Cr7 Wonder goal against valencia

Its been a feisty season in the Spanish title race this season with Athletico Madrid, Barcelona and Real Madrid leading the pack, normally what was always a two horse race just got tougher with Athletico gunning for the title this season having qualified for the Champion Leagues final with their neighbors Real Madrid. Well enough of that lets just go to today's game where Madrid had it all to do knowing that Athletico lost 2 nill to Levante earlier.

All Real needed was to beat Valencia at home today but as fate would have it they were thralling 1-2 to Valencia till Ronaldo nonchalantly backheels in Di Maria's cross inside a packed Valencia penalty area to seemingly earn real a crucial draw. You need to see the goal to appreciate it simply sensational.

To see the goal click on this link   https://vine.co/v/M6ztZzwAYFh

Two Cameroonians Nabbed at Bomb Blast Scene

MORE UPDATES ON THE BLAST THAT ROCK ABUJA THIS EVENING.

•20 victims taken to hospital

•Mazda car used for the bombing

•Suicide bombers ran away before blast
Senator Iroegbu 

Two  Camerounian suspects have been arrested at the scene of the blast. The security forces nabbed the suspects who claimed to be of foreign nationals and could not speak nor understand English language.

An eye witness also confirmed that it was a Mazda car that was used for the bombings and that three suspects drove by, parked the car and started running.

"As people started pursuing them, the car exploded creating panic and pandemonium that made them to escape", the witness said.

Another eye witness and staff of THISDAY, Mr. Tony Abulu,  said that he had a narrow escape having come near the vicinity to effect some repairs of one of his electronic gadgets.

Abulu said that three people inside the Golf car parked close to the Mazada died instantly.

BREAKING NEWS: Bomb Blast Rocks Nyanya AGAIN!!!!

Boko Haram hits Abuja again!

Barely three weeks after the last bomb blast that rocked Nyanya carpark in Abuja, another blast has just happened two day, and it is the same Nyanya. This time, it happened opposite the previous site of the bomb blast.
About four causalities have been counted already. more details shortly..


 As many as 70 people have been confirmed dead as at the time of this update.


here are pictures from the scene of the blast, Please, viewer's discretion is advised

Sorry Tracy Morgan....It's Stephen Colbert that's got the Letterman gig.

*Sorry Tracy Morgan. We know you want the Letterman gig, but according to Reuters, CBS has chosen a replacement and it’s not you. (oh well).

So just who have they chosen, you ask? That would be Stephen Colbert.

CBS said on Thursday that  Colbert will become the host of ‘The Late Show’ when David Letterman retires next year.

Colbert, who hosts “The Colbert Report” on the cable channel Comedy Central, signed a five-year agreement with the network, CBS’ CEO Les Moonves said in a statement.

The location of the show will be determined at a later date, the network said.

Jay Z’s Medallion Invites Questions About Five Percent Nation

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Whether by himself or with his wife Beyoncé, Jay Z is known to attract attention.

But it wasn’t the rap veteran or his better half that drew eyes last week at the Barclays Center. According to the New York Post, it was a Five-Percent Nation medallion Jigga wore that had heads on notice. The golden accessory, which has been worn by Carmelo Anthony, features the Five-Percent Nation symbol — an eight-point star with the number 7 in the middle.

Best known for controversial beliefs that include black people being the fathers and mothers of civilization, white men labeled as the devil and the Christian god being nothing more than a ghost, the Five-Percent Nation was founded in 1964 in Harlem by Clarence Smith, a former student of Malcolm X who disagreed with the Nation of Islam over the nature of God.

According to the Post, Smith rejected the notion of a supernatural deity. Instead, he believed that all black men had God in them and that black women were “earths” who took on a complementary yet subordinate role to their gods.

Michael Muhammad Knight, an author who wrote two books on the Five Percent Nation, explained that the group’s beliefs go beyond the surface towards something that may raise an eyebrow for many.

“The rationale is that the black man is God and created the universe, and is physically stronger and intellectually stronger and more righteous naturally,” Knight told the Post. “Whiteness is weak and wicked and inferior — basically just an errant child who needs to be corrected.”

The number 7 on Jay Z’s pendant falls in line with the Five Percent Nation’s Supreme Mathematics and Supreme Alphabet, tools used to decipher the meaning of the universe, the Post reports, adding that each letter and number represents a concept. In Jay Z’s case, the number 7 on his pendant stands for God.

Despite the display at the Barclays Center, Jay Z is not involved with the Five-Percent Nation. In fact, the rap mogul’s representation of the medallion has caused friction among some Five Percenters, who aren’t in favor of people using their flag to make a fashion statement as an accessory.

“Jay Z is not an active member — no one has vouched for him,” Saladin Allah, a representative of the group’s upstate region, told The Post. “It was always understood that you don’t wear the ­regalia if you don’t totally subscribe to the life.”

Jamie Foxx Looking to Reconcile with Biological Parents

Jamie Foxx attends “The Amazing Spider-Man 2: Rise Of Electro” press conference on March 31, 2014 in Tokyo, Japan

*Jamie Foxx is reportedly attempting to reconcile with his biological parents who abandoned him more than four decades ago.

Foxx, born Eric Marlon Bishop, was left in the care of his mother’s foster parents when he was seven months old and struggled to understand why his parents did not make contact with him as he grew up.

The Oscar winner is now trying to build bridges with his parents and has even moved his mother, Louise, into his home in an effort to forge a relationship with her.

“We’re trying to learn (about) each other,” he tells Britain’s The Sunday Times Magazine. “The one thing I think is great is she’s in the same house, because you realize certain things that you missed when you were growing up, like, ‘Oh, I do that because of that,’ or, ‘Oh, I do this because of that.’ It’s profound.”

Attempts to reconcile with his father, who has since converted to Islam, haven’t gone as well, but Foxx remains hopeful.

“Fingers crossed, it will become a real thing,” he says. “But the door is open. That’s one thing I’ve learned: always keep the door and your heart open… I don’t hold a lot of grudges… But it’s tough, you know? Because there are questions, like, ‘What happened? Where were you? Were you stricken with something? Could you not make it?’ Growing up, I would always go, man… I’m a good dude. I wasn’t the kid getting in trouble. I was quarterback on the high school football team. And he only lived 28 miles away. So I always said to myself, you know, I’m gonna grade him a little harder for that, because he could have tried.”

Iyabo Obasanjo Writes Father, Says: ‘Dear Daddy, You Don’t Own Nigeria! Oh Well

 It's a season of open letters.......and am just thinking who should i write  one to? hmmm! never mind guess i don't have the guts like Iyabo Obasanjo did as she opened up her mind towards her dad OBJ.....never knew the guy was a wife beater.....na wa oh!, anyway we've all read OBJ's open letter to the President GEJ, well that's not the letter for today what's up today is Senator Iyabo Obasanjo's open letter to her father accusing him of having an egoistic craving for power and living a life where only men of low esteem and intellect thrive.

Olusegun Obasanjo

Senator Iyabo Obasanjo

In the 11-page letter dated December 16, 2013 exclusively obtained by Vanguard, Iyabo accused her father of orchestrating a third term for himself as president, cruelty to family members, abandonment of children and grandchildren, and also, a legendary reputation of maltreatment of women.

Iyabo who forswore further political engagements in Nigeria denied any political motive for her missive, and described Nigeria as a country where her father and his ilk have helped to create a situation where smart, capable people bend down to imbeciles to survive. She particularly noted her experience as chairman of the Senate Committee on Health when she led the committee on a retreat appropriated for in the budget only for her to be prosecuted for it.

Iyabo, first child of the former president, started the letter titled, Open Letter to my Father with a 4th century Chinese proverb by Mencius which states: “The great man is he who does not lose his child’s heart.”

Her letter very insightful kindly read:

“It brings me no joy to have to write this but since you started this trend of open letters I thought I would follow suit since you don’t listen to anyone anyway. The only way to reach you may be to make the public aware of some things. As a child well brought up by my long-suffering mother in Yoruba tradition, I have been reluctant to tell the truth about you but as it seems you still continue to delude yourself about the kind of person you are and I think for posterity’s sake it is time to set the records straight.

“I will return to the issue of my long-suffering mother later in this letter.

“Like most Nigerians, I believe there are very enormous issues currently plaguing the country but I was surely surprised that you will be the one to publish such a treatise. I remember clearly as if it was yesterday the day I came over to Abuja from Abeokuta when I was Commissioner of Health in OgunState, specifically to ask you not to continue to pursue the third term issue.

“I had tried to bring it up when your sycophantic aides were present and they brushed my comments aside and as usual you listened to their self-serving counsel. For you to accuse someone else of what you so obviously practiced yourself tells of your narcissistic megalomaniac personality.  Everyone around for even a few minutes knows that the only thing you respond to is praise and worship of you. People have learnt how to manipulate you by giving you what you crave. The only ones that can’t and will not stroke your ego are family members who you universally treat like shit (sic) apart from the few who have learned to manipulate you like others.

“Before I continue, Nigerians are people who see conspiracy and self-service in everything because I think they believe everyone is like them. This letter is not in support of President Jonathan or APC or any other group or person, but an outpouring from my soul to God. I don’t blame you for the many atrocities you have been able to get away with, Nigerians were your enablers every step of the way. People ultimately get leaders that reflect them.

“Getting back to the story, I made sure your aides were not around and brought up the issue, trying to deliver the presentation of the issue as I had practiced it in my head. I started with the fact that we copied the US constitution which has term limits of two terms for a President. As is your usual manner, you didn’t allow me to finish my thought process and listen to my point of view. Once I broached the subject you sat up and said that the US had no term limits in the past but that it had been introduced in the 1940s after the death of President Roosevelt, which is true.

I wanted to say to you: when you copy something you also copy the modifications based on the learning from the original; only a fool starts from scratch and does not base his decisions on the learning of others. In science, we use the modifications found by others long ago to the most recent, as the basis of new findings; not going back to discover and learn what others have learnt. Human knowledge and development and civilization will not have progressed if each new generation and society did not build on the knowledge of others before them.

The American constitution itself is based on several theories and philosophies of governance available in the 18th century. Democracy itself is a governance method started by the ancient Greeks. America’s founding fathers used it with modifications based on what hadn’t worked well for the ancient Greeks and on new theories since then.

“As usual in our conversations, I kept quiet because I know you well.  You weren’t going to change your mind based on my intervention as you had already made up your mind on the persuasion of the minions working for you who were ripping the country blind. When I spoke to you, your outward attitude to the people of the country was that you were not interested in the third term and that it was others pushing it. Your statement to me that day proved to me that you were the brain behind the third term debacle. It is therefore outrageous that you accuse the current President of a similar two-facedness that you yourself used against the people of the country.

“I was on a plane trip between Abuja and Lagos around the time of the third term issue and I sat next to one of your sycophants on the plane.  He told me: “Only Obasanjo can rule Nigeria”.  I replied: “God has not created a country where only one person can rule. If only one person can rule Nigeria then the whole Nigeria project is not a viable one, as it will be a non-sustainable project”

“I don’t know how you came about Yar’Adua as the candidate for your party as it was not my priority or job. Unlike you, I focus on the issues I have been given responsibility over and not on the jobs of others. It was the day of the PDP Presidential Campaign in Abeokuta during the state-by-state tour of 2007 that Yar’Adua got sick and had to be flown abroad. The MKO Abiola Stadium was already filled with people by 9am when I drove by (and) we had told people based on the campaign schedule that the rally would start at noon.

At 11 am I headed for the stadium on foot; it was a short walk as there were so many cars already parked in and out. As I walked on with two other people, we saw crowds of people leaving the stadium. I recognized some of them as politicians and I asked them why people were leaving. They said  the Presidential candidate had died. I was alarmed and shocked. I walked back home and received a call from a friend in Lagos who said the same and added that he had died in the plane carrying him abroad for treatment and that the plane was on its way to Katsina to bury him.

I called you, and told you the information and that the stadium was already half-empty. You told me to go to the stadium and tell the people on the podium to announce that the Presidential candidate had taken ill that morning but the rest of the team, including you and the Vice-Presidential candidate would arrive shortly.  I did as I was told, but even the people on the podium at first didn’t make the announcement because they thought it was true that Yar’Adua had died. I had to take the microphone and make the announcement myself. It did little good. People kept trooping out of the stadium. Your team didn’t arrive until 4pm and by this time we had just a sprinkling of people left.

That evening after the disaster of a rally, you said you had insisted that the Presidential candidate fly to Germany for a check-up although you said he only had a cold. I asked why would anyone fly to Germany to treat a cold?  And you said “I would rather die than have the man die at this time.”  I thought of this profound statement as things later unfolded against me.  Then I thought it a stupid statement but as usual I kept quiet, little did I know how your machinations for a person would be used against me.  When Yar’Adua eventually died, you stayed alive, I would have expected you to jump into his grave.

I left Nigeria in 1989 right after youth service to study in the US and I visited in 1994 for a week and didn’t visit again until your inauguration in 1999. In between, you had been arrested by Abacha and jailed. We, your children, had no one who stood with us. Stella famously went around collecting money on your behalf but we had no one.  We survived. I was the only one of the children working then as a post-doctoral fellow when I got the call from a friend informing me of your arrest.

A week before your arrest, you had called me from Denmark and I had told you that you should be careful that the government was very offended by some of your statements and actions and may be planning to arrest or kill you as was occurring to many at the time.  The source of my information was my mother who, agitated, had called me, saying I should warn you as this was the rumour in the country. As usual you brushed aside my comments, shouting on the phone that they cannot try anything and you will do and say as you please.  The consequence of your bravado is history.

We, your family, have borne the brunt of your direct cruelty and also suffered the consequences of your stupidity but got none of the benefits of your successes. Of course, anyone around you knows how little respect you have for your children.

You think our existence on earth is about you. By the way, how many are we? 19, 20, 21? Do you even know?  In the last five years, how many of these children have you spoken to? How many grandchildren do you have and when did you last see each of them? As President you would listen to advice of people that never finished high school who would say anything to keep having access to you so as to make money over your children who loved you and genuinely wished you well.

“At your first inauguration in 1999, I and my brothers and sisters told you we were coming from the US. As is usual with you, you made no arrangements for our trip, instead our mom organized to meet each of us and provided accommodation. At the actual swearing-in at Eagle Square, the others decided to watch it on TV. Instead I went to the square and I was pushed and tossed by the crowd.

I managed to get in front of the crowd where I waved and shouted at you as you and General Abdulsalam Abubakar  walked past to go back to the VIP seating area. I saw you mouth ‘my daughter’ to General Abdullahi who was the one who pulled me out of the crowd and gave me a seat. As I looked around I saw Stella and Stella’s family prominently seated but none of your children.  I am sure General Abdullahi would remember this incident and I am eternally grateful to him.

Getting back to my mother, I still remember your beating her up continually when we were kids. What kids can forget that kind of violence against their mother?  Your maltreatment of women is legendary.  Many of your women have come out to denounce you in public but since your madness is also part of the madness of the society, it is the women that are usually ignored and mistreated. Of course, you are the great pretender, making people believe you have a good family life and a good relationship with your children but once in a while your pretence gets cracked.

When Gbenga gave a ride to help someone he didn’t know but saw was in need and the person betrayed his trust by tapping his candid response on the issues going on between you and your then vice-president, Atiku Abubakar, you had your aides go on air and denounce the boy before you even spoke to him to find out what happened.  What kind of father does that? Your atrocities to some of my other siblings I will let them tell in their own due time or never if they choose.

Some of the details of our life are public but the people choose to ignore it and pretended we enjoyed some largesse when you were President. 

Vanguard