Mikel Obi Among Top Ten Earners, 10th sexiest

Nigeria star Mikel Obi has been ranked as the seventh biggest earner at the AFCON in South Africa with an estimated income of $6.5m.

African Footballer of the year Yaya Toure is the biggest earner at the Nations Cup with an annual salary reported to be about $22m.

Compatriot Didier Drogba, who has moved to China to cash on on his twilight years in the game, is second on the money list as he rakes in excess of about $18m.

The other ‘Big Boys’ are Mali skipper Seydou Keita ($17m), Togo super star Emmanuel Adebayor ($15m), Ghana skipper Asamoah Gyan ($12m) and Ivory Coast defender Kolo Toure ($8.5m).

Mikel, according to a survey by South Africa’s City Press, also earns extra cash from his sponsors Nike, Pepsi and Samsung.

The Chelsea midfielder was also ranked among the top 10 sexiest players at the African tournament in South Africa.

The Sowetan also picked several of these big earners like Keita, Yaya Toure and Adebayor to turn the heads of the ladies in South Africa.

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Mikel Obi signs new five-year deal with Chelsea

John Mike Obi has signed a new five-year contract with Chelsea, This means he will be in chelsea till 2017.

Chelsea Footballer, Mikel Obi Floats Music Label, Signs 4 Artistes

Super Eagles and Chelsea FC midfielder, John Mikel Obi has not never hidden his love for music. It is practically seen whenever the footballer is not on the field of play for both his country and club, he listens to music from his devices with his headphone.

The Jos, Plateau State-bred footballer has taken his love for music to another by floating his own music label. As we were informed by an industry source, Mikel now owns new record label named Matured Money Minds (MMM). This was recently established and is fully in control of his younger brother, Patrick.

MMM already has about four artistes. They are; Splash, Kido, Edgar and Charass. We learnt that the artistes already have their songs and full promotions are in the pipeline to promote and make then rub shoulders with the biggest artistes in the music industry in Nigeria.