Longtime member of Kanye West‘s team, Rhymefest has spoken out, begging the rapper to seek mental and spiritual counselling. Rhymefest, a Grammy and Oscar award winning co-writer of Yeezy’s hits “Jesus Walks” and “New Slaves” took to Twitter to plead with Kanye West to find healing through a professional. The Chicago based writer tweeted: “My brother needs help, in the form of counseling. Spiritual & mental. He should step away from the public & yesmen & heal. Rhymefest and Kanye West parted ways last month when the writer walked away from West’s newly released album, The Life Of Pablo. The…
Author: David Folami
Juventus midfielder Paul Pogba has revealed that he got some advice from Ballon d’Or winner Lionel Messi at last month’s awards ceremony in Zurich. Barcelona forward Messi, 28, was officially recognised as the world’s best player for a record fifth time ahead of Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo and club teammate Neymar. Pogba, 22, finished 15th in the voting for the top prize and was also included in FIFA’s team of the year for 2015. The France international told Telefoot that he appreciated how Messi had sought him out in order to congratulate him. “He really touched me because he came…
Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal has said he had to convince the club to buy midfielder Bastian Schweinsteiger from Bayern Munich in the summer. Van Gaal — who backed Schweinsteiger to get back to his best after a patchy start to his Old Trafford career — told United’s official website he had needed to make the case for the Germany international because of his age. He said: “Manchester United has bought him even though he is now 31, so I had to convince the board to buy him because he’s a very good player and he always gives a…
Leicester City manager Claudio Ranieri said he was angry with the referee after his league leaders slipped to a heartbreaking stoppage-time loss against title rivals Arsenal having played most of the second half with 10 men. Having taken the lead and fashioned the clearest scoring chances in a pulsating first half, two quick bookings for fullback Danny Simpson shortly after the restart turned the tide of the game. Arsenal’s Theo Walcott cancelled out Jamie Vardy’s opener on 70 minutes and Danny Welbeck snatched a last-gasp winner. “If I think about the match I am very, very angry. An international referee…
Tottenham Hotspur have suffered so many false dawns that even their most ardent fans had long given up hope of their team ever winning the league title but Sunday’s 2-1 victory at Manchester City has changed all that. Spurs’ triumph at the Etihad Stadium, where they had lost on their last five visits, moved them within two points of Premier League leaders Leicester City and kept them in second place above Arsenal on goal difference with 12 matches to play. All eyes have been on Leicester’s remarkable rise to the top of the table, after being bottom and facing relegation…
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger confessed that he had glimpsed the grim apparition of Premier League title failures past during his side’s nerve-jangling 2-1 victory over leaders Leicester City. At halftime of Sunday’s table-topping showdown at the Emirates Stadium, Leicester led 1-0 through Jamie Vardy’s penalty and Arsenal were staring down the barrel of an eight-point deficit to the summit. But after Leicester’s Danny Simpson was sent off, substitutes Theo Walcott and Danny Welbeck struck to lift Wenger’s side to within two points of first place and rekindle hopes of a first league crown since 2004. “A loss today (Sunday) would…
Nigeria’s all important Africa Cup of Nations Group G qualifier with Egypt has been moved back by three days according to the Nigeria Football Federation. The clash with the Pharaohs of Egypt was earlier scheduled for 23 March 2016 at the Ahmadu Bello Stadium, Kaduna but will now be played on the 26th at the same venue. Media Officer of the NFF, Ademola Olajire, told supersport.com that Caf has given their blessings for the new date for the clash. “We were given the option to chose the dates between 23-26 of March and we choose the 26th, which is a…
One week after Liverpool fans streamed out of Anfield in protest over ticket prices, home supporters were also leaving Villa Park early on Sunday after Jurgen Klopp’s side handed Aston Villa a 6-0 thrashing that the German described as “good for the soul”. Liverpool made short work of the Premier League’s bottom side with goals from Daniel Sturridge, James Milner, Emre Can, Divock Origi, Nathaniel Clyne and Kolo Toure putting the Merseysiders back in the hunt for a European berth. Liverpool moved up to eighth in the table with the win, just two points outside the top six, while the…
Louis van Gaal conceded that Manchester United may need to win the Europa League to qualify for next season’s Champions League after a 2-1 defeat at Sunderland on Saturday. Bidding to close the six-point gap separating them from the Champions League places, United fell behind in the third minute when Wahbi Khazri’s free-kick from wide on the Sunderland left crept in. Anthony Martial levelled before half-time, but an unfortunate 82nd-minute own goal by United goalkeeper David de Gea gifted Sunderland the points and increased the pressure on embattled United manager Van Gaal. “It will be very difficult now (to finish…
Southampton’s 1-0 win over Swansea City on Saturday is the latest positive result in a solid run of form that has given manager Ronald Koeman belief that his side can finish in the European places this season. Shane Long sealed all three points for Southampton in the 69th minute, allowing Koeman’s team to extend their unbeaten Premier League run to six matches and the manager urged his players to ride the momentum to qualification for Europe. The win moved Southampton up to sixth, ahead of West Ham United on goal difference and a point behind Manchester United. The top four…
Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini criticised the appointment of referee Mark Clattenburg for the pivotal game against Premier League title rivals Tottenham which saw his team slump to a 2-1 defeat on the back of a controversial penalty decision. Clattenburg awarded a spot-kick for handball against Raheem Sterling when a cross from Tottenham’s Danny Rose hit the City winger on the back of the arm. And having been in charge when Tottenham won the reverse fixture 4-1 at White Hart Lane in September, when Pellegrini felt two of the home side’s goals should have been disallowed, the City boss claimed…
Gov. Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State says the state government plans to enroll no fewer than 1.2 million pupils in primary schools across the 23 local governments of the state in the next nine months. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Tambuwal made the disclosure in Sokoto on Saturday at the maiden edition of Youths Education and Empowerment summit organised by an NGO, “Arewa Transformation Initiatives”. The summit was organised in conjunction with the Office of Special Adviser on Media and Public Affairs. ”Our target for the year is about 1.4 million pupils, but we have now targeted…
The Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, said on Monday that a critical pillar of the Buhari presidency is transparency, especially in the extractive industry. “It is important for us that we handle our resources with transparency and good governance,” he told a delegation of the global body, Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), during a meeting at the Presidential Villa Abuja. The Minister of State for Budget & Planning, and the former Executive Secretary of the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI), Mrs Zainab Ahmed, was also in attendance. “One of the objectives that we have set for ourselves is to…
The Federal Government of Nigeria has made known its plans to reduce the amount of borrowing needed to fund the 2016 budget from funds mopped up from government agencies through the implementation of the Treasury Single Account. Currently, the 2016 budget submitted by President Muhammadu Buhari has a deficit of N2.2tn. The deficit is to be realised be financed through the borrowing of N1.84tn made up of domestic borrowing of N984bn and foreign borrowing of N900bn. Due to the global fall in oil price, there are concerns that the deficit may rise to the tune of N3tn at a Benchmark…
The Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, has pledged its support for Nigeria in case they need any financial assistance. She opined that devaluation might not be a good alternative for the country as it seeks to solve its current economic challenges. Lagarde stated, “The IMF remains available to all its members; so, the moment we are asked to help, we’ll do the best we can to help. Both countries, Azerbaijan and Nigeria, have been hard hit by the oil price decline shock, because their economies depend heavily on oil exports, both in terms of trade, and…
The Federal Government is taking its bid to improve its annual income very seriously. It has resorted to increase the salary of Custom officers in order to give motivation to men of the service. While at a senate hearing on the review of revenue projections in the 2016 budget in Abuja on Tuesday, the Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun said that the government was working on the introduction of performance-related pay for the NCS to motivate improved revenue collection and reduce corruption. She stated that, “This exercise found that the provision of modern equipment, elimination of inappropriate waivers and…
Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun during the Efficiency Unit, media round stated that it is highly important for the government to use its purchasing power to make beneficial bargains for the country and also further enhance transparency by introducing price guidelines. “We have some professionals working with us. We have people that will support, provide data to ensure that they conform to the guidelines, even in operations,” Adeosun said through her representative, Patience Oniha. Adeosun stated that, if a 5% discount was secured on the average annual expenditure of N83 billion on travels then the government would save N4.14 billion…
The senate president, Bukola Saraki has made known his assessment concerning the state of the economy when he revealed that poor budgeting has been the problem of the country in the last 16 years. Saraki made this known in a statement released by his Chief Press Secretary Sanni Onogu, during an interactive session with Civil Society Organisations on the 2016 budget in Abuja. He expressed that the National Assembly is making efforts to introduce legislations that will “boost internally generated revenues by plugging the loopholes that exist in our system and encouraging the small and medium-scale business owners in our…
Fresh reports hint that Senate President, Bukola Saraki has kicked off fresh moves to reach out to President Muhammadu Buhari and the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, over his Code of Conduct Tribunal trial. According to a report by Punch Newspaper, following the Supreme Court judgment on his trial at the CCT, the Senate President had began moves to seek favours from the President and Tinubu. Though the moves by Saraki are said to have been indirect, he is rumoured to be desperate to reach a favourable agreement with the top political figures before the…
Gov. Kashim Shettima of Borno has commended the Military for their sacrifice in restoring peace in the North-East. Shettima stated this while speaking with newsmen in Maiduguri. “ The military has recorded tremendous achievements in the past six months, we are now consolidating the emerging peace in the state. “It is wrong for anyone to say that the Boko Haram are in control, yes you might have pockets of them trying to foment mischief, but eventually, we shall overcome the hiccups. “We are all living witnesses to what is happening in Borno, you and I know that in the last…