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Nigeria's Mikel Obi alongside retired players Jay Jay Okocha and Kanu Nwankwo are among the top 10 highest earning African players of all time according to a study conducted & published by French publication, Footendirect. With a cumulative take-home of $50 million, John Mikel Obi is now the best paid among the current generation of Nigerian players. According to Footendirect, Mikel who earns about £75,000 per week at Chelsea has a total earnings estimate of $50m while Kanu Nwankwo and Jay Jay Okocha who have since retired made $100m and $150m respectively from their career. See the full list after the jump. 1. Samuel Eto'o/Antalyaspor : 202 millions de dollars 2. Yaya Touré/Manchester City : 170 millions de dollars 3. Didier Drogba/Montreal : 155 millions de dollars 4. Jay-Jay Okocha : 150 millions de dollars 5. Nwankwo Kanu : 100 millions de dollars 6. Michaël Essien/Panathinaïkos : 70 millions de dollars 7. Emmanuel Adebayor/Libre : 57 millions de dollars 8. Obi Mikel/Ch

WHEN the Senate on Tuesday passed a resolution calling on the Federal Government to urgently rehabilitate the Apapa-Oshodi Expressway, it was appalled by the daily gridlock that cripples the ports and other commercial activities in Africa’s most economically important city. A new poll by NOI Polls captured public anger at Governor Akinwunmi Ambode over the return to chaos of Lagos highways. He should take firm charge of the machinery so laboriously put in place over the last 16 years and return sanity to the metropolis. Ambode should not be deluded by flatterers; the riotous traffic and associated ills – crime and street trading – on his watch is hanging a negative tag on his five-month-old administration. Every day, Lagosians are confronted with slow, grinding traffic, exacerbated by bad roads, street traders and the ubiquitous commercial motorcycle operators (okada) who have returned in full force to the 475 roads from which they were prohibited by the Lagos State Traffic Law. Impuni