Football in Africa
Football in Africa can be describe as lively hood to many passionate supporters of the sport . The passion is shared from Tunisia in the north to Nigeria in the West.You'll know when an important football match is being played in Africa the nation you are in will literally come to a standstill. Everywhere you go in Africa you'll see young boys kicking around a football. Sometimes the balls will be made of plastic bags with string wrapped around it, sometimes it will be made of crumpled up paper. As long as it can be kicked, there will be a game. Nigeria the game is the number one sport and its reaches to over boundaries of religion , culture and tribes. It's the one thing that unites the nation at a given time ,and this is so across Africa.
African football is developing with the majority of the national players have European clubs sides player such Didier Drogba, Obafemi Martins, Micheal Essien ,Samuel Eto Geremi " and some countries have taken up well established coaches like "Henri Micheal For Tunisia" . It not surprising the success they gain in the World Biggest Footballing competition "World Cup" , but also gained the prestige of Hosting the Competition in 2010.BBC
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When it suits them the United States and other western powers have raised their concerns about the legitimacy of an election in a developing country. In Nigeria, however, despite widespread reports of ballot box stuffing, under-age voting and 100 percent returns from some areas for the incumbent president, barely a murmur can be heard.
In a short statement, the US government states, “Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on April 22 declared President Olusegun Obasanjo the victor in last Saturday’s presidential election” and “congratulates the overwhelming majority of the Nigerian people for what was a peaceful exercise of their right to vote in many parts of the country”. It merely calls for all complaints to be taken to “competent tribunals” to be considered “in a timely, impartial and transparent manner.”
The New York Times initially labelled the elections as “botched”, described some of the “irregularities” and said that Nigeria could not “afford to ignore charges of regional disenfranchisement.” It has since dutifully toned down its criticisms, with an article on April 27 entitled “Nigeria Holds a ‘Credible’ Election. Is That Enough?” The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ran an editorial headlined “Impressive but imperfect/Despite fraud allegations, Nigerian election is progress” while the Christian Science Monitor commented that “given Nigeria’s long history of military rule and rampant corruption, these elections were a relative success for civilian control of the country and for attempts to prevent voting fraud.”
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