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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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…
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…
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…
The Super Eagles of Nigeria will on Sunday, February 4 take on Morocco in the final of the African Nations Championship (CHAN). The Eagles sealed their passage to the final with a 1 – 0 victory of Sudan in the semifinal of the CHAN. The victory earned Nigeria a showdown against hosts and tournament favourites Morocco who defeated Libya 3 – 1 in their semifinal fixture. The Super Eagles started their campaign with a goalless draw their opening match against Rwanda, before a 1 – 0 victory over Libya in their second game. and secured their passage to the next…
Bernardo Silva is hoping to begin his Manchester City career by taking advantage of the creative void left by Leroy Sane’s absence over the next couple of months. “I’ve never played much on the left,” Silva said ahead of City?s clash at Turf Moor. “But this season I’ve played a few times on the left, on the right, in the middle. “I know I’m not a fast player like Leroy Sane, I know I cannot do some of the things that he can. “But I try to do other things and of course I try to improve myself.” “I want…
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…
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…
Alexis Sanchez is ready to make his home debut as Manchester United aim to bounce back from a damaging defeat at Tottenham Hotspur when struggling Huddersfield Town visit Old Trafford on Saturday. However, midfielder Juan Mata believes Sanchez?s mere presence has helped raise the bar of what can be expected of United for the rest of the season. “Alexis is a great player and I?m sure that he will help us a lot,” said Mata, who himself has been pushed further down the pecking order by the Chilean’s signing. “His arrival is great news because a player of his level…
Robert Lewandowski is ready to earn more goal-scoring accolades in Germany. Aubameyang was the Bundesliga’s top-scorer last season with 31 goals — one more than Lewandowski — but Arsenal paid Borussia Dortmund a club-record ?56 million ($79.2m, 63.7m euros) for the Gabon striker on Wednesday. That leaves Lewandowski in pole-position to finish as the Bundesliga’s top-scorer for the third time having won the trophy in 2014 and 2016. Bayern face Mainz away on Saturday, holding a 16-point lead in the Bundesliga, and the Poland striker is on fire with 18 goals in 19 league games. With Aubameyang gone, Lewandowski is…
The governor urged Ezeonu not to be partisan, but play to the rules of elections and pledged government’s full support to INEC. He mandated his Chief of Staff, Mr Uche Nwosu, and the Secretary to the State Government, Sir George Eche, to ensure INEC got the Cs of O of its properties in record time. Okorocha also instructed them to allocate a piece of land to the commission within Owerri Municipal for its new office. Ezeonu had told the governor that the visit was part of INEC’s plan in Imo to build confidence among major stakeholders in the electoral environment.…
Rochas Okorocha of Imo has asked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to always remain neutral while conducting elections. Okorocha also instructed them to allocate a piece of land to the commission within Owerri Municipal for its new office. the governor that the visit was part of INEC’s plan in Imo to build confidence among major stakeholders in the electoral environment. He outlined his achievements since he assumed duty to include moving the ongoing Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) to the wards aside the cities, and giving new status to the registration areas for easier identification. He informed the governor about…
Adebayo Shittu has accused ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo of enjoying sensationalism weeks after his letter to President Muhammadu Buhari. “You see, there are some people who enjoy engaging in sensationalism. With due respect to General Obasanjo, if you take his history over the last 30 years, there is hardly any regime, other than his own, that he did not criticise. Sani Abacha didn’t wait for Obasanjo to criticise him before sending him to the gulag. So, many Nigerians know that Obasanjo enjoys this type of sensationalisation. In any case, no matter what impression you have of me, do you have a…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has advised the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led Federal Government to ensure that the 2019 general elections are free and fair. Secondus said that free, fair, credible and transparent elections were guarantee for national unity and peace. He said that while PDP was in power for 16 years, it fostered and deepened the country’s democracy. “Nigeria is the largest black nation in the world and we are saying that there is a great fear on whether Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will really conduct free and fair elections. “Free and fair elections are the only guarantee…
As the next elections draw near, the Federal Government says 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…
“My company will not be working for him in the 2019 election”, Jideonwo declared in disgust. For Jideonwo, Buhari hasn’t 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 the…
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. He 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. “It is not Saraki’s coming that create any fear, it is whatever the national leadership can do to encourage him to seize the party’s structure from established people of Kwara State. “Whoever is returning must respect the structure of our party and cooperate with…
Ayo Fayose has said God directed him to ‘anoint’ his deputy, Kolapo Olusola to succeed him as the chief executive of Ekiti state. “Olusola never said he wanted to be deputy governor, but God instructed me to pick him. I said we will go together after our tenure, but God said I should allow him to stay; that what I said was my own opinion,” Fayose declared. “Olusola never said he wanted to be deputy governor, but God instructed me to pick him. I said we will go together after our tenure, but God said I should allow him to…