Friday 1 December 2017

Antonio Conte: Chelsea manager will 'accept and pay the fine' for FA charge



Chelsea boss Antonio Conte will "pay the fine" after being charged by the Football Association with misconduct after his dismissal against Swansea.

The Italian was sent to the stands in the 43rd minute of his side's 1-0 Premier League victory on Wednesday.
Conte watched the entire second half on a dressing-room TV after disputing the referee's decision not to award a corner when the game was goalless.

"I want to respect the decision," said the Blues manager.

"I think it's right to accept the charge and pay the fine."

The Italian apologised for his behaviour after the match at Stamford Bridge, saying he was "frustrated" and "made a mistake".

But asked if he would change his approach, Conte added: "No, I hope in the future I will tell the players to tell the referee.

"I will go to my players to push them to tell to the referee."
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world cup: Nigeria faces Argentina again!



  1. Argentina
  2. Iceland
  3. Croatia
  4. Nigeria
world cup group in full:

  • Group A: Russia, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Uruguay
  • Group B: Portugal, Spain, Morocco, Iran
  • Group C: France, Australia, Peru, Denmark
  • Group D: Argentina, Iceland, Croatia, Nigeria
  • Group E: Brazil, Switzerland, Costa Rica, Serbia
  • Group F: Germany, Sweden, Mexico, South Korea
  • Group G: Belgium, Panama, Tunisia, England
  • Group H: Poland, Senegal, Colombia, Japan


world cup draw



  1. Pot 1: Russia (hosts), Germany, Brazil, Portugal, Argentina, Belgium, Poland, France
  2. Pot 2: Spain, Peru, Switzerland, England, Colombia, Mexico, Uruguay, Croatia
  3. Pot 3: Denmark, Iceland, Costa Rica, Sweden, Tunisia, Egypt, Senegal, Iran
  4. Pot 4: Serbia, Nigeria, Australia, Japan, Morocco, Panama, South Korea, Saudi Arabia

  5. Draw made at Kremlin in Moscow, conducted by Gary Lineker (former England and barcelona striker)
Nigeria likely to meet one of the world's heavyweight in pot1

Pep Guardiola: Man City manager asked to explain Nathan Redmond outburst



Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has been asked to explain his animated post-match discussion with Southampton's Nathan Redmond by the Football Association.
Guardiola walked onto the pitch after Wednesday's 2-1 Premier League win and remonstrated with the Saints winger.
He claimed he was telling the 23-year-old "how good a player he is" and Redmond has since said the Spaniard was "only very complimentary and positive".
Guardiola has until Monday to respond.
The former Barcelona and Bayern Munich boss approached Redmond moments after Raheem Sterling had scored a 96th-minute winner for the league leaders at Etihad Stadium.
He began to shout and wave his arms, while Redmond covered his mouth and appeared to reply.
"He was very passionate, intense and aggressive - but he was only very complimentary and positive to me," Redmond later said on social media.
"He commented on my qualities as a young English player and how he wanted me to attack his team more during the game in a similar way to last season.
"I told him I was doing what my manager had asked me to do in the game. That's it."

Temple Management Taps Universal Music Exec, Hadja Kobele Keita as MD for Francophone Africa


In a new expansion drive to actualize its pan-African goals, foremost creative agency, Temple Management Company (TMC) has appointed international Artiste and Repertoire (A&R) executive, Hadja Kobele Keita, as Managing Director for its Francophone region. Under her new role, Ms. Keita will oversee the aggressive expansion of the pan-African creative powerhouse in French-speaking Africa working with individual talents as well as organizations from the region to actualize the goal of TMC. At a private ceremony in Lagos at the corporate headquarters, Ms. Keita was unveiled by Mr. Idris Olorunnimbe, Group Chief Executive, in company of other members of group senior management of the fast-growing organization. Temple Francophone is expected to coordinate with the main office based in Lagos, but will have a headquarters in Abidjan. The organization also operates an East Africa regional office in Nairobi, Kenya.


According to Mr. Olorunnimbe, the new move has again reaffirmed TMC as a truly global brand. “When we started this journey over a year ago, our intentions were clear – to fill a void as a global creative brand based in Africa. Our target is to be a bridge builder between international investors and African talents across different categories. The launch of Temple Francophone is one of the pieces in the jigsaw puzzle to actualize that,” the TMC head-honcho explained. Until her new appointment, the Howard University trained showbiz personality was Head of Public Relations and Special Projects, Universal Music. She brings in a lot of experience as a seasoned talent scout, versatile promoter with vast international influence in the area of media and public relations. With her Washington based, Coyah Productions, Keita has established herself as one of Africa’s most influential A&R persons working with global brands such as Roc Nation, BET and South By South West (SXSW). She is the curator of ‘Sounds from Africa,’ a rallying point at the yearly SXSW conference for some of the biggest musicians in Africa and the Diaspora. Speaking about her new role, Keita said she was excited and couldn’t wait to start work. “The beauty of my new role with Temple is my ability to define it with the everlasting movement of our Industry,” Ms. Keita said. “The world needs to understand that the African Entertainment Industry isn’t confined into East, West or South Africa, there are important stories in francophone, lusophone and North Africa as well. My goal is to be the curator, through Temple, of those stories.” Mr. Tunde Folawiyo, the Group Chairman, welcomed Ms Keita to the company and echoed her sentiments. “The experience, expertise and knowledge that Hadja brings to Temple further strengthens our Pan-African vision and reinforces our position at the forefront of Sports and Entertainment service providers,” Mr. Folawiyo said. “We will continue to consolidate the leadership of our organization and look forward to the opportunities that her presence will present.”






Sunday 25 June 2017

12yr old found guilty of murdering his 11yr old *girlfriend* in kenya



A 12 year old Standard Three pupil was this week charged before Naivasha High Court judge Christine Meoli for killing his 11-year-old girlfriend identified as Mary Nduta in Magumu village in Kinangop, Kenya.
The boy(pictured with his lawyer) from Kinangop allegedly stabbed the girl to death on July 5, 2016,claiming that dark forces ordered him to stab the girl three times as the two had sex.

The High Court found the boy guilty of murder. He denied the charge and Justice Meoli directed that he be held at Engineer Police station in Kinangop until the 28th of July when the case will come up for mentioning.
However, the court ruled that the accused was experiencing a difficult childhood in a dysfunctional family and sent him to Kimumu junior probation hostels for three years.
In his defence the boy, who was represented by lawyer Francis Mburu, said dark forces directed him to stab the girl.
The boy told the court that he was getting intimate with the girl when a tall man armed with a machete and a shiny knife appeared and ordered him to kill her. After stabbing the girl, the boy confessed to her sister.
But in her ruling, the court dismissed the boy’s defence describing it as incredible. The judge ruled that from evidence adduced in court, the girl could have rebuffed the boy’s advances leading to the fatal attack.
Meoli noted that minutes before she died, the girl told her relatives the person who had stabbed her.
On the accused defence that a mysterious man dressed in a dark cap appeared to him before the incident, the judge termed it as fiction and an invention of the minor.
She added that during the trial, the boy was careful to cover any loopholes describing him as having a fertile but corrupted imagination.
“The accused defence is unbelievable, conjured to absolve him and the prosecution has proven the case beyond any reasonable doubt,” she said.
The judge noted that it would be unfair to return the minor back to the harsh background that he had been raised in, adding that he need counseling and education.
There is no need to send the boy back to the dysfunctional background but to a place where he can be rehabilitated," she ruled.
Source: Standard Kenya

It's selfish and inconsiderate not to share your husbands- Kenyan leader



Joseph Kaguthi, the head of Nyumba Kumi Initiative in Central Kenya recently caused a furore when he asked women to accommodate their husbands’ lovers as co-wives
Kaguthi, a one-time no-nonsense provincial administrator, told The Nairobian that one of the reasons he advocates for polygamy is because “it is selfish and inconsiderate of women not to share their husbands”


“We are in a crisis in this region. Our population is dwindling at an alarming rate and soon, it will be irreversible, unless we allow men and women to openly acknowledge polygamous unions.”
He said that polygamy is the only way to ensure that children in the region grow up in families with both parents.
“The single parent phenomenon is so widespread and more men and women are growing up without knowing how men and women are supposed to relate to each other.”
Men in Central Kenya were once polygamous for the purposes of wealth generation through dowry and ‘putting together a labour force’ to work on the farms.
“We must embrace who we are as a people. We are not like the coastal communities who enter into polygamous unions for the sake of having a protector, provider and ‘penetrator’,” Kaguthi advised.
Kaguthi pointed out that men preferred to marry women who were industrious and responsible, which is still the case today.
“If you can afford it, you should be allowed to marry more than one woman. We must not hide behind Western cultural values,” he added.
Kaguthi is not a lone crusader for this ‘cause.’ The chair of the Council of Elders (Kiama Kia Maa) Rware Chapter, Gakuo Matu, supports polygamy, arguing that, “Unlike women in the 19th century, the women of Central Kenya today are industrious, independent and willing to take care of their children. If anything, they are an asset to a man, not a liability.”
Matu reckons that “most men in Central Kenya have two or three women in their lives and the only difference is that only one is recoginsed while the rest lurk in the shadows which is unfortunate for them and their children.”
Matu further explained that polygamy would be a wise investment as it is cheaper to have a wife than to maintain a mistress, which is what most men in Central Kenya are doing.
“You can spend Sh5,000 on a wife and she will be happy, but in the case of a mistress, every time you see her, you will have to part with about Sh30,000 on weekend excursions out of town, where you spend on nyama choma and alcohol over and over again,” explains Matu, adding that in a polygamous union, the women in man’s life are forced to co-share what he can afford.
He sounded a warning to women who refuse to let their husbands marry second wives, noting that such men either become hostile or abandon their families.
“Men like new things. After a few decades with the same woman, they start looking for another woman. If a woman stands in the way of that, it makes the man feel trapped and angry,” Matu noted.
According to Matu, men should not be caged because when they cannot get what they want, the will lash out at the closest people to them, who in most cases are the wives.
Nyeri resident and lawyer Waruguru Kiai believes that the polygamy debate is being fuelled by the conflict between Christian beliefs and cultural values.
"Before the advent of Christianity, our Kikuyu culture supported polygamy. However, the man had to adequately provide for all the wives and children, ensure their security and all wives and children were treated equally. None was victimised or mistreated by the other and respect was paramount.”
Drawing parallels with today’s world, Waruguru says that people are torn between Christianity and African traditions because the moment a man solemnises his marriage in church, he relinquishes the right to marry another woman. What this has resulted in is men opting for several ‘side dishes,’ who for all intents and purposes are their wives, with some bearing them children.
“But these women, unlike in the days of our grandparents, are not wives. They may carry on as wives, but they are not. They do not enjoy the security that culture accorded such women. This is why, as we have witnessed, when prominent men die, there are always women who are sidelined and end up in court,” explains Waruguru.
“However, men should understand that the concept of polygamy was to maintain the dignity and respect of women. There is no need to keep one woman at home and others on the side as ‘matrimonial refugees.’ Men should stop sitting on the fence and man up!” she said

photos :::soldiers safe-guards muslims as the offer prayers at an Eid ground in the north




Friday 13 January 2017

Saido Berahino: Stoke manager Mark Hughes 'hopeful' of signing striker


Saido Berahino
Saido Berahino's last goal came against Chelsea on 27 February



Stoke manager Mark Hughes remains "hopeful" of signing West Brom striker Saido Berahino in the January transfer window.
The Potters bid for the 23-year-old in the summer, while the Baggies made a third contract offer last month.
Berahino has not played for the first team since 10 September and was sent to a conditioning camp in France to help him lose weight and regain fitness.
"We are interested in him, as a number of other clubs are," said Hughes.
"I am hopeful we will be able to get something done."
Berahino's deal at The Hawthorns expires at the end of the season and Albion have been in talks with him since the summer.