UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE-ROUND OF 16 CLUBS

CLUB AND THEIR POSSIBLE OPPONENTS IN THE LAST 16

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Liverpool (holders)

✅🇪🇸 Real Madrid

✅🇪🇸 Atletico Madrid

✅🇮🇹 Atalanta

✅🇩🇪 Borussia Dortmund

✅🇫🇷 Olympique Lyon

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Manchester City

✅🇪🇸 Real Madrid

✅🇪🇸 Atletico Madrid

✅🇮🇹 SSC Napoli

✅🇩🇪 Borussia Dortmund

✅🇫🇷 Olympique Lyon

🇪🇸 FC Barcelona

✅🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Tottenham Hotspurs 

✅🇮🇹 Atalanta

✅🇮🇹 SSC Napoli

✅🇫🇷 Olympique Lyon

✅🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Chelsea

🇪🇸 Valencia

✅🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Tottenham Hotspurs 

✅🇮🇹 SSC Napoli

✅🇮🇹 Atalanta

✅🇩🇪 Borussia Dortmund

✅🇫🇷 Olympique Lyon

🇩🇪 Bayern Munich

✅🇪🇸 Real Madrid

✅🇮🇹 Atalanta

✅🇪🇸 Atletico Madrid

✅🇮🇹 SSC Napoli

✅🇫🇷 Olympique Lyon

✅🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Chelsea

🇩🇪 Rasen Ballsport Leipzig

✅🇪🇸 Real Madrid

✅🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Tottenham Hotspurs 

✅🇮🇹 Atalanta

✅🇪🇸 Atletico Madrid

✅🇮🇹 SSC Napoli

✅🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Chelsea

🇮🇹 Juventus

✅🇪🇸 Real Madrid

✅🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Tottenham Hotspurs 

✅🇩🇪 Borussia Dortmund

✅🇫🇷 Olympique Lyon

✅🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Chelsea

🇫🇷 Paris St. Germain

✅🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Tottenham Hotspurs 

✅🇮🇹 Atalanta

✅🇪🇸 Atletico Madrid

✅🇮🇹 SSC Napoli

✅🇩🇪 Borussia Dortmund

✅🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Chelsea

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Chelsea

✅🇪🇸 FC Barcelona

✅🇩🇪 Bayern Munich

✅🇩🇪 Rasen Ballsport Leipzig

✅🇮🇹 Juventus

✅🇫🇷 Paris St. Germain

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Tottenham Hotspurs 

✅🇪🇸 FC Barcelona

✅🇫🇷 Paris St. Germain

✅🇮🇹 Juventus

✅🇩🇪 Rasen Ballsport Leipzig

✅🇪🇸 Valencia

🇪🇸 Real Madrid

✅🇩🇪 Bayern Munich

✅🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Manchester City

✅🇮🇹 Juventus

✅🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Liverpool

✅🇩🇪 Rasen Ballsport Leipzig

🇪🇸 Atletico Madrid

✅🇫🇷 Paris St. Germain

✅🇩🇪 Bayern Munich

✅🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Manchester City

✅🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Liverpool

✅🇩🇪 Rasen Ballsport Leipzig

🇩🇪 Borussia Dortmund

✅🇫🇷 Paris St. Germain

✅🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Manchester City

✅🇮🇹 Juventus

✅🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Liverpool

✅🇪🇸 Valencia

🇮🇹 SSC Napoli

✅🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Manchester City

✅🇫🇷 Paris St. Germain

✅🇩🇪 Bayern Munich

✅🇪🇸 FC Barcelona

✅🇩🇪 Rasen Ballsport Leipzig

✅🇪🇸 Valencia

🇮🇹 Atalanta

✅🇫🇷 Paris St. Germain

✅🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Liverpool

✅🇩🇪 Bayern Munich

✅🇪🇸 FC Barcelona

✅🇩🇪 Rasen Ballsport Leipzig

✅🇪🇸 Valencia

🇫🇷 Olympique Lyon

✅🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Liverpool

✅🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Manchester City

✅🇪🇸 FC Barcelona

✅🇪🇸 Valencia

✅🇩🇪 Bayern Munich

✅🇮🇹 Juventus

*NOTE: The draw will take place next week Monday.*

PASTOR BAGS 4-YEARS IMPRISONMENT SEE THE REASON

A Pastor, Solomon Oni Opaalade, has been sentenced to four years and five months imprisonment for stealing turkey and goat.

The Pastor who is a founder of one Cherubim and Seraphim Church at Baruwa Estate, Old Governors office area, Osogbo, was alleged to have been known for such act in the street.

The convict was also charged for threatening one Oluwasegun Hammed with charms, after stealing his He-goat.

The Principal State Counsel from Ministry of Justice in Osun state, Adekunle Adeniyi,  alleged that the accused stole nine turkeys belonging to the complainant.

The prosecution further alleged that the accused stole a goat valued at N18,000, property of Hammed.

He pleaded not guilty to the allegations of stealing,  breach of peace and threat to life and forcibly entry leveled against him by the police.

The prosecutor called five witnesses including Oluwasegun Hammed, Shittu Tokunbo, Pastor Stephen Oyeyemi, Olayinka Bayowa and Cletus Monjok who investigated the case. Two turkeys, charms and statement of the convict were tendered as well.

One of the witness, Hammed, who was also a victim revealed how the convict reacted when he informed the him that he had told the community about the theft of his He-goat, the convict returned the following day fully dressed in Charms or local juju and other fetish objects and threatened to deal with him for exposing him.

The presiding Magistrate, Mrs. Adijat Oloyede, sentenced the convict to 18 months imprisonment on each of the three counts with an option of N10,000 each.

• FEDPOFFA ELECT Adigun Abiola AS NEW SUG President
• Oluwapelumi Fasoyin
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• A 22-year-old, Azeez Adigun ABIOLA popularly known as Adigun has been declared the winner of the just concluded Student Union Government, SUG, the election of the Federal Polytechnic Offa, Kwara state.
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• Adigun, an HND II student of Food Science and Technology, won the electronic voting after polling 5,550 votes, against his counterpart Bello Nurudeen, who polled 2,032 votes.
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• The new SUG president and his crew from the Reformation movement won all the 15 posts in the E-voting.
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• Adigun thanked all the electoral umpire, says, “Words can not express how happy I’m and reformation movement at large for this victory of our concluded election, at the beginning it was tough and rough, is it before we were slated to contest under Reformation movement we want to say or after we have been slated, is it class to class campaign we want to talk or face to face, but to God be the glory for success plus victory as last”.
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• “I say a very big thanks to the DSA Mr. Gbenga Alemino and his team, also Appreciate the effort of the ICEC Committee for the credible free and fair Election they conduct. I say a gigantic thanks to you all and pledge works commence with an impending alacrity for we believe injustice to one is an injustice to all.
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• “Fedpoffites, all our campaign and manifesto promised that we will never manipulate ‘yes’ to No and NO TO Yes Is still intact. We promise you that this is the time of ‘no-nonsense’ and we will never jeopardize the interest of the entire students.”
• Meanwhile, his running mate from the opposition Liberation Movement, Bello faulted the process, lamented non-transparency in the poll stated that some students reported a case of illegal use of their Matriculation number and Surname which is the requirement of voting in the E-voting; to cast vote without their consent
  

GOV. FAYEMI ORDERED SACK OF WORKERS,  NOT ME VC's

The attention of the Vice Chancellor, Ekiti State University, Ado Ekiti, Professor Edward Olanipekun has been drawn to a publication in Wazobia and other online media credited to him with the above caption.

In the said publication, the Vice Chancellor was alleged to have granted interview where he purportedly claimed that the Governor of Ekiti State and Visitor to the University, Dr Kayode Fayemi ordered the sack of workers in the University.

I wish to state unequivocally that the Vice Chancellor did not grant any interview where he purportedly made the statement. The story apart from being misleading and mischievous, is nothing but a figment of  imagination of its promoter who is bent on destroying the good relationship between the Vice Chancellor and Ekiti State Governor.

The facts are there for anybody to verify that the responsibility of formulating policies in the University falls within the purview of the Governing Council and the Council under the leadership of Professor Bamitale Omole will not shirk in its responsibility in that regard.

It is crystal clear that Dr Kayode Fayemi, by his pedigree (unlike the promoter of the misleading story and his paymaster), is familiar with the workings of the University system. This he has demonstrated since he came on board by not interfering in the management of Ekiti State University. The University has enjoyed tremendous support of Dr Fayemi and his government through various interventions. For example, his intervention led to the accreditation of the medical programme of the College of Medicine which culminated in the graduation of the first set of Medical students that had stagnated for about ten years. His intervention through the release of funds also brought about the accreditation of various degree programmes in the University.

For the avoidance of doubt, the Governor of Ekiti State, while exercising his power as the Visitor to the University constituted a Visitation Panel which culminated in the issuance of Government white paper arising from the recommendations of the Visitation Panel.

Thereafter, as a fall out of the white paper, the Governing Council commissioned a firm of External Auditors  to carry out a comprehensive staff audit in the University.

The Governing Council of Ekiti State University at its meeting of 5th December, 2019 considered the report of the staff audit carried out by the firm. This is sequel to the findings in the Report of the Visitation Panel as accepted by the Government White Paper to the university which noted among other things that there was over staffing, redundancy and personnel misalignment in virtually all the sections of the university and which astronomically increased the wage bill of the University beyond its capacity to pay.

The Governing Council noted the findings contained in the Report of the External Staff Auditors that:
(1) over 600 workers were employed irregularly against university regulations within the period 2016-2018 thereby causing a major personnel disalignment  and skyrocketing of the university wage bill by about 100% within two years.
(2) 228 members of staff could not produce/show evidence of Primary School Leaving Certificate
(3) there were some ghost workers whose names were found on the university pay roll without being on the university nominal role.
(4) some members of staff presented falsified birth and educational certificates.
(5) some of the members of staff lacked the required basic educational qualification.
(6) some members of staff were illegally retained in the university services after having been due to retire.
(7) there are other cases of over aged staff.

Consequently after due consideration of the issues involved, and the overall best interest of the university in being properly positioned for local relevance and global competitiveness, the Governing Council of Ekiti State University directed that those who were found to have fallen into the categories listed in 1-7 above be disengaged of their appointments forthwith in accordance with the university regulations.

This is exactly what the Governing Council did.

Therefore, to drag the name of Dr Fayemi into the matter is callous and unacceptable. Between 2015 and 2018, the administration of Dr Fayemi's predecessor was owing workers 8 months salaries. The administration did not release a dime to the University as Capital vote neither did it increase its subvention. Rather, the administration colluded with the administration of the former Vice Chancellor to flood the University with many staff thus increasing the wage bill which led the University to its present precarious and parlous state.

I wish to advise that the promoter (and his paymaster) should desist from spreading falsehood and join hands in reclaiming the lost values of Ekiti State.

Bode Olofinmuagun
Head, Directorate of Information & Corporate Affairs,
Ekiti State University,
Ado Ekiti.

Messi beat Van Djik with only 7 point to claims 2019 ballondOr.

Here are the full rankings

1st - Messi - 686 pts

2nd - Van Dijk - 679 pts

3rd - Ronaldo - 476 pts

4th - Mané - 347 pts

5th - Salah - 178 pts

6th - Mbappé - 89 pts

7th - Alisson - 67 pts

8th - Lewandowski - 44 pts

9th - Bernardo Silva - 41 pts

10th - Mahrez - 33 pts

11th – De Jong - 31 pts

12th – Sterling - 30 pts

13th – Hazard - 25 pts

14th – De Bruyne - 14 pts

15th – De Ligt - 13 pts

16th – Agüero - 12 pts

17th – Firmino - 11 pts

18th – Griezmann - 9 pts

19th – Alexander-Arnold - 8 pts

20th – Tadic - 5 pts

20th – Aubameyang - 5 pts

22nd – Son Heung-min - 4 pts

23rd – Lloris - 3 pts

24th – Koulibaly - 2 pts

24th – Ter Stegen - 2 pts

26th – Wijnaldum - 1 pt

26th – Benzema - 1 pt

28th – Felix - 0 pt

28th – Marquinhos - 0 pts

28th – Van der Beek - 0 pts

OFFICIAL: The top 10 ranking for the inaugural #YachineTrophy 

🇧🇷 Alisson Becker 🏆 

🇩🇪 Marc-André ter Stegen

🇧🇷 Ederson Moraes

🇸🇮 Jan Oblak

🇫🇷 Hugo Lloris

🇩🇪 Manuel Neuer

🇨🇲 André Onana

🇪🇸 Kepa Arrizabalaga

🇵🇱 Wojciech Szczęsny

🇸🇮 Samir Handanović

AAUA 9TH CONVOCATION LECTURE: DON ADVISED VARSITY TO UTILISED AVAILABLE RESOURCES

BY: OLAMIDE AKINWUMI

Tony  Allen, the executive Vice President/Provost, a Professor of public policy of Delaware university USA, has advised Adekunle Ajasin University, to exploits the available resources in their environment for the benefit of mankind.

The DON, gave the advised on Tuesday, when delivered the 9th convocation lecture of the institution titled, the role of university in the development of the society with perspective from the United State of America.

He said, “ as an institution you need to understand your environmental-social issues, politics, economic and the resources available in resolving them.”

The DON, who was represented by Dr. Larry Morris, the Personal Assistant to the Governor of Delaware state, USA, urged the institution to focus more on sports and get partnership with Non-Governmental Organization NGO's increasing the opportunities in sports sector.

The Vice chancellor of the institution, Professor Igbekele Ajibefun, had earlier, described convocation lecture as an integral aspects in the convocation ceremony which the university have been observing perfectly.

Professor Ajibefun, however, extended his warming greeting to the guest lecturer and other invited guests that graced the occasions.

AN ICON: HISTORY WILL FOREVER BE KIND TO PROFESSOR IGBEKELE AJIBEFUN – A VICE CHANCELLOR LIKE NO OTHER

On January 6, 2015, you assumed office as the 5th Vice Chancellor of one of the most prestigious and award winning 21st Century institution, Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko, Ondo State and I recall vividly that one of your first official duty was the swearing in of Comrade Ogunade Adebola Oluwakayode led AAUA Students’ Union executives on January 8, 2015.   

Since then, it has been from one giant stride to another, and Adekunle Ajasin University has grown from being just a popular University in Nigeria to a world renowned institution of learning. 

The various great feats since recorded is as a result of your administrative prowess, strength to overcome mountains and your intelligence to see beyond the present situation.     

I also recall that Professor Ajibefun Igbekele, in his inaugural speech did promise to make both the staff and students happy. Almost five years to that day now, that promise has been kept faithfully.

The promised has not only been kept, it has also been demonstrated significantly on the various facets of the university. This explains why AAUA emerged best in webometric ranking, recent award of the Best State University in Nigeria among others.

The score card is very clear: Professor Ajibefun has taken our university to the next level - A level we thought is still far away.

Sir, your regime prioritises staff welfare so well that despite the fact that you met a backlog of unpaid salaries, you cleared all debts and not only that, regularised all emoluments - Your resolve to make workers happy, is legendry!

Under your watch, our university’s research endeavour attracted global attention.

What else do I say about the infrastructures that came into existence under your watch - Is it the faculty buildings, befitting lecture theatres, new faculty of Environmental Management and building design, digitalisation of bursary and electronic senate? The list just goes on.

Sir, with your unprecedented contribution to the overall development of AAUA, history will forever be kind to you for making our institution a place of beauty and a destination of learning.

Written and complied by Ogunade Adebola Oluwakayode P.K.A K.DIVINE, 0803 925 0515, kdivinewemmy11@gmail.com