FOOTBALL: FA Cup final. Leicester City’s prize money for beating Chelsea 1-0 revealed

 

The prize money Leicester City will earn after winning the 2020/21 FA Cup trophy has been revealed.
The FA Cup reached its conclusion on Saturday evening, with Leicester crowned champions after beating Chelsea 1-0 in the final.

 

Youri Tielemans scored the only goal of the match in the second half at Wembley Stadium to ensure Leicester defeated Thomas Tuchel’s side.

Chelsea left-back Ben Chilwell’s goal was controversially ruled out by VAR during the encounter.

The victory against Chelsea was Leicester’s first-ever FA Cup in the club’s history.

However, according to the Mirror, the total prize fund for the FA Cup is £15.9 million, which is distributed among all 188 teams that entered the competition.

Leicester pretty much doubled their total prize money by winning the final against Chelsea.

The Foxes received a lump sum of £1.8 million, which brings their total earned in the competition to £3.4 million, while Chelsea received £900k, taking their total prize money to £2.4 million.

football: We have two more finals to play – Tuchel reacts to Chelsea’s 1-0 defeat to Leicester

 

Chelsea manager, Thomas Tuchel, has said his team has two finals to play next week, after losing the FA Cup to Leicester City on Saturday.

 

Youri Tielemans scored the winner as the Foxes lifted the trophy at Wembley on Saturday.

Tuchel was hoping to win his first silverware with Chelsea since he joined in January.

However, the German is now facing dropping out of the top four and a crucial Champions League final against Manchester City on May 29.

But Tuchel, speaking after the defeat to Leicester today, said he is looking forward to the last two Premier League fixtures next week.

“There’s no team that never loses in sports. It is about coming back and bouncing back, showing mentality and believing on Tuesday.

“We missed a trophy and we have two finals vs Leicester and Villa, then another final,” he said.

Restructuring will cause problems between Northern, Southern govs – Primate Ayodele

 

The Leader of the INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Primate Elijah Ayodele, has warned that the call for restructuring will lead to the disintegration of Nigeria.

 

Primate Ayodele said the disintegration of Nigeria will happen because the co-existence of the country is already under threat.

He also warned that restructuring would cause problems between Northern and Southern governors.

A statement to  by the cleric said Northern governors would reject the idea of restructuring, thereby, causing problems with their Southern counterparts.

The prophet also advised President Muhammadu Buhari to adjust, manage the loopholes and pray to God especially about the insecurity that has bitten the country hard.

He said: ‘’Restructuring will eventually lead to the disintegration of Nigeria and the issue of restructuring will cause problems between the Northerners and Southerners, it will create loggerheads among the governors because the issue of restructuring will be rejected by northerners, and will aggravate issues.

‘’The government needs to adjust, do what is right and manage the loopholes, there is a crack in our co-existence, we need prayers to work on this, insecurity will bring economic hardship because the government doesn’t know what to do about the issue of insecurity.’’

 

Buhari congratulates Obi of Onitsha, Achebe at 80

 

President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated the Obi of Onitsha, Igwe Nnaemeka Alfred Achebe, on the occasion of his 80th birthday.

 

In a congratulatory message by his Spokesman, Mr Femi Adesina, in Abuja on Saturday, Buhari commended the royal father’s unwavering dedication to Nigeria’s unity and development.

Buhari saluted the Igwe for devoting so much of his time, resources and influence to champion access to quality education as a necessity for national development.

He thanked Igwe Achebe for setting a worthy example to the traditional institution on dignity and honour in public office, respect for diversity and dedication to the culture of peace and bridge-building.

Buhari, therefore, joined family, friends, well-wishers and beneficiaries of Igwe Achebe’s leadership and philanthropic gestures in praying that the Almighty God grants the celebrant more years of health and happiness.

Yoruba Nation Fear in Osogbo as major businesses shut down to avoid looting, violence

 

As a result of the rally organised by the Yoruba Nation in Osogbo on Saturday, most businesses in the capital city shut down their operations over security concerns.

 

Most affected was the popular Osun Mall located at Fakunle Area of the state capital.

Most customers were locked out of the mall and outside its main gate.

 gathered during a visit to the mall that its management locked up the complex to avoid a repetition of events on the night of Saturday 17th of October, 2020.

Recalls that on Saturday 17th October 2020 scores of armed young men riding motorcycles stormed the mall, vandalised and carted away items worth millions of naira especially smartphones and laptops.

Other businesses and shopping complexes followed suit while others conducted their business with apprehension, awaiting the outcome of the rally.

Sakiru Idowu, the manager of a popular phone shop inside the mall told DAILY POST that when the news got to them in the mall that the Yoruba Nation was meeting for a protest in Osogbo, they took it as nothing but when they got wind of the arrival of Sunday Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho fear and panic gripped everyone in the mall and the decision to close the main gate of the mall was reached and action was taken instantly.

A customer, Isiaka said he was at the mall to get some groceries but was surprised to find the gate under lock and key.

He said, “I then asked a gateman and vigilante at the gate reasons for the closure and was told it is because of the ongoing Yoruba Nation rally in Osogbo to forestall a repeat of the incident that happened during the EndSARS protests where some hoodlums hijacked the protests and raided the mall.”

Aremu Kehinde said he was at the mall at noon but discovered that the gate was locked because of the Yoruba Nation rally.

 had reported earlier that scores of Yoruba Nation agitators dressed in various outfits had stormed Osogbo in the morning.

It was gathered that the protest had started from the Africa area of the state capital to the main protest ground at Freedom Park.

Sunday Igboho’s arrival at the venue of the protest, which had a heavy presence of security personnel drawn from the Nigerian Police, Directorate of State Security (DSS), Joint Task Force (JTF) and Amotekun Corps heightened the fear among residents.

Buhari to jet out of Nigeria on Sunday

President Muhammadu Buhari will on Sunday travel out of Nigeria to France on an official visit.The President would attend the African Finance Summit which will be focused on reviewing the African economy, following shocks from the Coronavirus pandemic and getting relief, especially from the increased debt burden on countries.

 

The summit, to be hosted by President Emmanuel Macron, will draw major stakeholders from global financial institutions and some Heads of Government, who will, collectively, discuss external funding and debt treatment for Africa and private sector reforms.

A statement by the President’s Senior Special Assistant on Media & Publicity, Garba Shehu said during the visit, Buhari will meet with the French President to discuss growing security threats in the Sahel and Lake Chad region, political relations, economic ties, climate change and partnership in buoying the health sector, particularly in checking the spread of COVID-19, with more research and vaccines.

“Before returning to Nigeria, President Buhari will receive some key players in the oil and gas sector, engineering and telecommunications, European Council and European Union Representative for Foreign and Security Policy and Commission, as well as members of the Nigerian community in France.

He will be accompanied by Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Shamsuna Ahmed, Minister of Trade and Investment, Otunba Adeniyi Adebayo, and Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire.

Also on the trip are the National Security Adviser, Maj. Gen. Babagana Mohammed Monguno (rtd) and Director General of National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Amb. Ahmed Rufai Abubakar.

 

Sunday Igboho demands release of OPC members arrested over warlord, Isikilu Wakili

 

Sunday Adeyemo popularly known as Igboho on Saturday warned Oyo State, the Federal governments and the Nigeria Police to immediately release all members of the Odua Peoples Congress (OPC) in custody over the arrest of the Fulani warlord, Isikilu Wakili in Ibarapa.

 

He gave a weeks’ ultimatum to Oyo State and the federal governments to release the arrested OPC members before all Yorubas troop out en masse to protest it.

Recall that the Oyo State Police Command announced that it took into custody some members of the Odua Peoples Congress (OPC) in connection with the earlier arrest of Isikilu Wakili.

But Adeyemo during a rally in Osogbo by the Yoruba nation to demand an independent nation warned against their continued detention.

“I urge the Oyo, Federal Governments and police to release OPC member who arrested Fulani herdsmen terrorising Yoruba people in Ibarapa land immediately. Before all Yorubas will come out en masse to protest against it.

“They apprehended some Fulanis who were disrupting the peace of Ibarapa and handed them over to the police. But the Oyo State Police and Nigerian Government now arrested them which should not be so.”

Earlier, DAILY POST had reported that Yoruba nation agitators armed with placards, chanting secession songs converged at the November 27 bridge in Osogbo.

While distributing handbills to residents, the agitators marched from the November 27 bridge through Ogo-Oluwa, Ola-Iya to Freedom pack.

The Yoruba agitator, Adeyemo arrived at the venue of the rally around 1:45 pm on Saturday.

Adeyemo while speaking at the protest said there will be no election in Yoruba land in 2023.

He added that the Yoruba nation must leave now as it is no more a slave to the northerners.

Adeyemo said Governor Gboyega Oyetola allowed the Yoruba nation agitators to hold the rally in Osun and provided them with security.

While seeking unity among Yorubas, Adeyemo asked all that are aggrieved to come together.

However, one of the Yoruba nation promoter, Akin Adejuwon, a lecturer of Cultural Studies at Obafemi Awolowo University, who was a Director-General, National Troupe of Nigeria said the protest is eye-opening for Yoruba youths to take over and fight for Oduduwa nation.

“We are here to enlighten and sensitise the youths. The youth are the owners of the Yoruba land. The Fulani enslavers and murderers, must not take our land from us.

“A thousand generation of the Fulani herdsmen cannot overpower the Yoruba youths. We are not one of those who live in the bush. Some animals living in the forest cannot claim our lands.

“We are here to awake the youths’ consciousness to what is right. We are here to educate the youth against voting in 2023.