Cryuff ends coaching career after draw with Nigeria

After the 1-1 draw between Nigeria and Catalonia, Johan Cryuff confirmed his earlier decision to retire from football management.
In the game played at the Estadi Cornella El Prat, Cryuff took charge for the last time, as US-based Bright Dike scored a breakaway goal, to cancel out Sergio Gonzalez’s early penalty.
The former Holland attacker, is regarded as a legend in Spain, where he won Barcelona’s first European Cup in 1992 and four consecutive La Liga titles between 1991 and 1994.
Before then, he had coached Ajax between 1985 and 1988 and won the Ballon d’Or three times.
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How To End Boko Haram Insurgency By Lt Col Sagir Musa

By Lt Col Sagir Musa

Sharing her experience of visiting “Boko Haram torn Maiduguri” in an article – “Inside the lion’s den of Nigeria’s Boko Haram”, the 2009 co-recipient of the silver prize from the United Nations Foundation, rewarded for her work in the Democratic Republic of Congo and also the face of Aljazeera English in West Africa - the indefatigable and ebullient Yvonne Ndege narrated a story of her five days in Maiduguri - the epicenter of violence perpetrated by the armed group Boko Haram.
She was sharp and succinctly objective about the situation in Maiduguri in her article -some parts reads - “During my five days there, I found Maduguri under siege by Boko Haram fighters and the Joint Task Force. The city has been enmeshed in road blocks, checkpoints and sandbags on virtually every major road and intersection. The city was patrolled by heavily armed military personnel donning ski masks, poised to fire at any moment”.
She was perfectly right, for there were/are road blocks, checkpoints and guard duty posts strategically located in identified flash points or red spots in different locations in Maiduguri. Such strategic locations are usually reinforced with sandbags to serve as cover, protection or parapet from terrorist fire. What Yvonne failed to observe and report was the checkpoints and roadblocks were not sporadic or wide spread as to cover all the nooks and crannies of Maiduguri metropolis.
Areas without static deployment are often covered with mobile patrols. And that in terrorist environment, no amount of troops’ presence can guarantee ideal security since terrorists always maximize the use of surprise to circumvent counter measures. Even though there are road blocks, checkpoints, guards, poor detection devices and mobile patrols the elements of surprise can still be employed to overwhelm the human factor and undermine the hard ware in a fortified security system.
Time, as is said, is the terrorist’s best friend and even a well protected and hardened target will experience slackened security measures during long periods of terrorists’ inactivity. Unless a suicide attack is planned, terrorists will want to strike when security is laxed. That might explain many terrorists’ attacks in several places in Nigeria and Borno State in particular. Hence, troops are trained to be more watchful during terrorists’ inactivity. My concern is strongly about the incessant callous, brutal, barbaric and impious killings of people in some states of the North -Eastern parts of Nigeria particularly in Maiduguri. More worrisome is the inhuman way the terrorist perpetrates their dastardly acts ranging from outright shootings, macheting and slaughtering of their victims using knives and sometimes saw machines from the back of the victims’ necks till the heads are severed. In some cases, victims’ throats were savagely slashed.
Recall, in April 2012, seven persons were in the day time shot dead in Monday Market. In July 2012, nine construction workers working at Shehu of Borno’s Central Mosque were massacred, 2 Indians shot dead in their factory and a suicide bomber strapped with explosives detonated bombs very close to the Shehu of Borno and the Deputy Governor of Borno State immediately after the Friday congregational prayer; - five people lost their lives, four civilians and two soldiers were seriously injured.
Similarly, three security guards in Gombaru ward, a respected elder statesman retired Maj Gen Muhammadu Shuwa and a business mogul Alhaji Girgir were in the day time separately shot dead at different locations in Maiduguri metropolis, so also five people were recently slaughtered in Musari community located at the outskirt of Maiduguri. Many security personnel lost their lives through IEDs and ambushes perpetrated by Boko Haram Terrorists. The IEDs were buried in the middle of or by the road sides and detonated on the unlucky mobile JTF’s troops on sight. These killings mainly occurred in the day time with many committed in the markets, worship centres and in family homes.
Unfortunately, unlike in Kano, Azare, Birnin-Gwari, Rigasa, kuru areas of kano, Bauchi, Kaduna and Plateau States, all these obnoxious and sacrilegious acts, all this savagery have elicited not a single passive or active resistance from the locals who most times witnessed when these inhuman acts were committed. What I routinely hear is the hollow, emotive and baseless accusations against those that are daily staking their lives for the sake of the nation. It is normal that in an effort to stem crime and criminality, some communities in Nigeria have since devised neighborhood surveillance, alarm system and other resistance measures to assist themselves and security agencies in combating insecurity in their respective domains.
This aspect is totally lacking in most crises pruned states of North Eastern Nigeria, particularly in Borno State. Therefore, there is the need to remind the local communities to rise to the daunting challenge, to henceforth resolve to resist attempts to annihilate their communities by pre-empting terrorists acts by way of giving timely and accurate information to security agencies and where possible to actively react to this madness since the Task Force/ security agencies cannot be everywhere at the same time. Just yesterday, while briefing newsmen in Owerri, the Commissioner of Police Imo State said - “A retired police officer, who resides in Owerri, was arrested for armed robbery on 29 December, 2012… He was caught red handed when he broke in to the home of his victim with a loaded locally made double barrel gun; his supposed victim disarmed him and quickly raised alarm that attracted his neigbours”.
This feat can be replicated anywhere especially where there is putative religious and conscientious commitment amongst the people. I, therefore, posit that whatever the case, combating Boko Haram’s insurgency will require military, political and communal solutions. The military’s role is simply to restore law and order, protect lives and properties of citizens and to create an enabling environment for political solution to take place which the JTF has creditably achieved. JTF’s presence and what it has been able to achieve is based on the premise that the government has the capacity to checkmate the activities of Boko Haram Terrorists and crush them where they are all out to confront the Government/security forces.
Once an enabling environment has been created, concurrent actions should take place with the aim of bringing the menace to an end. Hence, it is my personal view that the time for political solution to the insurgency maybe now and the security agencies must remain in a staging position to act decisively and appropriately whenever the need arise. On the other hand, the communities have a lot to do in the area of giving timely and credible information and to stop youths from being recruited in to the group; otherwise Boko Haram’s terrorism will linger for a long time. All forms of litany will not solve the insurgency, except concerted, coordinated, selfless efforts and resolve of the Government, citizens and the security agencies.

The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect the editorial policy of SaharaReporters
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Bisi Komolafe’s death: “We were trying to raise money for her” – Jide Kosoko

President of the Association of Theatre-Arts Practitioners, ANTP, Prince Jide Kosoko, on reacting to Bisi Komolafe’s death disclosed that the union was planning to raise funds to help Bisi when the tragedy struck.
“I got to know of her illness on Sunday when Yinka Quadri called me that there is a need for us to raise fund for her treatment abroad. But unfortunately, we got the shocker this morning that she is dead. It is sad that this is coming on a new year” He said
The Yoruba actress, died on the 31st of December, a few hours to the New year, after being hospitalized in the University College Hospital (UCH) Ibadan for 2 months, following a miscarriage she had.
Her boss, Mr Yinka Quadri in a telephone chat disclosed that the condition at which he last saw her on Sunday, December 30, had weighed him down. “I had to reach out to the Elders of the Association of National Theatre Practitioners (ANTP) to raise money for Bisi’s health because she had run out of money.” he said.
Bisi Komolafe got engaged to her Canadian based lover a few months back and had planned to get married this year.
The late actress was a nominee of the 2009 and 2011 BON Awards.
She left behind aged parents, brothers and sisters.
She will be buried on the 4th of January at Okepadi, Salvation Army way, Ibadan.
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2013: “Bloody civil wars, natural disasters, celestial warfare..” – Dr. Olukoya’s 40 prophecies

More men of God, are making prophetic declarations concerning 2013. Yesterday, we published Pastor E. A Adeboye’s and the very controversial predictions made by Prophet T. B. Joshua.
Dr. D.K. Olukoya, the General Overseer of the Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries, has uttered 40 prophecies, which he says will come to pass this year.
The 40 prophecies are:
1.A YEAR THAT WILL GENERATE WIDESPREAD REBELLION SPARK
2.A YEAR OF MYSTERIOUS HAPPENING
3.A YEAR OF HORRIBLE AND PATHETIC SINS
4.A YEAR OF DISINTEGRATION AND DISCEPTION
5.A DANGEROUS YEAR TO PLAY WITH SIN
6.A YEAR OF UNUSUALTURBULEN ­ CE TIME
7.A YEAR OF UNCOMMON LAWLESSNESS 8.A VOLATILE YEAR WITH SHORT TEMPER
9.A YEAR OF SPECIAL PRAYER
10.A YEAR WHEN THE ACCUSED WILL BE THE JUDGE
11.A YEAR OF THE RAGE OF SEAS….
12.A YEAR WHERE PRAYERS ARE NEEDED TO ARREST LOCAL,NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL WASTERS
13.A YEAR OF NATURAL DISASTERS
14.A YEAR OF DEATH FOR ARTISTE AND MUSICIANS
15.A YEAR OF SHAKING FOR NATION THAT SUPPORT GODLESSNESS
16.A YEAR OF CONFUSED REVOLUTIONIST
17.A YEAR OF HISSING AND SHAME FOR THE DEVIL
18.A YEAR OF NEW POSITIONING
19.A YEAR OF UNBELIEVABLE AND DISLOYALTY
20.A YEAR OF REBELLION AGAINST ALL BONDAGES
21.A YEAR OF PLENTY OF INIQUITY
22.A YEAR OF BLOODY CIVIL WARS
23.A YEAR OF JUDGEMENT FOR THOSE WHO INITIATE ANTISCRIPTUAL JUDGEMENT
24.A YEAR OF CELESTIAL WARFARE
25.A YEAR OF ECONOMIC FAMININE FOR UNBELIEVERS
26.A YEAR OF UNCOMMON SHAKING IN MARKET OF THE WORLD
27.A YEAR OF BLESSINGS FOR CHILDREN OF GOD
28.A YEAR OF RAW POWER OF GOD TO DESRTOYLONG STANDING YOKE
29.A YEAR OF UNCOMMON DISASTER FOR THE SEXUALLY LOSE
30.A CRUCIAL YEAR OF GOD’S CALLING,TRAINING AND CHOOSING
31.A YEAR WHEN THE POWERLESS SHALL PUT THE POWERFUL TO SHAME
32.A YEAR OF RESULGENCE OF CULTISM 33.A YEAR OF BROADCASTING MALPRATICES
34.A YEAR WHERE DESTINY WILL MOVE OUT OF BONDAGE
35.A YEAR OF DELIVERANCE AND JUSTICE
36.A YEAR OF WHEN DESTROYERS SHALL SPLIT
37.A YEAR WHEN SATANIC ACQUIRED WEALTH SHALL BACKFIRE
38.A YEAR OF RAGE OF CONFUSION
39.A YEAR WHERE MANY SORROWS WILL TURN TO JOY
40.A YEAR OF HARVEST OF BREAKTHROUGH
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A dose of attitudinal adjustment

TUNDE ASAJU
Who says President Jones is clueless? The man’s brain works as hard as the legendary Alajo Somolu, the Somolu Esusu collector whose foresight made him sell his car and purchase a bicycle. For long people have used his sagacity as the yardstick for measuring moroseness, but in Fashola’s Lagos, Okada or commercial motorcycles have been banned to let in bicycles.
We know better, corruption is not the problem of Naija; attitude is! This is one of the values a nation gets for liberating itself from clingy and power hungry northerners in favour of a president with PhD.  Where others would have groped and fumbled, this professor president nailed the subject of many research on the head, saving the nation time and the resources it would have wasted on needless research and paying pollsters.
The Wizard of Ota took us all on a jolly ride for eight years, creating EFCC and ICPC and dancing to the rap of Nuhu Ribadu; depleting his circle of friends while chasing a non-existent malaise. He sacked a friendly police boss and sent him to Amenity Ward for attitude adjustment. He dispatched party stalwart, Boy George to Kirikiri and pursued the generalissimo of the Ijaw nation, the great Alams paving the way for the discovery of this genius. For all his complaining outside government, the Wizard needs a new dose of attitude adjustment.
People with bad attitude had at different times accused members of the president’s cabinet of corruption, yet none has been suspended, sacked, investigated or prosecuted.  Maladjusted people want to ruin the Jones presidency. They complain that potholes have turned to gullies; that plane crashes should be blamed on rambling ministers; that governors with terminal illnesses should not be treated outside the hospitals they neglected. People in need of attitude adjustment complain about darkness when they can buy candles to light their way through.
People with bad attitude complain that universities are a shadow of their past glory; that hospitals cannot even prepare ruiners for their final journey as if it is their father’s money that the rich use to fly out for proper undertaking. People with bad attitude complain about the new banqueting hall befitting the status of a sleeping giant; that the vice president should have no befitting mansion. A government is generous enough to let people own cars but they turn around to whine over fuel scarcity – pure bad attitude. Governments in other lands reserve cars for themselves leaving the citizenry with bicycles, camels and donkeys.
People with bad attitude would have forced the president to lock horns with all the state governors. Most of them are accused of heading state chapters of the cesspit of corruption. But see, none has been investigated, hunted or jailed.
Where else on earth do victims of political rape complain that their assailants are wicked instead of lying down there with good attitude enjoying the fun? People with bad attitude would be jubilant over the sickness of their governors or their death or accident. They would not join the ruining party’s muezzin in observing prayers for preservation of their oppressors.
People with bad attitude need a dose of John Cena’s attitude adjustment. Bad attitude reeks like a burst sewage tank, but in Mushin, Fuji crooners rebrand it in their lyrics, they call it swag. People with bad attitude complain that a president should not release naval helicopters for kabukabu as if they produce the oil that fuels government’s own bad attitude. A son of the shoil has inalienable rights to dispose of the wealth from his oil as he deems fit. It is bad attitude for others to complain.
Attitude is the cancer devouring the sleeping giant. Sinators with bad attitude complain of being run off the streets by their governors’ convoys. Other convoys have been known to kill disposable and stubborn citizens who take siren immunity for granted. I must personally report the bad attitude of the navy. Not only are its choppers dropping like overripe pawpaw and causing grief, its ratings, sent to guard extinguished sinators are being disgraced, disarmed and beaten by ordinary police escorts – where is military pride? Even Boko Haram scouts would have done better.
We must not conclude without mentioning the sad fact that bad attitude has crept into the clergy. Priests now have the temerity to erect wailing walls around presidential events. Recall that one nearly forced the president to expend a whole year’s ration of ‘amen’ for a single prayer. If loyal protocol officers had not averted trouble, where would the president get the ‘amen’ needed to receive pastoral blessings at the Redemption Camp? Imagine another priest with a bad attitude seizing a solemn funeral homily to complain about corruption as if he is the employ of KPMG.
In this New Year, anybody exhibiting bad attitude should be sent to the villa protocol desk for a large dose of attitude adjustment. John Cena, the popular wrestler uses attitude adjustment to send his opponents to momentary stupor to win them. Attitude adjustment will pave bad roads, fix hospitals, keep schools open all year round, put food on the table, cure bad governance and resolve all our ills.
Who knows, it might make governors less prone to accidents and terminal illnesses thereby reducing the need for state to borrow the doctrine of necessity. Attitude adjustment makes people sing when their house is on fire! Where else can you get it but the presidential villa?
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Knock-out blue: ‘Sexiest woman alive’ shows cleavage, kisses fiance, then fight breaks out in night club (PHOTOS)

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Sofia Vergara’s fiancé Nick Loeb was allegedly thrown out of a Miami club after they had a ‘heated argument.’
According to the New York Post, things were already awkward because Loeb was jealous that the pair’s evening was being hosted by Chris Paciello, owner of Miami Beach club Story, who Sofia dated in the 1990s.
The publication reports that the situation became heated when Loeb found himself in a struggle with a nearby table, after Sofia apparently took a picture with a stranger.

What a dress: Sofia Vergara was a knock-out in a floor length silk and leather number to see in 2013 in Miami, Florida

Page Six reports: ‘Nick seemed tense around Chris, who was hosting them in the VIP section, even though he and Sofia are just friends. In the early hours, Nick and Sofia were arguing before he got into a dispute with somebody at a neighboring table. Some pushing and shoving started.
‘Sofia stepped in to try to calm the situation, but somehow she ended up getting pushed and shoved also. Her strapless dress was torn or pulled down in the melee, exposing her cleavage in front of other people and her son Manolo who was so offended he left the club. It was crazy.’

She’s mine! Nick is alleged to have become jealous after his partner posed for a photograph with a stranger

Not impressed: The 40-year-old makes a disgusted face at club owner Chris Paciello. He’s also an ex of Vergara’s

However, the newspaper alleges that despite the argument, Sofia forgave Loeb and the pair returned home together following the altercation.
MailOnline has contacted representatives for the couple for comment.
Earlier in the evening, the Modern Family actress looked delighted at her antics though as she grinned happily while clutching a flute of champagne.

Whack job: Vergara rang in the new year in a stunning leather and blue dress and a pair of comedy glasses at a party in South Beach

Ten, nine, eight: The Modern Family actress puckered up to her man Nick Loeb at the stroke of midnight

The foxy star was hosting the New Year’s Eve celebrations at the Delano Hotel in Miami, Florida, and was accompanied by her fiance Nick Loeb.
Vergara seemed to be having the night of her life as she chatted to various guests and smooched her beau throughout the night.
Her outfit choice was dramatic and eye-catching. The empire waisted gown was a deep royal blue and had a plunging, daring leather corset top.
It fit the curvy Colombian like a glove and she wore her long brunette hair loose around her shoulders.
She accessorised with simple jewels and her nails were painted a muted nude colour.

Fun loving: The good-humoured star grinned wildly in her bright blue and green comedy sunglasses

Vergara mingled with the likes of singer Santigold and club owner – and ex-boyfriend – Chris Paciello.

And at one point she was even snapped making a faux disgusted face at her former flame.
Current squeeze Nick Loeb couldn’t keep his eyes of his lady love.
He was at her side almost constantly, admiring her and wrapping his arms around the Latina beauty.
Mother-of-one Vergara and her businessman fiance became engaged in July but haven’t set a date yet for the big day.

Bosom buddies: Vergara and singer Santigold ham it for the camera, microphones in hand- Mail Online

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Why D’banj and Genevieve Nnaji Broke Up

Some of you think the relationship between D’banj and Genevieve Nnaji was a publicity stunt…it wasn’t! The sexy stars dated off and on between 2009 and early 2012. D’banj recently opened up to Toolz on the Juice about his relationship with Ms Nnaji and said he doesn’t know who dumped who.

“Genevieve was a friend…(but now) I haven’t seen her…I don’t know who dumped who.

One could tell for certain that Genevieve did the dumping. Not necessarily because she wanted to, but because she had no choice. There were just too many women around D’banj. It seemed at a point, a lot of women wanted a piece of the Kokomaster, including a close friend of the actress who allegedly began an affair with D’banj behind her back. Genny decided she’d had enough and ended things in late 2011.
Genevieve and D’banj briefly reconciled in early 2012, but ended things for good after D’banj started flaunting his relationship with Ghanian actress, Nadia Buari.

Genevieve and D’banj at P-Square’s birthday in 2010

The relationship which began in late 2009 after the two met at the airport, became public after D’banj granted an exclusive INTERVIEW to Stella Dimoko Korkus in March 2010, expressing his feelings for Miss Nnaji.
D’banj said:

“We have been trying to keep this quiet but yes, I am dating Genevieve Nnaji. I am in love with her. It’s been long I felt this way about anyone. I don’t know what other words to use to qualify my feelings. She’s my baby, she’s my every thing and I love her.”

People in the know claim that it wasn’t only the other women in D’banj’s life that ended their relationship but also because Genny herself was not committed to the relationship. D’banj was said to have been hurt after he heard that Genny had also allegedly dated another popular Nigerian singer.
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