Female rapper Eva Alordiah has been engaged to TV personality, Caesar Ume-Ezeoke, since January 2016, and the two seem to be okay with that. However, some fans are angry on her behalf and think they should have taken things a step further by now. Some of them going as far as writing their thoughts on pictures of the couple whenever they have the chance to. Eva is no longer having none of it, and took to her Instagram to address the issue, her message was especially directed at one fan who called her ‘Lord of the rings’. ‘How can you,…
Author: David Folami
Move over Soulja Boy and Chris Brown. In an apparent Instagram Live video, Meek Mill claims that he would ‘break Drizzy the fuck up for $5 mill.’ Seems the new trend for rappers is to suggest their own boxing matches since Big Soulja and Breezy started talking about handling their issues inside the ring, they’ve been making huge headlines. Guess it’s high time they call each other to settle this beef. Kodak Black offered to fight Lil Wayne over the ‘best rapper alive’ title, 22 Savage wanted to box his namesake 21 Savage for that title, and RiFF RAFF wanted…
Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho has confirmed that the club have received a bid for midfielder Memphis Depay, but it is not enough to tempt them to sell. Depay will be allowed to leave during the transfer window if a suitable offer is made, with Mourinho having revealed last month that the 22-year-old has expressed his desire to move away from Old Trafford. Lyon have reportedly offered substantially less than United’s £15 million valuation of a player signed from PSV Eindhoven for £25m in June 2015 and Mourinho said: “The offer we had is far from reasonable for us. He…
Arsene Wenger says Arsenal midfielder Santi Cazorla could be sidelined for another 10 weeks after needing a second procedure on his troublesome right foot. Cazorla had surgery in early December after struggling to recover from an inflamed tendon in his right heel, and had initially been expected back within three months. But Wenger said Friday that doctors had performed a second procedure this week and that the Spanish midfielder is still “far from starting to run again.” “He had a little procedure, yes, but we have a meeting today with the medical people to see what it was,” Wenger said…
Manchester United midfielder Paul Pogba has said he thinks Zlatan Ibrahimovic is a complete player and Barcelona’s Neymar is the future. Ibrahimovic is set to return for Sunday’s crunch clash against Liverpool after illness and the team are now finding their feet under Jose Mourinho after a mixed start to the season. Pogba admitted he plays well with Ibrahimovic. As a duo, they have created the most chances for each other — 25 goal scoring opportunities. “We get on a lot. I try to adapt to him and his movements. I think he tries to adapt to me as well.…
Jose Mourinho has claimed that Liverpool’s 27-year wait for the English league championship leads to “emotion” and “supportive” coverage in the media whenever the Anfield club emerge as genuine title contenders. Mourinho’s Manchester United face Liverpool at Old Trafford on Sunday aiming to move to within two points of Jurgen Klopp’s team with a victory. And while stopping short of claiming that the media wants Liverpool to end their title drought, which stretches back to 1990, due to the romance of the story, Mourinho insists that he senses greater backing for the 18-time champions when they are involved in the…
Jose Mourinho has billed Paul Pogba as a future Manchester United captain after seeing the £89 million world-record signing overcome his slow start at Old Trafford to become a pivotal figure in the team. Pogba, 23, has produced a series of dominant performances in recent weeks, and formed a productive partnership with forward Zlatan Ibrahimovic, as United have built a nine-game winning run in all competitions. And with 35-year-old Michael Carrick serving as vice-captain to 31-year-old Wayne Rooney, Mourinho admits that Pogba has the qualities to claim the armband once that pair vacate the Old Trafford stage. “I think he…
Diego Costa has been dropped for Chelsea’s Premier League clash with Leicester City after a row with Antonio Conte and a lucrative transfer offer from the Chinese Super League, sources have confirmed. Chelsea head to the King Power Stadium on Saturday hoping to preserve their five-point lead at the top of the Premier League but Costa, the division’s top scorer with 14 goals in 19 appearances this season, has not travelled with the rest of the squad. He has instead trained alone at Cobham for the past three days after becoming embroiled in a heated argument with a fitness coach…
Manchester United’s Dutch forward Memphis Depay is the top target for French club Lyon during the winter transfer window, coach Bruno Genesio said Friday. “I’m a fan of this player and have made him my priority,” Genesio told a press conference as he outlined the 23-year-old’s qualities. “He’s forceful, powerful, capable of scoring and helping to score. He’s a fairly complete player, a winger, who can play with both feet.” Genesio said he was looking to Depay as a possible replacement for Algerian winger Rachid Ghezzal. “His profile is interesting in view of the probable departure of Ghezzal at the…
Today is the birthday of Nigerian actress and the president of the Actors Guild of Nigeria Ibinabo Fiberesima. She is 44 years old. Ibinabo is from Rivers state. Her father is Dr. J.B Fiberesima from Okirika, Rivers State and her mother is Irish. The former beauty queen is the second child in a family of six. Ibinabo Fiberesima attended Federal Government Girls College (FGGC), New Bussa. She has a degree in English Language and Literature from the University of Ibadan. In 1997, Ibinabo Fiberesima won the Miss Wonderful beauty pageant. She was the Runner up for Miss Nigeria in 1997…
Julius Agwu who has been off social media for 20 weeks is back. The comedian posted his first picture from Houston, Texas on Instagram 20 weeks after a death hoax. The shot shows his little girl Zahra take a selfie with the camera straight so close to her face. His fans who have been worried that the comedian might be struggling with his health, have begun speculating that the photo was shared from his hospital bed. Whatever the case maybe, the still poured in love and prayers for the comedian, wishing him a speedy recovery. Meanwhile, on Sunday, January 1,…
Manchester United striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic has been named the Premier League Player of the Month of December. Ibrahimovic in December scored five goals to help Manchester United cut the gap on Premier League top four. The 35-year-old now has a total of 18 goals in all competition since joining the Jose Mourinho led team in the summer. He scored against Everton at Goodison Park, Crystal Palace, a brace against West Bromwich Albion and another goal against Sunderland. “I am playing in a great team with great team-mates, a great coach and at a great club,” said the striker. Manchester United…
The U.S. on Friday donated eight military grade multi-purpose tents to the Nigeria Police for quick return of civil authorities in communities liberated from the Boko Haram insurgents. Ms Rosalyn Wiese, the Director, U.S. International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, presented the items to the Inspector-General of Police (I-G), Mr Ibrahim Idris, in Maiduguri. Wiese explained that the gesture was to support the country toward the re-establishment of civil authorities in communities liberated in the North-East. “The U.S. Government is partnering with the Federal Government of Nigeria to support efforts to deploy additional civilian security, particularly the police to the…
It has been reported that the marriage of popular Nollywood actress Tonto Dikeh has crashed. According to popular reports, Tonto Dikeh’s marriage is in trouble as another woman has stepped into the picture. Fuelling this report is the fact that Tonto Dikeh removed her husband’s surname from her Instagram account. Both camps have been reached. An unnamed aide of Tonto Dikeh’s husband Oladunni Churchill said “haba, there’s no issues at all, why do people like making issues out of nothing. The fact that she changed her name on social media does not imply crisis, what if it’s for a business…
Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka has berated President Muhammadu Buhari and Governor Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna State over the recent Southern Kaduna killings. Soyinka faulted their perceived passivity over the series of attacks in the region leading up to the latest one, which reportedly claimed about 800 lives. He especially criticised El-rufai for sending the killer Fulani herdsmen in the state some ‘ceasefire funds’ after they had committed heinous crimes. Before the latest massacre in Southern Kaduna, the Governor had admitted to have appeased the herdsmen by offering them money in exchange for peace in the zone. Speaking in Abuja…
Chelsea boss Antonio Conte has been named the Premier League manager of the month for December, becoming the first coach to win the award in three consecutive months. Conte led Chelsea to victories in all six of their matches last month, the last of which completed a run of 13 wins to equal Arsenal’s Premier League record for consecutive wins in one season. Liverpool’s Jurgen Klopp, Manchester United’s Jose Mourinho and Mauricio Pochettino of Tottenham Hotspur were also shortlisted for the award. Only United, with 16 points, came close to Chelsea’s perfect haul over the month with the West London…
Prof. Itse Sagay, Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC), on Thursday said Nigeria risk losing another 550 million dollars recovered from the Abacha family to the United States. Sagay disclosed this at a media conference on asset recovery jointly organised by PACAC and the Office of the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Foreign Affairs and the Diaspora. “Nigeria presently stands to lose another 550 million dollars recovered from the Abacha family to the U.S., contrary to the earlier promise by the U.S. to return same to Nigeria,” he said. Sagay said the amount represented a separate tranche…
Professor Wole Soyinka, Nobel laureate and political activist has warned that religion will kill Nigeria if not tamed. The Nobel laureate who spoke in Abuja at a book launch in Abuja on Thursday, January 12, 2016, said religion has become a little more than “killing machine” all over the world. “If we do not tame religion in this nation [Nigeria], religion will kill us,” Soyinka said. “Only the religiously possessed or committed would deny the obvious – the price that many have paid not just within the society but humanity in general. This makes me wonder if the benefits have…
President Muhammadu Buhari has again stressed that ex-President Goodluck Jonathan left an empty treasury for him. He added that the fall in oil prices compounded the problem, which eventually landed the country’s economy in recession. The President stated this on Thursday, January 12, while receiving recipients of the 2016 Nigerian National Order of Merit (NNOM) at the State House, Abuja. “There was no money in the treasury,” adding that “we were producing less than one million barrels of oil per day, from the 2.2 million barrels we used to do. The country was in a terrible shape, but luckily, the…
Nollywood actress Victoria Inyama has waded into Tonto Dikeh’s apology to Mercy Johnson for calling her a daughter a witch. In a twist of events, on January 13, 2017, Tonto Dikeh apologised to fellow actress Mercy Johnson on Instagram for calling her daughter a witch back in 2013. Tonto Dikeh wrote “Good morning world Since I have your undivided attention I better make good use of it and not miss the blessing in this lesson!!! @mercyjohnsonokojie Ever since I had my baby I have been reminded constantly about an ill statement I made about one of your kids a very…