Mikel’s Eagles position not under threat, says Yusuf

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Super Eagles Chief Coach Salisu Yusuf says senior national team captain John Obi Mikel’s position in the team would not be threatened by his recent transfer from Chelsea in the English Premier League to Tianjin TEDA in the Chinese Super League.
In a chat with Daily Trust yesterday, the former Kano Pillars boss added that the standard of the Chinese top flight wouldn’t also matter considering the fact that Mikel has completed his football development in one of the biggest clubs in Europe.
“For upcoming players that might be the case but for someone in the calibre of Mikel it’s totally different because he has spent over a decade with one of the biggest teams in Europe and knows exactly what’s needed of him in every situation,” Yusuf noted.Meanwhile, Mikel was said to have impressed in his first training session with Tianjin TEDA on Sunday morning despite his lack of game time at Premier League giants Chelsea in the first half of the season.
Officials of Tianjin TEDA had granted the holding midfielder permission to return to London and have few days of rest shortly after his medical in Amsterdam, but he chose to fly to Malaga, where the Chinese Super League club are holding a training camp ahead of the new season.
“After eleven years at Chelsea, each teammate cannot wait to see me, this time I finally cannot wait to see my teammates,” Mikel was quoted as saying by Netease Sports.
“I asked Oscar his views; he told me that you should come to China to play.” The Rio 2016 Olympics bronze medalist said.
Before the start of training, Mikel was welcomed by his new teammates and coaching staff, and he communicated well with his teammates during practice.

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Over 500 APC members defect to PDP in Langtang South LGA of Plateau State

Over 500 members of the ruling All Progressives Congress on Monday decamped to the opposition Peoples Democratic Party in Langtang South Local Government Area of Plateau State.
The defected APC members were received at Kumbur community, where the present State Commissioner for Special Duties, Hon. Hitler Dadi hails from.

Speaking at the ceremony, the Deputy Chairman of the party in the state, Hon. Amos Gombi commended the people of Langtang South from Kumbur community for returning en mass to PDP.
According to him, the returnees will be accorded the same status with other members of PDP in the locality.
He said he was happy that the people have discovered that the All Progressives Congress, APC lied to them in Plateau State in 2015 and are still lying till date.
Gombi added that the road linking Shendam to Langtang South was constructed by Sen. Jonah Jang administration, stressing that for about 2 years that the APC came on board, nothing had been added to it.

In his remarks, the Vice Chairman of the PDP in Plateau South Senatorial District, Hon. Simon Domle said he was happy to receive APC decampees back to their original home, assuring that the true change will come in 2019 when the mandate of the people will be returned to them.
Similarly, former Deputy Speaker of the Plateau State House of Assembly, Joyce Ramnap and member representing Langtang South constituency in the plateau state House of Assembly’s last dispensation said she was overwhelmed by the gathering of the people to say no to APC in the area while assuring them that the mistake of 2015 will be corrected.
Speaking on behalf of the decampees, Denis Waidu said he was happy to lead hundreds of decampee back to PDP in the locality, saying that PDP is a moving train that will take them to the promised land.
Also speaking, Member representing Langtang North/Langtang South constituency in the House of Representatives, Hon. Beni Lar, thanked the people of her constituency for keeping faith with PDP that her father founded for Nigeria.

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Bishop Okah says Bhuhari should leave his seat for young men that he is too old.

Bishop Simeon Okah, the principal patriarch of the Flock of Christ Mission, Enerhen-Effurun, Delta State, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to forget about contesting in 2019.

Bishop Okah claimed that the president is already too old to pilot the affairs of the country. He also denounced President Buhari as the most unfavourable Nigerian President to the people of Niger Delta region.

 “The man is an old man, old man is old, I am quite younger than he is. I am 64 years old, do you know that without the younger ones around me, there are some things about this generation that I cannot on my own understand because their way of thinking is very different from my way of thinking, not to talk of a man like Buhari?

“First, Buhari is too old, secondly, he is not educated enough. It pains my heart that just because former President Goodluck Jonathan is from South-South, there was a general hatred against him by the north and maybe the west.

“We, who travel, they were telling us that we were blessed to have a man who has PhD as a president, what does Buhari have apart from him being a general?” he said in an interview with Vanguard.

Bishop Okah disagreed with Rev. Ejike Mbaka who praised Buhari as the liberator of Nigerians.

“Well, facts speak for themselves. What has he liberated, is it the economy, what? So when you say he is a liberator, what has he liberated?

“Rather, he has worsened the state of everything in this country; he took over government when naira was between 170 and 190 to a dollar but today how much is it?" the Bishop asked.

“When he was campaigning, he said he would make one naira to one dollar, but what is the position today, the man has destroyed almost everything he met, everything Jonathan labored for. Everything is nose-diving in the country.

“Look at the stock exchange. He inherited a stock exchange of over N13 trillion. Today, it is about N8 to N9 trillion. What happened to N4 trillion?

“It is people’s money, so to me, this government, particularly, in my own sense of judgment, there are too many lies and lies go with depression and depression goes with oppression.

“People who are supposed to invest are asking questions, where are the blueprints for his economic programme.? Almost two years are gone, nothing. This is the very first time in our history that it took a president, who won an election over six months to appoint ministers.

“And the people he appointed are the same corrupt people, who had to cross-carpet from PDP to APC; we thought he was going to bring angels from the moon the way he initially spoke about people that would make his cabinet, but finally, they were the same people that we knew in this country.

“As a man from South-South, I feel very bad the way we have been treated. Look at the oil blocks too, how many belong to people from the South-South? in the first place, why should the Nigerian government consider giving oil blocks to individuals instead of state government?

“Why should such huge amount of money go into hands of very few individuals? If we want to build a nation, these are questions that we need to ask,” the Bishop stated.

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Song review: Zoro - 'Achikolo’ ft Phyno [Video]

Zoro has released the visuals for his single ‘Achikolo’ featuring Phyno.
The new music video was directed by Mex Films. It shows Zoro rapping and dancing to the rhythmic beat of his song in several scenes.
 

Phyno and Zoro on set of 'Achikolo'play
‘Achikolo’ is a follow up to the remix of his song ‘Ogene’ featuring Flavour, Lil Kesh and YCee.
The song produced by Kezyklef features co-production from Selebobo and back up vocals from Pammy Udu Bonch.

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