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After eight months in charge, Sunday Oliseh announced his resignation as coach of the Super Eagles in a pair of tweets which took many by surprise early on Friday morning. Claiming that he had not got support from the Nigeria Football Federation as well as having his assistants and players go unpaid, Oliseh threw in the towel and, in that one act, looked to have stuck up the middle finger to everyone who has criticized him over the past few weeks. “I feel fortunate, blessed and eternally grateful for having had the honour to play, captain & coach this great nation of ours, Nigeria,” Oliseh wrote. “Due to contract violations, lack of support, unpaid wages, benefits to my players, asst. coaches & myself, I resign as Super Eagles Chief Coach.” For someone of his calibre and temperament, it did not come as a surprise that he would quit so early because Oliseh has always been one to react swiftly to events, often times out of anger.
When he took over in July 2015 with promises of turning around Nigerian football following the sacking of Stephen Keshi, a long suffering and measured character, Oliseh’s youth and ideas brought a lot of hope. However, events of recent months have come to show that he was his worst enemy, with a combustible approach to opposition and opposing voices. Despite his education and general worldliness, the 41-year-old lacked the tact and maturity to manage men. Oliseh’s reign must be placed in perspective: under him, Nigeria lost, in acrimonious circumstances, the services of Vincent Enyeama, a hero of immeasurable proportions, a captain who led from the back with glorious save after save in a decade-long international career.
The coach’s resignation was timely as he had begun to lose the support of his backroom staff. He became suspicious that someone wanted to do him in with juju and he ordered them to stop dipping hands in their pockets while speaking to him. Events such as the retirement of Enyeama distracted from Oliseh's work He had also tried to get key backroom staff sacked, actions that were rebuffed by the federation as officials told him that matters like this were beyond his remit. A backroom source said there was much rejoicing when the news of his resignation came through on Friday.
An informed source said there was the likelihood that Oliseh had also lost his influence with some of the players after telling media that they would not turn up for future games if their bonuses were not paid. The NFF is said to have found out that the coach might have tried to instigate the players, many of whom were unwilling to turn their backs on their country. There was also the issue of media distrust after he claimed that certain journalists had asked for bribes in order to give him favourable coverage in a blog post as well as in his now infamous YouTube rant. The Sports Writers Association of Nigeria had asked him to come clean over his sweeping remarks or be ready for war.
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French Court of Appeal has confirmed the ban in France of "Revenge Porn: football, sex, money: the testimony of a former Samuel Eto'o mistress" written by Nathalie Koah. The book which was scheduled to be released on February the 18th had provisionally been banned from publication by a French High Court, following a complaint from the Cameroonian star, for "breach of privacy". However, the publication has widely been circulated for nearly a month on the internet in PDF format.
The appeal court upheld on Friday the decision by the high court. Correspondingly, Advice Editions du Moment, the publishing house has decided to "use all legal means to combat the risk of new censorship". The book is already on sale in many African countries and appears to be a best seller. Cameroon Concord understands it is highly expected in the Ivory Coast and Cameroon.
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532 athletes will embark on the conquest of Mount Cameroon this Saturday in Buea, the chief city in the South West region. For most of the participants, the dream of succeeding Yvonne Ngwaya and Godlove Gabsibuin, winners in 2015 respectively in the women and men domains by covering the 4100 meters will be a timeless achievement. 495 Cameroonian athletes will challenge a total 37 foreigners among them some formidable Kenyans. Originally scheduled for February 20, the 21th edition of the Race of Hope was postponed for a week to allow the organizing committee to finalized arrangements for the great event.
The Secretary General of the Cameroon Athletics Federation, Charles Kouoh Kotte told the world that all was now set for the Race of Hope. The return of the main sponsor, Guinness Cameroun in the last three editions has increased the bonus jackpot. Thus, the winners in senior ladies and gentlemen now bank 10 million CFA francs each as against a miserable 3 million CFA francs in the previous years. The second positions will go home with the sum of 5 million FCFA -a three million increase from the 2 million FCFA in the past.
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Unconfirmed report say the Confederation of Africa Football, CAF has finally approved the AFCON qualifying match between Cameroon and Bafana Republic, to be hosted on march the 26th 2016 at the Stade Omnisport of Limbe in the South West region of Cameroon. The CAF decision yet to be verified by our sports reporter in Buea has been made public amid controversy surrounding the construction of the stadium.
Cameroon Concord gathered that the organizers are 55 days behind the time table announced by government. At the time of filing this report, Prime Minister Philemon Yang ordered his Secretary General at the prime minister office to traveled to Limbe to put pressure on the contractors to get the stadium ready as soon as possible.
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The Cameroon government has paid a 110 million FCFA to the Volleyball Lionesses following their brilliant qualification for the Olympic games in Brazil. The volleyball "sheros" were received with great fanfare on February the 18th, 2016 by the Minister of Sports and Physical Education, Bidoung Mpkatt at the versatile sports palace in Yaounde, where they got the visa for Rio de Janeiro. Minister Bidoung Mpkatt said the qualification was historic, memorable and resounding. Bidoung Mpkatt noted that "It honors our country and starts a real expansion of women's volleyball in Cameroon".
On the sidelines of the ceremony, the press was informed that the CPDM government has paid the premium rating to the Lionesses. We were not told anything about the distribution of the said amount. However, a reliable but very flippant source hinted Cameroon Concord that the professionals will be paid more money than local players. Our source added that the Cameroon Volleyball Federation intends to make up for the shortfalls of professional players who will lose wages from their clubs for the one month period they were in Yaounde.
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AFCON: Follow and Support the Biggest Football Tournament in Africa
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