Lionel Messi signs a two-year contract extension with Barcelona

Lionel Messi has signed a two-year contract extension with Barcelona which will tie him to the Spanish club until June 2018. The Argentina international, 25, enjoyed a record-breaking year for club and country, scoring 91 goals in 2012.

Messi signed a new deal on Thursday afternoon and follows Carles Puyol and Xavi, who both signed their extensions last month. Defender Puyol and midfielder Xavi agreed new deals until 2016.

A statement on the Barcelona website said: "This afternoon Leo Messi extended his contract with FC Barcelona through June 30 of 2018.

"The signing ceremony was attended by the player, president Sandro Rosell, vice-president Josep Maria Bartomeu and the director of football Andoni Zubizarreta.

"Messi added two additional years to his existing contract, which was set to expire in June of 2016.

"The player, who joined the club when he was 13 years old and made his first-team debut three years later, will be 31 when his contract expires." Barcelona are top of La Liga with a nine-point cushion over nearest rivals Atletico Madrid. They are away to AC Milan in the last 16 of the Champions League on 20 February.

Messi has been in the best goal-scoring form of his career and surpassed Gerd Mueller's 40-year-old record of 85 goals scored in a calendar year with a brace in a 2-1 win over Real Betis on 9 December.

Messi had agreed the contract at the end of last year but has only just signed it.

He has scored eight times in Barcelona's first five La Liga matches of the calendar year, including four against Osasuna in a 5-1 win on 27 January.

Last month he was awarded the Ballon d'Or for a fourth year running ahead of Barcelona team-mate Andres Iniesta and Cristiano Ronaldo of Real Madrid.

Source: BBC

He is soooo humble! 

Reps suspend Jamb’s E-Test, summon Education Minister

The Minister of Education, Professor Rukayyatu Rufai  was  summoned by the House of Representatives over the planned conduct of computer based test for the 2013 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) by the Joint Admission Matriculation and Examination Board (JAMB).

Prof. Rufai’s led Ministry of Education was directed to suspend the computer-based test planned for April this year and revert back to the use of old existing centres and the new secondary schools constructed by various arms of government.

Reason is: to give more time to equip these schools with necessary infrastructure to conduct computer test.

The motion was sponsored by Hon. Ali Madaki, from Kano State.

Rukayyatu is expected to appear before the House Committee on Education, alongside the JAMB Registrar in other to explain the “reason behind the policy somersault that led to change in takes off of the policy from 2015 to 2013; the law that empowers JAMB to contract out the conduct of examination to private firms? And who the firms are.”

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Happy Birthday to Omosexy!!!

 

*Singing Isn't she lovely!* Happy Birthday to Omosexy! Wishing you the best dear * blowing kisses* Muah! 

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WISCAR (Women In Successful Career) is 5!!!

 

Wiscar is 5 years old! WISCAR runs the WIN with WISCAR Mentoring Programme!

Over the last 5 years Wiscar has made significant growth by so far mentoring 68 young professional women, through the intensive 12 month structured WIN with WISCAR programme! 

Beyond this group of specially trained and nutured WISCAR mentees, WISCAR has assisted and  helped to develop over 3,000 young and aspiring women through it's high-quality training programmes put together by the WISCAR School of Excellence and HBC Series, which provides structured competency based development career seminars carefully designed to enhance strong leadership skills, build individual capacity for personal mastery and overall workplace effectiveness.

A New Political Party Is Born In Nigeria! APC is the name!

After the endorsement this new baby (Political Party) received from 10 opposition governors, Four leading opposition parties merged into the All progressives Congress (APC).

The merging parties are: the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) and All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA).

The Chairman of the ACN Merging Committee, Chief Tom Ikimi said that the merger became necessary to offer Nigerians hope and peace.

The Governor of Zamfara State, Alhaji Abdulazziz Abubakar Yari while responding to a question on whether the merger talk is about unseating the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), said it is about how to re-direct Nigeria unto the right perspectives.

 

He added that it is a question of asking if the people have been happy since 1999 till date when the PDP has been in power. “If the contrary has been the case then the leaders are duty bound to drive the people aright.”

“We believe that the PDP has not done enough.  We have the idea, the knowledge and the progressive intention to move the country forward. So, if you say that we are going to move PDP out of power, yes we are ready to do that, God willing”, Governor Yari emphasized.

Okay o!  It's like they have it all planned, the party has a name and everything...Abeg my people what's una take on this?

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