I quit Eagles because Chukwu didn’t like me –Agali

In this exclusive interview with ex-Super Eagles’ striker, Victor Agali, the goal poacher spoke on his career, particularly, why he quit the national team prema­turely, his involvement in a fake Nigeria passport scandal and the current national team under the guidance of Coach Stephen Keshi among others. Excerpts! May we know how you started your career? I started my career from a Nigeria division two club, Nitel F.C in Lagos. It was there that somebody came around in search of a player, whose name I won’t mention. When he saw my performance,...

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Handle Failure

I haven’t heard of any person who has not had a taste of a single failure in life; we all succumb to mistakes. The difference between successful people and ordinary people is how they handle failure. There are people who handle failure so well. They may feel sad; they may cry and feel sorry for themselves. They may be demotivated and may even be depressed. But this situation they are in will last only for a short while. They quickly recover. We all agree that we need to triumph over failures; but still majority of us finds handling failures...

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Handling Life Changes

Nothing is permanent in this world except change. Life changes are bound to happen; some of them are beyond our control. Life changes may be good or bad. What happens when the life changes are bad? How do you handle these bad life changes? Always expect change as this is inevitable. I have this life principle, “Expect the best, but be prepared for the worst”. It doesn’t mean being a pessimist but rather being prepared when bad times come. You need to be proactive. Prepare a strategy that you can easily navigate through. The transition...

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Cybersecurity Prevention Tips

Looking back at the Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) attack, we must realize that now is the time, more than ever to take a more proactive approach to cybersecurity to prevent what happened to SPE from happening to your organization. If my analysis is correct then any organization could defend against this attack, in spite of the FBI’s statement that 90 percent of businesses would have been victimized (this is probably true, sadly). To defend against this attack, even though “Usernames & Passwords” was one of the files discovered,...

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Obasanjo is a career liar, says Soyinka

Former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, has made a life-long career of compulsive lying, Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, claimed on Wednesday. In an abridged response to the former president’s scathing delivery on the literary giant in his latest memoir “My Watch,” Soyinka went to town with his age-long social adversary, lampooning him as one bedeviled with the enigmatic spirit of legendary fable-teller, the late D.O Fagunwa. He disclosed...

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Jonathan, Buhari can’t end Nigeria’s woes

The Chairman, South-West, Nigeria Advance Party, Mr. Tosin Odeyemi, has said that neither President Goodluck Jonathan nor the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Maj.Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) can end the challenges confronting the country if any of them wins the presidential election holding in February. Odeyemi said this in an interview with our correspondent in Osogbo on Thursday. He said that the insurgency...

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Gov’s wife welcomes first 2015 baby in LIMH

Baby of the Year 2015, Baby Ogechukwu, weighing 2.5kg, was born at 12.01am at the Isolo General Hospital, Isolo, Lagos... on Thursday The wife of Lagos State Governor, Mrs. Abimbola Fashola, has welcomed the first baby born in the Lagos Island Maternity Hospital, in 2015. Fashola presented to the child a wooden cot, a mattress and pillows donated by Vitafoam at the LIMH on Thursday. The baby, a female, was born to Mrs. Sherifat Ogunnoiki...

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Akpom: Sanchez Nicknamed Me After Henry

Arsenal starlet Chuba Akpom has clearly impressed Alexis Sanchez in training since the Chilean touched down in North London, revealing that he’s been given a special nickname by the £35 million man in honour of Thierry Henry. Akpom who has expressed his interest to play for Nigeria rather than England for whom he has played for as a youth international is a promising young striker still waiting for his chance to shine at the Emirates, making...

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