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January 06, 2017 , , ,


Riyad Mahrez of Algeria and Leicester City polled 361 votes to win the 2016 African Player of the Year Award. 
Ugandan goalie, Denis Onyango won the African Player of the Year Based in Africa 2016, at the event held at the International Conference Centre in Abuja, Nigeria.


The playmaker played an influential role in the historic Premier League title triumph by English club, Leicester City, last season and Algeria’s qualification to the Total Africa Cup of Nations Gabon 2017.
He dethroned last year’s winner, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang of Gabon who garnered 313 votes, whilst Senegalese forward, Sadio Mane placed a distant third with 186 votes. The winner was decided by votes from the Head Coaches or Technical Directors of the National Associations affiliated to CAF, members of the CAF Media Committee, members of the CAF Technical and Development Committee and a 20-member panel of experts. For the African Player of the Year Based in Africa, Onyango also wrote his name in African football folklore, by becoming the first goalkeeper to scoop the award designed to reward players who ply their trade on the continent.
The 31-year old, whose exploits in the posts was critical to Uganda’s qualification to the Africa Cup of Nations for the first time after a 39-year hiatus, and also starred in Mamelodi Sundowns’ conquest of Africa last year tallied 252 votes, 24 more than his club-mate, Khama Billiat of Zimbabwe. Zambian Rainford Kalaba finished third with 206 votes. He beat 2015 winner Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang of Gabon and Borrusia Dortmund who had 313 votes in second place, and Sadio Mane of Senegal and Liverpool who was third with 186 votes.
Dennis Onyango of Mamelodi Sundowns and Uganda won the 2016 African Player of the Year (Based in Africa) Award. In second place was Khama Billiat of Mamelodi Sundowns and Zimbabwe, while Rainford Kalaba of TP Mazembe and Zambia came third. Uganda won the 2016 National Team of the Year Award by beating Senegal and DR Congo, while Mamelodi Sundowns of South Africa won the 2016 Club of the Year Award.
The 2016 African club champions beat TP Mazembe of DR Congo and Zesco United of Zambia to the award. The CAF Champions League winners’ coach, Pitso Mosimane, won the 2016 Coach of the Year Award, while Bakary Gassama of The Gambia won the 2016 Referee of the Year Award. Laurent Pokou of Cote D’Ivoire won the 2016 African Football Legend Award, while the Football Leader of the Year Award went to Manuel Nascimento, the President of Guinea Bissau Football Federation. NAN reports that Pokou who died last November was posthumously inducted together with Cameroonian Emilienne Mbango, one of the pioneers of women football on the continent.
While no Nigerian player made it to the final shortlist of three in the African Player of the Year Award category, Super Falcons forward Asisat Oshoala made the day for Nigerians. Oshoala won the 2016 Women’s Player of the Year Award to cap an exciting year when she won the top scorer award at the Women’s AFCON in Cameroon. The Arsenal Ladies FC player scored six goals in helping Nigeria to the African title, their eighth title from the competition’s past 10 editions. She beat Elizabeth Addo of Kvarnsvedensik and Black Queens of Ghana, and Gabrielle Onguene of Rossyanka and Indomitable Lionesses of Cameroon, to the award. Her team, the Super Falcons, picked the 2016 Women’s National Team of the Year Award, beating Cameroon and South Africa in the process.
 Arsenal FC and Super Eagles forward Alex Iwobi also won the 2016 Youth Player of the Year Award, while Kelechi Iheanacho joined in making it a glorious night for Nigeria. The Manchester City and Super Eagles forward won the 2016 Most Promising Talent of the Year Award. Both Iwobi and Iheanacho also made it to the substitutes bench in the Africa Finest XI team, which had 11 starting players and seven substitutes. The Awards organisers, the Confederation of African Football (CAF), also honoured President Muhammadu Buhari with the CAF 2016 Platinum Award.


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January 02, 2017 , ,
Saturday Beats has released the list of some of the artistes whose light didn’t shine so brightly in 2016.

Below is what was written about them.

Omawumi

Thank God for social media, but for Instagram where the babe would always post one or two stuff, her presence would have dwindled considerably.WajeAnd like her best friend Omawumi, Waje was almost pushed to the background this year. Waje has been busier on social media than in the studio this year. Yes, fans got to know more about her grown up daughter and her cool dresses which she proudly showed off every now and then.

Chidinma

This year, Chidinma was busier arousing people’s curiosity as to whether she is dating artiste, Flavour or not. It seems thatthe star is fast fizzling out of the industry.

D’banj

Thank God for his song ‘Emergency’ which was released early in the year, it was a good work and so many people felt D’banj had finally survived the break-up.Alas, his ‘Focus,’ ‘If no be God,’ ‘Breaking New’ and ‘Gifted’ didn’t make any impact at all. D’banj needs to step up his game in 2017, otherwise his career would land in Emergency Room!

Iyanya

Well, thank God for ‘Kukere,’ nobody wouldhave known Iyanya apart from the fact that he was a sensation at the then Project Fame competition.His controversial exit from Ubi Franklin’s Triple M Records made more headlines than the release of his following songs, ‘Type of woman,’ ‘Nothing Mega,’ ‘Yoga song,’ ‘Sukumma,’ ‘Why,’ and ‘Heartbeat.’

Wande Coal

It seems Wande Coal found his sound late this year with the new song, ‘Iskaba,’ which he released few weeks ago. Before then, nothing much was heard from the young man.
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January 02, 2017 , ,
Nigerian pop star Wizkid dropped by at late Afrobeat legend Fela’s New Afrika Shrine on New Year’s Day.


The visit took place on the day his homecoming concert would have held at the venue.But Wizkid cancelled that show and a few others based on doctors’ orders.

The concert cancellation was bad news for Nigerian music lovers that have been waiting a long time to see Starboy live on stage.Meanwhile, British rapper, 

Skepta – who was featured on ‘Ojuelegba remix‘ – also hung out with Starboy at the Shrine.Wizkid arrived Nigeria in the last days of December 2016 after spending many months in Los Angeles, U.S.

He was honoured with the Artiste of the Year and Best African Artiste awards at The Headies and Soundcity MVP awards 2016, respectively.
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January 02, 2017 , ,
- Burundi's environment minister has been murdered
- The victim, Emmanuel Niyonkuru, 54, was killed in Bujumbura, the Burundi capital
- Niyonkuru was attacked as he traveledhome to the capital



Burundi's environment minister, Emmanuel Niyonkuru has been killed byan unknown gunman, reports Times Live.

Just In: Minister Emmanuel Niyonkuru, shot dead in BujumburaThe minister was killed on Sunday, January 1, police said, it is the first murder of a senior government figure in nearly two years of political violence.

Emmanuel Niyonkuru, 54, was attacked as he travelled home in the central African nation's capital Bujumbura, police spokesman Pierre Nkurikiye said in a tweet.
Violent protests erupted early in 2015 after President Pierre Nkurunziza said he would seek a third term - a move opponents said violated the constitution and a peace deal that ended an ethnically charged civil war.

At least 450 people have died in clashesbetween protesters and security forces, teeth-for-tat killings and a failed coup, stoking fears of wider unrest in a region still haunted by the 1994 genocide in neighbouring Rwanda.

"The minister of water and environmentwas shot ... as he was getting home,"police spokesman Nkurikiye said. A woman with the minister had been arrested for questioning, he added.

President Nkurunziza said on Twitter the minister had been assassinated andoffered condolences "to the family and all Burundians".
Nkurunziza went on to win re-election inJuly 2015 in a poll largely boycotted by the opposition.
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January 02, 2017 , ,
Nigeria's unity is seriously threatened by agitations from IPOB, MASSOB and others in the Niger Delta region

Though leaving very soon, Governor Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo state and member of the Peoples Democratic Party, has stated conditions for Nigeria's unity.


Just weeks to leaving office,Governor Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo statehas revealed the two things Nigeria needs to sustain its unity.The country has been facing threats to its unity with various agitations coming from some of its zones.
Mimiko said Nigerians needed perseverance for the country's unityBut Mimiko says the two things needed by the country are perseverance and determination from the people.
The governor noted that the country is facing very harsh economic conditions and security challenges but that the citizens needed determination to scale the hurdle.
The Nigerian Tribune reports him as urging the people to be resolute in ensuring the country does not break.In his message to commemorate the New Year and released by the state commissioner for Information, Mr Kayode Akinmade, the governor said instead of thinking of breaking up, the people should rather concentrate on strengthening the country’s multi-ethniccomposition which is its major pride.
He also pleaded with politicians to play the game according to the rules.“The political class and the governed have the responsibilities to make the system work because tomorrow promises to be better,”the governor said adding that the country belongs to everybody and not just a few.
He congratulated Nigerians for“the grace to come out victorious from the stormy weather of the year ended,”Mimiko said the year 2016 has come and gone with tales of its enormous challenges to ponder upon.“For us in Ondo state, it was a peculiar year, but we give God the glory for the grace to carry on thus far,”he said.
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January 02, 2017 , ,
The anxiety amongst participants of thefamous money-doubling scheme, Mavrodi Mundial Movement, (MMM) has continued as the scheme has set a new date for when it will unfreeze all confirmed Mavros of members.


MMM Nigeria has disclosed that participants accounts will be unfrozen on January 14, 2017.Recall that the scheme had on Tuesday,December 13, 2016, froze all confirmed Mavros, otherwise known as money duefor withdrawal for one month.

That action meant that all the accounts of members who are due to be paid after having ‘provided help’ (PH) to another person since the last month have been frozen and hence, have no access to request for payment, known as ‘Get Help’ (GH) until after one month.

Some participate had thought that the due date for their account to be unfrozen was on 13 of January 2017, but the scheme on its official Twitter handle, @MMMNigeriaHelp has disclosed that participants accounts will be unfrozen on January 14, 2017.

Meanwhile, some Nigerians have accused the federal government of investing in the popular Ponzi scheme, MMM, following reports of scarcityof small naira denominations in the country.

The accusations surfaced after sourcesin the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) disclosed to the media that the apex bank failed to print small naira denominations for about a year due to the current economic recession.
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