** The Nigerian government will soon make pronouncements on salary addition for civil servants. The government is considering a raise due to the rising cost of living caused by inflation. Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige addressed reporters at the State House in Abuja on Tuesday. Ngige announced that a Presidential Committee on Salaries had embarked on a review of current pay. The advisory group is expected to come up with salary adjustments early next year. The committee is working with the National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission. The minister further confirmed that the team is chaired by the Finance Ministry. “I am the co-chair to look at the demands of the workers. Discussions on evaluation are ongoing. “As we enter the new year, the government will make some
**The presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Rabiu Kwankwaso has taken a veiled dig at some of his colleagues in the 2023 presidential race. Kwankwaso while describing himself as the most qualified to take over after President Muhammadu Buhari also highlighted characteristics that distinguish him from other contestants. The former Kano State Governor in a video trending on Twitter was captured saying during a radio interview programme that he is not a secondary school certificate holder or a diploma certificate holder. Not done, he went further to say he doesn’t bed wet neither is he a spare tyre. The bed wet comment is believed to be targeted at the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Bola Tinubu whose video of a soaked cloth emerged back in February during a public outing at the palace of Awujale of Ijebuland, raising concerns about the health condition of the former Lagos State Governor. The other comment about not being a spare tyre is also believed to be a mockery of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Atiku Abubakar who is a former Vice President – a position understood to be subject to delegated authority from the President.
**The Independent National Electoral Commission INEC has said one-year imprisonment or a fine of N500,000 awaits anyone found guilty of buying votes during the 2023 elections. The INEC Commissioner in Jigawa State, Professor Muhammad Lawal Bashar said this in an interview with newsmen. The Commissioner said the electoral commission is prepared to conduct all the elections with the BVAS machine to ensure free and fair elections. ”The machine will identify voters going to vote and those who have registered more than once will not be able to vote. Professor Muhammad said the Commission has received over one hundred and fifty-six permanent voter cards which are still under distribution until 22 January 2023. He advised those who have registered but have not collected their voter cards to do so before the closing date. The Commissioner added that the agency made a good plan that will allow the people with special needs, the elderly and pregnant women to vote easily.
**Ebonyi State, Governor David Umahi on Tuesday ordered the immediate arrest of the state chairman of All Progressives Congress, APC, Stanley Okoro Emegha, over alleged murder and razing of houses at Ekoli Edda community in Afikpo South Local Government Area. Umahi also ordered the immediate arrest of the APC House of Representatives candidate, Chief Eni Uduma Chima, who is contesting for Afikpo North/Afikpo South Federal Constituency in the national assembly. The governor issued the directive during an on-the-spot assessment of the level of damages in the area, wherein three persons (3) were shot dead by gunmen and razed houses in Ekoli Edda community. It was gathered that the duo was fingered to have hands in the recent alleged killing, destruction of properties worth millions of naria and Youths unrest that is rocking the Ekoli Edda community. The governor, in a statement signed and made available to Journalists through the Special Assistant on Media and Strategy, Chooks Oko further stressed that: “Governor David Umahi directed the immediate arrest and prosecution of the State APC Chairman, Chief Stanley Emegha and Candidate for for their roles in the murder of three persons in Ekoli Edda,” he stated. Umahi, however, directed the Commissioner of Police, Aliyu Garba to arrest all those connected with the carnage and ensure they face justice. The Governor also announced the immediate suspension of all social gatherings in Ekoli Edda until normalcy returns, and further urged the Commissioner of Police to saturate the area with security presence to forestall further breakdown of law and order.
**A former Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) national publicity secretary, Olisa Metuh has berated billionaire business man, Arthur Eze over his comment on Peter Obi. Recall that Eze, during the 2022 Ofala festival of HRH Igwe (Dr.) Robert Eze, the traditional ruler of Ukpo in Dunukofia local government area of Anambra State, announced that he told Obi to drop his presidential bid but he refused to listen. Reacting to Eze’s statement on Obi’s candidacy, Metuh took to Facebook to berate the billionaire. Metuh warned Eze to stay away from making political statement that might stir up the public. The former PDP stalwart went on to give a brief history of the trials he faced in his political journey. According to him, he was rejected by all the influential Anambra politicians in 2008, yet won his election as National Vice-Chairman of my the PDP. He revealed that the same situation repeated itself in 2012 and he once again emerged victorious as the National Publicity Secretary in the 2013 repeat convention.
**As Nigerians await the decision of the Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State-led G5 governors on the choice of a presidential candidate, former Senator Shehu Sani has suggested who they should support. Sani suggested that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governors should endorse the “devil” they know. The Wike-led group are against the PDP’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar over the zoning pattern in the party. The group, which has refused to campaign for Atiku, said the North can’t produce the Presidential flagbearer and the National Chairman. The G-5 group comprising governors from Benue, Oyo, Enugu, Abia, and Rivers State, demanded the resignation of Iyorchia Ayu as PDP National Chairman. Wike, who became aggrieved after losing to Atiku, said the G-5 wants the position of the party’s National Chairman zoned to the Southern part of the country. However, Sani in a tweet wrote: “G-5 Governors should endorse ‘the devil’ they know and not otherwise. “The nation is blessed with Presidential candidates with democratic credentials and history of tolerance to political criticism, political opposition and political dissent. We don’t need an autocrat allergic and hostile to different opinion.”
**The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Saturday announced new dates for the 2023 elections. The National Chairman of the commission, Professor Mahmood Yakubu made this known at a news conference in Abuja. According to him, the Presidential and National Assembly elections will now hold on Saturday, February 25, 2023. Governorship and state houses of assembly elections will hold on March 11, 2023.
**The Labour Party, LP, has appointed former Political Adviser to President Olusegun Obasanjo, Akin Osuntokun as the new Director General of its Presidential Campaign. This was confirmed by the party’s National Chairman, Julius Abure, in Abuja, on Tuesday. According to Abure, the decision was reached after comprehensive consultations with party stakeholders across board. Osuntokun will now replace Doyin Okupe who resigned from the position last week. Okupe stepped down from the position following a federal high court judgment which convicted him of money laundering. The court sentenced him to two years imprisonment but with an option to pay a N500,000 fine on each count, totalling N13 million. Okupe opted to pay the fine after the sentencing.
**Justice Inyang Eden Ekwo of the Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the Nigerian Immigration Service, NIS, to immediately release the international passport of former Rivers State governor, Dr Peter Odili which was unlawfully seized from him in July this year. The judge held that the action of Immigration was not only unlawful but illegal, unconstitutional and ultra vires. Justice Ekwo in the judgment in a suit filed by Odili to challenge the seizure of the passport upheld the submission of his counsel, Chief Ifedayo Adedipe SAN that the Immigration and its Comptroller General lacked the constitutional powers to do what they did. The reason adduced by Immigration that Odili’s passport was impounded because he was on the watchlist of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to justify the passport seizure was rejected by the court on the ground that such use of power is not known to any law in the country. Justice Ekwo noted that the federal high court judgment of March 5, 2008 in which an order of perpetual injunction was granted against EFCC, prohibiting the anti-graft agency from investigating Odili on the activities of Rivers State government between 1999 and 2007 when he held sway as the executive governor. The Judge held that until the order is voided and set aside by a competent court of records, the order remains binding on EFCC, its operatives and agents. With the existing valid order of 2008, the Judge said that the Immigration lacked validity on what it did and that its action is contemptuous and should not be allowed to stand.
**Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi has expressed optimism that politicians who are planning to rig the 2023 election will fail. The governor spoke on Sunday when he received the members of the Bauchi State Christian Community for Christmas homage in Bauchi. Governor Bala described President Muhammadu Buhari as a just man, stressing that the president would fulfil his promises to ensure free and fair polls. He urged Nigerians to have confidence in the president and ignore those he described as doubting Thomases. “There are people who buy votes, and there are those planning to rig the election using federal might but I know President Buhari is just, and he has already assured us that he would allow the people to elect whom they want. Let us not mind all these doubting Thomases. We must be able to come together, to stick together,” he said.
**Labour Party (LP) chieftain, Doyin Okupe insists presidential candidate, Peter Obi, will win the 2023 election. The politician made an analysis on Tuesday in response to ThisDay Election Centre Projections. Okupe said the projections were “false, bogus and do not represent the actual situation on ground across the nation”. The former presidential aide declared that they were “essentially aimed at misinforming the public”. Okupe said the calculations ignored many important electoral parameters that have operated in Nigeria’s polity for over six decades. “Without any doubt, PO will score 25% in no less than 24/25 states including Taraba, Adamawa and Gombe, and will lead all the other 3 numerically. “He is the candidate to beat. Peter Obi will win and lead massively in the SE (South-East) averagely (70%) including all states in the SS (South-South). “In the SW (South-West), PO will score minimum of 40% in Lagos. 25% in Ogun, Oyo, Ekiti and Ondo. “Osun 15% min. NW (North-West) 40% min in Kaduna, and no less than 10% of all the other 6 states, mainly because of Igbo residents”, he tweeted. Okupe, a former Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), was until recently the Director General of Peter Obi/Yusuf Baba-Ahmed Campaign.
**Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has urged Nigerians to vote for the Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate, Peter Obi, in 2023. Ortom said Obi is the best person that can help deliver Nigeria from its challenges, He spoke while commending Obi for visiting camps of the Internally Displaced People, IDPs, in the State on Christmas day. Speaking in Makurdi, the governor prayed that God would bless Obi’s presidential ambition. According to Ortom: “Several presidential candidates have come here, and none of them have chosen to visit those IDPs camps and look at their plight to see how they are doing and give them hope that when they win, they will bring them succour, help, and hope. “For you to have chosen to visit the IDPs on a Christmas day that you should be celebrating with your family, for me as a Christian, I say God will bless you and your aspirations. My prayer is that God will bless your aspiration to be the president of this country. “Because I have seen capacity, faith, and hope, and I have seen someone who can bring the required equity, justice, and fairness that I have been pursuing since I became governor in 2015. If I were not in PDP, I would have been following you all over the place to canvass and vote for you. “But, because I’m in PDP, I’m telling Nigerians that this man can help deliver this country from its challenges.”
**Former Governor of Osun State, Rauf Aregbesola has attacked his political ally and leader, Ahmed Bola Tinubu, over who becomes the next governor of the state. Aregbesola, who is the current Minister of Interior, spoke in Ijebu Ijesa while addressing the All Progressives Congress, APC, faithful and stakeholders ahead of the party’s governorship primary. Aregbesola, while addressing the crowd, described the incumbent Governor and his successor, Gboyega Oyetola, as the most “useless and corrupt governor in the history of the state.” The minister said categorically that Oyetola would not be allowed to return for a second term in office the same way former Lagos Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, was treated in 2019. Although Aregbesola did not directly mention Tinubu’s name, he launched some verbal attacks at the APC National Leader in relation to the political situation in Osun. He said that Tinubu abused his leadership and suddenly assumed the god complex. “We followed and served this leader with all our might. In fact, our loyalty to him had caused some people to start wondering if we were no longer Muslims,” he said. “But we were with him and served him according to the admonition of our forefathers, who said when serving anyone, we should do so with sincerity and loyalty; that if you regard anyone as your principal, you must serve him wholeheartedly. “Sadly, we didn’t know that while we wished him well, he didn’t think good of us “However, because we placed him higher than where he ordinarily should be, he started to think he is our god. “Unfortunately, for him, we had sworn to God that whoever compares himself to him, we’d beg Him to bring down such a fellow.”
**On the Eve of Christmas, Bishop Mathew Hassan Kukah, has taken it upon himself to narrate the challenges affecting the country in general and the Christian community in specific. The religious cleric narrated how the tragic mobbing of Deborah Samuel, a student of Shehu Shagari College of Education in Sokoto State, for alleged blasphemy led to the destruction of his church and vehicles parked in the church premises. The Bishop of Sokoto Catholic Diocese who had an interview with Arise TV on Monday stated that after Deborah Samuel was mobbed to death by aggrieved youths, his cathedral was attacked. He said, ”It was a dreadful incident in Sokoto State. The glasses classes of our cathedral were broken, our vehicles were destroyed, our Pastoral center were destroyed, and one of our churches was destroyed after Deborah’s death. For what? We didn’t do anything and we didn’t say anything to anybody.”
**One of the The labour party presidential campaign spokespersons, Nana Sani Kazaure has replied those asking why the labour party presidential aspirant, Peter Gregory Obi is yet to visit and also show support to the victims of Kaduna terrorists invasion. It is no Longer news that some communities in Kaduna state were recently invavded by terrorists which led to a Massacre. Report shows that over forty (40) residents lost their lives during the invasion. However, there is been mixed reactions as to why the labour party presidential aspirant is yet to pay a courtesy visit to the people who lost their loved ones and properties during the cause. Reacting , Kazaure said , the former governor of Anambra state has done that. She said Peter obi has visited the state after the invasion but he did it without the attention of the media
**Troops of the Nigerian Army in Imo State have arrested a deserted soldier, Lance Corporal Nwagwu Chiwendu, who is the second-in-command of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) in the state. He was arrested at the burial of his father by troops in the state. Military sources said the deserted soldier confessed to killing of the northern politician Ahmed Gulak and attacks on military and Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) offices in the state. Gulak was killed on May 30, 2021, in Owerri, Imo State, on his way to the airport. A military signal accessed by LEADERSHIP showed that Chiwendu (13NA/70/9974) deserted the Nigerian Army and joined the Eastern Security Network (ESN), the armed wing of IPOB. He was of the Corps of Nigeria Army Engineering and became IPOB trainer on weapon handling. “Sir, this soldier deserted the Nigerian Army and joined ESN on January 21. He was their main trainer on weapon handling and rose to be the second to Temple who is now the leader of the group in Imo State,” the signal indicated. According to sources, the deserted soldier served on “Operation Hadin Kai” (OPHK) and “thus have operational experience. He was arrested yesterday during the burial of his father at Mbaise. “He confessed to killing Gulak and confirmed that his camp is responsible for kidnapping two expatriates along Owerri-Okigwe Road and the killing of two police inspectors escorting them. They are the ones that also killed our soldier in the same location and the burning of our Hilux van last week. They equally participated in the attack on the INEC office in Owerri. He is currently with the police,” one of the sources said.
**Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka, Catholic Priest and Spiritual Director of Adoration Ministry, Enugu, has accused the Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodinma of organizing the killing of Imo State residents. Mbaka said although he does not support terrorism, he stands against killing and labeling innocent youths of the country as ‘terrorists’. He opined that the recent jail break in Imo State could be God’s way of releasing his people from prison. Mbaka also wondered why the killing of a top commander of the Eastern Security Network, ESN, Ikonso Don was being celebrated. The Cleric further warned the leaders to kill poverty, unemployment and insecurity, because God is angry with them, adding that those advising Uzodinma have killed him while he is still alive. ”I can never support terrorism, neither will I allow you to brand our children terrorists when they are not. If some people broke the prison in Owerri, if you caught them, arrest, interrogate them, it may be possible that no human being broke into that prison, it may be jailbreak from God. ”It happened in Acts of Apostle chapters 5. There was no jailbreak and nobody was arrested. God can set the prisoners free. ”For people to go around and kill our young men without trying them is evil. I’m just warning our Governors. Nigerians are dying like rats and nobody cares; God is angry with leaders, from Buhari to the last. You have failed God.” Hope Uzodinma who came here and put his hand on this altar and swore he will protect the lives of Imolites is now organizing the killing of Imolites and he wants me to keep quiet? ”I was keeping quiet until the blood of my brother was shed. Never! Whoever will support that will suffer. How Is it difficult for the military, police and DSS to arrest one person? What if the person you killed is innocent of what he is accused of? “You killed Ikonso and you are parading his body as if you have done anything. Go and kill poverty, unemployment, insecurity, you know how to kill, wicked people. God’s anger is on. No prophet will be spared if you keep quiet about what is happening in the country. If the leaders do not stop what is going on, it will stop them.” He urged Nigerians to stop misquoting him because he is just a messenger of God and maintained that Buhari does not call him and he does not call Buhari. ”They said I was the one that prayed for Hope Uzodinma. Hope Uzodinma was like a vision that came to me, how am I involved in it? The message from God just passed through me, I don’t know his political story. Till today someone (Uzodinma) who became Governor has not come to give thanks to God here. I know If he is receiving advice from this sanctuary he will not be messing up. Those advising Uzodinma has killed him while he is still alive.” Mbaka also prayed that God will bless IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu. According to him, it is not wrong for someone to have courage and say that his people are being maltreated. ”I want you to know that up till today, I don’t know who is Nnamdi Kanu, I have never seen him face to face but wherever he is may God bless him. It is not a bad thing if someone has risen up to shout that his brothers are suffering, May the lord bless his courage. ”What is happening in this country is heartbreaking, tears shedding, nerve-racking and mind-blowing. Can our security agent and leaders account for us, how many people have died under one week or month? Students being kidnapped from the university and there is a leadership. It is either they are involved in it or they should stop or what is happening will stop them. Buhari, Hope and those who want to fight me, remember there was a time God told me to support you people now God has told me to withdraw and prophesy against you,” he added.
**Amid the ongoing outrage that has greeted the most recent comments made by controversial Islamic Scholar, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi regarding how the next president should treat bandits in the north, renowned political analyst, Rufai Oseni has come out to share his thoughts on the issue. Recall that a few days ago, a video showing the moment the Kaduna-based cleric urged northerners not to vote for any presidential candidate who intends to hunt down and kill bandits in the forests in the upcoming elections, surfaced online. In the viral footage, Gumi referred to bandits/terrorists as “our warriors in the forest”. Amid the ongoing outrage that has greeted the most recent comments made by controversial Islamic Scholar, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi regarding how the next president should treat bandits in the north, renowned political analyst, Rufai Oseni has come out to share his thoughts on the issue. Recall that a few days ago, a video showing the moment the Kaduna-based cleric urged northerners not to vote for any presidential candidate who intends to hunt down and kill bandits in the forests in the upcoming elections, surfaced online. In the viral footage, Gumi referred to bandits/terrorists as “our warriors in the forest”. Reacting to the comments during a telephone interview on Voice Of the People (VOP) FM on Tuesday morning, Rufai Oseni lampooned the country’s secret police, the Department of State Services (DSS) for not arresting the controversial Islamic Scholar. According to the renowned political analyst, Gumi’s statement was tantamount to inciting the public against the Nigerian state. He said; “I hold the record for being one of the first people and journalists in this country that challenged Gumi on air. I asked him “Mr. Gumi, you were a captain in the army, why are you sowing the seed of discord in Nigeria?” he used to have a free ride with journalists until I challenged him in that interview on air, and they all sat up. I hope the DSS is listening to this. Because we are so hypocritical in this country. Gumi has said this for three days now and the DSS has not responded. If it was you and I that said that, by the next minute, we would have been picked up. That is why I keep saying that it is righteousness that exalts a nation. You can’t have a country where someone will say such a thing, people will just look at it, and the state security authorities will not act. But they are so quick to charge Emefiele for terrorism. Do you see the irony of the country we live in? They were so quick to go to court at the back to say that Emefiele should be arrested for terrorism before the court said there was no strong evidence against him. But Gumi has said something now, and we are yet to hear a single word from the DSS.”
**After a Nigerian Lawyer named Omobolanle Raheem was shot and killed by a Nigerian police officer on Sunday, 25th December, 2022, the news of the incident sparked a lot of outrage. A lot of celebrities and Nigerian citizens took to different social media platforms to call out the Nigerian Police Force and that Lagos State Government to look into the matter, which they are currently doing. A lot of people also remembered that a police officer from the same Ajiwe police division in Ajah that killed Mrs Bolanle also unlawfully killed another young man named Garafu Braimoh and began to demand for the name of the police officer to be made public. Garafu was killed on 6th December, 2022 while he was buying fuel and on the 25th of December, 2022 Bolanle was also killed. Below is a picture of late Garafu and Mrs Bolanle. In a recent tweet made by the Lagos State Police PRO, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, he finally revealed that identity of the police officer that killed Garafu Braimoh anz assured the public that he is still in custody. He, however, did not share the picture of the police officer, but assured the public that more updates will be released. According to the tweet, SP Hundeyin said, “The officer is Inspector Imeh Johnson and he is still under detention at the State Criminal Investigation Department. The Case is being concluded. Updates will be made available.”
**Bombardments from the Nigerian military have killed some terrorist kingpins in the northeast region. The terrorists had converged at a location with motorcycles and bicycles when a military strike smoked them out. Both air and ground troops in the region have sustained their clearance operations in the enclaves of the terrorists in recent times. Following an airstrike conducted by the Air Component of Operation Hadin Kai recently at Mantari in Gezuwa area of Bama Local Government Area of Borno state, several terrorists, including Khaids Abbah Tukur, Maimusari, Bakura Jega and others were eliminated. The information was received just as the Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Faruk Yahaya and the Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Oladayo Amao arrived in Maiduguri earlier on Sunday, December 25, to celebrate the yuletide with frontline troops. The air strike was authorised after it was discovered that a Boko Haram terrorist commander, simply known as Ikirima, had stationed his fighters and gun trucks at Mantari village. Ikirima, alongside other terrorists from other locations, had converged at the place with motorcycles and bicycles, according to a statement sent to Legit.ng by Air Commodore Edward Gabkwet, Nigerian Air Force spokesman. The statement noted. “Subsequently, the authorization for an air strike was given leading to the elimination of several of the terrorists and structures in the area. “After the first wave of air strikes, some surviving terrorists found their way back to the same location to evacuate the bodies of those neutralised in the air strike. “This thus provided an opportunity for a follow-up strike on the same location which has been confirmed very successful as over 100 terrorists were neutralised, with dozens said to be in critical condition. “There were also confirmed reports that ISWAP and Boko Haram elements had perfected plans to resume active hostilities in the wake of the yuletide and forthcoming general elections. “The timely intelligence received on their plans, especially their attempt to attack soft targets in Bama LGA thus helped in the successful air strikes which has reduced their will to regroup and attack innocent citizens. “There is no doubt that the progress and gains being made especially by the air and ground troops has greatly contained an upsurge of terrorists’ campaigns within the Northeast zone in recent times. “Both air and ground troops have however been cautioned on the need to remain focused on the end state.” Air Commodore Gabkwet said the COAS and CAS have both commended the efforts of the air and ground troops as well as other security agencies under Operation Hadin Kai for the tremendous achievements being recorded in the theatre. According to them, there has been a lot of improvement in the security situation in the region due to the ongoing operations. He stated that both Service Chiefs paid special tribute to those who have paid the supreme sacrifice in the fight against terrorism and insurgency while also praising the commitment and uncommon sacrifices of the troops
**Former Nigeria international, Austin ‘Jay Jay’ Okocha, has named Argentina legend Diego Maradone as the greatest player ever. Okocha stated this during his pre-match analysis for the second Round of 16 clash at the World Cup between Argentina and Australia. He was responding to the stat that showed Lionel Messi is yet to score in the knockout rounds of the competition. Okocha was asked if Messi’s failure to achieve the feat wouldn’t help him overtake Maradona. But he replied: “Maradona for me, is the greatest player in history. “Messi can try and match his record. “But Messi is Messi. And his impact in the national team has been immense.
**Qatar University have announced they will turn the room where Argentina star Lionel Messi resided during the 2022 World Cup into a mini museum. State-run Qatari news agency QNA posted on its Twitter account that Messi’s room at the country’s top university will no longer receive guests. The touching video published by Messi on social media after winning the World Cup. It will retain everything the Paris Saint-Germain player left in it as a small museum for students and visitors to the country. The university’s facilities were also used by Liverpool during their participation in the 2019 Club World Cup, given its variety of courts, gyms and swimming pools, and a stadium for training. It’s why Argentina also then opted to reside there instead of a luxurious hotel.
**Former Premier League star Jamie Redknapp has revealed his choice of the greatest footballer in the world, narrowing it down to Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. To him, Messi winning the FIFA World Cup should not change the minds of those who believe that Portugal international Ronaldo is better. The former Liverpool star says Messi is the best. Many believe that winning the World Cup has separated Messi from Ronaldo, who is yet to win football’s most coveted trophy. Despite not winning the trophy, many still see the Portuguese as the greatest player ever. “Messi has got that god given talent that he’s got. But other people will say Ronaldo has worked for everything he’s got, he’s been phenomenal for so many years, he’s done it in so many different leagues,” he said on Sky Sports. “So if you think Ronaldo is the best player in the world, don’t change your mind because Messi has won the World Cup, it is upto you whatever you believe. Now, Messi is, for me, the best.”
May HIS grace upon us go ahead of us on every of our movement today
