Femi Kuti protests war and promotes worldwide peace with his new video for “One People One World,” the title track from his upcoming 10th LP out February 23rd. In the vibrant clip, the Afrobeat bandleader performs onstage at Nigeria venue The Shrine, which he built as a memorial to his father, musician Fela Kuti. New footage (plus a cameo from Paul McCartney) follows Fela Kuti from his bourgeois childhood to his discovery of music The video blends raw stage footage with brief animation and visual effects, incorporating shots of protestors, peace signs and falling bombs. “Let’s settle the differences; it’s…
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Juan Mata is targeting a longer stay at Manchester United after extending his contract until 2019. He said: “I still feel very happy and very proud to be part of this club. “I think everyone that belongs to Manchester United should feel privileged, and that’s how I feel. “I’m happy with everyone at the club and, obviously, with the manager and my teammates.” The Spaniard added: “We have had so many new players during my four years, but now we know each other and understand each other better. “We are creating a kind of stability that I believe is needed…
Olivier Giroud talked about a return to Champions League football as a key factor in his decision to join Chelsea from Arsenal on the final day of the January transfer window. “The Champions League is massive for a football player. There is nothing above it when you’re playing for a club,” said the French international, who made six of his 10 starts for Arsenal this season in the Europa League. “There will be two nice games against Barcelona. We know their qualities and I think everybody will need to be 100 per cent to go through.” “The most important thing…
Bernardo Silva has begged referees to be stronger after some incredible challenges on Manchester City players during their 3-0 victory over West Bromwich Albion. He told reporters: “It’s clear over the last few months — we’ve seen with Leroy it was a terrible accident and now he’s injured for two months and he is a very important player. “Today it could have been Brahim, it could have been Kevin on the second goal. I think, as the coach says, the referees have to do their job and if it’s a red card they have to give the red card. “They…
Pep Guardiola recently said it will be difficult to complete a deadline day deal for Leicester City winger Riyad Mahrez. “Right now, it’s the same as [Alexis] Sanchez and Laporte, it’s not the place to talk about it,” Guardiola told a news conference when asked about Mahrez ahead of Wednesday night’s clash with West Bromwich Albion. “It’s so difficult. it happened with Laporte because it’s a buy-out clause, when you have to negotiate it’s always so complicated.” “I have interest in a lot of players, good players, there are many, the window is open until the 31st,” he said. “We…
Antonio Conte begged “all the people who work in Chelsea” to understand the mistakes that led to Wednesday’s shock 3-0 home loss to Bournemouth, suggesting that his preparations had been compromised by the club’s deadline day transfer dealings. Asked if he was happy with the club’s business, Conte replied: “It’s not important. I’m not happy [with the result]. The transfer market is not important. Now we have to focus on the work. Players go, players come. It doesn’t change.” There were suggestions that Roma’s willingness to sell their star striker sprang from a need to raise funds to meet financial…
Jose Mourinho accused his Manchester United stars of failing to follow instructions after Christian Eriksen scored just 11 seconds into Tottenham’s 2-0 win at Wembley. “I don’t think it is very normal to concede a goal like we did after 15 seconds,” he said. “It is especially ridiculous because the players, they watch it before, we analyse opponents and work on opponents’ dynamics and routines. “The players they knew the long ball, they knew that Harry Kane – before the kick-off, is already inside the opponent’s half. We knew everything. “Then we don’t press the ball – one mistake. We…
Peter Stoeger has said now that the Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang transfer saga is finally over his side can refocus on their football as they prepare to face resurgent Cologne on Friday. “It became a topic behind which no one could hide,” Stoeger explained. “It’s good that it’s over, because the topic attracted such an incredible amount of attention,” Stoeger said “In my time, he was never late (to training),” said Stoeger. “He once skipped a team meeting and once trained badly because he obviously wanted to send a signal, but otherwise he behaved properly. “I can not say that the boys…
Antonio Conte is ready to return to Italy and could fill the vacant position as national coach, newly-appointed Italian FA commissioner Roberto Fabbricini said Thursday. Conte left the job for Chelsea after Euro 2016, but replacement Gian Piero Ventura was sacked after Italy lost to Sweden in the World Cup play-off last November. “The names are the ones you know,” the new FIGC commissioner confirmed after his appointment on Thursday. “Mancini was in Rome but we didn’t contact him, Conte seems eager to wear Azzurro again, Ancelotti opens and closes the door and Ranieri isn’t out either.” After elections this…
Neymar has insisted his Paris Saint-Germain career is just getting started as the runaway French league leaders prepare for a crucial run of matches that will likely define their season. “I wasn’t expecting this at the beginning, these statistics with Paris Saint-Germain. But I’m here to help the team and my teammates and to try and do better each day, in each match, and that’s the most important thing,” Neymar told PSG TV. “It’s not my objective to be the team’s main player, the lad who gets the most assists or scores the most goals. I just want to play…
Manchester City midfielders Kevin De Bruyne and Bernardo Silva have revealed the frustration in the squad at being targeted by overly aggressive tackles in recent matches. De Bruyne said attempts to stop City’s free-flowing football with aggression had started to grate on the Premier League leaders. “Sometimes it gets frustrating for us,” he said. “A lot of teams are making a lot of fouls against us. We make a foul, we get a yellow card. I don’t know how it’s possible sometimes. “I don’t know what they are thinking — you can also pull a shirt, that’s more effective than…
Shehu Shagari has described late Dr. Alex Ekwueme, as a vice president he trusted while their service to the nation lasted. “Dr. Ekwueme was a deputy I trusted. We understood each other well and it was impossible for mischief makers to drive a wedge between us. “He was a loyal lieutenant and because of his excellent contributions to the success of our administration during our first tenure, I had no hesitation to nominate him to run with me again for second term,” he said. “This great democrat dared the military government of Gen. Sani Abacha, by demonstrating against the infamous…
Mr Solomon Dalung has said it will open up the political space to accommodate young people in the country. Dalung said: “The ‘Not Too Young to Rule’ law in Nigeria is a demonstration of the Nigerian nation to open up the political space to accommodate the young people. “Young people today are asking: where is the space for them to express themselves? They are asking the politicians – where is the space for their participation in governance? “They are asking the business community – how are you mentoring us to ensure inter-generational transition? They are asking policy makers – why…
Muhammadu Buhari has urged youths to join the anti corruption crusade to rid Nigeria of corruption. “I assure Nigerians of our commitment to fighting corruption within the ambit of the law. “However, we need the support of the youth and the entire citizenry to succeed. “To this end, I implore all students, most especially the graduands, to rededicate themselves as ambassadors in this moral crusade,” he said. He asked the graduands to key into whistle blowing policy of the present administration as their own contribution to stamp corruption out of Nigeria. According to him, corruption needs to be wiped out…
Sen. Ita Enang has said that while the Federal Government is working extra hard to tackle the issues of farmers-herdsmen clashes in Benue, it is constrained by the constitution. He maintained that the Federal Government could not go beyond its constitutional boundaries. He also explained that in the herdsmen-farmers clashes in Benue, which is the most topical, the best the government could do, was to talk less while it thought of ways of addressing the situation on ground. Enang said, “the Federal Government cannot legitimately interfere in the grazing question, except in the security angle because of the constitution and…
Abdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara state has dismissed claims in certain quarters that he is planning to return to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), which he left with some other chieftains of the party prior the 2015 general elections. He clarified that the insinuations, which emerged from his recent interview with a newspaper, did not suggest that he was planning to leave. He was stating the conditions under which he and other political stakeholders in the state left the PDP. He emphasized that he, Saraki and other governors left the PDP due to impunity, disregard for the rule of law and…
“My company will not be working for him in the 2019 election”, Jideonwo declared in disgust. For Jideonwo, Buhari has not changed and never will. “On the fundamentals of it, nothing has moved. There’s a loss of moral authority. His biggest pitch was his moral authority. He doesn’t deserve to continue.” “Buhari is a disappointment”, Jideonwo said for the umpteenth time. “If he were a success, they’d be hailing me. So why won’t I take the abuse if he’s failing? “I have a problem with those who say they regret voting for him. That means you didn’t really think about…
Tunde Bakare of the Latter Rain Assembly has come down hard on the Buhari led federal government, stating; “this is not the government we all hoped for”. He also castigated the administration for “allowing Nigerians to kill themselves”. “This government that promised change at the beginning…we never thought this is how they’ll perform so woefully”, Bakare said when asked if he thought the Buhari government has been a failure. With all the powers at the disposal of the federal government, to allow Nigerians to be killing each other this way is unfortunate”, the clergyman said. “Some of this could be…
The Kwara state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked the party leadership not to welcome the Senate President, Bukola Saraki. They also said “We are apprehensive of what the national leadership can do to welcome somebody who had gone away from the party and is being given a royal welcome into the party. The Police Command in Benue is interrogating the Divisional Police Officer in- charge of Gboko A Division over the Wednesday killing of seven persons. “It is not Saraki’s coming that create any fear, it is whatever the national leadership can do to encourage him…
Olusegun Obasanjo has said that his popular open letter to President Muhammadu Buhari was written out of his deep concern for the ways things are turning out in the country. Obasanjo also recently said he wondered why Nigerians were worried that he exchange pleasantries with Buhari at the just concluded African Unity summit in Ethiopia few days after he wrote the open letter. He said, “Last week, I issued a statement which I did not do lightly or frivolously but out of deep concern for the situation of our country. “I wonder why some Nigerians were worried why I had…