Senator Shehu Sani has alleged that state Governors in the All Progressives Congress (APC) do not respect President Buhari. According to Daily Post, the outspoken Senator said that they don’t even believe in the philosophy of Mr. President. Sani, who recently resigned from the ruling party, also accused the APC chairman, Adams Oshiomhole of being weak. He said “I must be very frank with you, Tinubu has done his best but there is a limit to what he can do. “He isn’t from the North and has a lot of issues to attend to but what was very clear, I…
Author: David Folami
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), is to display register of voters in all the 1, 872 polling units of Kwara state from Tuesday, Nov. 6 to Monday, Nov. 12, 2018. This was contained in a statement on Sunday in Ilorin by the Commission’s Head of Voter Education and Publicity, Mr Jacob Ayanda on behalf of the state’s INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner. Ayanda said the display would allow people with claims and objections to raise such through INEC officials at their wards headquarters at the same period. He also said that collection of Permanent Voter’s Cards (PVC), would be carried…
Leicester City players attended the funeral for club chairman Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, who died in a helicopter crash a week ago, at a Bangkok temple on Sunday on the second day of a ceremony due to last one week. The 60-year-old Thai billionaire died on Oct. 27 with four others when his helicopter crashed next to Leicester’s King Power Stadium. The seven-day funeral started on Saturday in Bangkok. The team — including manager Claude Puel, striker Jamie Vardy and many others — were seen arriving at the temple clad in black suits to pay their respects to the King Power founder.…
AC Milan’s Alessio Romagnoli scored a stoppage-time winner for the second time in five days as they dramatically beat Udinese 1-0 away on Sunday. Defender Romagnoli, who scored a freak winner against Genoa on Wednesday, this time blasted home the ball in the 97th minute after a counterattack to keep his side fourth in Serie A. Milan won the ball in midfield and burst forward with five players against three but took seemingly an age to finish off the move. Patrick Cutrone dallied and was forced to the byline, pulled the ball back for Suso who played it to Romagnoli…
Manchester City made light work of Southampton as three goals inside the opening 18 minutes put them in complete control en route to a 6-1 win. A Wesley Hoedt own goal was quickly followed by a Sergio Aguero strike before David Silva added a third. Southampton did pull a goal back through a Danny Ings penalty — the first City have conceded in the league since Sept. 1 — but Raheem Sterling put any suggestion of a comeback to bed with a fourth in first-half stoppage time. He then added a fifth after the break and Sane made it six…
Maurizio Sarri admitted that Alvaro Morata is “a little bit fragile from the mental point of view” and challenged him to remain focused on contributing to the team’s play if he wants to continue his hot scoring streak for Chelsea. Morata struck once in each half as Chelsea battled to a 3-1 win over Crystal Palace at Stamford Bridge to take his tally to five goals in his last six appearances in all competitions — his most prolific run of form since scoring eight goals in the first eight games of his Blues career to start last season. The Spaniard…
John Obi Mikel’s omission from the Nigeria squad is down to the player himself, and will continue until he makes the decision to return, according to coach Gernot Rohr. China-based Mikel and fellow midfielder Ogenyi Onazi were two of the high profile absentees from Rohr’s latest squad for next month’s 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against South Africa, and a friendly against Uganda three days later in Nigeria. Mikel has not played for Nigeria since the World Cup earlier this year, despite playing for his club Tianjin TEDA, and Rohr said exclusively that the decision was down to the…
Manchester United Chris Smalling has said he and his teammates were “in awe” of Juventus in their recent Champions League clash, and has challenged the players to put things right in their return meeting. Juventus won 1-0 when they visited Old Trafford in a game in which United were punished for a slow start but improved after half-time — something that is becoming a theme of the season for Jose Mourinho’s side. Smalling said that he and his teammates were much improved after the interval, and that gives them the belief that can get something at the Allianz Stadium. “I…
Mauricio Pochettino has warned Kieran Trippier that he needs to improve defensively and remember he is a full-back after Tottenham’s scare against Wolves. Spurs were 3-0 up at Molineux on Saturday but then conceded twice from penalties to claim a 3-2 win. While 20-year-old centre-back Juan Foyth conceded both spot-kicks, Trippier was largely culpable each time, foolishly attempting a nutmeg just outside his own box and then failing to track Jonny’s run. Trippier had earlier set up a goal for Lucas Moura with a trademark cross, but Pochettino has reminded the England international of his defensive duties. “The disappointment is…
Wayne Rooney will win his 120th England cap later this month after Gareth Southgate sanctioned a farewell appearance for the DC United forward against the United States at Wembley on Nov. 15, the English Football Association (FA) has announced. The former Manchester United and Everton captain — England’s all-time leading scorer with 53 goals — has not represented his country since lining up against Scotland at Wembley in November 2016. Rooney, 33, who had by that stage lost his regular starting spot at United under Jose Mourinho, was then omitted from a series of squads by manager Southgate before announcing…
Manchester City made light work of Southampton as three goals inside the opening 18 minutes put them in complete control en route to a 6-1 win. A Wesley Hoedt own goal was quickly followed by a Sergio Aguero strike before David Silva added a third. Southampton did pull a goal back through a Danny Ings penalty — the first City have conceded in the league since Sept. 1 — but Raheem Sterling put any suggestion of a comeback to bed with a fourth in first-half stoppage time. He then added a fifth after the break and Sane made it six…
Alvaro Morata made it four goals in his last four Premier League matches with a brace as he helped Chelsea to a 3-1 victory over Crystal Palace. The Spaniard’s goals came either side of a a well-taken Townsend strike which temporarily gave Palace belief, before Pedro made the points safe. Morata had struggled for form at the beginning of the campaign and eventually became used a back-up option to Olivier Giroud under Maurizio Sarri. However, he appears to have rediscovered his goal scoring touch in recent weeks. Eden Hazard was named on the substitute’s bench, having missed Chelsea’s last three…
Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho is sweating on the fitness of Romelu Lukaku ahead of trips to Juventus and Manchester City. The Belgian was not part of the United team that won 2-1 at Bournemouth on Saturday after picking up an muscle injury in training on Friday. He will be assessed on Sunday before a decision is made about whether to include him the squad which flies to Turin on Tuesday. “I have to wait until Monday,” Mourinho told a news conference at the Vitality Stadium. “He needs these couple of days. It was something in training. We don’t know…
Goalkeeper Bernd Leno says Arsenal’s performance against Liverpool shows they can play with the Premier League’s best teams. The Gunners drew 1-1 against Jurgen Klopp’s side on Saturday after Alexandre Lacazette’s late goal cancelled out a strike by James Milner in a crowd-pleasing heavyweight clash at the Emirates. It was Arsenal’s first point against a top-four rival this season after opening the campaign with losses to Manchester City and Chelsea, Asked by reporters what Saturday’s test meant for the club, Leno said: “That we can take on the big ones. That we can dominate the big ones. “I believe we…
Mauricio Pochettino admits he is concerned by Mousa Dembele’s “very painful” ankle injury after losing another central midfielder. Spurs were already missing Eric Dier and Victor Wanyama when they arrived to face Wolverhampton Wanderers on Saturday, and Dembele then limped off in the opening moments of the 3-2 victory. “We don’t know [how bad it is] but we are a little bit worried,” said Pochettino. “We’ll see. I don’t want to say anything because we need to assess him tomorrow and on Monday. “It was a little bit of a shame, not only because we changed the plan after five…
Jose Mourinho branded his entire team “defensively awful” for their first-half performance at Bournemouth. Marcus Rashford’s goal in stoppage time sealed the win for United after they had gone behind through Callum Wilson’s 10th-minute opener during a spell in which the home side looked capable of scoring several times. “I said at half-time I was the luckiest manager in the Premier League, to be 1-1 in a half where it should be like 5-2 or 6-2 — we were really lucky because we were really poor,” Mourinho told BT Sport after the match “Defensively awful. Absolutely awful. And when I…
Lionel Messi could return to action as soon as Tuesday, coach Ernesto Valverde said after the Blaugrana’s 3-2 victory at Rayo Vallecano. The win was Barca’s third straight without Messi, who is currently out with a broken bone in his right arm. However, Valverde told reporters after the match that Messi could be back for the La Liga leaders’ midweek trip to Milan, where Barca will face Inter in the Champions League. “I think we all play better with Messi in the side,” Valverde said. “We will see how he is in training [on Sunday] with regards to the Inter…
Late goals from Ousmane Dembele and Luis Suarez earned La Liga champions Barcelona a 3-2 win at struggling Rayo Vallecano on Saturday to keep them clear at the top of the standings. Suarez slotted in a cross from Jordi Alba from close range to give Barca a deserved lead in the 11th minute after they had made a flying start at a ground where they had eased to victory in their previous five visits and had not lost since 2002. But Rayo, 19th in the table and with only one win all season, fought their way back into the game…
Maurizio Sarri has confirmed that Victor Moses and Danny Drinkwater are not in his tactical plans this season, but added that he will rotate his team more during the frantic festive fixture schedule. Moses established himself as a key figure at right wing-back under Antonio Conte, but Sarri’s arrival has seen Chelsea switch to a 4-3-3 formation and the Nigerian is once again battling for minutes on the wing with Eden Hazard, Pedro and Willian. Drinkwater, a £30 million signing from Leicester City in the summer of 2017, has not featured in any competition for Chelsea since the Community Shield…
Paulo Dybala scored after 44 seconds for Juventus but they were made to struggle in a 3-1 win over a brave Cagliari team as they stayed six points clear in Serie A on Saturday. Juventus have now won 10 of their 11 league games but they needed the help of an own goal by Filip Bradaric after Joao Pedro had equalised for Cagliari. Dybala gave Juve the perfect start when he received a pass on the edge of the penalty area, twisted one way and then the other and, despite slipping as he struck the ball, scored with a right-foot…