Senator Shehu Sani has blasted the killing of 10 people allegedly by herdsmen in Birnin Gwari Local Government of Kaduna state. Sani said “There’s a fresh attack by Gunmen in my constituency, Birnin Gwari LG, Kaduna state today, killing scores of people. “My condolences to the families of the deceased. I will surely raise this on the floor of the senate on our resumption, Insha Allah.” Senator Shehu Sani had earlier called on President Buhari to forget about calls for him to run in 2019, and fix the herdsmen problem.
Author: David Folami
Mauricio Pochettino praised the way his Tottenham team has responded to last month’s one-sided defeat at Manchester City after they thrashed Everton 4-0 on Saturday. “Manchester City was a tough defeat,” Pochettino said. “They were so clinical. The game wasn’t bad [for us], only that they were and are in an amazing moment. It was so important to work hard, try to keep going and show we can win games and fight for big things. “Always the character is so important when you receive this type of defeat — you have to stand up and start to win games. I’m…
Georginio Wijnaldum has refused to praise himself for luring Virgil van Dijk to Liverpool, admitting that his only advice to his Netherlands international teammate was to “follow his heart.” “We spoke a few times. I told him how the club was and everything,” Wijnaldum told the Liverpool Echo ahead of Sunday’s clash with Manchester City. “I told him whatever decision you make just follow your heart. “You have to deal with that. You do what you want to do. Liverpool is a great club.” Wijnaldum says Van Dijk has slotted seamlessly into Jurgen Klopp’s setup, hailing his calming effect on…
Jose Mourinho has said he only has “contempt” for his war of words with Antonio Conte after two weeks of trading insults with the Chelsea boss. “I think when a person insults another, you can expect a response. “Or you can expect contempt, silence. “The first time he insulted me I had a response, a response that I know that touched the point where he really feels hurt. “Then he insulted me for a second time, but now I change, and now contempt and for me, contempt means end of the story.” Mourinho added: “Zlatan is injured or is not…
Ernesto Valverde wants Barcelona to overcome the disadvantage of having played on Thursday to win at Real Sociedad in La Liga for the first time since 2007. It makes an already difficult task even more difficult, with Barca having failed to win in each of their last seven visits to Anoeta in the league, losing five of them. “Not playing in midweek is an advantage for La Real,” Valverde said in a news conference on Saturday. “It’s the same story with our game against [Real] Betis, who we play in the league next weekend after our midweek game [against Espanyol…
Jose Mourinho has left the door open for Henrikh Mkhitaryan to exit Manchester United this month but insists the midfielder is still part of his plans at Old Trafford. Mourinho said: “My approach to players is that every player has a price, doesn’t matter who he is, doesn’t matter the level, doesn’t matter the prestige, the status, I think every player has a price. “I’m not the kind of blind manager, blind in the sense of this player is untouchable, this player we can never sell, I think every player has a price. “So when the transfer window is open…
Thibaut Courtois has blasted Chelsea supporters for “booing and whistling” during Saturday’s 0-0 home draw with Leicester City. “I know we as a team didn’t have a good game, it was our third goalless draw, but we need the fans here at Stamford Bridge to get behind the team and not, when a player has a bad pass or a bad shot, start booing and whistling,” Courtois told Chelsea TV. “I don’t think we’re playing a bad season.” “It’s important that the fans must know that we want to play out from the back,” he added. “And they don’t have…
Manchester United are increasingly confident of winning the race to sign Alexis Sanchez from Arsenal, with sources saying that Jose Mourinho first raised the prospect of using Henrikh Mkhitaryan as leverage for a deal last summer. Speaking before the match, Arsene Wenger said: “He is being vague at the moment. His situation is not completely decided one way or the other. “Yes, don’t read too much into it because I don’t know what way it’ll go. You want to focus on the players who are on the pitch.” Manchester City had been regarded as the favourites to sign the 29-year-old…
Liverpool have not made an offer to move up their acquisition of Naby Keita to this month, RB Leipzig sporting director Ralf Rangnick has said. Leipzig do not want to lose Keita this month as they still remain in a battle to secure Champions League qualification for next campaign and find themselves in the round-of-32 of this season’s Europa League. Keita scored for Leipzig on Saturday as the home side defeated Schalke 3-1 to move to second in the Bundesliga. Director Rangnick has said there had been no contact from Liverpool about changing the existing agreement, reported to worth some…
Diego Simeone refused to say whether Atletico Madrid deserved to win a tight game on Saturday after his side held on to beat Eibar 1-0. Simeone said that it was a tactical decision to “take refuge” upon going ahead, and shrugged off questions about Atletico’s merit in taking all three points. “I will never speak about justice, whether I win a match or lose a match,” Simeone said after the game. “The result is what it is. “The situations in front of goal are important for us to know that the team is in good shape.” But Simeone was careful…
Everton’s squad can expect a rough up on the training pitch this week after Sam Allardyce promised to remove any unprofessionalism in their ranks following Saturday’s heavy 4-0 defeat at Tottenham. “It’s out of order,” Allardyce said. “[You have to] play your way back into the game and be professional about it. It shocked me. I haven’t seen it since I got here. I’ve got to cut it out, starting tomorrow. “Tottenham can beat anybody by a lot of goals but they should have had to work a lot harder than they did. “When you go two goals down after…
Petr Cech has taken the blame for Bournemouth’s equaliser in Arsenal’s 2-1 loss on Sunday, saying he “should have done better.” “Obviously, the first one I’m disappointed with because I thought I was going to cut the cross on time,” Cech told the Arsenal website. “Wilson arrived faster in front of me. It’s a matter of split seconds, but I think I should have done better on that.” “The second one had an element of luck,” Cech said. “It was a good long ball behind but it was everybody’s ball and it fell right in front of the player and…
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain has said that he is benefiting from increased responsibility at Liverpool under Jurgen Klopp. “I just think I needed to be one of the players in the team that was one of the ones demanding to go and change the game — get assists and get goals,” he said. “I’ve really been encouraged and pushed to do that.” “I’ve been trying to push myself,” he continued. “I came here to do that and I knew it was time for me to change things and improve myself. I’ve just been focused on doing that. “The manager has been really…
Arsene Wenger has admitted that Arsenal were “lacklustre” in attack in Sunday’s 2-1 loss at Bournemouth, and lamented “very surprising mistakes” on the goals conceded. “We looked a bit lacklustre in the final third, not sharp enough to create chances,” Wenger told a news conference. “When you are 1-0 up normally you should create more to be dangerous and we paid for that.” “We made two very surprising mistakes that were not even forced errors, it was just a lack of decision-making, and overall you come out of the game thinking: how did we lose the game?” Wenger said. “When…
Christian Pulisic has droped his two cent on the Lionel Messi vs. Cristiano Ronaldo debate, arguing that the Barcelona star would make any team in the world better. “Nothing against Ronaldo because I’ve seen it first hand, he’s an unbelievable player,” Pulisic said. “It’s not an easy one [who is better], but I would say Messi because growing up he was always my favourite.” Pulisic is a rising star of the game, but the U.S international picked out Kylian Mbappe and former Dortmund teammate Ousmane Dembele as fellow stars of the future. “We’ve played against certain players, Mbappe, even when…
Mauricio Pochettino has said he is placing all his focus on the present and not paying attention to speculation that he may be offered a chance to coach Real Madrid next season. “Football will take me where football wants to,” Pochettino said. “[Former Argentina international] Jorge Grifa, who was like a second father to me, would tell me, ‘Don’t think too much, enjoy the present, be professional and responsible and let football take you where it wants to.'” Pochettino also said Real’s ups and downs this season are a part of football. “That’s football everywhere, not just in Spain but…
Ousmane Dembele will be absent for the next four weeks with a left hamstring problem, with Barcelona saying the injury has nothing to do with the surgery he underwent earlier in the season. The France international resumed training in December and then returned earlier this month as a second-half substitute in the Copa del Rey game at Celta Vigo. He then started Barca’s league win over Levante and came on as a substitute in the return leg against Celta and against Real Sociedad on Sunday, when he sustained his latest injury. “After the game against Real Sociedad, Dembele had a…
Jupp Heynckes has called Manchester City’s Kevin De Bruyne “the best player in Europe” and questioned the money paid by Manchester United for Paul Pogba in 2016. “De Bruyne didn’t play that well last year but I would give the shirt off my back for him,” Heynckes told kicker in an in-depth interview. “You must have a player like him in his position. He is far and away the best player in Europe at the moment.” Pogba won the Europa League and League Cup in his first season at Old Trafford and has scored three goals and set up seven…
Louis van Gaal has said he made Manchester United continue paying up his contract by turning down the Belgium job as an act of “revenge” and says he still blames former players for his Old Trafford exit. Van Gaal was sacked two years into his three-year deal and would have had to give up a portion of his pay-off to take another job. “It would have been really great if I had become Belgium national coach, but I was so resentful and vindictive that I let that job go by,” Van Gaal told De Volkskrant. “It was stupid, really, because…
Arsene Wenger has said the future of Alexis Sanchez will most likely be settled within the next couple of days. Asked about his future at the postmatch news conference, he said: “Look, if Alexis goes we need to replace him. “When you look today we missed many players in our squad, and if players like Alexis go, we have of course to respond to it. “Will he go or not? I do not know, but at the moment it’s the transfer period and in this kind of period you try to use the players that are completely focused at being…