Donald Duke thinks performing in office is a potential problem for any candidate representing the PDP because of the party’s “huge baggage”. According to Duke who is contesting at the 2019 polls under the Social Democratic Party (SDP) platform, there is an issue of massive corruption to deal with as the flag bearer of the PDP. “Even if I had emerged as the PDP presidential flag bearer, and win the election, the huge baggage the party carries will not allow me to do well. “The corruption is huge. You need to be completely unshackled to perform amidst such obstacles without…
Author: David Folami
A former president of Nigeria Goodluck Jonathan has been described as “Nigeria’s worst political mistake” days after launching his book “My Transition Hours”. On Tuesday, November 20, 2018, he released the text to mark his 61st birthday. The publication highlights the experiences of Jonathan while occupying the role of president, a period M.K.O’s wife Zainab Duke-Abiola has described as the lowest moment of the country’s political history. According to The Cable News, Zainab released a statement on Thursday, November 22, 2018. In her comments, she blames the ex-president for poor decisions. One of which has ensured that he is only…
Muhammadu Buhari’s Personal Assistant on New Media, Bashir Ahmad, has described a new book by former president, Goodluck Jonathan, as full of hate speech. The former president launched the book, titled “My Transition Hours”, on his 61st birthday in Abuja on Tuesday, November 20, 2018. The book focused on the events surrounding his time in government around the 2015 presidential election which he lost to Buhari. Ahmad took to his Twitter account (@BashirAhmaad) on Friday, November 23, to express his disappointment with the content of the book. He posted, “Was reading that newly released book last night before I slept,…
The Emir of Kano, Alhaji Muhammad Sanusi II, has attributed the high rate of migration and human trafficking in Nigeria to maladministration of the government. Sanusi also described inequality to the globalization of the economic system established by Africa as being responsible for the high migration in the continent. The Emir made this remark at the launch of the Book titled “From Frying Pan to Fire: How African migrants risk everything in their futile search for a better life in Europe”, written by the former spokesperson to late President Umaru Musa Yar’adua, Olusegun Adeniyi. Sanusi said, “Instead of complaining about…
A group, The Atiku Domestic Voters Structure (DOVO), has pledged to deliver Bayelsa to the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, during the 2019 general elections. The State coordinator of the group, Mr Endurance Deboh, made the pledge on Friday while meeting with youths and student volunteer groups in Yenegoa. Deboh disclosed that DOVO had strategised for the mass mobilisation of youths and students in all tertiary institutions in the state ahead of the elections. He said that the task of the group of delivering the state for Atiku “is a deed that must be done.’’ He assured the…
Liverpool have announced that Sadio Mane has agreed terms on a new long-term contract, with sources saying that the new deal runs until 2023. Liverpool opened talks with Mane’s representatives in the summer and the club expect the contract to be signed before the end of the year. “I am very happy, very happy to extend my time at Liverpool,” Mane told the club’s official website. “It is a great day for me and now I am looking forward to everything — to helping the team, to helping the club achieve our dreams and, especially, to win trophies. “I’ve always…
Manchester United will face Leeds United in a friendly in Australia next year during their preseason tour, the first meeting between the old English rivals since 2011. The Premier League club said on Tuesday that they would play two friendlies in Perth, against A-League side Perth Glory on July 13 and Leeds four days later. Manchester United and Leeds have enjoyed a feisty rivalry over the years, with the fixture dubbed the Pennines derby. Yet since Leeds fell out of the top flight in 2004 they have only met twice, with the Yorkshire side edging an FA Cup tie 1-0…
Jose Mourinho is sticking by his prediction that Manchester United will be back in the Premier League’s top four by the end of 2018. Crystal Palace travel to Old Trafford on Saturday with United eighth, seven points off the Champions League places and although Mourinho acknowledges that is a “big gap,” he said he remained confident of climbing the table by January. “I know it’s a big gap but I also know that until the end of December, if I’m not wrong, we have eight Premier League matches to play,” he told a news conference on Friday. “Eight Premier League…
Inter Milan midfielder Radja Nainggolan has said he he has no regrets about turning down a move to the Premier League as he continues to enjoy life in Italy after leaving Roma in the summer. The former Belgium international has had offers from Chelsea and Manchester United in the past but said he valued the quality of life he has in Italy over the money he could have earned in England. “I have had plenty of chances to leave,” he said. “I am the kind of person who above all needs to live well and be at a club which…
Liverpool announced on Thursday that Mane had agreed terms on a new long-term contract following Roberto Firmino and Mohamed Salah, who both signed five-year deals at Anfield in April and July respectively. Philippe Coutinho, Luis Suarez and Raheem Sterling have all left Liverpool in recent years in big-money transfers, but Klopp feels the club are now in a position to convince players that staying put is best for their careers. “It’s not that I say to him: ‘Good morning Sadio, you are world class,’ but it is obvious sometimes that he is not aware of that,” Klopp said at a…
Jose Mourinho has hit back at Iker Casillas after the goalkeeper said he should have confronted him during their time at Real Madrid. In an interview on Spanish television, Casillas, now at Porto, criticised Mourinho for creating tension during the final season of his three years at the Bernabeu. He said he should have “taken the bull by the horns and confronted Mourinho” when they fell out in the 2012-13 season and he was dropped, but the coach claimed the keeper had done so “secretly.” Mourinho told Diario Record: “This interview is given by someone who is at the end…
Diego Simeone has denied reports that he is close to signing a new contract at the club. Marca and other local outlets reported last week that new contract talks between coach and club which had begun last summer were close to being finalised, with Simeone offered a salary bigger than forward Antoine Griezmann’s €20 million plus a year. However, an Atletico source told ESPN FC this week that with Simeone’s current deal running until 2020, both sides were currently happy with the situation and no talks were underway or are planned about an extension. “I have spoken with [Miguel Angel]…
Unai Emery has said captain Laurent Koscielny is nearly ready to start playing games again and could make his first appearance of the season next week with the under-23s. Koscielny has been sidelined with a torn Achilles tendon since May but Emery said on Friday that the centre-back completed every training session with the team during the international break. “Koscielny is close to starting to play minutes little by little,” Emery told a news conference. “Our first idea is to start [him playing] with the U23s. “But these two weeks [during the international break] in training with us, he is…
Neymar is struggling in his battle to be fit for Paris Saint-Germain’s crucial Champions League game with Liverpool next week, but teammate Kylian Mbappe is expected to play, sources have said. The pair were substituted with injuries while playing in friendlies for Brazil and France respectively on Tuesday, and PSG said on Wednesday that Mbappe had bruised his shoulder while Neymar had strained his right adductor with 48-hour treatment periods required for both before further evaluation. According to sources close to the club, Neymar is still 50-50 at best while Mbappe should be fit, and coach Thomas Tuchel say that…
Benjamin Mendy will be out for up to three months after having surgery on a knee injury, Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has said. However, City said Guardiola will not go into the transfer market in January and is likely to use players who normally operate in other roles to cover for the France international. Mendy missed seven months with an anterior cruciate ligament injury in his right knee last season and now faces a lengthy spell on the sidelines after a problem in his left knee. “Benjamin Mendy will be out for 10 to 12 weeks,” Guardiola told a…
Katy Perry came from ninth place in 2017 to unseat Beyonce as 2018’s highest-paid woman in music according to Forbes. The business magazine estimates that Perry, 34, earned $83 million in the period spanning June 2017 to June 2018. It wrote, “Perry played 80 dates on the world tour for her fifth album, Witness, during that period, grossing more than 1 million dollars per night, as well as earning more than 20 million dollars for her work as a judge on American Idol.” Beyoncé, 37, who was Forbes’ 2017 highest paid woman in music, fell to third place (60 million…
Rihanna is introducing a new Savage x Fenty gift guide. Everyone’s favorite bad gal has been focusing on her lifestyle brands for much of this year. While she claims to be spending time in the studio, her attention has gone to growing her beauty empire and her lingerie line, putting on a major fashion show for Savage x Fenty a few months ago. As she gets bigger in the lingerie world, she’s making sure that everybody spends their hard-earned dollars on her gear this holiday season. First, she needed to get everyone’s attention as they scrolled down their Instagram feeds.…
All over the world, music has become one the most diverse form of performance art and the fullness of this diversity is often enjoyed when musicians with different musical identities combine forces in a bid to create perhaps an unprecedented experience for their fans. We have over the years enjoyed the beauty of collaboration on varying degrees. Some fell flat, while others have yielded totally unforeseen results (sonically and commercially). Wizkid and Tiwa Savage sit gracefully on this table as well as the rapper, Falz the Bahd Guy and singer Simi, who took Nigerian musical collaborations to another level. The…
Peter Obi, the vice presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and Omotola Jalade Ekeinde led movie buffs and festivalias to the opening night of the 2018 Africa International Film Festival, AFRIFF. The film festival kicked off in Lagos state, Nigeria on Sunday, November 10, 2018. The opening night which held at Genesis Deluxe Cinemas, was attended by the founder of AFRIFF, Chioma Ude, Kemi Lala Akindoju, Gideon Okeke, Hilda Dokubo, Ego Boyo and Clarence Chukwurah. Other dignitaries include filmmakers and film entrepreneurs such as Ini Edo, Ken Erics, Femi Jacobs, Francis Nwochei, Fred Amata, Uru Eke, Sylvia Oluchi,…
Tiwa Savage has revealed that she only looks beautiful by the help of make-ups and push-up bras. The music star said that in spite of the glitz and glamour she displays on social media, she sometimes feels depressed by low self-esteem. Tiwa stated that sometimes she is intimidated by the glamour on social media. “I get a lot of messages from young girls who are depressed with low self-esteem because they don’t feel pretty like the social media girls they see every day and my heart breaks because I feel like that too sometimes. “We are all in this together,…