Marseille to make Mikel highest-paid player

Struggling French Ligue 1 side Marseille  may have succeeded in convincing  out-of-favour Chelsea midfielder Mikel Obi to shun big-money move  to the Chinese Super League to help revive the club.

Former Los Angeles Dodgers owner Frank McCourt, who  bought Marseille in October, had promised to invest heavily in the January transfer window to help manager Rudi Garcia  build a team  that could be European champions.

Before you mock anybody for investing in MMM, think about this

I invested all my Savings from NYSC in Savanah Bank, The Bank Packed up and left me with Nothing. I bought 10,000 shares in Transcorp when Obasanjo and "Madam Stock Exchange" initially sold the fraud to Nigerians but up till today, no shares were allocated to me and my money was not refunded.

I remember my then employer deducting money from my wages and paying into government owned Housing Fund and also into the National Pension Fund, the 2 bodies were dissolved and my money dissolved with it. My Father and millions of Nigerians also paid into the same funds for more than 30 years and nothing came out of it.

Impeachment: Negative prophecies against me will fail – Fayose

Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose, on Sunday lashed out at some clerics who had predicted that he would be impeached or removed from office in less than a year after his assumption of office.

Fayose said negative prophecies against him will always fail because he is God’s project whose destiny is only determined by God.

Mob beat couple to death over witchcraft allegations

A mob beat to death an elderly couple accused of witchcraft in eastern India, police said Saturday, the second such killing in the region in two weeks.

Three people have been arrested over the lynching, police said, adding that the couple, both in their late sixties, had been suspected of using black magic to kill their neighbours in a remote tribal district of Jharkhand state.

Nigeria can never grow or develop!

Ademowore Adetola a.k.a Elastic

With the way the situation of Nigeria is going now, I have studied and see it can never grow nor develop. Is like the African complexture which is black is really affecting us and giving us set back. And I think that's the believe of white men world wide.

We so much complain about how wicked our leaders are which truly they are but forgetting that we the citizens are just same thing like them.

We the citizens complain every day about the way we are been ruled, but how do we by ourselves rule our family, companies, people working with us like our staff, maids, drivers, gardeners, cleaners and so on...........

MMM: NDIC,CBN looking into digital currency – official

Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN),
Mr Godwin Emefiele

As the popular ponzi scheme, Mavrodi Mudial Moneybox, MMM, has seemed to induct many Nigerians into its fold,  Alhaji Umaru Ibrahim, the Managing Director, Nigeria Deposit Insurance Commission (NDIC), on Friday said the commission and CBN had set up a committee to look into the trending “digital currency, ‘bitcoin’. Ibrahim said this at the ongoing 2016 Workshop for Financial Correspondents in Kaduna.

Lagos condemns murder of LASTMA official

The Lagos State Government on Friday condemned the murder of an official of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, Surajudeen Bakare, on Thursday in Apapa area of the state.

The Acting Commissioner for Transportation, Mr. Adebayo Anofiu Eleguishi, said at a news conference that Bakare was a victim of jungle justice.

He said, “The late Bakare was killed by some people who have forcefully taken over the roads to flout rules and regulations and take laws into their own hands.”