The animosity between Terry Tha Rapman and Ikechukwu is far from over. After Terry and his younger sister, Joy Madaki dragged the rapper-cum-actor on Instagram on Tuesday, January 10, 2017, for mentioning their family during an interview on the “Loose Talk” podcast on Monday, January 9, 2017, Terry says he has no beef with Ikechukwu. During an interview with Hip TV, Terry said he has had enough of being told to keep calm and ignore when a shot is thrown at him. He called Ikechukwu out for bringing up forgotten issues and dragging his ex-fiance, Sarah Ofili, who is a…
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“Luther” and “The Wire” actor Idris Elba has offered fans a chance to “pound my yams” during a date with him to raise money for an African charity. “Hi there. Idris Elba here. I’d like you to be my Valentine. That’s right love, just you and me, no one else around, just us,” he said in an online video. The British star of west African origin is offering a fan and their guest a chance to share a meal with him at his undisclosed favourite restaurant. “Once we’re feeling comfortable, we can order whatever your heart desires,” he says, quaffing…
Manchester United striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic is convinced he has already proved a success in English football. Ibrahimovic, 35, has scored 18 goals since joining United on a free transfer from Paris Saint-Germain last summer. With 13 of those strikes coming in the Premier League, the former Sweden international trails the competition’s top scorer Diego Costa by just one. But he insists winning that race is not a concern because he feels he has already made his mark. Ibrahimovic told the club’s website: “I’m chasing the head trophy — the Premier League. That is my aim. “The individual things come as…
Jurgen Klopp has said the note he handed to Daniel Sturridge in Liverpool’s EFL Cup loss to Southampton was simply to explain the switch to a 3-5-2 formation. Liverpool lost out 1-0 at St Mary’s in Wednesday night’s semifinal first leg, with Nathan Redmond scoring the only goal on a night when Southampton could have established a more substantial advantage. Sturridge appeared nonplussed by a change of tactics in the second half, with other Liverpool players also bemused by Klopp’s switch. The former Borussia Dortmund manager said he had failed to get his message across to his players quickly enough.…
Leicester City manager Claudio Ranieri believes N’Golo Kante is better suited for the Foxes than current club Chelsea, but admits he’s not surprised at the midfielder’s early success at Stamford Bridge. Kante spurned Leicester for a £30 million move to Antonio Conte’s Blues last summer, and has been a fixture in the Chelsea midfield since arriving in London. Kante, 25, was one of the key figures in Leicester’s improbable run to the Premier League title last season and has seen his absence felt strongly this term as Ranieri’s men currently sit just 15th in the table. And Ranieri told the…
Everton have completed the signing of midfielder Morgan Schneiderlin from Manchester United. Schneiderlin had fallen out of favour at United under Jose Mourinho and has now sealed a four-and-a-half year deal that ties him to the Toffees until 2021. Everton confirmed a transfer fee of an initial £20 million fee rising to £24m for the France international. United paid Southampton £24m for Schneiderlin in 2015. The 27-year-old should be available to play against Manchester City on Sunday after reuniting with Everton boss Ronald Koeman, for whom he previously played at Southampton. “Everton is a big club in the history of…
Karim Benzema scored with the final kick of the game to give Real Madrid a 3-3 draw at Sevilla in the Copa del Rey and extend their unbeaten run to 40 games, breaking Barcelona’s record for Spanish clubs. Zinedine Zidane’s men have not lost since a 2-0 defeat at Wolfsburg in the Champions League last season, going on to record 30 wins and 10 draws. Madrid broke the previous record for a Spanish club of 39 unbeaten games in all competitions, set last season by archrivals Barcelona. With Real enjoying a 3-0 advantage from the first leg, Zidane chose to…
Real Madrid left-back Marcelo said his team had never doubted that their record unbeaten run was about to end, even as they came from 3-1 down to draw 3-3 in Thursday’s Copa del Rey last-16 second leg at Sevilla. Sevilla went into the game 3-0 behind from last week’s first leg, but Jorge Sampaoli’s supercharged side unsettled Madrid from the start and were ahead early through visiting right-back Danilo’s own goal. Even after Madrid youngster Marco Asensio equalised after an 80-yard solo run, Sevilla went back in front with goals from debutant Stevan Jovetic and Vicente Iborra. Madrid were two…
2 weeks after Olamide‘s sixth studio album, The Glory, was released, it has made its way to the number six spot on the 2017 Billboard World Albums chart. He joins the likes of Adekunle Gold, Kiss Daniel, Patoranking and Reminisce who have previously appeared on the chart. The Glory, was released on December 26 during his OLIC 3 concert.
Chelsea captain John Terry will serve a one-match suspension after the Football Association on Tuesday thwarted his attempt to overturn his FA Cup dismissal against Peterborough United. Terry was shown a straight red card in the 67th minute of Sunday’s third-round tie at Stamford Bridge, which Chelsea won 4-1, for a last-man foul on Peterborough’s Lee Angol. Chelsea submitted an appeal against referee Kevin Friend’s decision, but the FA rejected it, ruling Terry out of Saturday’s trip to Premier League champions Leicester City. “John Terry will serve a one-match suspension with immediate effect after his wrongful dismissal claim was unsuccessful,…
Ekiti State Governor, Ayo Fayose has accused President Muhammadu Buhari of dividing the country. Fayose also said that Buhari wants to destroy Nigeria like he did as a military ruler in 1984. The governor made the comments via a statement released by his media aide, Lere Olayinka. Fayose was reacting to the sack of the Executive Secretary of the Financial Regulatory Council (FRC) of Nigeria, Jim Obazee over the resignation of Pastor Enoch Adeboye. The statement reads in part: “When they realised the implication of their action on President Mohammadu Buhari’s 2019 ambition, especially the personality like Pastor Adeboye that’s…
The National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas (NUPENG) has suspended its three-day warning strike barely 24 hours after it commenced. The union president, Igwe Achese, announced the suspension after a meeting with the minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige and other top government officials. NUPENG expressed satisfaction with the commitment shown by the government at the meeting, which was also attended by the leadership of Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) and other stakeholders in the oil sector. NUPENG embarked on the strike on Wednesday, January 11, in protest of the sacking of over…
Borno State Governor, Kashim Shettima, has asked the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) to leave the state. The Governor alleged that the organisation is “exploiting” the victims of Boko Haram insurgency. According to The Cable, Shettima also accused some other aid groups in the region of siphoning money meant for the displaced people. Speaking to newsmen in Maiduguri, the Governor said only eight of the 126 registered agencies in Borno have “truly assisted” internally displaced persons (IDPs). He listed the commendable aid organizations as the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP), the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the International…
The President of the Senate, Dr Bukola Saraki, has said the Senate is bigger than every sitting Senator. Saraki said this on Wednesday in Abuja while dismissing insinuation that there was social discontent in the Senate over removal of Sen. Ali Ndume as Senate Leader. The Senate President, who spoke to State House correspondents after a closed door meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari, said: “The institution is bigger than every senator. “There is no crisis in the National Assembly, things like this do happen and as you said the institution is bigger than everybody and I am sure that he…
Kim Kardashian has reportedly been told that her $4million diamond ring is unlikely to reappear. The diamond ring given to her by Kanye West has probably been shipped straight to Antwerp’s diamond district in Belgium after robbers took it from her Parisian apartment. The prosecutor’s office said this week that the jewels had not been retrieved. Five people disguised as police arrived at the apartment hotel where Kardashian West was staying during Paris Fashion Week in October, and stole valuables including a ring valued at 4 million euros and a jewellery box valued at 5 million euros. Kardashian West, who…
French police suspect that a 72-year-old convicted cocaine dealer was among five masked gunmen who broke into Kim Kardashian’s apartment and robbed her of jewels worth millions last year, sources close to the probe said Wednesday. Pierre B. – nicknamed “Pierrot” – was arrested Monday at a villa near the Mediterranean in a series of coordinated raids in Paris and the south of the country over the October 3 robbery. Since his conviction for cocaine trafficking in 2006 he had appeared on the police radar “from time to time” over his links to criminal gangs in southern France, a local…
Drake has reportedly just bought his new beau Jennifer Lopez a pretty expensive necklace. E! News reports the 30-year-old rapper dropped $100,000 on a platinum and diamond Tiffany Victoria necklace for Jennifer Lopez last week. We learned he gave the jewellery to her as a gift on New Year’s Eve to prove his love for her. This is not the first time the OVO boss would be buying an extravagant gift for a lady. Last year after Rihanna won the 2016 MTV Video Vanguard Award Drake surprised her with a billboard, which read, “Congratulations to Rihanna from Drake and Everyone…
Luis Enrique says it would have been ridiculous to doubt Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez and Neymar after the South American trio fired Barcelona into the quarterfinal of the Copa del Rey with a 3-1 win over Athletic Bilbao on Wednesday. Barca had failed to win either of their opening two games since the turn of the year, while Neymar was without a goal since October in all competitions for his club. However, all three were on target as the Blaugrana overturned a first-leg deficit against Athletic to keep alive their hopes of winning the Spanish Cup for a third consecutive…
Ronaldinho has revealed in The Players’ Tribune that the proudest moment of his career was “helping to change football in Barcelona” through his style of play. The former Brazil international won the World Cup, the Champions League, La Liga, Serie A and the Ballon d’Or in a career spanning three decades. But he said he looked back most fondly on the impact he made at Barcelona after joining from Paris Saint-Germain in 2003. In a letter to his eight-year-old self, he wrote: “What you’ll be most proud of is helping to change football in Barcelona through your style of play.…
Southampton head to Liverpool in the driving seat after Nathan Redmond’s strike secured a narrow victory in the EFL Cup semifinal first leg. Jurgen Klopp’s men finished runners-up in the competition last season and return to Anfield needing to overturn a 1-0 loss to the side they have raided for key players in recent years. Redmond’s first-half strike was the difference at a packed-out St Mary’s, bringing a timely end to Southampton’s four-match winless run in all competitions on their first appearance in the last four of a major competition since 2003. Claude Puel’s men rallied manfully after a sluggish…