. May his soul rest in peace.”
Thousands of mourners who had besieged the Yar‘Adua family house for the third prayer hailed the visiting president who was dressed in pink traditional Hausa attire and donning a cap.
The prayer session was led by the Chief Imam of Jibiya Mosque, Mallam Ibrahim Sabiu.
Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Yayale Ahmed, also offered prayers on behalf of President Jonathan while commiserating with Yar‘Adua‘s mother in the inner room.
Later at the palace of the Emir of Katsina, Jonathan said he enjoyed good working relationship with his late predecessor.
Responding, the Emir, Alhaji Abdul Muminu Kabir Usman, thanked the president for the visit and advised him to carry every part of the country along in his administration of the affairs of the country.
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* Good Job GOODLUCK!
Posted by: Adebola mustafa , on Sunday, May 09, 2010
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* will done mr. president for ur important visiting to family of late president,God will reward u. i pray God will guard u in control of nig. u shall take this nations 2 promising land.changes shall prevail in nig (amen)
Posted by: saheed , on Sunday, May 09, 2010
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* Sir Jonathan, don’t listen to that ex–convict OBJ. I hope u saw how ur late boss obeyed and respected the judiciary? Don’t allow OBJ to spoil ur government as he did during his own tenure. Becos, there is no difference between OBJ and Babaginda. No ex–soldier should be allowed to be the civilian President of this great country. Military life and political life experiences are two different institutions entirely .
Posted by: AKPAH FRANCIS , on Sunday, May 09, 2010
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* MR. PRESIDENT GOD BLESS YOU FOR PAYING THIS IMPORTANT VISIT.THOUGH SOME MIGHT EVEN THINK OTHERWISE.
Posted by: olubunmi , on Sunday, May 09, 2010
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* Beware Mr. President!!, it is easy to derail from the genuin plan you have asked God to give you in order to heal this Nation as we have seen of few past leaders. The cabals are still very much around and will try to cause you pains and difficulties. Don’t go witch hunting but rely solely on God to help and deliver you from the cabals...the Lord will be your PILLER and STRENGHT...AMEN and best of LUCK...
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L-R: Wife of the late President Umaru Yar’Adua, Hajia Turai; President Goodluck Jonathan; Mima Yar‘Adua, Governor Ibrahim Shema of Katsina State; and First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, during the President’s condolence visit to the Yar’Adua’s family, in Katsina… on Saturday
President Goodluck Jonathan on Saturday visited the family of the late Umaru Yar‘Adua in Katsina, pledging to continue to implement his predecessor‘s policies and programmes.
Accomplishing this, Jonathan said, would be the greatest respect his administration would give in memory of Yar‘Adua who died in the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Wednesday night.
Jonathan who was dressed in light chocolate kaftan and flowing babariga with a dark brown cap, arrived at the Katsina International Airport at about 10:56 am aboard a Nigerian Air Force Presidential jet marked 5N-FGS in company with the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Alhaji Yayale Ahmed; Senate President, David Mark, the governors of Delta (Emmanuel Uduaghan), Lagos (Babatunde Fashola), Kwara (Bukola Saraki) and Zamfara (Mahmud Aliyu Shinkafi).
Also on the president‘s entourage were the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Odein Ajumogobia and Nigeria‘s High Commissioner to South Africa, Buba Marwa as well as other top government functionaries.
Security was, however, tight from the airport to the family home of the late president even as it took some time before Jonathan‘s heavily guarded sleek black Mercedes Benz pulled up outside the Yar’Adua’s house.
Jonathan attended the third day prayer session led by the Chief Imam of Katsina Central Mosque, Liman Aliyu Abba, and Liman Ibrahim Sabiu Jibia of Jibia Jumat Mosque from 11.28 to 11.45 am.
The president who was received into the Yar‘Adua family house amid the outpouring of emotions and shedding of tears by sympathizers told the mother of the late president, Hajia Dada, that the sudden death of her son had left him traumatised.
He described the late president as a patriot and a man of honour, respect, and humility.
The president told Hajia Dada who was shedding tears profusely and the former First Lady, Hajia Turai, that the contributions of Yar‘Adua to the nation‘s socio-economic development would remain indelible on the sands of time.
Jonathan and his wife, Patience, who had earlier arrived at the Yar‘Adua family home met with Turai and her children in a room where they also met former first ladies, including Mrs. Ajoke Murtala Muhammad, Hajiya Maryam Abacha and Justice Fatima Abdulsalami Abubakar.
Signing the condolence register, Jonathan wrote, ”It is sad to express my feelings over the death of my boss, my brother, my friend who asked me to join him to run the affairs of this country will leave me behind at this time. I lack words to express my personal feelings, God knows. May his soul rest in peace.”
Thousands of mourners who had besieged the Yar‘Adua family house for the third prayer hailed the visiting president who was dressed in pink traditional Hausa attire and donning a cap.
The prayer session was led by the Chief Imam of Jibiya Mosque, Mallam Ibrahim Sabiu.
Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Yayale Ahmed, also offered prayers on behalf of President Jonathan while commiserating with Yar‘Adua‘s mother in the inner room.
Later at the palace of the Emir of Katsina, Jonathan said he enjoyed good working relationship with his late predecessor.
Responding, the Emir, Alhaji Abdul Muminu Kabir Usman, thanked the president for the visit and advised him to carry every part of the country along in his administration of the affairs of the country.
Comments :
* Good Job GOODLUCK!
Posted by: Adebola mustafa , on Sunday, May 09, 2010
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* will done mr. president for ur important visiting to family of late president,God will reward u. i pray God will guard u in control of nig. u shall take this nations 2 promising land.changes shall prevail in nig (amen)
Posted by: saheed , on Sunday, May 09, 2010
Report this comment
* Sir Jonathan, don’t listen to that ex–convict OBJ. I hope u saw how ur late boss obeyed and respected the judiciary? Don’t allow OBJ to spoil ur government as he did during his own tenure. Becos, there is no difference between OBJ and Babaginda. No ex–soldier should be allowed to be the civilian President of this great country. Military life and political life experiences are two different institutions entirely .
Posted by: AKPAH FRANCIS , on Sunday, May 09, 2010
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* MR. PRESIDENT GOD BLESS YOU FOR PAYING THIS IMPORTANT VISIT.THOUGH SOME MIGHT EVEN THINK OTHERWISE.
Posted by: olubunmi , on Sunday, May 09, 2010
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* Beware Mr. President!!, it is easy to derail from the genuin plan you have asked God to give you in order to heal this Nation as we have seen of few past leaders. The cabals are still very much around and will try to cause you pains and difficulties. Don’t go witch hunting but rely solely on God to help and deliver you from the cabals...the Lord will be your PILLER and STRENGHT...AMEN and best of LUCK...
Posted by: Femi Matimoju , on Sunday, May 09, 2010
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Sunday, January 24, 2010
बोदिएस फौंद इन वेल्स इन JOS
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At least 150 bodies have been recovered from wells around Jos following Muslim-Christian clashes in Jos and environs which the estimated death toll already stood at over 300, a village head and volunteers told AFP yesterday.
This came to light just as it was learnt that the 60 suspects arrested in connection with the clashes might have been moved to Abuja allegedly on orders from above.
Similarly, an acting police commissioner has been appointed for the state in place of Mr. Greg Anyating.
Reasons for his replacement were not immediately known.
“So far we have picked 150 bodies from the wells. But 60 more people are still missing,” said Umar Baza, head of Kuru Karama village near the city of Jos.
“We took an inventory of the displaced people from this village, sheltering in three camps and we realise that 60 people can still not be accounted for,” he added, speaking by telephone.
Head of the Muslim volunteer team in the village, Mohammed Shittu, said further searches would be carried out on yesterday.
“Now we have 150 bodies in all, taken from the wells as from Thursday. We are still going back there today (yesterday) to comb the bush around the village to search for more bodies,” he also told AFP.“From the account of survivors, some people fleeing attacks were ambushed and killed in the bush. That is why we are going there to search for more bodies.
“We believe there are more bodies in the wells but the degree of their decomposition makes it difficult to continue the retrieval operation. We have therefore decided to sand-fill all the wells,” Baza further said.
The state government has given no official death toll for the violence, which broke out last Sunday in Jos, capital of Plateau State and later spread to nearby towns and villages, but religious leaders and medical workers said they had counted around 300 bodies by Wednesday.
Global rights watchdog Human Rights Watch (HRW) yesterday urged Vice President Goodluck Jonathan to order “an immediate criminal investigation into credible reports of a massacre of at least 150 Muslim residents of a town in central Nigeria.”
HRW said in a statement received in Lagos that witnesses said groups of armed men — believed to be Christians — attacked the largely Muslim population of Kuru Karama on Tuesday morning.
“After surrounding the town, they hunted down and attacked Muslim residents, some of whom had sought refuge in homes and a local mosque, killing many as they tried to flee and burning many others alive,” the statement said.
At least two vehicles said to have been sent to convey the 60 suspects from Jos to Abuja
were sighted within Plateau State police headquarters Friday evening.
A source said Governor Jonah Jang on getting wind of the move contacted the inspector general of police, Mr. Ogbonna Onovo, who was said to have denied giving any such order.
Efforts to reach the police comissioner or the spokesman for the command to comment on the development failed as they were out of theiroffice when journalists called yesterday.
However, when contacted, the state attorney-general and commissioner for justice, Mr. Edward Pwajok, described it as a rumour which he found difficult to believe.
He said doing so would be contrary to the position taken by the body of attorneys general which at a recent meeting agreed that offenders were to be prosecuted where the offences were committed in line with due process and the rule of law.
He wondered why the suspects would be taken to Abuja when all the investigating officers and witnesses needed to prosecute them were in Jos adding that taking them there would also be against the resolution of the Senate which asked the Plateau State Government to fish out perpetrators and prosecute them.
Pwajok recalled that 26 suspected mercenaries were taken to Abuja after the 2008 crisis in a similar manner where they were releasedwhile the case files of over 300 suspects arrested and investigated were equally taken to Abuja and were never returned thus frustrating their prosecution.
He said he has been sending lawyers from his office to the police to get the case files of the suspects to enable the Ministry of Justice file charges against them without making any headway adding, “we have
the fear that history may repeat itself.
At least 150 bodies have been recovered from wells around Jos following Muslim-Christian clashes in Jos and environs which the estimated death toll already stood at over 300, a village head and volunteers told AFP yesterday.
This came to light just as it was learnt that the 60 suspects arrested in connection with the clashes might have been moved to Abuja allegedly on orders from above.
Similarly, an acting police commissioner has been appointed for the state in place of Mr. Greg Anyating.
Reasons for his replacement were not immediately known.
“So far we have picked 150 bodies from the wells. But 60 more people are still missing,” said Umar Baza, head of Kuru Karama village near the city of Jos.
“We took an inventory of the displaced people from this village, sheltering in three camps and we realise that 60 people can still not be accounted for,” he added, speaking by telephone.
Head of the Muslim volunteer team in the village, Mohammed Shittu, said further searches would be carried out on yesterday.
“Now we have 150 bodies in all, taken from the wells as from Thursday. We are still going back there today (yesterday) to comb the bush around the village to search for more bodies,” he also told AFP.“From the account of survivors, some people fleeing attacks were ambushed and killed in the bush. That is why we are going there to search for more bodies.
“We believe there are more bodies in the wells but the degree of their decomposition makes it difficult to continue the retrieval operation. We have therefore decided to sand-fill all the wells,” Baza further said.
The state government has given no official death toll for the violence, which broke out last Sunday in Jos, capital of Plateau State and later spread to nearby towns and villages, but religious leaders and medical workers said they had counted around 300 bodies by Wednesday.
Global rights watchdog Human Rights Watch (HRW) yesterday urged Vice President Goodluck Jonathan to order “an immediate criminal investigation into credible reports of a massacre of at least 150 Muslim residents of a town in central Nigeria.”
HRW said in a statement received in Lagos that witnesses said groups of armed men — believed to be Christians — attacked the largely Muslim population of Kuru Karama on Tuesday morning.
“After surrounding the town, they hunted down and attacked Muslim residents, some of whom had sought refuge in homes and a local mosque, killing many as they tried to flee and burning many others alive,” the statement said.
At least two vehicles said to have been sent to convey the 60 suspects from Jos to Abuja
were sighted within Plateau State police headquarters Friday evening.
A source said Governor Jonah Jang on getting wind of the move contacted the inspector general of police, Mr. Ogbonna Onovo, who was said to have denied giving any such order.
Efforts to reach the police comissioner or the spokesman for the command to comment on the development failed as they were out of theiroffice when journalists called yesterday.
However, when contacted, the state attorney-general and commissioner for justice, Mr. Edward Pwajok, described it as a rumour which he found difficult to believe.
He said doing so would be contrary to the position taken by the body of attorneys general which at a recent meeting agreed that offenders were to be prosecuted where the offences were committed in line with due process and the rule of law.
He wondered why the suspects would be taken to Abuja when all the investigating officers and witnesses needed to prosecute them were in Jos adding that taking them there would also be against the resolution of the Senate which asked the Plateau State Government to fish out perpetrators and prosecute them.
Pwajok recalled that 26 suspected mercenaries were taken to Abuja after the 2008 crisis in a similar manner where they were releasedwhile the case files of over 300 suspects arrested and investigated were equally taken to Abuja and were never returned thus frustrating their prosecution.
He said he has been sending lawyers from his office to the police to get the case files of the suspects to enable the Ministry of Justice file charges against them without making any headway adding, “we have
the fear that history may repeat itself.
Friday, January 8, 2010
वेअठेर दिस्रुप्ट्स प्रेमिएर league
* Chelsea
* Hull
Snow across the country has caused many postponements in the Premier League this weekend.
Matches at Burnley, Fulham and Sunderland have already been called off, while Liverpool have asked for their match against Tottenham Hotspur on Sunday to be postponed.
Fulham’s fixture with Portsmouth has been called off due to adverse weather conditions which are not expected to improve before Saturday’s match, reported on the official site www.fulhamfc.com.
Burnley’s clash with Stoke City, reported on www.burnleyfootballclub.com,and Bolton’s trip to Sunderland have been postponed for safety reasons, states www.safc.com.
Wigan Athletic have confirmed their match with Aston Villa at the DW Stadium will go ahead.
Meanwhile, Everton’s trip to Arsenal and Birmingham City’s match with Manchester United look set to go ahead providing the safety of supporters can be guaranteed.
Hull City have a meeting with the match referee and police today and stadium manager John Cooper is hopeful their match with Chelsea will be on.
Cooper told The Telegraph: "We’re more than confident the game on Saturday will go ahead. Certainly, if the game had been scheduled for today it would have been played.
“The weather forecast does keep changing, so we have to do the same. We’re calling in favours from everywhere we can to make sure that walkways are cleared and that every other aspect on the safety side of things is in place
* Hull
Snow across the country has caused many postponements in the Premier League this weekend.
Matches at Burnley, Fulham and Sunderland have already been called off, while Liverpool have asked for their match against Tottenham Hotspur on Sunday to be postponed.
Fulham’s fixture with Portsmouth has been called off due to adverse weather conditions which are not expected to improve before Saturday’s match, reported on the official site www.fulhamfc.com.
Burnley’s clash with Stoke City, reported on www.burnleyfootballclub.com,and Bolton’s trip to Sunderland have been postponed for safety reasons, states www.safc.com.
Wigan Athletic have confirmed their match with Aston Villa at the DW Stadium will go ahead.
Meanwhile, Everton’s trip to Arsenal and Birmingham City’s match with Manchester United look set to go ahead providing the safety of supporters can be guaranteed.
Hull City have a meeting with the match referee and police today and stadium manager John Cooper is hopeful their match with Chelsea will be on.
Cooper told The Telegraph: "We’re more than confident the game on Saturday will go ahead. Certainly, if the game had been scheduled for today it would have been played.
“The weather forecast does keep changing, so we have to do the same. We’re calling in favours from everywhere we can to make sure that walkways are cleared and that every other aspect on the safety side of things is in place
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