Subpar Bayern Munich again left it late as last-ditch goals from Arturo Vidal and Arjen Robben sealed a dramatic 2-0 win at Ingolstadt in the Bavarian derby on Saturday. Forwards Robert Lewandowski and Thomas Muller both had shots shoveled from the goal line as minnows Ingolstadt defended resolutely. Just when the game looked to be drifting to a goalless stalemate, up popped Vidal to fire Bayern ahead in the final minute from close range. Substitute Robben doubled the lead moments later with a trademark left-footed finish to seal the Bavarians’ third straight away success of the year. Bayern’s fifth Bundesliga…
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A barnstorming last five minutes helped Atletico Madrid secure a memorable 3-2 victory over Celta Vigo at a sodden Vicente Calderon on Sunday night. A rare mistake by Miguel Moya gifted the visitors an early lead, but Fernando Torres’ stunner levelled things up shortly after. El Nino should have doubled the advantage but slammed his penalty against the bar and it almost cost his side dearly when John Guidetti put Celta ahead with a little over 10 minutes to play. However, a sublime volley from Yannick Carrasco drew Los Rojiblancos level once again with four minutes to play, before Antoine…
Juju music icon, Ebenezer Obey was a proud grandfather on Saturday as he watched his granddaughter, Temitope, get married in Lagos. Temitope, a make-up artist, tied the knot with professional photographer Soji Oni and they both looked lovely. Popular Instagram comedian, Arole was also on hand to spice up their wedding too. Earlier this afternoon, Temitope said in an Instagram post, ‘Thank you all for your congratulatory wishes.. May the blessings of God gosh out in your favour in Jesus name.’ Here’s wishing the couple a happy married life!
British singer Adele kicked off the show with a performance of Hello but not before the song was awarded the Best Solo Performance and the album 25 named as the Best Pop Album.
2face Idibia has made his first public appearance a week after calling off the planned February 6 nationwide protest. At exactly 2:35am this morning, February 12, the singer made his way to the stage at the Eargasm concert that took place in Eko Hotels, Lagos. He was welcomed with cheers from the guests and then moved on to perform ‘Hate What You Do To Me’ and a couple of his other hit songs. Going by the recent bashing he received after cancelling the protest march, it was expected that many individuals would divorce themselves from his show. Other performers at…
Drake may be absent from the 2017 Grammys but it matters little: he has just been announced aFRs the winner of the Best Rap Song and Best Rap Performance categories. His massive hit Hotline Bling was responsible for this feat. Drake is currently on tour in Manchester, England and is conspicuously missing at the Grammy Awards.
Olamide received applause with the performance of ‘Durosoke’, ‘Goons Mi’ and more at 2017 Lagos Marathon. The rapper later joined Davido on stage for the performance of ‘The Money’ Tekno entertained spectators with his hits including ‘Where’, ‘Wash’, ‘Pana’ and newly released song ‘Rara’. Other performers are Kiss Daniel, Seyi Shay, Koker and Terry Apala.
Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho claims his side’s attacking efforts would be hailed more if someone else was in charge at Old Trafford. United completely outplayed Watford in Saturday’s 2-0 Premier League win as goals from Juan Mata and Anthony Martial took Mourinho’s men to within a point of the Champions League places. Their display belied Mourinho’s reputation as a defence-minded manager and he said United would get more credit for the quality of their football if he was not sitting in the dug-out. “It was a very good (performance),” he said. “It was the kind of football that if…
Some unidentified hoodlums in the early hours of Saturday attacked a corps member, Miss Gbenimachor Chinezendu-Ezinne, in her residence at Obubra Local Ggovernment Area of Cross River. Chinezendu-Ezinne, a 2016 Batch B `Stream 1’ corps member, is currently doing her primary assignment at the General Hospital in Obubra. The hoodlums attacked her in her residence and gave her a cut in her right thumb. Reacting to her attack, the state Coordinator of NYSC, Mrs Ambekemo Eniola, told the News Agency Nigeria (NAN) in a phone interview that Chinezendu-Ezinne had reported the matter to the NYSC authority. “We are aware of…
The Katsina State Government has awarded contract for the establishment of a Tomato Paste Processing Plant at Kokami Village, Danja Local Government Area of the State. “The contract is awarded to National Research Institute of Chemical Technology (NARICT) Zaria, at the tune of N500 Million,” Aliyu Bello Abubakar, the Acting Chairman of Danja Local Government Area disclosed this to members of the correspondents chapel of NUJ inspecting projects executed by Gov. Aminu Masari on Saturday in Danja. “The Katsina State Government has already paid 70 per cent of the contract sum to NARICT. “The Project has also reached 70 per…
Pastor Tunde Bakare has revealed how President Muhammadu Buhari rejected former finance minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as his running mate in 2011. According to Bakare, former president, Olusegun Obaasanjo told Buhari he would support him if he runs with Okonjo-Iweala but he refused. Bakare, while speaking to his church members in January, also listed five reasons which he gave Buhari to convince him that the former minister would be an ideal VP. They are: 1. Ngozi Iweala is Delta Igbo; you have solved the problem of south-south and south-east. 2. She’s a Christian, faith balance. 3. She is a woman, gender…
Manchester City forward Gabriel Jesus aims to extend his dazzling start to life in the Premier League with another inspired display at Bournemouth on Monday. Pep Guardiola’s team dropped out of the Champions League qualification places after losing four of the nine top-flight matches they played during December and January. Three successive wins across two competitions have brightened the mood however, with Jesus making significant contributions in each match. The Brazil striker, whose move from Palmeiras was completed during the mid-season transfer window, has scored three times in two Premier League starts, and got both goals as Swansea were defeated…
Phyno serves the visuals to ‘Mistakes’ off his sophomore album “The Playmaker”. The Penthauze leadman is taken over by his emotions in the love-themed visual, pleading for his love to take him back. Patrick Elis directed the video
Earlier today, images of heaps of cash broke the Nigerian internet. The pictures were courtesy of the police probe panel set up to investigate the 2016 legislative rerun election in Rivers State. According to the panel, the wads of cash were evidence that Rivers Governor Nyesom Wike, bribed electoral officers in a bid to swing victory the way of the PDP during the vote. The panel put on display N100M in cash. And the internet can’t seem to get enough of the sight of piles of cash in a recession. However, in a statement sent to Pulse by Dr Austin…
Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp believes every team in the world would suffer without Sadio Mane after the Senegalese star marked his return with both goals in the 2-0 win over Tottenham. Mane, back from a month on international duty at the Africa Cup of Nations, scored in a devastating first half performance at Anfield as Liverpool won their first Premier League match on 2017. “You need somebody on the end who scores and he did fantastically well,” said Klopp. “He could have scored a third one. “We missed Sadio in January but every team in the world would have missed…
Nwoha Amaechi, the former Speaker, Imo House of Assembly, on Sunday, urged Federal Government to intensify efforts in recovery of stolen common wealth. He made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in response to the recovered 9.8 million dollars recovered from Andrew Yakubu, former Group Managing Director (GMD) of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). He said “the reckless and mindless looting of the country’s common wealth could only be reduced if more culprits would be exposed. “The recent discovered loot typifies the level of mindless looting of the treasury in the last government. “That…
Sen. Suleiman Adokwe, Chairman, Senate Committee on Information and National Orientation has called for prudent management of funds by Chief Executives of Federal Government Media Organisations to avoid wasteful spending. Adokwe made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Abuja. He said the obvious limitations of the National Budget were indicative of the fact that the era of waste had gone. “You have to be very careful not to bloat the budget with unnecessary items,” he said. He said that agencies that had the mandate to generate revenue had to be more…
President-General of the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, NSCIA, Sultan of Sokoto, His Eminence, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III, has just paid Governor of Osun State, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, a courtesy visit. During the visit, the Sultan commended the Governor for displaying religious tolerance in his spell as the number one citizen of the Southwest State. The commendation which came in Osogbo, the Osun State capital, shortly before the Sultan led a national prayer for peace, security, stability and development, in honour of Deputy President General (South) of the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), Alhaji Sakariyau Olayiwola Babalola.…
Whitney Houston was found dead February 11, 2012, in a hotel bathtub in Beverly Hills, just hours before music stars began to gather at the hotel for the annual Clive Davis pre-Grammy party at which Houston, then mounting a come-back, was expected to perform. Instead, she slipped away after slipping under the water in the tub, the victim of an accidental drowning brought on by heart disease and longtime cocaine abuse, as the Los Angeles coroner found weeks later. On this anniversary, what do we know about the aftermath? Aside from some titillating details (she wore a wig and dentures,…
Can we forget about the viral saltbae for just one minute and talk about Kim’s salad? Here is what Kim Kardashian chose to do this Thursday in celebration of her friend, fashion editor Carine Roitfeld, hitting a million followers on Instagram. The background music was set to Lil Wayne‘s ‘A Milli,’ the video is equal parts silly and sexy – and honestly, the most Kardashian-esque thing ever.