Messi suffers humiliation of walking past WorldCup trophy TWICE after winning Golden Ball

Lionel Messi was forced to walk past the World Cup and interact with Fifa president Sepp Blatter TWICE after being named the player of the tournament after the World Cup final.
The Argentina playmaker, who had just suffered the heartbreak of defeat to Germany, was announced as the winner of the Golden Ball award which recognises the player of the tournament.
The clearly dejected Barcelona player had to walk up the steps inside the Maracana stadium and then past the trophy that had eluded him and his nation to accept his award from Blatter before heading back down to the pitch.
He then immediately had to make the trip all over again along with his team-mates to pick up their silver medals.
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Prior to the final the match was billed as Messi's chance to emulate Diego Maradona and take his place among the football immortals. Instead all he got was the chance to shake hands with Blatter twice.

Fifa also dished out their other awards. James Rodriguez picked up the Golden Boot for being top-scorer, Manuel Neuer collected the Golden Glove for being the best goalkeeper and France midfielder Paul Pogba was named young player of the tournament.

Golden Ball Award Winner- Lionel Messi

King Lionel Messi won the best player of the tournament. More pics below...

ASUP Strike Suspended; Polytechnics to resume Tuesday

The lecturers had been on strike since October last year.
The Academic Staff union of Polytechnics, ASUP, has suspended its 10-month-old strike.
The strike, which started in October 2013, was suspended on Saturday morning at the National Executive Council, NEC, meeting of the union held in Abuja.
The National Publicity Secretary of ASUP, Clement Chirman, confirmed the suspension of the strike to PREMIUM TIMES.
He said all striking lecturers have been directed to resume work on Tuesday.
The ASUP NEC meeting was held two days after the leadership of the union held a ‘fruitful’ meeting with the new Education Minister, Ibrahim Shekarau, who was sworn in by President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday.
The ASUP NEC consists of all chapter (polytechnic) chairmen of the union and the national executive of the body.
Details later…

Germany beat Argentina to win the FIFA World cup for the 4th time in History

Germany were crowned champions of the world on Sunday as they beat Argentina 1-0 through Mario Gotze’s goal in the second half of extra-time. Mario Gotze’s goal in the second half of extra-time was enough to separate the two teams and give Joachim Low’s men the world crown. More pics below....

Photos: Kefee Given a Queens Burial in Sapele, Delta State

The body of the late pop-gospel artist, Kefee (Irikefe Don-Momoh, nee Obareki) was given a queens burial yesterday Friday July 11th in her hometown, Okpara Inland, Ethiope-East LGA, Sapele, Delta.
The whole town ground to a standstill as the body of their late daughter arrived Akpevwoghene Educational Centre, Okpara Inland, around noon in a white SUV with Omega 1 as the plate number.
She was also in a white casket and was laid in state in the middle of the schools football field while friends and family paid their last respects. The casket was not immediately opened to the public but a funeral service was held in her honour while Sammie Okposo, his band and other gospel artists took turns on the stage set up at the venue. Continue…

FIFA Releases Golden Ball Nominees

FIFA yesterday evening officially announced the names of the ten players in the running for the adidas Golden Ball, which is awarded to the competition’s most outstanding performer.

The shortlist was drawn up by the members of FIFA’s Technical Study Group, who have been casting their expert eyes over each and every one of the matches held at Brazil 2014 to date. Appearing in alphabetical order, the 10 contenders for the accolade are as follows…see them after the cut…

17 Lawyers Conferred With SAN Awards, Keyamo Dropped

Festus Keyamo who was among the lawyers shortlisted for SAN this year didn’t make it to the final list. Mr Sunday Olorundahunsi, the LPPC Secretary and Chief Registrar of the Supreme Court while addressing journalists today, announced the names of the legal practitioners who made the final list without Keyamo's name.


He said 17 made it and even though 3 female lawyers applied none made it this year because the exercise was rather tough. The awardees would be inaugurated at the beginning of the new legal year, which is in September.