Manchester United midfielder Ander Herrera has said teammate Zlatan Ibrahimovic is “a genius.” Ibrahimovic has scored 26 goals and set up eight more in 41 appearances since joining United as a free agent last summer. The 35-year-old created two of the three goals that saw United past FC Rostov and booked their place in the Europa League quarterfinals. And Spain international Herrera told Marca: “He is a genius. He can say that he will score 30 goals and that he is the best because he can get away with it. “He is so good that he can do that.” But…
Author: David Folami
Former Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has said that he expects Spain’s dominance in Europe to end in the near future as Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi are getting older. Spanish clubs have won the Champions League (Real Madrid twice, Barcelona once) and Europa League (Sevilla three times) for the past three years, and have three teams in the quarterfinals of the Champions League again this season. However Ferguson, who won the Champions League twice during his 27 years in charge of Manchester United before his retirement in 2013, believes that another country may soon take over at the…
Jose Mourinho’s clinical streak has helped propel him from translator to manager of some of the world’s biggest clubs. His analytical brain is apparent whenever he gets his tactics very right, and he can deploy the same tactics in an interview. Having stated last week that he would not have bought the footballers Manchester United bought or sold ones they sold, he was pressed by his questioner, Gary Lineker, for examples. The answer came with seemingly prepared precision. “I would have never have sold Angel Di Maria, Chicharito [Javier Hernandez] and Danny Welbeck,” Mourinho said. “Never. No chance.” As with…
Rooney is probably the most obvious departure, given his poor form and huge salary. The England international still has two years remaining on his current deal, so he might be keen to cling on, knowing that only a move to China would allow him to earn anything close to his current wage. However, with Rooney approaching the end of his career, he’s unlikely to accept another season spent warming the bench and will be eased out of the club with the goal-scoring record under his belt. That frees up around another £200,000 a week for United to bring in a…
Former Chelsea star Frank Leboeuf has told RMC that N’Golo Kante is too shy to be “a boss” of the Blues squad. Kante, 25, underpinned Leicester City’s Premier League title win last season, and has received even more plaudits for his performance in Chelsea’s march to the top of the table this season. The France international has featured in all but one of Chelsea’s Premier League matches this season, making him one of manager Antonio Conte’s key players, but Leboeuf, who played at Stamford Bridge between 1996 and 2001, said that Kante’s personality means he will never be a dressing-room…
Eight months after tying the nuptial knot, Funke Akindele and husband, JJC Skillz, are honeymooning away! Your favourite celebrity couple arrived the Indian Ocean yesterday, March 19, 2017, and are currently on Seychelles Islands for their honeymoon. The excited couple shared a couple of photos on their social media pages. Funke Akindele and Abdul Rasheed Bello aka ‘JJC Skillz’, got married in a private ceremony in London, back in August 2016. Funke Akindele and JJC Skillz are having a swell time in Seychelles. Before her marriage to JJC Skillz, Akindele had already entered a short-lived relationship with Adeola Kehinde Oloyede.…
Stories are emerging about the manager’s desire to stay, along with reports of huge “war chests” and a summer transfer revolution. It’s typically conservative stuff from a club that have become scared by a fear of the unknown. The board are partly hoping to capitalise on the culture of fear that surrounds replacing the manager. The example of David Moyes succeeding Sir Alex Ferguson in 2013 is constantly referred to, but in reality it’s not analogous. When Ferguson retired, he did so as champion of England. Wenger has not won the Premier League title since 2004 — 13 years ago.…
Gov Simon Lalong of Plateau has declared a three-day mourning period in honour of Mr Samuel Galadima, Commissioner for Housing and Urban Development, who died on Wednesday during morning exercise. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports that the commissioner collapsed while jogging alongside the governor at the Rwang Pam Stadium, Jos and was rushed to the Plateau Hospital, where he died. He was aged 64. Mr Rufus Bature, the Secretary to the State Government, announced the mourning period in a statement on Wednesday. He said that the mourning period was from Wednesday, 22 March, to Friday, March 24. The…
Eedris Abdulkareem believes that the success of the new generation artistes can be traced to sacrifices made by veteran acts like himself. The rapper says that celebrities like Don Jazzy, amongst others, only made money because of their efforts. He said this during an interview with Hip TV, adding that the Mavins boss had been stranded music wise, in London and only had his breakthrough after he returned to Nigeria. “Without the old artistes, the new artistes won’t make money, because we fought for the life that they are living right now. “We put food on their table because of…
Iyabo Ojo’s latest post on Instagram shows just how much the recent sex scandal allegations got to her. The Nollywood actress took to her Instagram page on Wednesday, March 22, 2017, to thank God for seeing her through the difficult moments. She also expressed confidence in the fact that God would never let temptations beyond her power, overwhelm her. Sharing a fresh faced photo, she wrote, “My smiles are from within bcos I believe in my God & I find peace in me bcos I believe in myself, I believe that when u ve a gud soul & think gud…
Tonto showed several scars during the interview that she said you inflicted on her, what do you have to say to that? There’s nothing like that, the only scar I’m aware about was the one on her leg. In my mum’s house, she was breaking stuffs and it got to a point that she was coming towards me, her best friend was trying to hold her back, her male best friend. It was like she was crazy, she already broke down everything: television, kitchen utensils, and dispenser. I was in shock because she has done this in my house up…
Kogi Commissioner of Police, Mr Wilson Inalegwu, has advised kidnappers intending to use Kogi’s forests for their activities to perish the thought. “We shall not allow any criminal to use the forests; we shall consistently patrol the forests against such elements and shall not rest until we rid Kogi of every bandit,” he said on Wednesday. Inalegwu spoke at a joint news conference with the State Commissioner for Environment and Natural Resources, Mrs. Rosemary Osikoya, on the sidelines of this year’s International Day of Forests in Lokoja. Inalegwu commended the Kogi government over the recruitment of forest guards, and described…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it will explore areas to partner the professional printers in the country, preparatory to the 2019 general elections. The Chairman of the commission, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, was quoted in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja as giving the assurance at a meeting with a 20-member delegation of Professional Printer of Nigeria in his office. In the statement by Mr Rotimi Oyekanmi, his Chief Press Secretary, Yakubu recalled that INEC had been partnering indigenous printers, saying that all printings for the 167 elections conducted since November, 2015 were undertaken by indigenous printers. “None was…
Nigeria spent more than $2.6 billion in 2016 to address the humanitarian challenges caused by Boko Haram terrorists, Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Abayomi Olonisakin, has said. Olonisakin stated this at the meeting of the ‘Global Coalition Working to Defeat ISIS’ in Washington, D.C. “After over 2.6 billion dollars was spent by the Nigerian Government to address humanitarian needs in 2016 – more needs were seen when areas were recovered from Boko Haram. “Many in this room joined us in Oslo, Norway just last February to show support with Nigeria. “Coalition is fundamental. We, therefore, commend Secretary Rex Tillerson and…
Gareth Southgate described Lukas Podolski’s farewell goal for Germany as a “fairytale,” but insisted it would not overshadow the positives from England’s 1-0 defeat against the world champions in Dortmund. Podolski, 31, marked his 130th and final appearance for Germany with a 30-yard strike as Joachim Low’s team inflicted the first defeat on Southgate since he succeeding Sam Allardyce as manager earlier this season. But although Podolski’s goal stole the headlines, Southgate claimed that the manner of England’s performance was one to provide optimism for the road ahead. “Normally fairytales don’t happen in football, but it did for him [Podolski],”…
Cole, part of the 2003-04 “Invincibles” team, told ITV’s panel show “Play to the Whistle” that he had no regrets about the move. “I had a great time [at Arsenal], I missed the old players that were there but I moved on and won every trophy I could,” the defender said. “I wouldn’t look back and say I regretted it, no.” Cole — now at LA Galaxy — went on to win the Premier League, FA Cup, League Cup, Champions League and Europa League with Chelsea. Arsenal have won two FA Cups since he left. Asked by comedian and Arsenal…
Nineteen of Chapecoense’s players were among the 71 who died in the crash just outside Medellin, Colombia as the team travelled to the first of two matches against Atletico Nacional to determine the champion of the Copa Sudamericana. Barcelona soon after invited Chape to play in next summer’s Joan Gamper Trophy match at Camp Nou in homage to those killed in the accident, and Filho told Spain’s Cadena SER the Catalans have so far been the only club to offer any economic relief. “Barcelona was the first team that showed solidarity with us, and for now, it’s the only team…
Nollywood star Emeka Ike is a year older! Emeka Ike is a celebrated Nollywood actor with appearances in over 200 movies since his career kicked off after appearing in popular soap, “Fortunes”. After his performances in “Fortunes”, Emeka got his first major movie role in “Deadly Affair,” which starred him as the character Ikechukwu – the love interest of the character Mama Isabella. At the peak of his career, the Nollywood actor had starred alongside every A-List female actors – from Omotola Jalade, Rita Dominic, Chioma Chukwuka, Genevieve Nnaji to Kate Henshaw. In a 2015 interview with Vanguard, the actor…
Tonto Dikeh’s husband, Oladunni Olakunle Churchill, has many more things to say about the issues surrounding his marriage. So far, the philanthropist has discredited everything his wife said about him in her exclusive interview with Media Hub room. Despite describing her as erratic and uncontrollable, Churchill revealed that he has never laid a hand on his wife. Addressing the allegations that he was in love with a young woman who claimed to be his P.A, Rose Meurer, Churchill said: “Roseline Meurer has been with us since the beginning. So we started Big Church. I have known her for a very…
Nicki Minaj has decided to bless fans with a twerk video after she was named as having the most Billboard Hot 100 hits by a woman. The rapper shared a mesmerising video of herself twerking on Instagram today, March 20, 2017, to mark the milestone, before stepping out in London and mingling with fans. The short clip sees Nicki dressed in a short red PVC skirt and matching bra top, shaking her bottom as she twerks for the camera. “When u find out u just became the only woman in the history of billboard to have 76 Hot 100 billboard…