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Veteran Actresses Onyeka Owenu And Patience Ozokwor Fight Dirty
Jonathan’s recent bid for the presidency is the brawl between the singer, broadcaster, actor and Director General, National Women Centre, Onyeka Onwenu and popular actor, Patience Ozokwor. According toThisday,Onwenu had made it her business to have a majority of the creative population in Nigeria channel their request to see Jonathan and/or participate in his campaign.
For an actor or musician to go around Onwenu to see Jonathan, his/her connection in Aso Rock Villa had to be very strong. So Onyeka was allegedly miffed when Ozokwor managed to get attention from Aso Rock on her steam. Try as she did to issue an order that Ozokwor should revert to her, it just didn’t work. Ozokwor must have summoned extraneous powers from the ‘evil’ role she frequently plays in Nollywood to keep Onyeka off her track.
The fracas between the two Igbo women was not unconnected with who should control disbursement of the Jonathan campaign fund to a group of certain artistes. At one of the meetings, the centre just couldn’t hold any more and things fell apart. Onwenu and Ozokwor allegedly openly abused themselves and called each othernames. It took the intervention of Dame Patience Jonathan to calm the fighting women. They simply respected her but have continued to trade tirade at every opportunity.
At C.O.D United, it is ladies first
Having recorded huge success with the men’s team at academy and professional level, the management of the club decided to do something about it and so the C.O.D United Ladies, football team, also known as the amazons, was set up.
Fast forward 2 years and the club has blazed a trail of glory that has now culminated in the club securing promotion to the top echelon of Nigeria female football, the Nigerian women’s premier league, a laudable feat achieved with the club’s customary adherence to its ethos of DIET; Discipline, Integrity, Excellence and Teamwork and the first by any team in the C.O.D United football structure. Their promotion is all the more remarkable when one remembers that they have now won back to back promotions in just two seasons of playing as a team. Speaking on the vision that has propelled the club so far in such a short time frame, the club’s chief executive, Shola Opaleye said it is all down to the power of vision. “Like the male team and our academy, when we conceived the female team,” he starts, “we were always intent on making an impact but in the right way. We were not just looking to make an impact in terms of winning, we were actually looking to make an impact in terms of structure and how we set up the team in such a way that results and success will only be a reflection of the quality of our work. That was why we hired someone like Anne Chiejene as our coach. Apart from her wealth of experience as a coach, we also considered the fact that she always carried and conducted herself in a professional manner.”
The victory over FC Robo is even more satisfying because the C.O.D Ladies lost to the same team in last year’s final. With the victory, C.O.D United also became the first club to win both the male and female Lagos State F.A Cup. It also strengthens C.O.D United’s dominance of football in Lagos as one of its teams has played in the Lagos F.A Cup final in four out of the last five editions, something that makes Sola Aiyepeku, an Executive Director of the club very proud. “Lagos has a very competitive football space and to have our teams in 4 of the last 5 F.A Cup finals is no mean feat. There are many strong teams, male and female and as you know, the F.A Cup is the biggest competition there is in the state.
Teams come into it with a strong determination to do well and we have to match and surpass that. It is something to be proud of. In the 4 finals we have made, we have won 2 and lost the 2 by very close margins and all have been against our closest rivals. What we want to do next is to hold both titles simultaneously and then go and have a real go at the Federations Cup. We know that our dominance is something other clubs will be eager to upturn so we will prepare even harder for next year. We look forward to the increased competition and we will be ready. For their efforts and their achievement of the promotion dream of C.O.D United Football Club, members of the ladies team were treated to a reception by the City of David Church, Victoria Island. Addressing the team, Pastor Idowu Iluyomade, C.O.D United’s number one fan and a firm believer in the impact football can make on young people in the society advised the girls not to rest on their oars but to see their achievement as the start of another journey. “What you have achieved is remarkable and we are proud of you.
We are happy that you have conducted yourself as good girls and represented our club with real dignity. Remember however that the real journey starts now. Achieving success is not the be all, end all. Sustaining it is the real test and I trust you to pass that test. I completely believe in you and I know you won’t let us down. The hard work to stay at the top begins now.” Anne Chiejiene, the chief coach of the team is also proud of her players and says it is the discipline that the girls have shown that thrills her the most. “I always tell my players that while talent is good, discipline is what will make them become successful and they are taking those lessons in. They listen to instructions and take advice.
They work very hard and they are ambitious. They realize they have a big opportunity by playing for a club that wants them to become good footballers but more importantly, great women who can also function and contribute to society off the pitch. The support of the management has been unbelievable as well and I hope other club owners and administrators can learn from it. The women’s game needs people who truly respect the girls and support them the way our management has done. I have been here and there and I see the difference in the level of support that we enjoy. It is a major difference and the girls see that and try to not fail them on the pitch. In all, I am just really happy to be part of something like this. I expect a few of these girls to go on and make a big impact in the women’s game at the senior level.
A few of them are already in the national teams and I am sure more will join. I have also told them that being called to the national team is a call to work harder and not relent. If your performances drop, you won’t be invited again. I have shared my experiences with them and hopefully, they will continue to listen. With the support that we have, I believe this team can make an unforgettable impact in female football. I am very excited about the future.” With so much success achieved on and off the pitch, it is perhaps apt to say that at C.O.D United, it is truly ladies first.
Remember the 2 sisters I told y'all about yesterday? They are now in Kirikiri
Yesterday, I told y'all about two sisters who were charged to court for fighting a woman. Read here. Well, those sisters are now in Kirikiri and will be there until at least Monday. Their father wasn't able to meet their bail conditions yesterday, which included four sureties (plus himself) in person. He had the N40k bail money but not the sureties. Below is a full account of what happened – told by the sisters and their father and written by a family friend. Read below...
Chienyenwa was dozing on a chair owned by Mummy Ada. The owner of the chair, Mummy Ada, went to her and pulled the chair from under her and warned her never to sit on her chair again. Chienyenwa fell down and after getting up challenged the lady and asked her why she pulled the chair when she could have simply asked her to get up. Mummy Ada, incensed that Chienyenwa talked back at her, held her by the neck of her shirt and slapped her. Chienyenwa immediately retaliated and slapped her back and fight ensued.
Mummy Ada got a black eye in the fight while Chienyenwa had her shirt and bra torn from her body. When one of the neighbors came out to separate them, Chienyenwa quickly ran inside to cover up and her father/younger sister rushed outside to see/ask what was happening. Upon seeing the father, Mummy Ada, jumped on him and accused him of sending his daughter to beat her up. She then picked up a broom and started flogging him with it. The man fenced off the blows asking her to calm down and explain what happened. The woman (probably frustrated that her blows were not making any impact) changed tacticsand tried to strip the man naked. She succeeded in pulling the man’s short knickers down before the man even knew what she was about.The younger daughter seeing that her father was near naked, joined the fight and tried to strip the woman naked too and threatened to break a bottle on her. Luckily the woman had leggings/tights on.After neighbors separated the fight, both parties went their way. Mummy Ada started threatening fire and brimstone. That she would deal with them and makes sure they rot in jail for ganging up on her.She partly made true her threats as before you knew it, policemen had arrived and taken the 2 daughters away to Ogudu Police Station. The father got their on his own to release the girls and was told that the officer in charge of the matter was not around and they had express orders that bail was not to be granted to the girls until the officer arrived.The girls slept at the Station that night. The following day, the father didn’t attend work and went to station to see about bailing his daughters. He eventually bailed them after paying about NGN 11, 500. The police then asked him and his daughters to remain available as the case was still ongoing.The father, not wanting the case to get worse, met elders and askedthem to beg the woman and her husband on his family’s behalf. I guess they didn’t accept the plea because the police called and invited the man and his daughters to the police station today and served them court papers. They were handcuffed and told to produce bail of N40k so the case would be adjourned – failure of which they would be transferred to Kirikiri.Last update is that they have now been taken to a court at Alausa, Ikeja.A bit of history: Being neighbors (Mummy Ada has a shop in the same compound where the girls live), there have been no love lost between the two parties; Mummy Ada would accuse them on not greeting her and spreading rumors about her and the sisters in turn would accuse Mummy Ada of spreading rumors about them too and calling them foul names and other provocative behavior, For example, they said Mummy Ada would start singing provocative/mocking songs whenever she saw them and would always find something funny whenever they were passing.Having said this and while I totally abhor disrespect and any form of physical fighting, I believe respect should be reciprocal regardless of age.This was a clear case of two people fighting. Unfortunately the lady who hit first (started the fight) is now playing victim because she has more resources to do this.Please if anyone has a different version of the story or if you know the second party, let us hear it.You don’t lock 2 young sisters up in Kirikiri from Friday – Monday just because you can. Haba! What did they do? When did a civil case turn criminal? From Ogudu Police Station, to Ogudu court, to Special task Force Alausa, to Kirikiri in handcuffs..
And the instigator is flaunting about, beating her chest and boasting ‘‘yes! I said it, i have locked them up!’’I’m appalled at our Judiciary system and Police Force. Apologies to the honest and hardworking ones but this is the sad truth. A policemen in Ogudu even had the guts to ask the father ‘how much you give me?’Mummy Ada: Laugh all you want now, but Karma will surely catch up with you. Pray you don't see problems that all the money in this world cannot/will not solve. You have falsely accused these girls, paraded false evidence, didn’t give them opportunity to defend themselves and paid your way to getting them locked up. No forget say you get children too o. Same measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over you will receive. This is not a curse. It is a promise and if you don't repent, you will get what’s coming to you as surely as God lives..
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