Leicester manager Claude Puel has urged England boss Gareth Southgate to play Jamie Vardy and Harry Kane together as a strike partnership. “I think it would be a good opportunity perhaps if they could play together because it would be a good balance between Jamie and Harry,” said Puel, whose side host Tottenham in the Premier League on Tuesday night. “Harry can play a little further back because he likes to play and participate with his teammates and Jamie likes to take space and play behind the defenders. It is a good balance between them both.” Asked how to stop…
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David Moyes has begged David Unsworth to exit Everton and find his own way in management. “If he doesn’t take the Everton job I think I would tell ‘Unsy’ to go and manage somewhere and earn your corn,” said Moyes. “If you want to move on go and get a job in the Championship or League One. “I think there has been a generation of really good players out there who I believe should go and manage and try and come up. “I would say earn your stripes first and show you can organise so that you can control the…
Juventus goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon has said he could still play for Italy again, despite announcing his retirement from international football earlier this month. “I’ve taken a bit of a break,” he said. “I’ve reached a certain age now. “I’ve always been a soldier on call for duty for the national team and Juve, so I could never desert them — I’ve always got to be ready. Even when I am 60, if disease struck all goalkeepers then I would be ready because that is how I view the notion of a national team.” “The amount of disappointment was enormous,” he…
Jose Mourinho believes Marco Silva’s Watford are a far better side than the one that gave Manchester United a cruel beating last season. “Against Watford I was very upset with Watford’s first goal after some guy sent [Anthony] Martial to the hospital and the referee let it go,” Mourinho said. “That is the reason why I was very, very upset at Watford. I think Watford made also progress. “They have an unusual squad for a mid-table team. “They have a squad full of very good players who are not normal to be in these mid-table teams. They have a good…
Even though she didn’t win big like Wizkid and Tiwa Savage, Seyi Shay was the centre of attention at this year’s All Africa Music Awards after falling on stage while performing. While speaking with Sunday Scoop, the singer said she was so bitter with everyone when she went backstage. She said, “At backstage, I was blaming everyone. I blamed my stylist, the designer, and my manager. I even blamed the stage. But the truth is that what is meant to be will be. I think with every lesson, there is a blessing. “I knew that when I got off the…
Hip-hop producer and recording artist J. Cole put on a show-stopping live performance at the du Arena on Friday on day two of the 2017 Formula 1 Etihad Airways Abu Dhabi Grand Prix After-Race Concerts. Cole performed a live rendition of his latest studio album, 4 Your Eyez Only, which had fans chanting along. He also treated fans to hits from earlier mixtapes including Cole World: The Sideline Story and his earliest work, Born Sinner. Cole stepped in for previously announced Kendrick Lamar who pulled out for ‘personal reasons’. Dubai’s DJ, Dany Neville opened the show for Cole who closed…
Come December 2nd, headliners for the 2017 edition of Hennessy artistry concert, will be king of afro-dancehall, Timaya, versatile rapper cum songwriter, Falz, voice of the street and legendary rapper, Olamide and new school king, Ycee, will light up Lagos with music jamboree. According to the organisers, the concert which is scheduled to hold at Eko Atlantic City, Victoria Island, Lagos is a unique integrated global platform that brings the art of blending to life by creating exceptional consumer moments through a fusion of music, art culture and creative talent. The invite-only concert will exceed all expectations with a spectacular…
Over 4,000 children and their parents were excited last weekend at the 2017 NickFest, a programme organised by family entertainment TV channel, Nickelodeon. The event, which held at the Balmoral Convention Centre in Victoria Island, Lagos, attracted popular entertainment stars such as Yemi Alade, Falz, Mr. Eazi, Dare Art Alade, Simi, Julius Agwu and Chioma Akpotha. According to a statement, the hosts for the day, IK Osakioduwa, and comedienne, Emmanuella, kept the children’s mood alive with their effervescent presence. “The highlight of the festival, especially for the children, came with the arrival of the incredible Nickelodeon character shows, Shimmer and…
This is what we the fans want from this two African biggest artiste, Davido and Wizkid. Recently, Davido and Wizkid crew fought at backstage after the One Africa Music Festival at Dubai which has been the topic on social media. Not quite long, a video of Wizkid and Davido hit the Internet which shows the two artistes hugging each other friendly. This is actually what we want from this guys and we hope nothing will happen this time around. Hopefully, they might drop a song anytime soon.
On Wednesday, Denzel Washington shared his thoughts on the tattoo Drake got of the actor’s face in September. “Drake recently got a tattoo of you, did you know this?” Jimmy Fallon asked the Academy Award-winning actor, referring to the still of Washington as Bleek Gilliam from the 1990 jazz film, Mo’ Better Blues, that Drake recently got from Toronto-based tattoo artist Inal Bersekov. “I heard about this,” Washington, 62, casually said before Fallon showed him what the tattoo looked like. “Yeah, that’s me,” the actor replied. But then Fallon started questioning something that gave Washington pause: where on his body…
Since its launch, Rihanna’s Fenty Beauty range has had the whole beauty industry shook. She initially released a 40-shade foundation range, then she gave us the ‘Galaxy’ Holiday Collection. And because Rihanna is the gift that keeps on giving, she released the Fenty Beauty Stunna Lip Paint in Uncensored. The lipstick promises to be long wearing and it apparently looks different on different skin tones, according to the natural colour of your lips.To see if this is true we decided to try it out. My immediate impression was just how liquid the initial texture of the lipstick is – it…
Kendrick Lamar has appeared on the cover of Variety in a rare interview where he spoke about his latest record DAMN., Compton, and political complacency in the US. Speaking on “Alright”, which became the unofficial anthem of the Black Lives Matter movement and is often played before and after shows by artists such as Anderson .Paak, Lamar suggested that the song was bigger than what chart data would suggest. “What makes a hit record?” he said. “Because it has some kind of numbers behind it? Is it the amount of streams or the amount of sales or the amount of…
On Thursday, Beyoncé didn’t wish her fans a happy Thanksgiving — she wished them a happy Thiccsgiving. In honor of the day of plenty, the mother of three shared a trio of photos of her stylish outfit of the day: a white turtleneck, a belted cream-colored jacket and blue jeans, which she accessorized with white sunglasses and a grey snakeskin-print purse. While the Queen Bey did not choose to caption these photos on social media, on her website she shared them alongside the message: “Happy Thiccsgiving.” And Beyoncé clearly took her own advice, because on her website she also shared…
Fans with good ears are calling out Chris Brown for using a post shared by Rihanna on his new album entitled Heartbreak on a Full Moon. While others are claiming that Rihanna is the one who took Brown’s lyrics and pasted them on her social media page. Can the world just agree that Brown will never stop singing about his ex-girlfriend, Rihanna, and vice versa? The R&B crooner dropped a new song called “Other N*ggas” where he sang the following lines: “Oh, girl, why you gotta be like that? Why gotta hang up on me then you call right back?”…
Nasir El-Rufai, has reacted to the resignation of former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, from the All Progressives’ Congress (APC) by declaring that he is not a threat to President Muhammadu Buhari’s reelection chances. In a resignation letter signed by Atiku on Friday, November 24, 2017, he accused President Buhari of neglecting him and condemned the APC for “instituting a regime of a draconian clampdown on all forms of democracy”. While speaking to State House correspondents at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Friday, Governor El-Rufai said. Atiku’s exit will not cause him any sleepless nights, as other prominent party members will…
<img src="https://www.theinfostride.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/All-Progressive-Congress-APC-640×400.jpg" alt="All Progressive Congress APC" width="640" height="400" class="size-large wp-image-174364" /Atiku Abubakar, a former Vice-President of Nigeria, has described the All Progressives Congress (APC) as a dying party. The ex-VP also said that the ruling party has failed the youths of Nigeria. He said “How can we have a federal cabinet without even one single youth? “A party that does not take the youth into account is a dying party. The future belongs to young people.” Atiku also said that the APC has failed Nigerians, adding that the party is making the same mistake PDP made. He said “While other…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has opened its doors wide open for the return of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar after his resignation from the ruling All Progressives’ Congress (APC). In a statement signed by the PDP’s spokesman, Dayo Adeyeye, the party accused the APC of taking advantage of its leadership crisis to lure Atiku away. He further said that Atiku’s exit from the ruling party means that he’s realised that it is not the progressive party it’s always claimed to be. His statement read, “I believe they were deceived, people like Atiku because we had challenges in our party…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said that it is yet to receive a letter of resignation from the party from former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, being reported in the media. Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, made this known recently. According to Atiku, the situation in my former party left me and several other loyal party members in limbo, not knowing which of the parallel executives the legitimate leadership was. He said, “It was under this cloud that members of the APC made the appeal to me to join their party. “It was on the basis of this invitation and assurances…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has wished former vice president Atiku Abubakar ‘good luck’ after he announced his resignation from the ruling party. The APC spokesman, Bolaji Abdullahi, stated this recently. He said, “Politics is about interest, we have not seen any formal notification to that effect but base on what we have seen in the social media we can say all together is surprising but for us politics is all about interest. “So, if the former vice-president feels that his interest is better served elsewhere, we can always wish him good luck. For us, the task of building a…
Otunba Gbenga Daniel has gotten more support from political dignitaries in the Peoples’ Democratic Party. Sam Ohuotu has assured one of the leading aspirant for the position of PDP National Chairman not to entertain any fear that money will determine the direction of the votes of delegates at the upcoming National Convention of the party. Referring to Otunba Daniel he said: “Your Excellency, I have known you for a long time and I know you as a man of quality. Our people have come from all over the State just to hear you speak and I am sure that the…