Hot Gists, Photos of some top Celebrities in Africa including leading names in Football

• Top 8 Greatest African Footballers Of All Time. Check Out The Continent’s Football King
• Why My Relationship With The Father Of My Children Didn’t Work Out – Adunni Ade
• Whenever My Husband Is Upset, I Make It Up To Him In The Bedroom – Ronke Oshodi Oke
• Nigeria Has Turned Into One Big Comedy Club – Etcetera
• [PHOTOS] Heavily Pregnant Mercy Johnson And Husband Step Out In Style
• Adorable Photo Of Former President Jonathan’s Granddaughter Emerges
• I’m Sad I Don’t Have A PhD – Aki
• Dele Momodu Strikes A Pose With Davido’s Baby
• Photos From Tinsel Charity Ball
• Toju Foyeh Releases Stunning Photos In Celebration Of Nigeria’s Independence

Top 8 Greatest African Footballers Of All Time. Check Out The Continent’s Football King Posted: 03 Oct 2015 06:00 AM PDT It’s time to celebrate the players who have brought the African continent some prestige and eminence! Their skill and approach to the beautiful game is incredible, their dominance and ascendancy on and off the pitch is so bewitching to accomplish that often you end up screaming, “How on earth did he do that?” Here are the top 10 Greatest African Players Ever: 1. George Oppong Weah (Liberia) For everything good football, George Weah was Africa’s frontiersman! This list, surely, must be George Weah and nine others. When you’ve got him, it’s his team. Named the greatest African player of all-time, George Weah is the very characterization of footballing myth. In an era when footballers are as often on the front page of newspapers as the back, when they have become as well known for their spendthrift pay packets as their playmaking, when they are more liable to be modeling clothes than muddying them, there is at least one celebrated exception to football’s yob rule – George Weah. A worthy example on how to ball in Africa. He had speed, power and great shooting ability. He terrorized the defenders with his blistering pace and sheer presence. However, Weah served sleepless nights to Serie A defenders not because of his powerful body but because of his tremendous technical ability. He had sudden acceleration, great variation in his dodging ability, unbelievable shooting power and pinpoint accuracy. His record shattering stats surely tell us what our eyes once saw: Weah is Africa’s best. 2. Jay-Jay Okocha (Nigeria) Jay Jay Okocha was Africa’s answer to Lionel Messi. This was a man who brought fame even to the defenders who took the rather hangdog act of marking him. When Jay-Jay Okocha was on the ball, sticking out that torso, body quivering, dancing on the balls of his feet, there was something devastatingly epic about the way he moved opponents in times of yore. It would sap your strength out wondering how one man could craft so many ridiculously good touches. He scored the kind of goals you would normally see only tried on a computer game. Okocha did not do tap-ins. What the Nigerian did was drop his shoulder, slalom through the often hostile opposition defence, accelerate, go sluggishly down with his dribbles, pick up the pace again, go round the goalkeeper and put a good finish to a move so sweet. Nobody ever attacked a defence more thrillingly, with such relentless, brilliant fury. Nobody left so many opposition fans staring with such horrified admiration. Bet against Okocha inventing the art of dribbling but he took it to its highest level; the height that many of his peers and the next generation were and are finding hard to imitate. 3. Samuel Eto’o Fils (Cameroon) Samuel Eto Samuel Eto’o, far left, shared the same stage with some of the world’s finest! There are those that believe Eto’o Fils lives in the world of soccer’s greats on his day. And few with dispute the obvious truth. Fancy trickery and step-overs aren’t in truth his style. Nor is breaching through defences with utter brute muscle. But the one thing African footballer Samuel Eto’o does in good health: score goals. His gift to turn games and never-say-die attitude has lifted the striker to idolatry status in the eyes of the fanatical Cameroonian support. He’s a committed player, whose hunger for goals never gets in the way of his desire to do the best for his team. Eto’o is fast footed and capable of leaving his markers flailing behind him. As football became increasingly big business, Eto’o became the African ‘brand’. This attractive, enigmatic figurehead was now a comprehensive superstar, admired by all and feared by opponents. 4. Abedi Ayew Pele (Ghana) With Abedi’s every touch, he was hailed as one of the finest to have ever kicked the ball. Brash. Skilful. Tricky. An uninhibited playmaker. Abedi Ayew Pele stands tall in the annals of football history in Africa. His enormous giving to football growth in Ghana and Africa are insuperable. Throw up an “African Best Player List” out to the watching public and the name Abedi Pele perpetually will make, even, the most elite list. His dexterous skills and elegant athleticism makes him one of Africa’s most successful exports and one of its most fêted sons. The only Ghanaian this far named in Pele’s ‘FIFA 100’ list of the greatest players in history, Ayew’s most important contribution to African football could be as inspiration to the next generations of African footballers that grew up watching him play against the best in the world. He wielded a perfect combination of aggression, passion and off-the-chain skill. His legacy can be seen at the uppermost levels on Europe’s pitches today, weighed down as they are with talent from Africa. 5. Nwankwo Kanu (Nigeria) Kanu’s gift to the game earned him audience with greats. The most decorated player in African football history. That answers it. So, forget the poor lifestyle choices. Forget his health battles. Forget his slow pass of the ball. For years Kanu was the best player in Africa and a remarkable talent. Some of the world’s best defenders, although not admitting it publically, lived in fear of him. One of greatest ever, without doubt. There’s only one Nwankwo Kanu. A legend in his own time, Nwankwo Kanu is both the most successful and most consistent Nigerian international of his generation. He scored spectacular goals, terrorized defenders with his aggression and grit and went over the top when the boots were flying. As a forward he combined brute force and subtle skill to a devastating effect, which made him at his peak the majority of top-flight central defenders’ most-feared opponent. His head was always up, bless his lanky stature. He was constantly surveying the field, looking for his teammates, knew where his nearest opponents were, and you could tell he was always thinking three moves ahead. He had great ball control and his dribbling art in tight quarters was awesome-superb. 6. Didier Drogba (Ivory Coast) Talk striking class in Africa, talk Didier Drogba! There have been few, if any, healthier goal-poachers in Africa’s footballing history either than Didier Drogba. With his work ethic, rate of knots, muscle, capacity to win headers and readiness to run at defenders with the ball, Drogba poses the sort of danger that has defenders revising their defensive lesson notes after every game. You judge a striker by his goals. You judge Drogba by Drogba. That simple. Going solo is one of his trademarks, sometimes to the irritation and frustration of his team mates, though more often to their joyfulness, as he would often win a game all on his own. His aggression was matched by hardly any and whenever he received the ball with his back to the goal he immediately turned and attempted a “Goal of the Week” hit. His pure will and determination mixed with his marvellous abilities to hit the back of the net made him a true inspiration for his team mates and a fan-favorite wherever he would play. 7. Roger Milla (Cameroon) Roger Milla hit higher heights and here is seen playing football during the 1Goal launch of the Qatar FA project ‘Education at Your Feet’ at the Wanderers in Illovo. For most players, the mid-thirties are a time of career flux. Having gone through their apprenticeship and learnt the ropes, thirty-something’s usually become frail components of the clubs and country’s they work for. But for Mr. Milla the reverse is true and the closer he edged to his forties, the more he hogged the limelight and became the poster boy of Cameroonian football. Roger Milla who won the best African footballer of the half century award is often ascribed as the encouragement behind modern African football and without doubt a major actor behind Cameroon’s football success story. The heart, soul and essence of the Cameroon sides of the ’80s and ’90s, Milla went on to be named the African Footballer of the 20th Century. Lofty heights for a man, especially considering that the award was earned based on his achievements after reaching the age of 38! The memories “Sir” Milla left will take far longer to fade. His performance can only be attributed to passion and desire. To this day, the post-goal merriment of his days of glory in Italy is still mimicked. 8. Samuel Osei-Kuffuor (Ghana) Samuel Osei-Kuffour defended with his heart and pride! Whichever yardstick you use in measuring the greatness of Osei-Kuffour, you’d always arrive at the same one-word conclusion – legend. Heart and passion. No other defender in Africa had those qualities in him in the amounts that the former Munich demigod had. Every tackle he dived into, every header he elevated towards, he got into with full force, and usually won it, first to get up when the dust cleared. He’s was not immuned to a sporadic blunder or mistake but he made up for them with his non-stop effort during the whole 90 minutes, and despite all the flashy names Africa churned out, Osei Kuffour was and is the heart & soul in defending. Kuffour was always reliable to clear the ball in his area and also full of bravery, leadership and concentration on his game. It has rarely been a mistake of his. The Ghanaian was admired for his reading of the game and ability to anticipate opposition movement and had uncanny intuitive sense for where the ball was headed.

Why My Relationship With The Father Of My Children Didn’t Work Out – Adunni Ade Posted: 03 Oct 2015 05:00 AM PDT Nollywood rising star, Adunni Ade in a recent interview explains why she is a single mom and how she lived with the father of her children for 8 years without tying the knot. According to Adunni,  “I’m a sucker for love, I love hard, that’s why I take my time before diving into any relationship with the person I will love. I will do whatever I can in a relationship to make it work because I just don’t get involved with people anyhow. If the chemistry or connection is not there, then you would never find me there. But in my heart, if I feel like I have a connection with that person, I’d try and take it as far as I can and if I know it’s not going to work, I’d end it quick. But I am a big fan of love, Love is good. There is still some love out there even though people try to deny and say there is no more love; there is still love.” About the father of her kids; “I have said this, it’s not something I want to hide, it’s a part of me and I don’t think there’s any need to lie, or make myself look good or whatever, but I have never been married. I was with my ex, Michael Boyd, who is my children’s father for eight years, and things did not work out and I just let it go and that has been three years ago,” she said.

Whenever My Husband Is Upset, I Make It Up To Him In The Bedroom – Ronke Oshodi Oke Posted: 03 Oct 2015 04:00 AM PDT Popular Nollywood Actress Ronke Oshodi Oke in a chat with Saturday Beats has revealed how she calms her husband down whenever he is angry with her. She also explained the reason why she lives apart from her husband and why it is no one’s business. She said; “Personally, I don’t like places that are noisy. If you live in certain places in Lagos, everybody would know your movement. I don’t like such places. I try to keep my life private. I don’t want people to know where my children school or any other private information about me. But my husband works in Surulere and he loves the area a lot. I don’t like the area. We have a family house there, so he stays there on weekdays and during the weekend, he comes home to meet me at Abule-Egba. I have been in that area for a very long time and it is very quiet. That is why we live separately. Continue… “Whatever people say, I really don’t care because I believe in pleasing myself. The same people that would advise you are the same people that would criticise you when things go wrong. I have developed a thick skin. Nothing is perfect in life and my marriage is okay. I am happy,” she said. She also explains what she does when her husband misses her when she is on a movie set; “Sometimes when I have spent so much time on set and my husband misses me, he does not make a big fuss about it because he knows it is my job. He would just call me to come home. And whenever I know I am wrong or I have been away from him for too long, I apologise. Most times, even before he calls me to tell me that I have not been home for too long, I caution myself and go to spend some weeks with him. If I find out that he is very mad at me, I know how to calm him down. Every man has a weak spot and every woman knows how to make her man happy. Whenever he is really upset with me, I cook his favourite meal and I also make it up to him in the bedroom,” .

Nigeria Has Turned Into One Big Comedy Club – Etcetera Posted: 03 Oct 2015 03:30 AM PDT Critic Etcetera has something to say about Nigeria, it’s President and their change mantra. Hear him, Is Nigeria getting worse? That is a very provocative question. I have found that most people that hate Nigeria are very eager to agree that Nigeria is getting worse, while a lot of those that love Nigeria are very hesitant to admit that Nigeria is in decline. Well, I am proud to be a Nigerian, but I cannot lie to myself or tell you that Nigeria is doing just fine. The evidence is undeniable. Our economy is ill and is rapidly getting worse. God handed us the resources to be one of the greatest economic machines in the world and we have wrecked it. But until we are willing to look in the mirror and admit how bad things have got, we won’t be ready for the solutions that are necessary. The truth is that there are things that we can do to reverse the decline. It does not have to be permanent. We have got away from the things that made Nigeria great, and we need to admit that we are on the wrong path and start fixing this country. But if we choose to continue down the road that we are currently on, it will lead us into the darkest chapters in Nigerian history. If someone had written a story about what is happening now in Nigeria 20 years ago, people would have laughed and said “Wow that is a good story, but it would never happen here, not in our Nigeria.” But now, the joke is on all of us. Nigeria has turned into one big comedy club where the audience is wearing a frown as they listen to the president cracking his “Change” joke. The president speaks of change from the same mouth that he nominates those purported to be ministerial nominees. He should tell us what change he expects from the list. How do you achieve this change doing the same old things with the same old people? Some governors on the list are still entangled in corruption allegations levelled against them by their successors. What happened to your zero tolerance to corruption mantra? This whole change thing is becoming a gargantuan joke that is not funny at all. A devastating economic collapse has left the country in a stagnant decline, where Nigerians are still sleeping under bridges, ghettos like Ajegunle are overfilled, while almost all houses in Victoria Island and ikoyi lie vacant with ‘for sale’ banners hanging on almost every gate, the kleptocratic politicians openly steal billions of dollars, and remain free, while people charged with petty thefts go to jail and have no bonds, protests break out and are quickly stifled by an authoritarian police force, media houses are getting shut down and becoming government controlled and relay repeating news stories that have little to do with real events, and are more focused on propaganda and nonsense, a politician takes several multimillion dollar vacations at taxpayer expense, while ordinary Nigerian families cannot afford the skyrocketing food costs, the senate is hopelessly unable to pass any kind of legislation that can benefit average Nigerians, but easily pass legislation benefitting themselves and usurping the constitution, prisons are built and manned waiting for those who dare to speak the truth against to power, the roads in estates built by politicians and their rich cronies are tarred over and over while the areas occupied by the poor masses are left in ruins, terrorists are granted amnesty and pacified with fat monthly allowances while law abiding citizens are gnashing their teeth. Whew! Did I miss anything? What about a hero? Maybe a small glimmer of hope. Maybe Buhari? hopefully. I would like the next paragraph of this article to read, “At Nigeria’s darkest hour, the people defied the odds, and ignored the experts and elected a man of character and convictions to the office of the Presidency, and the said man restored the constitution, defeated boko haram, brought back the missing Chibok girls, brought justice to the people by arresting the evil men and women responsible for years of death and debt upon this nation.” Now I like that ending. Will it happen? I hope to God it can be so. If I told a story 30 years ago that Nigeria will be worse off at 55, would you have believed me?

[PHOTOS] Heavily Pregnant Mercy Johnson And Husband Step Out In Style Posted: 03 Oct 2015 02:30 AM PDT Nollywood actress, Mercy Johnson stepped out with her husband as the attended the Miss Nigeria Ireland in Dublin. The couple are currently expecting their third child. Photos below:

Adorable Photo Of Former President Jonathan’s Granddaughter Emerges Posted: 03 Oct 2015 02:00 AM PDT Former Nigerian president, Goodluck Jonathan’s daughter, Faith Edwards and her hubby, Godswill, welcomed their first child, a girl, in the US  on September 23rd. The little girl has been christened, Princess Eliana Godswill Edward. See their adorable baby below:

I’m Sad I Don’t Have A PhD – Aki Posted: 03 Oct 2015 01:30 AM PDT Popular Nollywood star, Chinedu Ikedieze popularly known as Aki, is still not fulfilled because he believes that by this time in his life, he should have bagged a Ph.D degree. He told Punch “Aside obtaining my first degree in mass communication at The Institute of Management and Technology (IMT), Enugu, I had the opportunity to go to New York Film Academy in 2004. I did film acting, it is like a certificate programme and I have learnt over the years on the job too. By now, the way I had it in mind when I finished school, I should have had my second Master’s degree if not Ph.D. Each time I think along that line, other things come to mind and I am not happy about that. When you see me again, I might just be finishing a particular course.”

Dele Momodu Strikes A Pose With Davido’s Baby Posted: 02 Oct 2015 10:00 AM PDT Ovation boss, Dele Momodu posed with his Cousin, Sophie Momodu’s baby. Sophie is Davido’s babymama.

Photos From Tinsel Charity Ball Posted: 02 Oct 2015 09:00 AM PDT Tinsel Charity Ball by Africa Magic took place yesterday night in Lagos. Popular face at the event includes, Waje, Rukky Sanda, Iyabo Ojo, Timi Dakolo, Uti Nwachukwu and others. More photos below:

Toju Foyeh Releases Stunning Photos In Celebration Of Nigeria’s Independence Posted: 02 Oct 2015 08:00 AM PDT Award winning Fashion Designer, Toju Foyeh has just unveiled four different photographs of herself in celebration of Nigeria’s Independence yesterday. More photos below: