Teams that have surprisingly never met in Europe.

The news that Porto and Borussia Dortmund have never before met in UEFA club competition got us thinking: which other big European names' paths have never crossed?

 The news that UEFA Europa League round of 32 opponents Porto and Borussia Dortmund have never before met in UEFA competition got us thinking: which other big European names' paths have never crossed? Here is what we discovered.

 Top ten fixtures that have never happened
1 Atlético Madrid v Paris Saint-Germain
2 Chelsea v Dortmund
= Arsenal v Atlético Madrid
4 Barcelona v Zenit
5 Chelsea v Zenit
6 Barcelona v Napoli
= Atlético Madrid v Manchester City
= Paris Saint-Germain v Zenit
= Juventus v Schalke.
 10 Benfica v Manchester City.

See Nollywood Actress Who Wants To Marry Pastor Chris.

 Nollywood actress Sapphire Adaobi Obi is a fast rising actress.

 Nollywood actress Sapphire Adaobi Obi is a fast rising actress.

 The Girls Next Door star who is a single mother of two wants to give marriage a second chance but this time around with a man of God.

 

READ ALSO: Famous Lagos Pastor Includes Fashion Parade In Church Programme

You have tasted affection, what do you think is the major problem faced in marriages that makes them hit the rocks in a short while?

 

If you have to be in marriage you must play by the rules, it’s that simple. Allow yourself to be hypnotized don’t allow yourself to be deceived as long as you wanna remain there. There is no make shift, you have to take the decision to love your partner beyond their faults. It’s a decision. A decision based on reality and not emotions. You must have a deep rooted communication, understand yourselves and forgive easily. Enter the person’s spirit and moods all the time and try to decipher how to overcome any temptation that comes. Staying in marriage takes the strong and you have to be really tolerant to stay I must say.

 

Pastor Chris Okotie

Are you ready to give marriage another chance and can you marry an entertainer?

 I can never settle with an entertainer. I will prefer to marry a pastor. Pastors are my crush and I’m currently crushing on Chris Okotie (Laughs).

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 Are you saying you are ready to marry a pastor if the opportunity comes?
 Yes, why not, that’s my fantasy. In a world full of chaos and discontentment, being in the arms of one who loves God and prophesies, will be more than soothing.

 But do you think pastors are romantic or are good in bed then the regular guy?

 (Laughs) chai, it depends on how you see it. Well that’s suspense for me. I mustn’t tell you if I have had a pastor as a lover.

Garry Monk: Swansea's Ashley Williams feels like he 'let him down.

 Swansea defender Ashley Williams says he has "lost a mate" after Garry Monk's sacking as manager. 

 Monk left the Swans after a run of only one win in 11 Premier League games.

 Williams and Monk had been together at Swansea since 2008, first as team-mates and latterly as captain and manager. 

 

 "It's been even more difficult than a normal kind of situation because he's a mate - you feel like you have let him down," Williams told BBC Radio 5 live's Wednesday Night Club programme.

 "Then he goes so you have lost a mate that you see every day. It's just tough really. 

 "No football player likes to go through this situation - it's even worse because we haven't found ourselves like this for such a long time. 

 "You get used to doing well and it's a shock at times like this."

 Swansea are one place above the relegation zone, with first-team coach Alan Curtis in temporary charge as chairman Huw Jenkins searches for a replacement for Monk. 

 Jenkins is in South America, with Argentina's Marcelo Bielsa the odds-on favourite. 

 Bielsa, 60, a former Argentina and Chile boss, resigned from French club Marseille in August and is unattached. 

 Garry Monk (left) and Ashley Williams show off the League Cup in 2013.

Chelsea: Cesc Fabregas says players must justify 'big wages'

 Chelsea's players need to justify their "big wages" and start playing like "big players", says Cesc Fabregas. 

 The Premier League champions are only one point above the relegation zone after Monday's defeat at Leicester, their ninth loss of the season.

 After the game, boss Jose Mourinho said his "work was betrayed" by his players. 

 "If you are a big player and paid like a big player, you must play like a big player and behave like a big player," said Blues midfielder Fabregas. 

 "I am not saying you can't have a bad season and bad games but the attitude must be spot on.

 "We must always be at the top of our games and the behaviour has to be better than what we are seeing right now from every single Chelsea player." 

 Chelsea are 16th with only 15 points from 16 games following Monday's defeat by table-topping Leicester. 

 In Premier League history, when teams have had 15 points from 16 games, they have finished, on average, in 17th position - one place above the drop zone.

 Mourinho says he does not believe the Stamford Bridge club are in a relegation battle. 

 However, former Blues winger Pat Nevin told BBC Radio 5 live that the Portuguese should not "ignore the concept" of going down.

Cameroon launch search for new national team coach.

 

  

 

Cameroon's Football Federation (Fecafoot) officially launched its search for a new national team coach on Sunday, following the sacking of

Volker Finke on 30 October.  

Fecafoot, who placed Alexandre Belinga (pictured) in temporary charge of the Indomitable Lions following Finke's dismissal, advertised for applications   on their website.

As interim coach, Belinga helped Cameroon reach the next round of 2018 World Cup qualifying, beating Niger 3-0 away and drawing 0-0 at home.

 Fecafoot says it is open to looking at applications from a foreign coach - not just native Cameroonians - and has given a deadline of 15 December for applications to be submitted.

 The Federation also outlines an intriguing list of requirements for anyone hoping to become the next Cameroon coach.

 On a professional level, knowledge of African football is required as well as football coaching certificates and experience in coaching elite football clubs.

 The advertisement also asks applicants to "have won trophies", speak French and or English and "be willing to permanently reside in Cameroon." 

 Since Finke's sacking, speculation has been rife in Cameroonian and international media about who his replacement may be.

 67-year-old Claude Le Roy, who recently resigned from the Congolese national team, is a former Cameroon coach and has previously indicated a desire to end his career with the Indomitable Lions.

 He is a favourite of Cameroonian legend Roger Milla who is thought to support the idea of having Le Roy back with Cameroon. 

 Another Frenchman, Herve Renard, has also been linked to the job. Renard is available after he was sacked from French club Lille last month.

 He has a good African football record having won the Africa Cup of Nations with Zambia in 2012 and Ivory Coast in 2015. 

 After the 15 December deadline passes, a Fecafoot committee will scrutinise the applications and then create a shortlist of five from where the new Cameroon coach will be selected.

Tim Peake begins stay on international space station.

 UK astronaut Tim Peake has boarded the International Space Station, which will be his home for the next six months.

 Mr Peake and fellow crew members, Russian Yuri Malenchenko and American Tim Kopra, floated through the hatch from their Soyuz space capsule to be greeted by the resident ISS astronauts.

 The three new passengers arrived at the space platform following a six-hour journey after launch from Kazakhstan.

 

The United States has sent troops to Cameroon to help with intelligence and other operations against Boko Haram.

Forces armed with guns and arrows kill girl bombers in Cameroon:

 DOUALA (Reuters) - Security forces armed with guns and arrows killed two young women wearing explosive vests in a north Cameroon town on Monday, the second raid there in days by suspected Boko Haram militants from neighbouring Nigeria, witnesses said.

  The would-be suicide bombers, described as adolescent girls, entered Kolofata just before dawn, residents and officials told Reuters.

 "The first kamikaze (suicide bomber) exploded near my house ... When she entered, the local vigilance committee fired an arrow at her head and she set off her bomb," said resident Bahoua, who declined to give his full name.

 Self-defence groups have sprung up across north Cameroon and are overseen by the army.

 The other young woman was shot by special forces, known by their French initials BIR, one of the sources said. There were no reports of anyone else being killed or wounded in the town about 10 km (6 miles) from the Nigerian border, said locals.

 Suicide attacks have become an almost daily occurrence in Cameroon's Far North Region despite a military operation late last month to flush out the militants who are seeking to cave out an Islamist state in Nigeria.

 No one claimed responsibility for the attempted bomb attack but officials blamed Boko Haram for an assault that killed 10 people in the same town on Friday.

 Boko Haram fighters are mostly based in northeast Nigeria but have expanded their campaign, setting up camps and launching attacks in neighbouring Chad, Niger and Cameroon.

 These countries along with Nigeria and Benin have formed a 8,700-strong regional task force to combat the group, although joint operations have yet to begin and national armies are increasingly tackling the militants alone.

 Cameroon's army says it killed 100 Boko Haram members and rescued 900 hostages late November, although some security sources have questioned the scale of the operation.

 The United States has sent troops to Cameroon to help with intelligence and other operations against Boko Haram.

 

Several killed in suicide attack in northern Cameroon.

 

Suspected Boko Haram suicide bomber carried out attack near border with Nigeria, killing at least 10 people. 11 Dec2015.

At least 10 people have been killed and 22 others wounded following a suicide attack in northern Cameroon, an area where the Nigerian armed group Boko Haram has been carrying out attacks.

 Al Jazeera has learned from an army source that the deadly attack happened on Friday at 5.15am in the town of Kolofata, just 13km from the border with Nigeria.

 Al Jazeera also learned that a male suicide bomber was responsible for carrying out the attack in the centre of town, where locals congregate.

 An Al Jazeera source reported seeing at least 10 wounded victims, most of them women, being transported from Kolofata by helicopter to the Salak Airport in Maroua.

 He said that on Thursday, Cameroonian forces were patrolling Kolofata looking for suspected Boko Haram fighters. 

The troops also asked the villagers to organise, and report to authorities any suspicious activities in the area, he said.

A separate report from the German news agency DPA said a second suicide bomber escaped as a bomb failed to detonate.

Joseph Nouma, commander of Cameroon's elite forces fighting Boko Haram, told DPA that those who were wounded have been taken to hospitals.

It was the second time that Kolofata, which is regularly targeted in attacks blamed on Boko Haram, has been hit by a suicide attacker in three months.

On September 13 at least seven were killed there in a double suicide attack.
The town is located near Kerawa, another Cameroonian town where up to 40 people lost their lives on September 3 in one of the deadliest attacks on Cameroonian territory.

Cameroon, Chad and Niger have formed a military alliance with Nigeria and Benin to battle Boko Haram, which earlier this year declared allegiance to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
Boko Haram's grip on the region has suffered as a result of offensives launched by local armies and a multi-national force.

On December 2, Cameroon reported killing at least 100 Boko Haram fighters and freeing 900 hostages.
Boko Haram, which wants to implement Islamic law in Nigeria's northeast, has launched attacks in Nigeria and neighbouring countries including Cameroon over the past few months.

The armed group was using Cameroon's impoverished far north to stockpile supplies and recruits until the government cracked down last year.

Cameroon is part of an 8,700-strong regional force led by Nigeria against the group, expected to be operational by the end of the year.
Nigeria and Cameroon share a 1,690km border.

REASON FOR Christmas

CHRISTMAS 2015

 Christmas is celebrated on the 25th December every year. It is a Christian festival celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ and is traditionally characterised by tinsel-decorated trees, mince pies, present-giving and a turkey dinner. Families come together to eat, drink, be merry and argue over xmas TV, whereas children look forward to a visit from Santa Claus and his sack of presents.

 Chad Valley 3 Storey Summer Winter Dolls House which is an Argos own brand toy.

 

 GOOD LOCK AND HAPPY CHRISTMAS .....

U.S. Police Leaders, Visiting Scotland, Get Lessons on Avoiding Deadly Force

 Scottish police officers simulated a riot at the Jackton training center in Glasgow, Scotland, where police leaders from throughout the United States gathered to discuss department tactics.

 TULLIALLAN, Scotland — The United States and Britain are bound by a common language and a shared history, and their law enforcement agencies have been close partners for generations.

But a difference long curious to Americans stands out: Most British police officers are unarmed, a distinction particularly pronounced here in Scotland, where 98 percent of the country’s officers do not carry guns. Rather than escalating a situation with weapons, easing it through talk is an essential policing tool, and is what brought a delegation of top American police officials to this town 30 miles northeast of Glasgow.

 Forty minutes into a Scottish police commander’s lecture on the art of firearms-free policing, American law enforcement leaders took turns talking. One after another, their questions sounded like collective head-scratching.

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 €œDo you have a large percentage of officers that get hurt with this policing model?” asked Theresa Shortell, an assistant chief of the New York Police Department and the commanding officer of its training academy, where several hundred officers graduate each year.

 American visitors looking on as Scottish police officers acted out a possible confrontation.

 â€œHow many officers in Scotland have been killed in the last year or two years?” Chief Shortell added.

 Bernard Higgins, an assistant chief constable who is Scotland’s use-of-force expert, stood and answered. Yes, his officers routinely take punches, he said, but the last one killed by violence was in 1994, in a stabbing.

 There is poverty, crime and a “pathological hatred of officers wearing our uniform” in pockets of Scotland, he said, but constables live where they work and embrace their role as “guardians of the community,” not warriors from a policing subculture.

 €œThe basic fundamental principle, even in the areas where there’s high levels of crime, high levels of social deprivation, is it’s community-based policing by unarmed officers, Constable Higgins said. We police from an absolute position of embracing democracy.

 From Eric Garner on Staten Island, to Freddie Gray in Baltimore and Laquan McDonald in Chicago, fatal police confrontations have fueled public anger across the United States and have prompted police leaders to reconsider established tactics and entrenched thinking on when and how to use force.

 On Monday, the Justice Department announced that it was opening a civil rights investigation into the practices of the Chicago Police Department after one of its officers was charged last month with first-degree murder in the shooting death of Mr. McDonald, 17.

 The killing, in October 2014, was captured on video that the city released under a court order hours after the officer was charged. And just as protests had previously swept New York, Ferguson, Mo., and Baltimore, demonstrators have taken to the streets in Chicago to demand change.

 

 A POLICE OFFICER CONVICTED OF SEXUALLY ASSAULTING WOMEN.

A former Oklahoma City police officer has been convicted of sexually assaulting women he preyed upon in a low-income neighborhood he patrolled.
A jury convicted Daniel Holtzclaw of four charges of first-degree rape and 14 other counts. He sobbed while hearing the verdicts Thursday on his 29th birthday. He could spend the rest of his life in prison, based on the jury’s recommendation he serve 263 years.

A 31 YEAR OLD MAN LEFT HIS HOMETOWE WITH HIS GIRLFRIEND LEAVING BEHIND CHILDREN TO FIND A BETTER LIFE.

 Jaime Aguilera Sierra, left, and his girlfriend, Graydelis Rivero, snapped this picture in Ecuador before starting their long trek to the USA. They are two of 4,500 Cubans stranded in Costa Rica, blocked by Central American governments from continuing their journey north.

 The 31-year-old left his hometown of Holguín, Cuba, this year and moved to Quito, Ecuador, with his girlfriend. They both had children in Cuba but left them behind to try to find a better life.

 They left Ecuador just after sunset Nov. 9 in a group of 12 Cubans and started what Aguilera calls the most difficult trek of his life.

 Along the way, they were captured in Colombia and held for ransom, paid bribes along the road, crossed a river teeming with human waste, ran straight into an electrified fence and saw people bloodied and bruised at every turn. They've ridden in buses, vans and boats, spent nights sleeping in horrendous conditions and at one point were left with a total of two U.S. dollar bills

 With no idea how they'll continue their journey to the USA, Aguilera said he's losing hope.

 "To those in Cuba who are considering this, I would say don't do it this way," he said. "The stories I heard about this trip were ugly, but the reality has been far worse. If I would've imagined even half of what we've experienced, I wouldn't have done it."

Thousands of Cubans stranded en route to USA

 A group of 4,500 Cubans stranded in Costa Rica as they try to reach the USA by land suffered a new blow this week when one more Central American country refused to let them pass.

 Nicaraguan police forcibly stopped them from crossing the border last month, and Guatemalan officials announced last week they would not let the Cubans fly into their country to continue their journey north. Belize this week scrapped a planned "air bridge" that would have let the Cubans fly into the country and continue their march

 "Belize got us all excited, then they let us down," Jaime Aguilera Sierra, one of the stuck Cubans, said in a phone interview after learning the news. "You can see the reaction on everyone's faces. Sadness, depression, frustration and all of its synonyms."

 Costa Rican President Luis Guillermo Solís said the Cubans can return home if they want, but he assured them they would be treated with dignity in his country and nobody would forcibly deport them.

 "That will not happen," he said in a YouTube video this week. "We will not negotiate with the lives of any person who is migrating through our country."

 Cubans have long reached the USA by braving the 90-mile journey at sea, riding rickety boats and rafts across the dangerous, shark-infested waters of the Florida Straits. They have braved that trip because the Cuban Adjustment Act allows Cuban immigrants who simply touch U.S. soil to stay and become legal permanent residents.

 More Cubans started taking advantage of another route in the past year after the Cuban government eased travel restrictions for its citizens. They can fly to countries such as Ecuador without a visa, so many have flown there to start the long journey to the USA by land, assured of legal entry.

 In fiscal 2014, 17,470 Cubans presented themselves at U.S. land ports along the Mexican border. In 2015, that number nearly doubled to 30,966, according to data from Customs and Border Protection.

 

Really! The U.S is a Major Beneficiary in The War Against Boko Haram? – African Expert Says.

 Dr. Helmy Chaarawi, Director of the Afro-Egyptian Center for African Studies, has said the United States of America is a major beneficiary in the war against Boko Haram in Cameroon and Nigeria.

 “I am going to talk to you about the superpowers’ international interactions within Africa. You can quote me,” Dr. Chaarawi noted December 1, after having been introduced to participants taking part in a training course for young African journalists, organized by the Union of African Journalists, UAJ, with support from the Egyptian government.

 The expert in African Studies told pressmen that Western manipulation of Africans dates far back to the colonial period. He said that after independence and the World War of 1945, Russia and the West continue to use different policies in Africa, the most recent of which is the policy of “constructive chaos.”

 Chaarawi said though it might sound like a conspiracy theory, the “constructive chaos” policy of the West is implemented when they generate chaos so that countries rush to them for support and then get indebted to them to the point that they are obliged to be partners in international trade; especially in the oil sector.d.“When Nigeria gets help from the US to fight against Boko Haram, they become loyal to the US and channel their natural resources to the West.” He said.

 Quizzed on whether the same applies to Cameroon which was recently obliged to host 300 US troops assisting in the fight against Boko Haram, Chaarawi said: “See for yourself; what do you think is happening. Americans enjoy as the conflicts spread. They sell guns, seal oil deals and extend their military fortress when these things happen. But I am not saying that they are necessarily directly behind the attacks.”

 Though avoiding being conclusive on the involvement of the West in Boko Haram and other terrorist activities in the Middle East, he pointed out how Nigeria had become a heavy weight in the ECOWAS block, with an influential army and economy but the West plotted to weaken the country and Boko Haram seems to be doing the dirty work.

 Commenting on the recent shooting down by the DAESH terrorists, of a Russian plane over Cairo, where all  244 passengers on board were killed, he disclosed that it later emerged Western powers had received and concealed information about a possible attack, but kept the information from Egyptian and Russian forces which could have averted the incident. He urged journalist to investigate the on-going war in Syria to connect the dots and uncover the whole game plan.

 The director of the Afro-Egyptian Center, stressed Africans must rekindle and fortify Pan African ideologies, stop competition among themselves in order to compete with Western powers.

 He also noted that countries which were under looked by the West, such as China, India, Brazil and South Africa have formed a block with Russia and are coming up with a bank that would compete with the World Bank – currently used by the West to control nations.

 He urged African countries to equally create a unified block, as attempted in the past when Nkwame Nkruma and Patrice Lumumba were fighting for the freedom of their countries from western stranglehold.

 He re-echoed the words of the chairman of the northern Africa regional trade and marketing block, Cherif Al Khoreibi who had earlier drilled journalists on effectiveness of Afro-Arabic economic conferences in regional cooperation and development.

 He cautioned the young African journalists to read between the lines when getting information from western media.

To Khoreibi, “information is the most dangerous weapon, more dangerous than nuclear weapons.”

 The course, running from November 28 to December 17, is being attended by journalists from some 20 African countries, including, Cameroon, Nigeria, Namibia, Uganda, South Africa, Sudan, Chad, Congo, Ivory Coast, Egypt, Ethiopia, Congo Brazzaville, Lesotho, Zambia, Zimbabwe, DR Congo, among others.

UEFA Champions League Group stage and Statistics

 UEFA Champions League

Group stage

• Group detail:

• A
• B
• C
• D
• E
• F
• G
• H

Group A

Clubs	P	W	D	L	F	A	+/-	Pts
Real Madrid CF	6	5	1	0	19	3	16	16
Paris Saint-Germain	6	4	1	1	12	1	11	13
FC Shakhtar Donetsk	6	1	0	5	7	14	-7	3
Malmö FF	6	1	0	5	1	21	-20	3

Group details

Group B

Clubs	P	W	D	L	F	A	+/-	Pts
VfL Wolfsburg	6	4	0	2	9	6	3	12
PSV Eindhoven	6	3	1	2	8	7	1	10
Manchester United FC	6	2	2	2	7	7	0	8
PFC CSKA Moskva	6	1	1	4	5	9	-4	4

Group details

Group C

Clubs	P	W	D	L	F	A	+/-	Pts
Club Atlético de Madrid	6	4	1	1	11	3	8	13
SL Benfica	6	3	1	2	10	8	2	10
Galatasaray AŞ	6	1	2	3	6	10	-4	5
FC Astana	6	0	4	2	5	11	-6	4

Group details

Group D

Clubs	P	W	D	L	F	A	+/-	Pts
Manchester City FC	6	4	0	2	12	8	4	12
Juventus	6	3	2	1	6	3	3	11
Sevilla FC	6	2	0	4	8	11	-3	6
VfL Borussia Mönchengladbach	6	1	2	3	8	12	-4	5

Group details

Group E

Clubs	P	W	D	L	F	A	+/-	Pts
FC Barcelona	6	4	2	0	15	4	11	14
AS Roma	6	1	3	2	11	16	-5	6
Bayer 04 Leverkusen	6	1	3	2	13	12	1	6
FC BATE Borisov	6	1	2	3	5	12	-7	5

Group details

Group F

Clubs	P	W	D	L	F	A	+/-	Pts
FC Bayern München	6	5	0	1	19	3	16	15
Arsenal FC	6	3	0	3	12	10	2	9
Olympiacos FC	6	3	0	3	6	13	-7	9
GNK Dinamo Zagreb	6	1	0	5	3	14	-11	3

Group details

Group G

Clubs	P	W	D	L	F	A	+/-	Pts
Chelsea FC	6	4	1	1	13	3	10	13
FC Dynamo Kyiv	6	3	2	1	8	4	4	11
FC Porto	6	3	1	2	9	8	1	10
Maccabi Tel-Aviv FC	6	0	0	6	1	16	-15	0

Group details

Group H

Clubs	P	W	D	L	F	A	+/-	Pts
FC Zenit	6	5	0	1	13	6	7	15
KAA Gent	6	3	1	2	8	7	1	10
Valencia CF	6	2	0	4	5	9	-4	6
Olympique Lyonnais	6	1	1	4