Nigerian striker wins Barclays Player of the Month of December

Nigeria international striker Odion Ighalo has been named theBarclays Premier League Player of the Month of December.

The Watford striker scored five goals in the month of December against  Liverpool, Sunderland, Norwich and Chelsea.

He beat the likes of Arsenal's Mesut Ozil, Marko Arnautovic,Riyad Mahrez, Romelu Lukaku and Dele Alli to win the award.

He joins that likes of Jay Jay Okocha, Yakubu Aiyegbeni andOsaze Odemwingie as the only Nigerians who have won the monthly gong.

Goodluck Jonathan becomes first African leader to receive Martin Luther King’s award

Former President Goodluck Jonathan has been honoured by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in Atlanta, Georgia in United States in recognition of his leadership in advancing human rights, social justice and the fight for universal freedom.

The SCLC was founded by  the late American Civil Right leader, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

As the first African leader to be honoured, Jonathan expressed his gratitude to the SCLC for inviting him and declared that it was “virtually impossible to separate this worthy body from its founder, the late great Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, or from epoch making landmark events of the American Civil Rights movement”.

“My personal takeaway from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, is service to God and the brotherhood and equality of all men before their Creator.

In keeping with that, I have learnt not to look up to any man, except he is taller than I, or to look down on a fellow mortal, except I am admiring his shoes”, he said.

The event is part of the activities leading up to the celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr Day on Monday, January 18th, 2016.

How Jonathan threatened to cage me - Oshiomhole reveals

Governor of Edo State, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, has alleged that former President Goodluck Jonathan threatened to cage him after May 29 for declaring his support for the candidature of President Muhammadu Buhari in the last general elections.

Oshiomhole, while speaking at a meeting with leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Thursday, Jan. 14, revealed that Jonathan threatened to cage him after the last general elections, which luckily for him did not go in favour of the People's Democratic Party (PDP).

He said: “The former President, Goodluck Jonathan told our National Chairman, Chief John Odigie Oyegun to inform me that after the election, he will put me, Adams, the son of Oshiomhole in a hole and I told Chief Oyegun to inform him to dig that hole very deep because although I am short, in the course of pushing me into the hole, nobody knows who will get there first.

“Since he is taller than me, he needs to dig the hole deep enough so that either of us can get in. In the end, he is inside the hole and I am busy putting dust into that hole”.

Oshiomhole continued, “In this hall, around this time last year, we held a meeting to share information about what was going on in various local governments and the specific challenges in each of those local government in order to fashion out appropriate response.

“Some of the statements that we shared in those meetings included threats that by June, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole would have been impeached because PDP would write results whether we liked it or not. They would overrun the House of Assembly and once the House is proclaimed in June, before the end of June, Comrade would be banished to his house in the village and from there to prison.

“Those who made those threats, who supervised those processes, even now in their early 90s are writing letters to explain how they shared money meant for defence. Every evil weapon they fashioned against me did not prosper and even the ones they are fashioning now will not prosper.”

He recalled how the APC languished in obscurity while the PDP called the shot, both at states and federal level.

“When we came in about 7 years ago, my party had no control even of one ward. We had no control of one local government, but today, we control wards, local, state and by the special grace of God, federal. Things have changed. The one who tamed a lionwith bare hands, now with automatic weapons, no antelope can dare us in our own forest.”

Oshiomhole had continually criticised the Goodluck Jonathan and particularly the former minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala for aiding the her boss and other officials of the government to misappropriate funds.