Fernando Torres believes that Atletico Madrid travel to Barcelona on Wednesday at just the right time after emphatically bouncing back with three wins over the past week. The showdown is the first major clash of the La Liga season, but despite their free-scoring form, both sides face the prospect of being cut adrift from league leaders Real Madrid even at this early stage. “It’s a good time to visit Barcelona,” Torres said after netting twice in Atletico’s 5-0 thrashing of Sporting Gijon on Saturday. “It seems like they are playing as we have become accustomed to. They are the most…
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Ahead of Wednesday’s top-of-the-table Bundesliga clash at home to Hertha Berlin, Bayern Munich coach Carlo Ancelotti says he has found a true ‘family’ at the Bavarian giants. “There are clubs which feel like a business and clubs which feel like a family. Here, it’s a family,” the Italian, who has coached at Paris Saint-Germain, Chelsea, AC Milan and Real Madrid, said at the launch of his autobiography in Munich. “I want to remain here more than two years,” he added, although he has a three-year contract which expires in June 2019. Ancelotti replaced Pep Guardiola as Bayern’s head coach this…
Diego Simeone has one of the few feats to elude his hugely successful spell in charge of Atletico Madrid in his sights on Wednesday by claiming a first win in nine attempts at Barcelona’s Camp Nou. Simeone’s biggest achievement as Atletico boss came in winning La Liga at Camp Nou with a 1-1 draw in 2014, but despite also dumping Barca out of the Champions League in two of the last three seasons, the Argentine has yet to taste victory in the Catalan capital. “In almost all the games that we haven’t been able to win it has been due…
Liverpool coach Jurgen Klopp advised Ilkay Guendogan to move to the Premier League this season, as he believed that the playing style in England’s top division suited the creative midfielder, the Manchester City player said on Tuesday. Guendogan, who had worked with Klopp at Borussia Dortmund for four seasons and won the double in 2011-12 as well as reaching the Champions League final in 2013, joined City in the close season and scored on his debut on Saturday against Bournemouth. “To be honest I asked his advice, if the Premier League was the right thing for me,” he told Sport…
Benni McCarthy has offered an explanation of Jose Mourinho’s decision to stick with Wayne Rooney and Marouane Fellaini, as the two players have been blamed for Manchester United’s poor run of form. United have lost three back to back matches and the fans are baying for Rooney and Fellaini’s blood, insisting that the pair must be dropped if the team is to turn the corner. This is the first time in a long while that Mourinho has lost three matches on the trot, with that run of defeats last taking place in 2002 when the manager was still at FC…
After a long wait, the third season of Fox’s hit series “Empire,” is set to return in four days. The drama about a family dynasty, “Empire” returns for a new season on Wednesday, September 21, 2016. In season two finale, Lucious got married to Anika, and the season ended with the possible death of a Lyon. Recently, Terrence Howard, who plays Lucious Lyon, spoke on the upcoming third season, stating that something bad is really going to happen. “In the premiere, there is a lot of heartbreak to come. A lot of betrayal will occur. They have told me that…
Africa Magic Viewers Choice Award winner, OC Ukeje, will star in a historic true life film on Conjestina Achieng. Ukeje will be topping the bill in the story of Conjestina Achieng, the first African woman to win an international boxing championship. The upcoming movie is produced by award winning South African actress and producer, Terry Pheto, who starred in the Oscar winning movie “TsoTsi,” “Mandela,” “Long Walk To Freedom”, “A United Kingdom” (starring David Oyelowo and Rosamund Pike) and “Ayanda.” It will also be co-produced by Rocque pictures, Story Republic and The Polkadot Factory. The film will chronicle Conjestina’s meteoric…
Film director and producer Tope Oshin has honoured the late Amaka Igwe in her new documentary called “Amaka’s Kin: The Women of Nollywood”. Oshin debuted her film at a private screening at Afrinolly in Lagos on September 19, 2016. The documentary featured female filmmakers speaking about their journey, their careers, the influence Amaka Igwe had on them and their challenges of working in a male dominated industry. “Amaka’s Kin” features producers and directors like Michelle Bello, Stephanie Linus, Mildred Okwo, Adeola Osunkojo, Omoni Oboli, and Belinda Yanga Agedah. At the screening, Oshin shared the inspiration behind her production. “The idea…
Faze, a member of the defunct boy band, Plantashun Boiz, has revealed that he owes much of his career success to Blackface. The ‘Originality’ crooner revealed this in an interview published on Saturday, September 17, 2016, by Punch News. According to the singer, Blackface played an inspiring figure in his early career, always encouraging him to take up challenges. He said, “Blackface was the first person to believe in me and he was also the first person to believe in my talent.” “He gave me the required push to succeed as an artiste and made me realise that I had…
Achievas Music artiste, Solidstar, has revealed that women are part of the motivation that spurs him to write good music. While speaking to Vanguard News about his inspiration as an artiste, he said, “I get my inspiration from women; I like being around them but they are just my friends.” “I love to hear what they are saying about themselves.” “So, I get inspired by the words, and I just put one or two of their words into my lyrics and come out with whatever I see around me.” Concerning how he has been able to manage them, the singer…
Nollywood actress, Cossy Orjiakor, has dared the police to arrest her after she named her cats Buhari and Jonathan. She made a post on her Instagram on Friday, September 16, 2016, where she described the sort of officer to arrest her. Orjiakor wrote, “Hmmm my cats Buhari and Goodluck discussing about the Nigerian Economy . dollar rate..” “All i want is a good looking sexy police officer like with Donald duke face. Uti nwachukwu eye.. Psquare flat board chest and ehhhh dbang…no long thing..” “He should come with those sexy handcuffs maybe the purple one I saw one on alibaba…
Vin Diesel has revealed another interesting information regarding his relationship with Paul Walker, stating that the late actor inspired him to become a father. He disclosed this while attending a charity event on Saturday, September 17, 2016, which also had in attendance Walker’s father and brother, Us Magazine reports. “Paul was very instrumental in my segue into fatherhood. He was the one that told me to go to the hospital. He’s the one that told me to cut the umbilical cord.” “He told me to cut the umbilical cord! [He was] the only person, in California, that knew I was…
Comedian Bovi and wife, Kris Asimonye are celebrating their seventh wedding anniversary today, September 19, 2016. His wife Kris shared a very inspiring message of how they started from the scratch. According to her, they lived in an uncompleted building and drove a Cherry QQ. She wrote, “7years together and I have never had a reason to regret accepting to be your wife. You chased me with every word, every conviction, every dream, but shi shi you did not have . Oh I remember your first car, a cherry QQ it was smaller than a picanto, and the uncompleted bunker…
Media personality, Toke Makinwa is the cover star for the debut issue of Fame Extra Magazine. With an editorial spread tagged The Rebirth, Toke talks about her dating life, misconceptions about marriage and more. On being single and dating again, Toke tells Fame Extra, “It’s tricky! It’s exactly like learning to ride a bike again but I think I am doing very well. Of course you get the initial stumble and fall off but the key is to accept that things are different now and that’s ok. My first date after my separation, I cried on my way home as…
Singer Victoria Kimani has a word of advice for her Kenyan sisters. The Choc city star took to Instagram today, September 19, 2016, saying she’s tired of young girls in Kenya being pressured by society to become over glorified prostitutes. She wrote, “I want young girls in Kenya NOT to be pressured by society to become over glorified prostitutes… Finish school …. You don’t have to be a hoe to be relevant, NEVER trade RESPECT for ATTENTION. I Love you … I would never lead you astray.” The East African singer recently released her first song ‘GOTA’ in her native…
Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State on Saturday, September 17, urged contractors handling the 114 road projects in the state to speed up work or be sanctioned. Ambode, who was represented by his Deputy, Dr Idiat Adebule, made the call at the inauguration of one the roads in Ikorodu North Local Council Development Area of the state. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the government planned to inaugurate all the 113 roads between Sept.19 and Sept. 24. Ambode commended the company, DC-Engineering Ltd., which handled the Jimoh St., project for completing the road within the stipulated six months.…
President Muhammadu Buhari has arrived New York, United States ahead of the 71st Session of the United Nations General Assembly. Buhari’s arrival follows an explosion which rocked a crowded Chelsea neighbourhood in Manhattan, New York, on Saturday night. Authorities are yet to ascertain the cause of the explosion but they ruled out a case of possible gas leak. As at the time of filing this report, it was not certain if it was a terror attack. Buhari is expected to will deliver Nigeria’s statement at the opening of the General Debate of the Assembly, which begins from September 19 to…
Former Minister of National Guidance, Alhaji Yusuf Maitama-Sule, has called for a ban on public officers convicted of looting public funds from partaking in partisan politics and holding public office. Maitama-Sule told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kano on Sunday that the ban should be backed by law passed by the National Assembly. “But this will be possible when there is a law to back it and we hope the law will be enacted soon to support the idea,” he said. He noted that the fear of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) by public officers is…
Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno State said he abandoned the use of bullet proof cars as an act of sympathy with the suffering masses who have no means of self protection from terrorists. Shettima stated this on Sunday, September 18, in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Maiduguri. He said that the action was also aimed at showing that the terrorists have no supernatural powers. “We have to dare the terrorists; I have bullet proof cars, but I do not use them; I want to be exposed to the elements as the ordinary people do,” Shettima…
Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has described President Muhammadu Buhari as the major problem Nigerians must solve. In a statement issued on Sunday, September 18, by his spokesman, Lere Olayinka, the Governor said the the President is destroying the essence of Nigeria. He said: “Our President, through his actions and inactions is destroying everything that makes Nigeria a country and well-meaning. Nigerians must stand-up to be counted in the crusade to save the country from going under.” Fayose said Buhari should note that “Nigerians will not measure his government on the basis of what his predecessors failed to do, but…