Arjen Robben says Bayern Munich have the quality to repeat their 2013 triple of Champions League, Bundesliga and German Cup titles, but admits the Bavarian giants need to improve. Bayern, who play Werder Bremen away on Saturday, are three points clear in Germany’s top flight and face Arsenal next month in the last 16 of Europe. Robben scored the winner when Bayern lifted the 2013 Champions League — their fifth European Cup title — with a 2-1 victory over Borussia Dortmund at London’s Wembley. Bayern became the first German club to win the treble of European, league and cup titles…
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Ghana are hopeful that skipper Asamoah Gyan will be able to feature in Sunday’s Africa Cup of Nations quarter-final against DR Congo after tests on an injury he suffered on Wednesday proved encouraging. A Ghana FA statement said the striker had returned to the team’s base in Oyem in northern Gabon to continue treatment on the thigh injury he picked up in the 1-0 defeat to Egypt in their last group game in Port-Gentil. “Tests in the Gabonese capital of Libreville have shown that the injury is not as bad as initially feared,” said the statement. “Gyan has now joined…
Ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo has said all parties involved in the Southern Kaduna crises must all dump sentiments to overcome the challenges. Commenting on the Southern Kaduna crisis, Obasanjo cautioned Nigerians not to comment on the incident if they do not have detailed reports. In his words: “My findings so far show that everyone is talking from the position of strength. People are not talking from knowledge of what they know and this is not helping. We must be able to dump all our sentiments to overcome the challenges. “Just like other cases of injustice around us, we need peace; it…
Manchester United seldom lose members of staff they want to keep but, when one of their best coaches receives the offer of a first-team managerial role at another club, it’s almost impossible to stop them leaving. Carlos Queiroz, for example, was hardly going to turn down Real Madrid in 2003. The most recent departure, albeit in less exalted circumstances, was Warren Joyce, who left his long-term role as reserve/under-21/under 23 manager to take charge at Championship side Wigan Athletic in November. The former Bolton Wanderers, Preston North End, Plymouth Argyle, Burnley and Hull City midfielder spent 12 years with United…
Atletico Madrid coach Diego Simeone said his team were facing “one of the two best teams in the world” in reaction to being drawn against Barcelona in this season’s Copa del Rey semifinals. Atletico host Barcelona at the Calderon in next Wednesday’s first leg, with the return at the Camp Nou the following Tuesday. The tie brings back memories of the clubs’ recent meetings in the knockout stages of the Champions League, with Simeone’s side emerging victorious on both occasions, although then being beaten by neighbours Real Madrid in the final each year. Atletico won the 2013 Copa del Rey,…
Luis Enrique doesn’t usually give an opinion on cup draws which haven’t taken place, but on Thursday, smiling after his Barcelona side had beaten Real Sociedad 5-2, he broke one of his own rules. “Of course I would like a Barca-Celta Vigo final,” he admitted in his postgame news conference after the Blaugrana had reached the Copa del Rey semifinal. What he didn’t admit, though, was that he probably would have preferred to avoid Atletico Madrid. Instead, that is exactly what his Barca side got, with Celta paired with the unfancied Alaves. At least his dream of a May final…
The mother-of-two shared a video of herself rocking the weird rings over her matte purple-painted finger nails. Would you rock them?
After a fine start to the season, Liverpool have struggled in recent weeks. Since the start of 2017, Jurgen Klopp’s side have won just one of seven games in all competitions and that lone victory came against League Two side Plymouth Argyle. Fixture congestion appears to have taken a toll on a stretched Anfield squad, as has the departure of Sadio Mane to the African Nations Cup: Liverpool have scored just four goals in six games without the Senegalese forward. With all that said, Klopp’s side remain fourth in the Premier League, just two points off second place. Will they…
Mr Ibrahim Magu, Acting Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has said that corrupt tendencies were more pronounced among males than females. “Looking at the number of people that have been apprehended by the commission, the number of men involved outnumber the women,” Magu said on Friday, in Abuja, The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports that Magu made the statement when the executive committee of the National Council of Women Society (NCWS), paid him a courtesy visit. He said, however, that women were not pure or immune to greed, but that were only less corrupt. Magu described women…
Nollywood actor Yul Edochie took to his Instagram page to narrate how a man tried to get his attention at a restaurant by insulting Nollywood. He pointed out that people do say a lot of insulting words just to get a reaction from someone and also make themselves relevant, but the best thing to do is to simply ignore them and not respond.
The much anticipated music video for ‘I Don’t Wanna Live Forever’, a theme song from the BDSM movie, Fifty Shades Darker, has finally been released and fans can’t get over their excitement. Fifty Shades Darker is the second instalment in the Fifty Shades trilogy adapted from the novels by E. L. James. It sees the duo walking into an upscale hotel room separately, then one thing leads to another and they begin trashing the room, breaking objects and yelling explicits. ‘Hey @zaynmalik , you and @taylorswift13 are perfect in the video I Don’t Wanna Live Forever, congratulations for the talent!!…
Harrysong has been released from police custody following his arrest that was ordered by former record label, Five Star Music this morning, January 27. The singer’s manager, Desmond, confirmed to us that he left police custody this afternoon and he’s back to work as they plan to resolve the developing issue. Desmond also said people are making a big deal of the matter, which he said isn’t that serious. Harrysong was picked up by Lagos police at his home this morning to meet the state’s Assistant Inspector General who’s in charge of the case between the singer and his former…
A United States court has ruled that US security agents can arrest Senator Buruji Kashamu for drug trafficking. According to a report by Punch newspaper, the court has ordered that Kashamu can be picked up in coordination with local authorities outside the country. It was also reported that the appeal court gave the ruling, while rejecting an appeal by the Senator to prevent his arrest by US security operatives. Buruji has prayed that the court should prevent his abduction by US authorities to face heroin trafficking charges. But according to the court, his arrest in collaboration with local authorities, will…
The Nigerian Army on Thursday said it had taken into custody three suspected Boko Haram terrorists handed over to it by Zurmi Emirate Council in Zamfara. Col. Abdullahi Adamu, the Commanding Officer, 223 Light Tank Batallion of Tactical Operation Unit, Gusau said the suspects were apprehended by the local vigilante in the area. Adamu, who displayed the arms recovered from the suspects, said the three suspects had been moved to the 1 Division, Nigerian Army Kaduna for interrogation. He said the arms recovered were AK 47 riffles, over 600 ammunitions, illicit drugs, charms and other belongings. He said, “Based on…
The rumour of President Muhammadu Buhari’s state of health has been doused with a picture of him and Gov Ibikunle Amosun in UK. The recent picture, which has been going round on Twitter and other social mediums, has the President looking calm on a sofa with Ogun Governor and other personalities. Though the exact location in UK was not given, it is reported that the President is enjoying his 10-day vacation which expires this weekend. President Buhari is expected to return to Nigeria, where he continues his position as the Grand Commander of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the…
There’s no trophy handed out for it but Real Madrid claimed another title last week. And then, three days later, they lost one. Knocked out of the Copa del Rey by Celta de Vigo and their dreams of a treble gone, Zinedine Zidane’s side, European and World champions, are at least Spain’s “Winter Champions” — an honorary title bestowed upon the team that’s top of the table at the half-way stage of the season. It doesn’t mean much but it does mean something. More than those front-page headlines that declared Zidane the champion of his own “virtual league,” impressive though…
What a difference a year makes for John Terry and Chelsea. When the FA Cup fourth round arrived 12 months ago, the London club was in disarray. A temporary manager was at the helm and the team were heading for a 10th-place finish in the Premier League. Terry’s contract was set to expire at the end of the season. Speculation about the club captain’s future was rife. After Chelsea eased into the fifth round with a 5-1 victory over Milton Keynes Dons, the centre-back dropped a bombshell: He announced that the club had told him his deal would not be…
Jose Mourinho hopes to take advantage of Paul Pogba’s friendship with Antoine Griezmann in order to convince the Atletico Madrid striker to move to Manchester United this summer. The Daily Record reports that United failed to entice Griezmann last year, but Manchester hope the France international will change his mind with world-record signing Pogba now on the case. There will be no problem putting a financial package together to satisfy Atletico and Griezmann, but selling the move to the player remains the outstanding issue. United are said to view Griezmann as Wayne Rooney’s long-term replacement at the club due to…
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has demanded that President Muhammadu Buhari addresses Nigerians from the United Kingdom amid ill-health rumours. Buhari is currently in the UK, where official report says he is vacationing, but multiple media reports claim all is not well with the President’s health, which fuelled his death rumour over the weekend. The Presidency, however, insists that the President is hale and hearty, backing it with a photograph supposedly showing Buhari in a relaxed mood and watching a Channels Television program. The picture was said to have been taken at his London residence. On Thursday, January 26, the…
Gov. Rauf Aregbesola of Osun has called for massive investment of the nation’s resources in agriculture to fight hunger and save lives of millions of Nigerians, particularly children. Aregbesola spoke in a statement issued by his media aide, Mr Semiu Okanlawon, in Osogbo on Friday. He said that the only panacea to the current economic crisis in the country was for every government to rise to the occasion and look for alternative means by exploring the abundant potential in agriculture. According to him, only agriculture can rescue the nation from the economic recession currently being experienced as result of oil…