Arsene Wenger All Smiles As He Is Conferred With Liberia's Highest Honour By President George Weah (Photos)

Ex-Arsenal coach, Arsene Wenger, has been conferred with Liberia's highest honour by that nation's president.

Arsene Wenger received the award at the Samuel Kanyon Doe Sports Complex

 

Arsene Wenger has hailed the rise of George Weah from grassroots African football to Liberian presidency as the greatest story he has seen in his decorated managerial career.

 

The ex-Arsenal boss was given a hero’s welcome after arriving in the West African nation this week to receive the country’s highest civilian award.

 

The ceremony is being held by president Weah, 51, who was brought over to Europe from Cameroon football when Wenger was boss of Monaco in 1988.

 

Claude le Roy, the former French football coach, is also being honoured.

 

Arsene Wenger introduced the Liberia president to European football 30 years ago

 

That £50,000 move to the French principality kick-started a stellar career which saw Weah eventually play for Paris Saint-Germain, AC Milan, and latterly with Chelsea and Manchester City.

 

Most significantly in 1995, he become the first and only African to win the Fifa World Player of the Year accolade – an award he immediately handed over to Wenger at the glitzy ceremony.

 

Wenger held a meeting with Weah yesterday at the executive Mansion in the capital of Monrovia.

 

The 68-year-old, who left the Emirates hotseat after 22 years in May, also watched a local match between Arsenal and Manchester United supporters.

 

The 68-year-old watched a local football match

 

Wenger said: “George Weah’s life is an unbelievable story that would make a book in itself.

“First I will like to say that George was not only an exceptional player.

 

"George Weah was also a fantastic person and the story of how I brought him to France was absolutely unbelievable.

“I asked my friend Claude whether he had seen any strikers in Africa that could be an addition to the already loaded team and he recommended George Weah.

"I sent somebody over to watch him.

 

The ex-Arsenal chief received a hero's welcome when he touched down in Liberia

 

“We brought him over for £50,000 and it took him a while to adapt, but he was ambitious, talented, had great hunger for work and I worked a lot with him.

 

“He became an absolutely unbelievable player.

"We still have a strong relationship and when he became World Player of the Year he gave me his award.

“Every manager was sitting there – Fabio Capello, Marcello Lippi – and they were absolutely amazed that a player at his age (who was 28 at the time), was capable of that.

“He’s just a remarkable person. I haven’t seen in my coaching career anything exceptional like George story.”

 

President Weah gushed: "Arsene Wenger didn’t only teach me soccer but taught me the way of life and total humility."

 

Wenger had a meeting with the 51-year-old at the executive Mansion

 

Arsene Wenger has been inducted into the country’s Order of Distinction

German Chancellor, Angela Merkel To Visit Nigeria, Other West African Nations

Accompanied by an economic delegation, the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, will visit Nigeria and other West African countries next week.

 

Merkel and Buhari

 

German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, will on Wednesday, tour three West African countries, paying visits to Senegal, Ghana and Nigeria.

 

Merkel is to spend Wednesday through Friday in the three countries, accompanied by an economic delegation, Deputy Government Spokeswoman, Ulrike Demmer said Friday in Berlin.

 

Migration politics, particularly Merkel’s campaign to tackle the causes resulting in a stream of refugees to Europe, are likely to feature on the discussion agenda.

 

Merkel is to meet Wednesday afternoon with Senegalese President, Macky Sall to discuss economic developments in the country and regional cooperation.

 

In the evening she will meet with civil society representatives.

 

Then it’s onto the Ghanaian capital of Accra to meet President, Nana Akufo-Addo, on Thursday to discuss economic affairs and foreign policy.

 

The chancellor is also to take part in a German business-organised round table that will focus on private investment linked to the G20 “Compact with Africa” initiative.

 

Finally, Merkel is to head to Nigeria on Friday to meet with the president of the ECOWAS economic alliance of West African states, Jean-Claude Brou.

 

She will hold talks with Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari.

 

NAN reports that on October 7, 2016 Merkel visited three African countries before hosting leaders from Chad and Nigeria for talks in Berlin, as she seeks ways to stem a migrant influx to Europe.

 

Merkel first travelled to Mali and Nigeria before heading to Ethiopia where she is to visit the headquarters of the African Union in the capital, Addis Ababa.

 

Her talks with leaders of all three countries are to focus on migration issues and the battle against terrorism.

 

(dpa/NAN)

Mr/Miss NURSS Worldwide

Mr/Miss NURSS Worldwide maiden Edition will be held at the Obiwali Cultural Center Auditorium in Rivers State, Nigeria.

Please y'all should come out in mass on the 17th of December 2016, because è no go easy that day oooo
Oshe! 

Brazilian Astronomers Discover 2 Planets Near Sunlike Star

Astronomer Jorge Melendez, a professor at the Institute of Astronomy, Geophysics and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Sao Paulo and others have made a shocking discovery of two more planets.

A team of Brazilian astronomers has discovered two new planets around a star similar to the sun known as HIP 68468, the local media reported on Saturday.

 

According to Brazil’s G1 news website, the two new planets, dubbed “super Neptune” and “super Earth,” are the first to be discovered by Brazilian astronomers since the discovery of a planet similar to Jupiter in 2015.

 

Astronomer Jorge Melendez, a professor at the Institute of Astronomy, Geophysics and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Sao Paulo, said one of the objectives of the team was to compare the solar system with other planetary systems.

 

He said “the planetary environment around HIP 68468 is quite different from the system that includes Earth.”

“The newly discovered planets were similar to Earth and Neptune.”

 

Melendez said research indicates that the star HIP 68468 has “swallowed” a planet, due to the presence of high levels of lithium, an element that is usually abundant in planets, not stars.

 

The discovery was made at the European Southern Observatory in Chile’s northern Atacama Desert.

 

Report says the planets rotate very close to their star, which suggests they may have migrated from a more exterior to a more interior region of their planetary system.

 

The report noted that “Super Neptune, called HIP 68468c, has a mass that is 50 per cent greater than the planet Neptune.

“But while our Neptune is far from the sun (30 times the distance between the Earth and Sun), the orbit of the new planet is only 70 per cent of the Earth-Sun distance.

“Super Earth, or HIP 68468b, has a mass that is three times larger than Earth’s, and its orbit is barely 3 per cent of the distance from Earth to the Sun.

“That means that it is “practically stuck to its star,” HIP 68468, which is 6 billion years old and some 300 light years away from Earth,’’ G1 said.

Linda Ikeji Opens up - "I Can't Get Married To a Poor Man

Nigerian super blogger and former model, Linda Ikeji, admits that she has come a long way. From growing up in Idi Oro, a Mushin suburb of Lagos to owning a mansion in the highbrow Banana Island.

 

Ovwe Medeme of the Nation Newspaper caught up with Linda Ikeji at the recent launch of her new concept, Linda Ikeji Social, and she talked about her struggle so far.

 

Read some excerpts from her interview below:

You made a video on your birthday where you talked about a lot of things. Why did you do that?

I just wanted to talk about it. It was my birthday and I just wished I was married. It’s now that I want to get married. I don’t wish I was married earlier.

Are you saying you’re not getting proposals from men?

I’m getting quite a lot. People say that when you’re successful, men run away. It’s a lie. That is when they chase you the more. But unfortunately I haven’t seen what I’m looking for. It was my birthday and I just wanted to talk about it.

What are you looking for?

I keep telling people. It’s not that men are scarce. They are not scarce. The type of men that some of us are looking for are scarce. If I want to get married next week, I can. I want a man that I can look up to. Somebody that inspires me, somebody that will push me, motivate me; somebody who has had some success in his own career. I’m inspired by successful people. I can’t wait to meet someone like Tyler Perry.

Does that mean you can’t marry a poor man?

No, I can’t marry a poor guy and I’m being honest about it. He doesn’t have to be rich but let him be successful in his own way.

Have you had to review you standards when it comes to men?

When I was 30, my standards were extremely high. But I wasn’t really looking. I was just so focused on work because I’ve always been so ambitious. I wasn’t focused on marriage and kids and I felt like that would draw me back. So I wanted to just do my stuff. It was just recently that I started asking myself some questions. That I started thinking about it. Now, I have only three criteria.

What are the three?

He must be successful. He must be a good man in the sense that he has to be very supportive of what I do. If he tries to stifle me, I’m out. The third one, is the one that likes to eat groceries well (laughs).

Photos of 2 Creative Minds Who Designed A Car In Port Harcourt, Rivers State Capital in Nigeria.

Nigeria is indeed a great country, but her leaders are blinded by greed amongst themselves. They promise her citizens when contesting for their various offices. But after getting to their offices, they treat them like slaves while enriching themselves with the country's wealth.

The pictures below are two creative minds in Port Harcourt of Rivers State, who designed a vehicle

If only the Government would help this young men and other young creative minds in the country, Nigeria will be one of the producing nations in the world.

More photos below:

Ladies Be Careful: These are 10 Things Guys Notice About You That You Don't Know

Men are masters at noticing the ladies. These are certain things they may have noticed about you that you didn't even know about. 

It’s a common belief that guys are not observant and are not tuned in to women, but they notice a lot more than you might realize. You think that some of these things that you do are your little secret, but, they do know about them really. They just don’t let on that they do. Here are ten of those things that you think guys don’t notice:

 

1. When you are upset

 

You think that they are being insensitive, when it seems that they don’t even notice you are upset. They probably have noticed either, but they don’t know how to handle it, or they know it’s their fault!

 

2. When you check your hair

 

When you see a guy you like and you unconsciously check your hair in a nearby window, not only do the guys notice, but they also get the message!

 

3. When you adjust your bra

 

Those times when you try and make it look like you are rubbing your shoulder, but you are actually putting your bra strap back into place; guys know exactly what you are really doing.

 

4. When you really dislike another girl

 

It’s those little scowls and deep sighs that give this one away. If you don’t like another girl, then your man will notice. You simply can’t hide the body language.

 

5. When you wear your hair differently

 

Another thing that guys are often accused of, is not noticing it when you change something about your appearance. More than likely they have noticed that something’s different about you, they’re just not sure exactly what, so they won’t risk a comment in case they get it wrong!

 

6. How you behave around your friends

 

Most girls get a bit more girly and excitable when their friends are around. When this happens, the guys do notice and they will probably beat a hasty retreat from the scene, if they possibly can.

 

7. When you go to the bathroom with your friends

 

When you are out with a group of friends and you all mysteriously need the bathroom at the same time, guys know exactly what’s going on. They know you are going to compare notes and discuss them. No one’s bodies are that finely in tune with one another!

 

8. When you have a crush on a guy

 

Don’t think that you can hide it, when you really like a guy, because you can’t. The touches to the hair, the furtive glances, and how your body shifts to face him, will always give the game away here.

 

9. When you give another girl the evil eye

 

When another girl shows an interest in your man and you warn her off with a withering, icy look that could kill, men will notice that too. It strokes their ego, but it also scares them, so they will probably step in to lighten the mood.

 

10. When you make a suggestion that is really a command

 

Any man with a brain knows that when a girl makes a suggestion, she is really saying do it! The thinly veiled instruction behind a phrase like: ‘Don’t you think that music is a bit loud?’ or ‘This new restaurant in town looks nice’,  holds no mystery at all to a man.