President Jonathan Successfully Fought Corruption Without Making Noise. - Femi Falana.

One of the profound critics of former President Goodluck Jonathan's government and Lagos activist, Femi Falana have joined other Team of Jonathan critics to confess that he actually fought corruption in more civilized ways.

The Lagos while speaking on Channels TV this morning said that "contrary to the general belief that former President closed his eyes to corruption, President Goodluck Jonathan did so much in the fight against corruption including the sack of three of his ministers for alleged graft.

Adding to what Bishop Matthew Kukah said last week, Mr Falana concluded that President Jonathan carried out the most successful loot recovery without making noise about it.

During the Jonathan era, the government introduced the Single Bank account for the country, saving billions. Their electronic payroll payment system and the Bio-metric registration of Federal workers identified 68,000 Ghost workers and over 50,000 ghost pensioners. They also introduced the Single Contract Requisition system with a Legislative oversight.
The cashless economy was the reason that "Ghana-Must-Go" disappeared in the National Assembly and around the corridors of his administration.

Trillion of Naira were recovered and saved the through these high-tech corruption fighting system and and was never advertised.

Source:Hope for Nigeria

How Pedro's disallowed goal sparked the bitter feud between Mourinho & Guardiola

 By Ben Hayward---Goal.com
The Chelsea winger saw a strike ruled out in the 2011 Copa del Rey final as Barcelona lost to Real Madrid, leading to the war of words involving the Catalanand Portuguese coaches
It is one of football's famous feuds. Pep Guardiola and Jose Mourinho were friends and colleagues at Barcelona back in the late 1990s and early 2000s, the former a midfielder for the Catalan club and the latter an assistant coach. But their relationship was damaged beyond repair in 2011 - and it all started, surprisingly, with Pedro.

The Spain winger is set to make his debut for Chelsea on Sunday against West Brom after sealing his move from Barcelona earlier this week - and he claimed Mourinho was one of the big factors behind his decision to join the Blues. Just a few years ago, however, theirs would have seemed an improbable alliance.

Pedro scored Barca's second goal in the Catalans' 5-0 drubbing of Mourinho's Madrid at Camp Nou in November 2010 - the worst defeat the Portuguese has suffered in his entire coaching career. But it was in April and early May later in that same season, as the two teams met four times within the space of 17 days, that the tension boiled over between Jose and Pep.

After a tense 1-1 draw at the Santiago Bernabeu in La Liga on April 16, Barca and Madrid met again four days later in the final of the Copa del Rey at Mestalla. And following a tight first half, Pedro thought he had broken the deadlock when he latched onto a pass from Lionel Messi and fired past Iker Casillas.

However, his strike was ruled offside, Guardiola waved his finger in disapproval on the sidelines, but replays showed the officials' decision was correct as Pedro was indeed a fraction beyond the last Madrid defender, Alvaro Arbeloa, and Real went on to win in extra-time as Cristiano Ronaldo headed home from an Angel Di Maria cross.

In a packed press room after the match, Guardiola appeared to question the decision. "The assistant must have great eyesight to spot that Pedro was two centimetres offside," the Catalan coach quipped.

But six days later, ahead of the Champions League semi-final first leg clash between the two teams at the Bernabeu, Mourinho mocked the words of his Barca counterpart.

"We have started a new cycle," he began. "Up until now there was a very small group of coaches who didn't talk about referees and a very large group, in which I am included, who criticise referees. Now, with Pep's comments, we have started a new era with a third group, in which there is only him, that criticises the referee when he makes correct decisions. This is completely new to me."

The Portuguese's provocations had previously had little effect on Guardiola, but with his team beaten at Mestalla and a Champions League semi-final ahead, the former Barca boss chose to react this time with a statement of intent - in the Bernabeu press room of all places.

"Señor Mourinho has permitted himself the luxury of calling me Pep, so I will call him Jose," Guardiola said. "Which one is your camera, Jose? All of them, I suppose...

"Tomorrow at 8.45pm we face each other on the pitch. He has won the battle off the pitch. If he wants his own personal Champions League trophy away from the pitch, let him take it home and enjoy it.

"In this room, Mourinho is the f***ing chief, the f***ing boss. He knows all about this and I don't want to compete with him in here. I'd just like to remind him that I worked with him for four years [at Barcelona]. He knows me and I know him.

"If he prefers to value the views of the journalist friends who take their information in a drip feed from Florentino Perez more than the relationship we had for four years, then, that's his choice. I try to learn from Jose on the pitch, but I prefer to learn as little as possible from him off the pitch."

When he returned to his hotel dining room, the Barca players stood to greet Guardiola with a round of applause. And on the pitch a day later, the Blaugrana beat Madrid 2-0. This time, unlike in the final of the Copa days earlier, refereeing decisions went in Barca's favour. Mourinho had met his match.

The Portuguese was sent off for his protests after Pepe was dismissed for a wild challenge on Dani Alves and he decided against attending the second leg at Camp Nou, watching instead from his hotel in the Catalan capital as Pedro scored in a 1-1 draw that saw Barca progress to the final.


In the first of the three images above, Pedro can be seen protesting the assistant's decision to disallow his strike in the 2011 Copa final - the action that led to Mourinho's mocking of Guardiola and then Pep's press-room rant days later. In the second picture, the two coaches shake hands but avoid eye contact prior to the Champions League semi-final first leg meeting between Madrid and Barca at the Bernabeu days later and in the third photograph, Pedro and Pep are all smiles after the winger scored to secure a 1-1 draw at Camp Nou and passage to the final thanks to a 3-1 aggregate win over Real.

The winger went on to net in the final too as Barca beat Manchester United 3-1 at Wembley with an extraordinary exhibition of attacking football.

And asked just a couple of months later if Guardiola was a better coach than Mourinho, the winger was in little doubt. "It's obvious that Guardiola is better," he said. "From the moment he arrived at the club he has responded. For me, he is the best coach in the world and he has been able to handle world-class players."

Pedro subsequently saw Mourinho at his worst as the Portuguese poked then Barca assistant Tito Vilanova in the eye as the sides' Spanish Supercopa series turned ugly a month later and the Clasico clashes continued to be marked by ill feeling and animosity.

But less than four years on, the winger will now work with the Portuguese at Chelsea and Pedro revealed Mourinho had played a pivotal part in his arrival at Stamford Bridge. 

"Mourinho is one of the main reasons I'm here," he said. "He called me a couple of times and told me he needed me to strengthen the team."

It is quite the unexpected turnaround after all that went on during the Mourinho-Guardiola fallout that inadvertently started with Pedro's disallowed goal in Valencia. But football, as Jimmy Greaves famously used to say, is a funny old game.

Source: www.goal.com

Thierry Henry claims Paul Scholes was better than Steven Gerrard

Arsenal legend Thierry Henry believes Manchester United hero Paul Scholes was a better player than Liverpool icon Steven Gerrard.

The Frenchman was asked on Sky Sport’s Monday Night Football which current or former player he wished he could have played with, to which he replied: “Paul Scholes”.

Henry’s answer prompted Gary Neville, who names Scholes as the best footballer he ever played with, to point towards his co-pundit Jamie Carragher and say: “Tell him that as well!”

Neville and Carragher famously had a lengthy discussion about Scholes, Gerrard and Frank Lampard and where the trio ranked in terms of their greatness. They ended that particular show by agreeing to disagree.

Carragher, on this occasion, said to Henry: “You thought Scholes was better than Steven Gerrard?”

HENRY: SCHOLES WAS BETTER THAN GERRARD

Henry replied: “I was just about to say, the next one would have been *right* behind - very close - Stevie G.

“I have to go with Paul Scholes, and I love Stevie G, but I have to go with Paul Scholes.

“Paul Scholes was just ahead in his head, he was making [Manchester United] tick. Every time we [Arsenal] played them we needed to find a way to stop him.”

Neville could barely contain his smile while Henry was speaking, clearly delighted that Henry had picked Scholes over Carragher’s former Liverpool teammate Gerrard.

Liverpool supporters, like Carragher, will hate the fact Henry rates Scholes as a better player than Gerrard.

SCHOLES OR GERRARD?

But which English midfielder do you think was better? We want to hear your thoughts!

Source: www.givemesports.com