Why I chose Algeria over France – Mahrez

Riyad Mahrez chose to play for Algeria rather than France, where he was born, in a tribute to his late father, the African player of the year’s brother said.
Propelled to global renown by Leicester City’s amazing run to Premier League glory, the 25-year-old will be one of the most watched stars at the Cup of African Nations where Algeria start against Zimbabwe on Sunday.
Once considered too small for professional football, he will be one of the biggest names at the tournament in Gabon.

Three years ago, Mahrez was making his debut for Leicester in England’s second tier Championship having played for Sarcelles, the French town where he was born.
He only made his debut for Algeria in May 2014 a few months after declaring that he wanted to play for the African nation aroiund the same time as serious riots in Sarcelles.
At just 1.78 metres (5 feet 10 inches) and a sinewy 70 kilos (154 pounds) nobody at Sarcelles imagined he could soar to such heady prodessional heights.
At the age of 18, Mahrez was “frustrated” but determined when many of his Sarcelles teammates had signed professional terms, according to Hayel Mbemba, a teaching assistant at Chantereine school in the Paris suburb where Mahrez was a pupil.

– Mahrez vowed success –

“Despite all that, Riyad swore on his life and that of his mother, that one day he would be a professional. At that time we were pessimistic.
“Today, he has made it and you can only give him respect for that.”
His hunger only grew when his father, one of his biggest supporters, died suddenly in 2006.
“It gave him the force,” said elder brother Wahid. “He really did it for him, for me, the family.”
When Mahrez chose to play for Algeria over France, “it was for his papa,” added the 30-year-old.
A childhood friend, Sofiane Seghiri, 26, said that Mahrez always had a ball at his feet.
“When you are 16-to-18 you want to go out, have fun with friends, maybe see some girls. He always had a ball,” said Seghiri, laughing.
“That is why he is unique.”
Mahrez first had an unsuccessful trial in Scotland, then played with Quimper in the French lower leagues and Le Havre in the second division where he was spotted by Leicester.
In the English second division it was tough forMahrez to adapt his free dribbling game to the weekly confrontations with hard-ground defenders.
But since Leicester’s fairy tale title win last year, he has been named Premier League player of the season, came seventh in the race for the Ballon d’Or and last week was named Africa’s player of the year.
He has left a big impact at Sarcelles where scouts from foreign teams are now regular visitors in the poor suburb north of Paris.
“It may be the Mahrez effect that has brought the English scouts here. Two have gone to English clubs and there will be more,” said Faysal Abdelwahbi, a childhood friend and coach of the under 12 team at AAS Sarcelles.
There are plenty in the youth teams who have now become left-footers. Many can recall every Mahrez nutmeg in the Premier League.
“It all started here, everything that the English defenders are putting up with, we also suffered,” said Abdelwahbi.
“For a guy from Sarcelles to shine on the world stage makes us verey proud,” said Sarcelles senior coach Mohamed Coulibaly.
“It is good for the town after all the things that you hear, the stigma that it puts up with.”

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6 year old girl raped 7 times in Ogun says Uncle told her she will die if she told her mother

A six-year-old girl named Mariam has narrated in chilling details, how the son of her school's proprietress, Sirotullahi Abdufatahi, 21, raped her 7 times.

Little Mariam attends a boarding school at Iju, Ogun state called Medinat Al Munawarat Islamic Nursery and Primary School. She is Basic One and her mother Sola (not real name) is a widow.

According to Punch, Sola had to send her only child Miriam to the boarding school at such a young age because it was run by people in her religion, and she believed she could get the right education and care as she worked to cater for her.

Sola had no inkling anything was wrong with her only child when she was brought home on holiday 
during the Yuletide. She had no idea about the abuse her daughter had been suffering in the school.

Until the week Mariam was supposed to resume school for the year, she was at her big aunty’s house when she decided to share with her cousin, a girl about her age, her “school stories”.

In the story, she told her little cousin how Uncle Sirotulahi would come to their room on some nights, pulled her out of the bed she shared with other girls who are boarders in the school and told her to pull down her pant.

Punch reports that when they interviewed Mariam in the presence of her mother, it became clear that she knew exactly what she was saying.

Wearing a long hijab, and speaking English smartly, the child played on her mother’s couch, scampering from one point to another innocently, until her mother asked her to keep still. There was no doubt that Mariam was a happy child.

When Punch asked about what her “uncle” did to her, she asked,

“Do you mean Uncle Sirotullahi that usually came to remove my pant in our room?”

When she got a nod in reply, the little girl started talking.

“Uncle Sirotullahi usually came to our room where we sleep. When they switch off the light, he would come and pull me from the bed. Then, he would pull down my pant and also remove his own trousers. He always bring out his thing and put it in my ‘bum’ here (pointing to her crotch). Sometime, he would come into the room and take another girl,” she said.

As she narrated this, she looked up with concern at her young mother who quietly sobbed.

Asked how many times this happened, Mariam counted her fingers as if to remember and said seven times.

Her mother's hope was dashed.

“I did not imagine something like this could ever happen to my daughter in that school,” she said.

Mariam's alleged abuser, Sirotullahi Abdufatahi, had warned her never to tell anybody, in fact threatening her that she was going to die if she told her mother.

Abdufatahi, 21, is the son of the school proprietress, Mrs. Modinat Ashafa.

According to Sola, she had known the school proprietress and mother of the suspect (Ashafa) since she was younger and she was a student of the woman at a point.

She said she neither noticed anything was wrong with her daughter when she bathed her and neither did the girl complain about any discomfort.

Sola said,

“I realised the last abuse might have taken place long before their holiday, maybe that was why I did not notice any physical discomfort at the time she came home.

“Immediately my aunty told me what my daughter told her own daughter, I examined my daughter and was shocked by what I saw. It was obvious the hole I saw there did not come there during one encounter.

“I rushed to the school and confronted the proprietress. Rather than invite his son to ask him questions, she picked up her phone, called and asked him if it was true he was raping the girls he taught. Of course, he denied it.

“I then took my daughter to a hospital where some doctors examined her and confirmed what I already knew. She was only examined, they did not test her for diseases. The doctors said she had indeed been defiled.”

The suspect is currently in Sokoto State, Saturday PUNCH learnt.

They contacted Ashafa (suspect’s mother) and she categorically begged for the case not to be reported. At a point, she sobbed, asking that she would do whatever was needed to appeal to the family of the girl.

She said,

“When I was informed about the case, I called my son and he denied it. He is currently in Sokoto where he is schooling. He is not 21, he is just a 15-year-old secondary school student. I was confused when he denied the accusation because I did not think my son would lie.

“He was at home for holiday at the time he allegedly raped the girl. When he came, because we do not have enough teachers, I told him to help out by teaching the lower classes. I have been operating this kind of school for over 27 years.

“My son swore that he knew nothing about it. I don’t know what to do. Truly, the mother has told me about her visit to the hospital and about how much she needs to pay for treatment and tests on the girl but I have no money. I have been very broke. I told her that she should be patient with me and that I would find the money. I can only beg her. If it is about money, I will find money.”

Nigeria’s sex toy market booms despite resesion

In the midst of the biting economic crisis facing many Nigerians, forcing many to go as far as committing suicide, a sub-sector of the Nigerian economy is booming.

That sector is the sex toy market.

In a society where people can hardly speak openly about sexual problems, Saturday PUNCH’s investigation shows that some vendors sell sex toys worth millions of naira every month.

A sex therapist and prominent sex toy vendor, Mrs. Iheoma Obibi, explained that contemporary Nigerians are gradually coming out of some sort of “sexual darkness” and this is creating a boom in the market with an attendant influx of fake sex toys.

For the last six and half years, Kemi Fawole, a certified sex therapist, has been dealing in adult products including sex toys. She told Saturday PUNCH that she sells at least N7m worth of sex toys 
yearly.

 It is about the same for actress-turned sex toy vendor, Bisi Ibidapo-Obe, who told one of their correspondents,

“I cannot estimate how much of sex toys I sell in a year but I know that in about three to six months, I rake in more than N3m.”

Yet, these two are just a small fraction of the numerous sex toy vendors who now trade in the country.

A new vendor,  Japhet Okoromadu, who just started selling sex toys online about a year ago said:

“I sell penis enlargement pumps and vaginal tightening cream as well. Right now, the demand I get for sex toys is more than my available stocks.

“I get male customers as much as female. Some ladies even chat with men, complaining bitterly how they are suffering in silence, and how their husbands cannot satisfy them. Eighty five per cent of complaints about sex that I get from clients is about not being satisfied by spouses. 

Unfortunately, most of the women cannot voice out their concern to their partners.”

It was learnt that some of these adult products, sell for between N5,000 and N25,000 while premium brands sell for higher.

Fawole also said some of her vibrators are as cheap as N5,000 while some are as high as N150,000.  She said the common vibrators are between N5,000 and N20,000.

In Ibidapo-Obe’s store at Magodo, in Lagos, the cheapest sex toy in her store sells for about N30,000 while the most expensive is about N200,000.

Judging by the volume of sales that many of the sex toy vendors make annually, there is no doubt that the industry runs into several millions.

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Multiple Bomb blast in Adamawa

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Nigerians come for Beats for referring to Wizkid as "Rising Nigerian Star"

When you come for Wizkid, you come for Nigerians!

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Just look at the answer a girl gave to this question

Lol!!!