Super Eagles of Nigeria and Granada of Spain football club star Ramos Azeez has made it known to people that he knew working hard will be the key to return him back to the Nigeria national team after five years of absent and he started that years ago.


The Spanish Laliga Santander star said he was happy to be back in the Super Eagles team after being shunned for several years, but the midfielder was given a call up to Nigeria Super Eagles after scoring a crucial goal in Granada 2-0 victory over FC Barcelona last year.

Ramon Azeez who was former Nigeria Golden eaglets and Flying Eagles star debuted for Nigeria super eagles in 2014 against the Mexican national team in an international friendly match and he was part of late coach Stephen Keshi's squad that played in Brazil 2014 world cup.

In a chat with AOI Ramon Azeez said hard work and dedication helped him to return to the Super Eagles because he really learned a lot of lessons during his five years of absent.

"Hard work and dedication to my game helped me to return to the Super Eagles. Those five years really taught me a lot and I knew I needed to work very hard to deserve a recall."

The former Almeria midfielder continued saying he was really frustrated and he felt the pain but he was determined.

"It was frustrating and painful you know. I really felt the pain but I was determined. I was delighted when I got a fresh call from the coach and I knew it was due to the hard work put in." He concluded.

Azeez came to limelight again after scoring a minute goal against FC Barcelona in his club's victory and since then he has been part of Nigeria super eagles squad, by getting regular call up to the team and he was part of the squad invited for the qualifier matches against the Sierra Leone national team slated for March and April before it was postponed till further notice due to Coronavirus pandemic.

He has now resumed training with Granada as the Spanish Laliga Santander is set to resume next month after a long break because of Covid-19 pandemic.

Shanghai Shenhua is ready to allow Odion Ighalo remain at Manchester United until January 2021, Sky Sports reports.

Both clubs are still negotiating on extending Ighalo’s loan deal which runs out at the end of May.

The 30-year-old may, however, not be able to return to China in time for the new season, because of border restrictions.

Shanghai Shenhua initially said they would only agree to extend his loan if an obligation to buy was inserted into the deal.

It is now believed the Chinese Super League side will now allow him to continue playing for United.

However, as a condition of him being allowed to extend his stay at Old Trafford, Ighalo is expected to sign a new deal with them.

An alleged case of malpractice charged against People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Osun State, Senator Ademola Adeleke by the federal government has been withdrawn.

Recall that during the heat of the Osun state governorship election campaign in 2018, Adeleke and one of his relatives, Sikiru Adeleke, were accused of engaging in examination malpractice.

Ademola and Sikiru were accused of impersonation, registering as students of Ojo-Aro Community Grammar School, Ojo-Aro, Osun State to enable them to sit for the National Examinations Council (NECO) examination of June/July 2017.

They were later arraigned before a Federal High Court in Abuja in October 2018 along with Alhaji Aregbesola Mufutau (the school principal), Gbadamosi Thomas Ojo (registrar) and Dare Samuel Olutope, a teacher in the school. The other three defendants were accused of aiding the commission of the alleged offence.

At the resumed hearing of the case on Thursday, May 28, the prosecution lawyer, Simon Lough said the state has amended the charge to exclude Adeleke, in view of his continued absence in court. Adeleke has failed to attend court since last year when he was granted permission, by the trial judge, Justice Inyang Ekwo, to travel to the United States on medical grounds.

The Nation reports that lawyers to the defendants, led by Alex Izinyon (SAN) did not object to the prosecution’s decision to amend its charge. They however disagreed with the prosecution on the appropriate order to be made; whether Adeleke should be simply discharged, based on the withdrawal of the charge against him, or whether he should be discharged and acquitted.

Justice Ekwo has fixed ruing on the issue for today Friday, May 29.

37 deceased families get N9m each

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has released the sum of N450m to victims of the 2019 bloody general elections in Ijaw communities in Abonema, Akuku-Toru Local Government Area of the state.

The governor, who met with the victims, deceased families and the council of chiefs at their townhall in Abonema on Monday said their bank account numbers would be credited with the amount of money due them from Wednesday.

There were indications that the families of 37 persons, who paid the supreme price, were entitled to N9m compensation each.

President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed sadness over the death of the Saturday Editor of Daily Telegraph, Waheed Bakare.

The President, in a statement issued by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, described Bakare’s death as a loss, not just to the media, but to the entire nation.

“President Muhammadu Buhari commiserates with the media industry, particularly Nigeria Union of Journalists and Nigeria Guild of Editors, over the passing of the Saturday Editor of New Telegraph, Waheed Bakare.

“The President sends condolences to family of the deceased, and management of New Telegraph Newspapers, describing the editor’s death as a collective loss to the media and the nation that he served passionately with his talent.

“The President prays that God will receive the soul of the departed, and comfort all that mourn him”, the statement said.

Ighalo Set To Leave Man Utd When His Contract Expires This Week.. He Is Expected To Join Shanghai Shenua Back For Training as The Chinese Super League Get Set To Return to Action In June.
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Ighalo is expected to be paid around £400k per week in China

Despite moves to see the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, over the decision of the National Working Committee of the party to adopt Direct Primaries for the upcoming process to elect a candidate for the Edo State governorship election, the Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, has not done so, The Eagle Online can confirm.

According to inside sources, Tinubu, a former Governor of Lagos State, has been around in the country and is not averse to seeing the embattled Governor of Edo State, who has been locked in a supremacy battle with his predecessor and National Chairman of the APC, Adams Oshiomhole, The Eagle Online was told.

According to the sources, Obaseki has not even reached out directly to Tinubu since he vowed to do so after the decision of the NWC last week adopting direct primaries for choosing the party’s candidate for the September 2020 election.

The fear in Obaseki’s camp is that the Governor will be overwhelmed at the primaries, where the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party for the last governorship election, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, had been drafted into the APC and given a waiver to stand for the poll.

Oshiomhole is backing Ize-Iyamu’s candidacy.

Insiders in Tinubu’s Ikoyi, Lagos State home told NEWS DIRECT that Obaseki had not called Tinubu because of the manner in which he acted to the National Leader of the APC when his relationship with Oshiomhole was gradually breaking down.

He was said to have spurned Tinubu and other leaders of the party then when there were moves to reconcile them.

His argument had been that he knew where Tinubu belonged in the crisis and that he was not going to allow anyone prevail on him to stop the battle he had begun.

The source said: “He didn’t behave well at the time when there were efforts to reconcile them.

“His belief was that he had the capacity to fight till the end.”

One of the sources, however, told NEWS DIRECT that rather than reach out directly to Tinubu, Obaseki’s aides have been calling top aides of the former Lagos State Governor to have feelers of the position of the APC National Leader.

One of the sources said: “There is no doubt that Asiwaju will see him (Obaseki), if he comes around.

“In fact, based on media reports, Asiwaju has been expecting him.

“He is the one who has failed to contact him directly.

“You don’t expect anyone to fix such a meeting when he has Asiwaju’s number.

“But instead of doing that, he has been testing the waters.

“Let me tell you the truth: Asiwaju will see him whenever he decides to come around.

“But there is only one thing that won’t change: Asiwaju will not go against the decision of the NWC to adopt direct primaries for the election in Edo.”

Sensational singer, Mr Eazi has lamented after he made less money than he thinks he deserves from one of his songs with high streams.

The singer vents out his pain on micro-blogging platform, Twitter, where he said that his song which appears to be a hit and has been streamed about 10million times has only earned him a revenue that’s less than $5000.

He lamented that the revenue generated from the stream was way less than the amount expected. The song which had 10 million streams was only able to generate $5000 which is nearly 2 million in naira.

He wrote: “Looking at this 10million streams on this song on this platform amazing how that translates to less than $5000 in revenue! Magic Stuff!! Thus is the story of the hit song lol”

Few Nigerians on popular photo and video sharing social network Instagram have questioned the source of D’Banj’s money after he bought his wife a new Bentley ride.

Popular Instagram blog account, Instablog9ja had updated some minutes ago that the music superstar had just acquired his wife, Lineo Didi Kilgrow a new Bentley ride and series of comment have began to pop in.

In the midst of all the good, sweet and lovely comments by Nigerians they’re some comments that are unusual.

Some comments that questioned the source of D’Banj’s money since he no longer gets that big rave as before has been questioned by some commenters on the post.

See screenshot of the post made by Instablog9ja below:

Meanwhile the unusual comments reads:

“Where e dey see money? Which work e dey do to but this car?! 😂”

Another comment reads:

“Where is he getting money from sef..?”

See reactions below:

Kelechi Iheanacho obviously didn't do much of exercing during the lockdown as the 23-year-old resumed training at Leicester City on Wednesday with protruding stomach and robust cheeks.

The Nigeria striker was one of the club's players that trained in small groups to begin preparation for restart of the 2019-2020 Premier League season in June.

The former Manchester City player now must work his socks off to be considered for selection by Brendan Rodgers.

After leaving on the fringes for the major part of the campaign, the U17 World Cup winner stormed back to reckoning following injury to England striker, Jammy Vardy. He weighed in with some Cup goals with three league goals and as many assists, to take his total haul to 28 goals in 81 appearances for the Foxes since he joined them from Manchester City in 2017.

Iheanacho in a statement on his Instagram page on Thursday, expressed his delight at returning training after almost three months of lockdown.

"Good to be back missed everything," stated the player upon arriving at training, as portrayed by the picture above taken beside his car.

Unlike his Nigeria team-mate, Wilfred Ndidi, overweight has been the major challenge of the Imo State indigene and has had to shed some to be fit for selection.

Iheanacho has featured in 12 league matches for the former Premier League champions this season.