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Stella Damasus returns to the big screen with "Between"

Award-winning superstar, Stella Damasus has returned to the silver screen with the movie BETWEEN. Set in Atlanta, Georgia, Damasus plays the character of Chelsea Hollis, a very successful 36-year-old woman that has been married and divorced four times! She lives a double life as a white-collar worker by day and a party girl at night. She helps people fix their relationships but she has totally given up on love. A strong feminist who believes women should take control over their destinies and be 100% in control of their emotions and the choice of who to sleep with and when to do it.
She meets Scott Hamilton and a one-night stand blossoms into a romantic relationship until she finds out that the man who is about to change her perspective on love, may just be much more than what she expected. The movie also stars fast-rising stars Travis Grenier, Tatiana Zappardino, Lynne Jenson and Erin E. Feest.
BETWEEN is a cinematic masterpiece that takes you on an emotional roller coaster ride from the first shot to the very final frame. Award-winning filmmaker, Daniel Ademinokan, helms BETWEEN as the writer and Director. Ademinokan and Damasus are also credited as Producers and Executive Producers on this film under their production company Index Two Studios, LLC.
The movie has already secured a deal with Adler & Associates Entertainment, a sales agent in Los Angeles. The World Premiere for Between is happening on October 7th at the GlennFest Film Festival in Downey, California.  Between is the movie to close out the 7-day film festival. Tickets to the World Premiere are available here bit.ly/2CrDNrb and it promises to be a spectacle. The film has also been selected to screen at several film festivals across Europe and North America. 
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UEFA to introduce a third European club competition.

UEFA is set to introduce a third European club competition alongside the Champions League and Europa League from 2021.
This was confirmed by President Andrea Agnelli in an opening address at the ECA’s biannual general meeting in Split on Tuesday.
“Pending approval of the Uefa executive committee, the green light has been given to introduce a third competition, bringing the overall number of clubs to 96, as of the 2021/22 season.”
This means the Europa League’s group stage would be reduced from 48 teams to 32, with the new competition and Champions League  all having the same number.
In recent, weeks, Uefa has said it is “constantly reviewing” its competitions and has been “discussing various ideas within its Club Competitions Committee before any decision on potential changes would be made”.
Details on the rules, format and the teams going to be involved in the new competition are sketchy at the moment.

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Netflix acquires rights to Genevieve Nnaji’s directorial debut “Lionheart.”

She’s low-key making Big things happen!

Netflix acquires rights to Genevieve Nnaji’s directorial debut “Lionheart.”

Netflix has announced that they’ve acquired worldwide rights to Lionheart, the directorial debut of legendary actress  – Genevieve Nnaji. The film  which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on Saturday is the first Netflix Original Film from Nigeria. It stars Nkem Owoh, Pete Edochie, Onyeka Onwenu, Jemima Osunde and a host of others

Genny plays a level-headed executive at her father’s bus company, but along with her rival (Kalu Egbui Ikeagwu) is passed over when her father hands the company over to her uncle.

  1. Kiva Reardon, a writer for TIFF, described the film as “sharply and comically observed, Nnaji’s film deals with the everyday sexism that saturates workplaces everywhere, and captures the delicate balance between honouring one’s family while finding the courage to strike out on one’s own.”

 

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NFF bans and fines Salisu Yusuf for taking bribe

The Nigeria Football Federation have handed Salisu Yusuf a year ban from all football activities and fined him $5000 after he was found guilty of receiving a bribe to select players.
The Super Eagles assistant coach was filmed collecting $1000 by undercover journalists posing as agents. Following thorough investigation into the incident, the country’s football governing body directed the 56 year-old to pay a fine of $5,000 to the Federation within three months, and asked him to stay away from football-related activities.
“The NFF Committee on Ethics and Fair Play have placed a one–year ban from all football-related activities on Super Eagles’ Chief Coach, Mr. Salisu Yusuf.”

“Following its consideration of a complaint by the NFF as well as the Coach’s defence of a video documentary in which he was seen to accept the sum of $1,000 from an undercover reporter posing as a player’s agent. The coach must also pay a fine in the sum of $5,000 to the Federation within three months.” A statement from the NFF Ethics Committee read.

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Lionel Messi omitted from 2018 Fifa's men's player of the year award

For the first time in 11 years, Argentina/Barcelona talisman, Lionel Messi was omitted from The Best FIFA Men’s Player Award. The 2018 shortlist which was revealed by FIFA today features Juventus new signing, Cristiano Ronaldo, Real Madrid’s Luka Modrić and Liverpool star Mohamed Salah.

The Egyptian was last season’s Premier League top scorer, netting 44 goals in 52 games for the Reds last season,  Ronaldo who moved to Italian side, Juventus in the summer was last campaign’s Champions League top scorer and also clinched the CL trophy with his former team, ball, Modric helped Luka Modric helped Real Madrid to clinch their third consecutive European Cup and also inspired his national side, Croatia to the final of the 2018 World Cup in Russia.

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Photos: Amokachi, Siasia, Eguavoen, others feature in novelty match

The doors of the Enyimba International Stadium in Aba in September were thrown open on Sunday August 26, 2018 with a novelty match between Ex-Enyimba players & 1998 Super Eagles squad. The match which was captained by Uche Okechukwu, had in attendance, the likes of Ike Shorunmu, Austin Eguavoen, Taribo West, Dan Amokachi, Samson Siasia, Tijani Babangida, Mutiu Adepoju, Garba Lawal to mention a few









Gov Okezie Ikpeazu (he plays football every weekend) took the ceremonial kick-off after which both sides traded tackles. It was highly entertaining & the ex Eagles still had moves. The game ended 1-0 in favour of ex Enyimba Stars.



The fully refurbished, 20,000 seating capacity stadium  is now awaiting re-certification by NFF and CAF to resume hosting NPLF and CAF matches. It was reconstructed by an indigenous Sports Company Monimichelle Sports Nig Ltd with Ebi Egbe from Bayelsa State as CEO. He renovated Sampson Siasia Stadium, Yenagoa.
 
Credit: www.twitter.com/hartng

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Simi to feature in Kunle Afolayan’s new movie, Mokalik

Afropop/Soul singer is set to feature in Kunle Afolayan’s new movie titled Mokalik. The announcement was made by the award-winning actor, alongside a picture of himself and Simi, captioned:
“It is Official: Simi @symplysimi is featuring in “Mokalik” a Kunle Afolayan film. ‘Jamb Questiom’ crooner, Simisola Ogunleye, aka Simi, has accepted a role in Kunle Afolayan’s coming film, ‘Mokalik’ (Mechanic). The agreement was formalised on Sunday, at the filmmaker’s office, in Lagos.”
The film also stars the likes of Femi Adebayo, Ayo Adesanya, Faithia Williams, Lateef Oladimeji to mention a few.

‘Mokalik’ (Mechanic) follows the career of an 11-year-old boy, Jaiye, from the middle-class suburbs who spends the day as a lowly apprentice at a mechanic workshop in order to view life from the other side of the tracks. Simi will be playing the role of the daughter of a cafeteria owner.
Afolayan says ‘Mokalik’ is a slight departure from the flicks he had shot in the past, adding that there will be two versions of the film; one for the Nigerian market – the other for the international market.

Screen-played by Tunde Babalola, inspiration for the story, according to the filmmaker came during his constant visit to the mechanic workshop where he refurbished his much publicised Vintage car (Thunderbird Ford 1965) recently, while the film title, a Yoruba corrupt pronunciation of mechanic is from a scene in one of his late father (Ade Love)’s classic, ‘Taxi Driver’. Visiting the mechanic workshop after about 15 years opened my eyes to a lot of things that I believe the world should know about our local auto car repairs industry,” he said.
“@Kunleafo and a girl with a script she likes very much,” The JAMB Question crooner wrote on instagram.

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Photos: George Weah honours Wenger and Claude LeRoy


Today, the President of Liberia, George Weah bestowed the nation’s highest honor to his two former football coaches; Arsene Wenger and Claude LeRoy. They were named the Knight Grand High Commander of the Humane Order of African Redemption.

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Arsene Wenger in Liberia to receive country's top honour

Ex-Arsenal manager, Arsène Wenger arrived Liberia today where he’s due to get the nation’s highest honour. The Frenchman was George Weah‘s first European football coach, who brought him to Monaco in 1988.
 George Weah who was elected President of Liberia months ago had always spoken of Wenger in glowing terms, because of his impact in bringing him to Europe, where he laced his boot for Paris Saint-Germain and AC Milan, and became Fifa World Player of the Year in 1995. He retired from football in 2003 and went into politics.

 
On Friday, 23rd August, 2018, Wenger will be given the title of Knight Grand Commander of the Humane Order of African Redemption in recognition, at a investiture ceremony in Monrovia for his “contribution to sports in Africa” and work in giving “many Africans opportunities”.



“I remember when I saw him the first time at Monaco, coming in a bit lost, not knowing anybody, not being rated by anybody as a player and becoming the best player in the world in 1995 and today becoming the president of his country. The life of this guy is a real film. It is unbelievable. It can make a fantastic film.” Wenger said in January.


Additional report: www.standard.co.uk

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Nigeria escape FIFA ban

FIFA have confirmed that the legitimate leadership of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) under President Amaju Melvin Pinnick has been given back effective control of the NFF and its offices and thus, they will no longer suspend Nigeria.
Recall that the governing body said if the NFF offices are not handed back to the legitimate President Amaju Pinnick on August 20, the NFF will be suspended with immediate effect for contravening articles of FIFA statutes. The Federal Government stepped into the case and wrote to FIFA on Saturday agreeing, amongst other things, to allow football to be run on FIFA Statutes and to expedite passage of NFF Bill.
Here’s a statement from FIFA.
“Following the decision of the Bureau of FIFA Council of Aug 13 concerning NFF, FIFA received confirmations that the legitimate leadership of the NFF under President Amaju Pinnick & Mohammed Sanusi has been given back effective control of NFF & its offices. In view of these circumstances, FIFA deems that the conditions set by the decision of the Bureau of the FIFA Council have now been met and consequently the suspension of NFF will not take effect. FIFA will continue to closely monitor the situation in order to ensure that FIFA’s rules and regulations are fully adhered to.”

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