Arsenal’s Community Shield deserved win over Chelsea should mean very little beyond the bragging rights of beating a close rival at Wembley, but there were still immense positives to take from the performance and result ahead of the new season. The victory was achieved without Alexis Sanchez, Aaron Ramsey, Mesut Ozil, Laurent Koscielny and Shkodran Mustafi — all of whom would be likely first team regulars if they were fit and available — and it showed that there is more depth to this Arsenal squad than people presume. You should not judge players on what is essentially a glorified friendly,…
Author: David Folami
Paris Saint-Germain coach Unai Emery has accepted the pressure Neymar’s €222 million world record arrival comes with and said the club can achieve even more now the Brazil international is a PSG player. During Emery’s first season in charge PSG failed to win the Ligue 1 title for the first time in five years and were knocked out of the Champions League at the quarterfinal stage by Barcelona. “He’s a player who will help the club to get a level higher,” Emery said. “Without Neymar PSG is a great club but with Neymar it’s a little better. A little greater.…
Javier Pastore says he and his Paris Saint-Germain teammates will d everything possible to ensure Neymar become the world’s best player after the former Barcelona man exited the Camp Nou for the Parc des Princes on Thursday. Neymar was given the hero’s reception he deserved ahead of PSG’s Ligue 1-opening 2-0 victory against newly promoted Amiens on Saturday, and later in the day saw the Eiffel Tower lit in the club’s colours to welcome the Brazil superstar to the city. Pastore dropped his shirt number in order to make the former Santos man more comfortable in his brand new team…
Gary Cahill has come ut to say after yesterday’s Community Shield game that Chelsea cannot afford so many injuries this season as they do everything within their power to defend their Premier League title while returning to the Champions League with a squad short on numbers. Chelsea boss Antonio Conte has repeatedly talked about the need for his team to make more signings before the end of the transfer window, and said before to Sunday’s penalty-shootout defeat to Arsenal in the Community Shield that he is anticipating the “most difficult season” of his managerial career. Alvaro Morata, Tiemoue Bakayoko, Antonio…
Producer of popular TV show, Idan Irawo aired on Africa Magic, Yoruba, Kunle Agboola is down with terminal ailment and seriously needs your financial assistance and prayers to stay alive. According to his medical doctors, he’s with advanced (Stage 5)Chronic Kidney Disease(CKD) and need your support if we want him to be alive to continue with his entertaining show. As you are reading this piece, the ailing producer has sold everything he laboured for over the over the years just to keep up with his weekly dialysis at Gbagada General Hospital, Lagos. Following the tests and diagnosis carried out by…
Phyno features Wande Coal in this tune titled ‘Zamo zamo’. This is the first time the pair will be working together on a song. Tspize produced the love tune.
As a back-up to his recently released video – ‘Latin Lover’, Sean Tizzle is back with the visuals for ‘Roll Up’ featuring rapper Iceberg Slim. ‘Roll Up’ is taken off Sean Tizzle’s EP – “Moving Forward” Vol.1 – and the video was directed by UA Images.
Kenya’s Victoria Kimani has dropped a new single, ‘China love’, for her fans. Kimani rocks the Island-inspired, Drey Beatz-produced track, telling of how she wants true, no fake, no bootleg love. She is collaborating with International artists and Grammy award winning songwriter Rock City (Theron Thomas) who have written songs for Beyoncé, Nicki Minaj, Rihanna, Adam Levine and Ariana Grande.
Your days are about’ to get turn up as Hypertek’s front line act, 2Baba premieres this new one titled Amplifier. Don’t get late for the party. As usual, he did not disappont.
J. Martins has made his come back with this cool sound titled ‘Betrayal’ featuring Phyno. The ‘Cool temper’ singer in March held a concert celebrating 10 years on stage as a performing artist and African ambassador. The ‘Good or bad’ crooner is known for his collaboration with francophone country artists, the east and west African countries.
Baddo Olamide has dropped a groovy jam titled ‘Wo’. Produced by Young John, this one looks sure to break radio records, streets and clubs.
Jim Iyke has bared his mind to a follower @Kwamedee who called him “A grownup fool” for easing himself on the road. About a day ago, Jim shared with his followers on Instagram a picture of himself peeing by the roadside on his way back to Enugu, explaining that he had to answer to the call of nature. “Road trip back to Enugu. Bladder overflowing from last night’s indulgence. Kept bidding time to make it to the gents. Finally pulled over by the road. Barely made it before a wardrobe malfunction. Don’t f%@# with nature y’all! Nothing like fresh breeze…
Small Doctor, has refuted the rumours about him beating up a certain commercial tricycler in Lagos. A Twitter user earlier about a week ago posted on social media saying he witnessed the star singer and his crew beat up a keke napep rider around Ogba area of Lagos. “Nothing like that happened. It was just a minor disagreement with someone on the road and we resolved the issue amicably. People just like to blow things out of proportion and create unnecessary controversy. I would never descend so low as to fight with someone on the street. I implore my fans…
Popular BBNaija 2017 housemate Bisola has congratulated her fellow housemate alumnus Thin Tall Tony (TTT) on the birth of his third child with wife. Bisola and TTT were one of the very special couples at the BigBrotherNaija2017 House, with things getting apparently more serious until Bisola discovered that TTT had a wedding ring band close to the end of the reality show. After coming out of the house, TTT described his relationship with Bisola in the house as “a game” when speaking in an interview. Bisola on the other hand said she was full of shock on finding out he…
The game may have meant little and told us nothing about the season to come, but Arsenal have started the campaign in dazzling style by winning the Community Shield, beating Chelsea on penalties after the game ended 1-1 in normal time. Goals from Victor Moses and an equaliser from Arsenal substitute Sead Kolasinac meant the teams ended the 90 minutes level in a match from which few conclusions can be drawn. Arsenal were the better side overall, but in this game last season, Ahmed Musa looked like a terrific signing for Leicester City and Juan Mata threw a minor tantrum.…
Nollywood actor Muyiwa Ademola shared a lovely photo of his twin boys, Taiwo and Kehinde Ademola and we’re strucked. The movie star did this via Instagram on July 25, 2017, in celebration of their birthday. “You came when I could hardly feed myself when I was still looking for a major breakthrough in the industry. Coincidentally, I produced my first film 20 yrs ago, just immediately after you were born. Your arrival marked the beginning of greater things in my life. A superlative birthday shout to you my darling sons, Taiwo and Kehinde Ademola Authentic,” he wrote alongside the photo.…
Nigerian artiste Davido has told fans to ignore the rumours that he tweeted an anti-Igbo statement. Just recently, Davido was asked by a Twitter user if he said “My father will just buy off the whole Igbo land. And their stupid Biafra will stop, stupid Igbos.” Davido instantly denied this. “Would never ever make such statement .. tell them to try again.. ” he tweeted. At such a crucial period in the nation when the agitation for secession by certain individuals is high, it was smart for Davido to completely shut out the rumour as quickly as possible from the…
Being a fashion mogul in her own right, she is not known to be scared to take risks when it comes to her style. And feeling adventurous when it came to her latest image overhaul, Rihanna chose to ditch her trademark raven locks for a bright blue shade instead. Debuting her bold new tresses as she attended a carnival event in her home nation of Barbados on Saturday night, the Rude Boy hit-maker, 29, commanded attention, thanks to her newly-dyed ‘do. Rihanna ensured The Elevate St Tropez party – one of the many parties held during Barbados’ Crop Over summer…
She gave birth to twins just a few weeks ago. But Beyonce wasn’t about to stop having her usual blast as she took on a rollerskating rink on Saturday. The 35-year-old was spotted strapping on a pair of oldschool skates and rolling her way joyfully in Los Angeles. Later that evening Beyonce delighted fans as she took to Instagram to recap the outing with an lovely video of herself skating around the rink, showing off her jean-clad derriere, and playing around with what looked to be Snapchat filters. During the outing, husband Jay-Z was also on hand, although he was…
Music legend, D’Banj has revealed why he kept his marital status from the public and fans until recently. The singer who announced one of his companies, Cream Records lately was a guest at BEAT FM 99.9 on Thursday evening and he disclosed that his marital status had been a main issue for years in the media and he decided to keep everything secret until the marriage with girlfriend, Lineo Didi Kilgrow was finalized. He added that the pressure to get married was maximum from parents and thanked God every thing worked according to plans. “I decided to keep my marriage…