Obafemi Martins has scored goals on his football travels and he said he will do same in China.
Martins has played in Italy, England, Germany, Russia, Spain and lately the United States of America. He has now finalised his transfer to Chinese club, Shanghai Greenland Shenhua and he said is looking forward to score goals for his new team. The Chinese Super League side finished sixth last year.
Shenhua made an official announcement Wednesday that they have signed ‘Obagoal’ on a one-year contract with option of another year for Seattle Sounders.
“I’m looking forward to train properly so that when the games arrive, I’m ready to do my best to score goals for my team. I’m here to help the team. I’m very glad to meet my teammates and club staff,” Martins said.
He is in South Korea with the rest of the squad for the pre-season.
In the meantime, the Nigeria striker has revealed he quit MLS side Seattle Sounders after saying Shanghai Shenhua have offered him a new challenge.
“For me, it’s now time for a new challenge. After significant reflection, I have decided to join Shanghai Greenland Shenhua,” he tweeted.
“Something I feel strongly about myself. When I came to Seattle, it was for a challenge. Thank you Seattle. Thanks to all who made these last three years an amazing experience. Seattle has a special place in my heart ????.”

In the last eight years, Idowu Tijani and his terror group have allegedly killed no fewer than nine persons in the Ijoko Community of Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government Area, Ogun State.
While their exploits in crime lasted, they were the nemesis of residents and members of a faction involved in the tussle for the traditional stool in Ijoko.
The terror unleashed on the community by Tijani and his blood-thirsty gang ended when the police arrested his lieutenants, Rasaq Ogundairo aka ‘Babalawo Poly’ and Raimi Ogunkunle, 25, after a trail.
Three cut-to-size single barrel pistols, two double barrel pistols, one pump action gun with 14 cartridges, five cutlasses and charms were recovered from the gang.
Parading the suspects on Monday at the Ogun State Police Command, Eleweran, Abeokuta, the State Commissioner for Police, Mr Abdulmajid Ali, disclosed that a team of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad stormed the gang’s hideout in Ijoko and arrested Ogundairo. He said: “The arrest of the suspect led to the arrest of two members of the gang. The leader of the gang, Idowu Tijani, confessed to have killed four people, including Soje, Babajeje and Agali in the Ijoko area.”
Speaking with The Nation, Tijani regretted killing many people in the community in the last eight years. In tears, he said: “May God forgive me my atrocities, and I want to advise those who foment trouble to desist because it does not pay. Even if my arrest leads to death, well, that is my fate. But I regret all the killings that I have carried out so far.”
Tijani explained that he took to crime to avenge the death of his four-year-old son, Fathiu, who was allegedly killed during the violence that engulfed the Ijoko community in the wake of the Obaship crisis. “Oba Matanmi is a younger brother to my mother. I was not involved in land-grabbing activities because I am a furniture maker and married with four children. I have a workshop in my house, which I built a few years ago,” he said.
“On a particular day about eight years ago, some members of Tobalase group who are loyalists of one Oba Ogunseye stormed my house while I had gone out to watch a football match at a nearby field. They destroyed my house before setting it ablaze, and a portion of the building fell on my son, Fathiu and killed him. Three days after the incident, I took my gun and headed to the home of one Monsusru Osoba aka ‘Olori Odo’. I met him in front of his house and shot him but he escaped into his room where I finished him up.
”A lot of people were arrested in connection with the murder of Olori Odo but I was not arrested. I also killed Soje during a fight in the community. Soje and his group attacked me during the visit of Olota of Ota to Sango Secondary School. Soje tried to shoot me but the trigger refused to pull, so I quickly shot him dead and ran away.
“I did not intend to kill people, but the obaship tussle between Oba Matanmi and Oba Ogunseye was responsible for the attack on my house at No. 17, Ago Giwa Street, Ijoko which led to the death of my son made me to embark on a killing spree.”
Tijani said he got his gun from his late boss, adding that his arrest was due to a row he had with Rasaq Ogundairo. “I got the gun I used from my late boss called Tunji. Rasaq (Ogundairo) is just like a brother to me but he suddenly turned to armed robbery and I reported him to Oba Matanmi, who asked me to inform the police. Rasaq and one of his friends were arrested and made to sign and undertaking not to engage in robbery again. After the police released them, Rasaq condemned me for instigating their arrest and vowed to reveal how I killed Olori Odo, hence, my eventual arrest.”
Ogundairo, 25, who confessed to being a member of Eiye Confraternity, said he had killed some people, including one Tosin and Dare.
He narrated how friends in the Ijoko neighbourhood initiated him into cultism. “I am a member of Eiye Confraternity. We have been terrorising Ijoko community and killing people for sometime now. I joined the cult group about two years ago when some boys in the neighbourhood initiated me through beating and alcoholic drink.
“I have killed so many people, including one Tosin and Dare, who are members of a rival cult group called Aiye Confraternity. The duo are deadly too, and we used to hunt for Aiye members because they can kill us too. Whenever we attack Aiye members, they would run away and abandon their motorcycles and sundry items and sell them.”
Ogundairo traced his descent into crime. ”I am called ‘Babalawo Poly’ because my father is a herbalist, but, regrettably, the charms found on me could not protect me from being arrested.
“I also partake in land-grabbing activities and I work with Oba Matanmi’s group to visit construction sites in the community. I don’t know whether my parents are aware of my arrest because they had warned me not to get involved in crime, but I did not heed their warning until I was caught in the act. The reality of my parents’ homily has since dawned on me.
The third member of the gang, Ogunkunle, also gave a confession. He said: ”I am neither a member of Eiye Confraternity nor Aiye member, but I belong to Ogundairo’s gang. My father is one of the baales installed by Oba Matanmi. I have never killed in my life and I regret all my actions.

Samule Okies, the abducted 35-year-old nephew to former President Goodluck Jonathan has been found dead along the waterway of Otuoke, Jonathan’s community in Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State.
Okies was reportedly abducted on Wednesday alongside Jonathan’s 72-year-old foster father, Chief Inegite Nitaba.
It was gathered that some fishermen from Otuoke found the remains of the deceased floating on the Otuoke River on Thursday evening.
Sources from the community said the deceased went missing shortly after Inengite was abducted.
According to them, the recovery of the body confirmed their fears that Okies was also a victim of the kidnap.
Other sources said Okies might have been killed by gunshots fired during Inengite’s abduction.
A source, who spoke in confidence, said there was apprehension over the safety of Inengite in the community.
“We are worried about the safety of our uncle. The men that abducted them have killed Okies and we pray they don’t touch our uncle,” the source said.
Prior to his death, Okies was said to have always been in the company of the abducted foster father.
Unidentified gunmen kidnapped Inengite, a first cousin and foster father to former Jonathan.
The septuagenarian was whisked away from his residence in Otuoke on Wednesday.
It will be recalled that he was first kidnapped on February 23, 2014, during the administration of former President Jonathan.
His first abduction attracted public attention, as the Federal Government activated all security networks within the Niger Delta region to rescue him.
After spending over two weeks in the kidnappers’ den, Nitabai was rescued on March 13, 2014, by the police, with claims that no ransom was paid to the abductors.
The 2014 operation was carried out by10 heavily armed men who stormed Nitabai’s expansive compound at about 9pm and took him away without firing a gunshot.
Another attempt to abduct Nitabai was also made by a gang of kidnappers, whose operation was foiled by the police.
It was gathered that the latest incident, which occurred at about 3:30am, was carried out by seven gunmen.
When contacted, the Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Butswat Asinim, confirmed the death of Okies.
He said there was a deep cut on his neck, adding that the police were on the trail of the kidnappers,

A United Kingdom High Court has finally dissolved the marriage between the founder of Christ Embassy, Pastor Chris Oyakhilome and his former wife, Anita.
Consequently, Anita has severed her link with the church also known as Believers LoveWorld INC.
A statement issued on Anita’s behalf by her solicitors: Attwaters Jameson Hill, said the divorce was finalised on February 8 after which she dropped Oyahkilome from her name.
The statement published on the United Kingdom-based law firm’s website reads, “We have been requested by Anita Oyakhilome to confirm that on 8th Februray 2016 a decree absolute was pronounced in the High Court of Justice Principal Registry of the Family Division dissolving her marriage to Christian Onehirokpeana Oyakhilome.
“Anita Oyakhilome would like to confirm that she is no longer involved in or part of Christ Embassy AKA Believers LoveWorld INC.”
Anita, a pioneer member of Christ Embassy got married to Oyakhilome in 1991 and have two daughters.

Embattled Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) Chief Rickey Tarfa Friday admitted that he gave N225, 000 to a sitting judge of the Federal High Court, Justice M. N. Yunusa, on January 7, 2014.
He said the N225, 000 was not a bribe, but a donation from him and some of his friends towards the burial of Justice Yunusa’s father-in-law who died on December 28, 2013.
In an affidavit filed on his behalf at the Federal High Court Lagos, before Justice Mohammed Idris by one John Olusegun Odubela, Head of Chambers of Messrs Rickey Tarfa and Co., dated February 18, the learned silk denied bribing the judge with the money or ‘any other sum at all.’
Tarfa appeared Friday before Justice Idris in continuation of his N2.5 billion fundamental rights suit against the Economic and Finanacial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for wrongful arrest and detention.
He was represented by Bolaji Ayorinde SAN, Anthony Idigbe, SAN, who led four other learned silks and 115 other counsels.
The EFCC was represented by Mr. Wahab Shittu and five others.
Tarfa was arrested by operatives of the commission on February 5, within the premises of the Lagos State High Court in Igbosere after a five-hour standoff during which the EFCC claimed that the learned silk prevented its operatives from arresting two of Tarfa’s clients.
The commission alleged that Tarfa hid the foreigners in his car for five about 11:30 am still some minutes past 5pm.
In response to the senior lawyer’s suit, EFCC filed preliminary objection on the ground that the court lacks jurisdiction to entertain the matter.
In a counter-affidavit filed on February 19 by one of the commission’s operatives that arrested Tarfa and who is also a respondent in the suit, Moses Awolusi, it was stated that a check carried out on the Access Bank account of Tarfa’s law firm revealed that a sum of N225, 000 was sent to Justice Mohammed Yunusa on January 7, 2014.
The EFCC claimed on Thursday that the amount was a bribe.
Awolusi said: “I know from the facts revealed during investigation that the said bribe of N225,000 was accepted and acknowledged by Justice Yunusa in a text message to the applicant, wherein he said, ‘Thank you, my senior advocate.”
“I also know that investigations have revealed that the applicant’s law firm was in the habit of asking the Chief Registrar of the Lagos Judicial Division of the Federal High Court to assign his cases before His Lordship, Honourable Justice M.N. Yunusa in furtherance of the understanding between the applicant and the particular judge.”
However, Tarfa averred through Odubela that the money in question was a donation from a committee of friends of the judge including him, to support the judge for the burial of his late father-in-law in Maiduguri since they could not be there physically.
Odubela stated that his principal, Tarfa was not informed upon his arrest and detention on February 5, by EFCC that he was arrested on the allegation of bribing the judge.
He said the claim of EFCC that the judge acknowledged the receipt of the alleged bribe by a text message which reads “Thanks my Senior Advocate”, was untrue.
In urging the court to dismiss Tarfa’s claim for examplary damages of N2.5b, Shittu said from the facts showed that the commission never set out to arrest the applicant.
He said Tarfa invited arrest by obstructing the commission’s officials from carrying out their lawful duties.
“I urge the court to dismiss the entire suit with punitive costs,” Shittu added.
After listening to both parties Justice Idris adjourned the matter till February 29, for judgment.