Dalung motivated Eagles to beat Libya

Dalung motivated Eagles to beat Libya –Dikko

The Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Solomon Dalung, was the motivating factor behind the Super Eagles’ 1-0 victory over Libya on Friday at the ongoing Morocco 2018 African Nations Championship, Nigeria Football Federation 2nd vice president Shehu Dikko has stated.

Dikko told thenff.com that Dalung actually swung the game Nigeria’s way hours before the Group C kick-off, when he approved that the players be paid the full bonus for the drawn opening match against Rwanda, if they earned the maximum points against 2014 champions Libya.

“The minister should get the credit for the victory because his approval for the team to be paid full bonus for the Rwanda game if they defeated Libya meant the players went all out, knowing they would be getting two full bonuses with a win.

“The approval was simply to restore the 50 per cent the team lost for the draw against Rwanda,” Dikko said.

On Tuesday, the Eagles have the opportunity of going for a third full bonus when they take on debutants Equatorial Guinea at the Stade Adrar in Agadir, the same time Libya and Rwanda clash in what promises to be an explosive tie in Tangier. Kick-off is 8pm Nigerian time.

Nigeria, with four points, will be guaranteed a place in the last eight if they avoid defeat against Equatorial Guinea. Rwanda, also with four points and same one goal advantage as Nigeria, will hope to also avoid defeat against Libya, who have three points, to reach the quarter-finals.

If the Eagles finish top of the table, they would return to Tangier to tackle the second-placed team in Group D on January 28 with the possibility of a semi-final ticket in Marrakech three days later.

Should they finish second in the pool, they would be up against the top-placed team in Group D in Agadir with the possibility of a semi-final clash at Casablanca’s Stade Mohamed V three days later.

The final match of the championship is scheduled for the Stade Mohamed V on February 4.

Comments

World’s first sex shop shuts down, declares bankruptcy

Germany’s pioneering sex shop chain, Beate Uhse, said Friday that it has filed for insolvency, as the empire started by a female World War II pilot fails to rise to the challenge posed by erotic e-commerce. In its hey day, the group sold lingerie, erotic films and sex products. Uhse began her foray into erotic business in 1946, when she put together a pamphlet called “Document X” describing how women could avoid pregnancy. In post-war Germany, her advice was in high demand and she sold thousands of copies of her brochures. The mail order business thrived and the former fighter pilot and member of the Luftwaffe opened in 1962 her first shop in the German town of Flensburg. Named Institute of Marital Hygiene, the store selling lingerie and contraceptives became the world’s first sex shop. Her activities often ran counter to the morality of post-war Germany and she was called before the courts in thousands of legal suits filed against her. Yet she remained frank and unashamed about...

The name ‘State of Osun’ is illegal, court declares

An Osun State High Court sitting in Ilesa has said the changing of ‘Osun State’ to ‘State of Osun’ by the administration of Governor Rauf Aregbesola is illegal. Justice Yinka Afolabi, while delivering the judgment on Thursday in a case instituted by Chairman, Nigerian Bar Association, Ilesa branch, Mr. Kanmi Ajibola, challenging the legality of the “State of Osun Land Use Charge Law,” held that the law and its makers were unknown to the 1999 Constitution. Aregbesola had changed the name of the state from ‘Osun State’ to ‘State of Osun’ in 2011; but the NBA chairman, who is a human rights activist, approached the court in 2016 and asked the court to declare as null and void all transactions done by the state with the name ‘State of Osun.’ Afolabi also declared that the makers of the law, who are currently serving as members of the State House of Assembly, were not sworn in as members of the ‘State of Osun House of Assembly,’ but as members of ‘Osun State House of Assembly,’ going by...

John McCain has brain cancer, his office says.

Veteran US Republican Senator John McCain has been diagnosed with brain cancer and is reviewing treatment options, according to his office. The options may include chemotherapy and radiation, his doctors said. The 80-year-old politician is in "good spirits" recovering at home. The tumour was discovered during a surgery to remove a blood clot from above his left eye last week. A Vietnam veteran, Mr McCain spent more than five years as a prisoner of war. The six-term senator and 2008 Republican presidential candidate underwent surgery at a clinic in Phoenix, in the state of Arizona, last Friday. Tissue analysis revealed that a primary brain tumour known as glioblastoma was associated with the clot, a statement from the Mayo Clinic said. "The senator's doctors say he is recovering from his surgery 'amazingly well' and his underlying health is excellent," it added.

hakdown07

Search This Blog