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Borrusia Dortmund’s Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has won the 2015 African player of the year award. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang named African player of the year 2015  The Gabon front man beat off competition from Manchester City’s Yaya Toure and Swansea City’s Andre Ayew who had excellent years of their own. Aubameyang has been one of Europa’s deadliest strikers this season scoring twenty seven goals in twenty seven games in all competitions. Yaya Toure was named second best player while Andre Ayew was named thrid best player. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang becomes the first player from the German league to be crowned African footballer of the Year. Aubameyang collects his 2015 CAF player of the year award Other awards won: The national team of the year  – Cote D’Ivoire The Women’s national team of the year  – Cameroon Fair play award  – Allez Casa of Senegal Club of the year  – TP Mazembe Most promising talent  – Etebo Oghenakoro (Nigeria) Youth player o

The first FIFA rankings for the year 2015 has been released with the Super Eagles of Nigeria retaining their position but wouldn’t be too happy the likes of UAE and Uganda went above them. Super Eagles  The Super Eagles are still in 66th position but have dropped places in the African rankings. The team is ranked 14th in Africa and 66th in the world while the women’s team; the Super Falcons are ranked 37th in the world and first in Africa. The Super Eagles did not play any match in December which was the basis for the latest rankings. Sunday Oliseh’s boys play Niger on 18th of January, 2016 in their next match which is a friendly to be contested in Nigeria.

All is getting set for the Glo-CAF awards 2015 which which be held in Abuja, Nigeria.  A number of stars have announced their arrival in Nigeria. The likes of Player of the Year nominees Andre Ayew and Pierre Emerick Aubameyang have arrived Nigeria’s capitals, Abuja where the awards will be held. Andre Ayew arrives for the Glo-CAF awards The 2015 Glo-CAF awards will be held at the International Conference Centre, Abuja, Nigeria on Thursday from 7pm. Korede Bello at the Glo-CAF awards rehearsals Nigeria’s U-23 team, which won the 2nd Africa U-23 Cup of Nations in Senegal last month, in the process qualifying for this year’s Olympics football tournament in Rio de Janeiro, is nominated in the category of ‘National Team of the Year’. Also nominated in the category is the victorious U-17 Golden Eaglets team that won the 2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup in Chile. Azubuike Okechukwu, who captained the Nigeria U-23 to glory in Senegal and was selected the Most Valuable Player, i

It has been understood that the Chelsea and Ivory Coast legend Didier Drogba has agreed in principle to retire from football and work in a coaching capacity at his old club. Chelsea interim manager Guus Hiddink and Didier Drogba look on during the Barclays Premier League match between Chelsea and Sunderland at Stamford Bridge on December 19, 2015 in London, England.  The French newspaper L’Equipe reports that the hitman who plays for Montreal Impact in the MLS will retire to help Chelsea at a critical time of their history when confidence is at an all time low. Drogba has, however, since tweeted:  “Lovely to receive these messages but I have not yet announced my retirement & am still in discussion with @impactmontreal about my future.” Drogba left Stamford Bridge for a second time last summer and spent the last six months of his career at Major League Soccer side Montreal Impact. Drogba was in attendance alongside interim manager Guus Hiddink when Chelsea beat S

Rafa Benitez has released a statement following his sacking as Real Madrid coach by Florentino Perez on Monday, January 4.   The coach did not attack anyone in his message but was utterly grateful for the chance afforded to coach the team. Rafa Benitez has wished the vclub all the best in his farewell message In a statement released on his official website, rafabenitez.com, he also wish the man who replaced him; Zinedane Zidane the best as he coaches the most expensively assembled team in football. The statement reads thus:  “Now, at the end of my time as first team coach of Real Madrid,I would like to use this article to say goodbye to everyone at every level of the club. “I want everyone at the club from the Board of directors, executives, workers and all of the fans, know that it has been an honour and privilege to be in charge at this club were I grew up as a person, player and coach from the lowest categories through to the first team. “As a madridista from Ma

New Real Madrid coach, Zinedine Zidane has stated that fans should not compare him with Guardiola. The three-time world footballer of the year won the European cup in 2002, a feat which Guardiola achieved in 1992. Zinedine Zidane Zidane, who apparently was notified before he succeeded Benitez disclosed that he will do his very best for the club. “You can’t compare me with Guardiola. I’ll try to do the best possible job, but Guardiola is a wonderful coach and what he is doing is amazing,”  said Zidane. “But I won’t compare myself, I never did that as a player and won’t do it as a coach. “I’m going to do everything possible so that me and this team work together well. “Winning is key at this club.”   It would be recalled that  Rafa Benitez was sacked by Real Madrid  and Zinedine Zidane named as his replacement. Florentino Perez who is the owner of Los Blancos is said to be displeased with the recent poor form of the club as they have now slipped to third and

i China Radio Telescope (Image Courtesy www.earthsky.org) The Chinese National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, with funding from China’s National Development & Reform Commission (NDRC), is building the world’s largest radio telescope known as FAST, or Five-Hundred-Meter Aperture Spherical Telescope. The project is expected to be complete in 2016. The Chinese are building yet another massive construction project, this time, a scientific instrument that will be used to detect radio signals from outer space. According to scientists working on the project, FAST will be capable of detecting radio signals from tens of billions of light-years away. According to Nan Rendong, FAST’s chief scientist, “a radio telescope is like a sensitive ear, listening to tell meaningful radio messages from white noise in the universe. It is like identifying the sound of two Cadiz in a thunderstorm.” FAST is being built in a large depression with a diameter