25 year-old, Mesut Ozil has for the third time in a row won the German national Player of the Year award. The poll which was conducted by the German Football Federation saw the Arsenal midfielder pooling more than 30% of the total votes cast. He came tops ahead of Bayern's ahead of Thomas Muller and Phillip Lahm.

The ex Real Madrid star owe the honour to his fans. "This award makes me proud and happy. Above all, because (the vote) was carried out by the fans." He stated.

Football and promises/bets. Well, I love all the drama. Hull City player, Tom Huddlestone's "32-month old" hair was finally shaved off after he scored against Fulham last week. He actually promised not to get rid of it until he tosses the net. He must have heaved a sigh of relief after he sealed the goal.

A fan who was lucky to get a clump of the midfielder's hair while his physiotherapist cut it off auctioned it on e-bay. And guess what? There were 114 bidders. The highest bidder paid £6,300. (As against the £5,000 target set for it).

I wonder how much fans would pay if Messi, C Ronaldo and Rooney made that kind of promise.

Chimamanda is still rocking the African hairdo! The award-winning writer and author of Half of a Yellow sun& Americanah and leading Nigerian Internet entrepreneur, Jason Njoku of iROKOtv and Spark, were interviewed by the BBC's Evan Davis and Nkem Ifejika, as part of the BBC's focus on Nigeria as one of the world's leading emerging economies. The show was broadcast to millions of people around the world on the Today Programme and on the BBC's NewsDay on the World Service. 

Alongside literary star Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie, whose book Half of a Yellow Sun has been made into a film, Njoku discussed the exciting business opportunities in Nigeria and spoke of the success he has had, not only with Nollywood and iROKOtv, but also with the Spark start-up companies he has invested in, with his business partner Bastian Gotter. Njoku noted the challenges of doing business in Nigeria, but also asserted that Nigeria is a good place for entrepreneurs. 

There was also frank and honest discussion from the young entrepreneurs behind ToLet.com.ng, Drinks.ng, Kuluya.com and Bus.com.ng - all of whom are successfully starting exciting internet businesses from Lagos and are pioneering the next generation of young, Nigerian entrepreneurs.

Reactions have continued to trail a controversial post (which centres on rape) on ace comedian, Basketmouth's facebook page. Here's an email by Greg Ighodaro on the matter+ other reactions and his reply.

"I am highly disappointed in Nigerian foremost comedian Basket mouth aka

"Bright Okpocha with the very "foolish joke" he cracked on his Facebook

wall, making RAPE the highpoint of his Joke. The joke started with a comparison of African girls and while girls on a date where he diminished the African Woman to nothing if taken on a date. Would your joke be funny if your mother your sister, your aunt, your daughter had been raped? If you daughter or your sister had come home with blood running down her legs because some brute had seen her, not as a human being with feelings and a physical body that hurts and bleeds, but as a vessel for his lust, his rage, his disrespect and his misogyny?

Its sad to see over five thousand young people "Like" that post, you are meant to be an advocate of good behaviour, an ambassador to young people, a voice for several women (some have gone through one form of sexual abuse or the other) out there who buy tickets to your shows and support your work not the other way round. We deserve more respect than what he made out of us"