Nadia Buari has put in conscientious efforts into keeping the face of her twin daughters hidden from the public but no one said anything about back and side views. With kids as adorable as these two, the Ghanaian actress just had to show off her little girls. Buari shared another adorable photo of herself sharing a moment with her girls, on Tuesday, November 1, via Instagram, never mind the fact that it’s a view from the back. The trio looked super cute in pj’s as the toddlers looked fixated on a game on her iPad. Since the birth of her…
Author: David Folami
Nollywood actress, Annie Idibia, has launched a foundation called Annie Idibia Care Foundation. Her latest non-profit making venture is geared towards women and youth empowerment. According to her statement shared on her Instagram page yesterday, October 31, 2016, “Annie Idibia Care Foundation is a NOT FOR PROFIT organization founded and supervised by Mrs Annie M. Idibia with a focus to share and exchange empowering intelligence, knowledge, ideas and provide support to African women and youths, through an engaging world class vocational training concepts, funding educational bills and providing healthcare support. We are on a mission to honour and empower a…
Media personality, Toke Makinwa, is sick according to her post on Instagram today, November 2, 2016. According to her, she has been in and out of the hospital this week and it has been a real struggle. “This week has been a real struggle. Been in and out of hospital and it’s my birthday week,” she wrote alongside a photo of herself on the hospital bed. “So emotional but I bless God in everything. I have learnt not to take my body for granted. As @kemiadetiba told me yesterday “of what use is the hustle if we are not here…
Mariah Carey claims reason for her breakup with billionaire businessman James Packer is his ties to Scientology. US Weekly reports Packer’s business manager, Tommy Davis, formerly served as a spokesperson for the Church of Scientology, and sources say he was the one to cause their breakup. According to sources close to Carey, Davis has also urged Packer to begin a ‘Purification Rundown’, a Scientology detox program. We also learnt Packer practised Scientology from 2002 until 2006, but when Carey arrived on his yacht in mid-September, she sensed that he was somehow altered, and suspected Scientology as the cause. Soon after,…
Music star, Mariah Carey and ex-husband, Nick Cannon officially went separate ways days before her split from fiancé James Packer. Us Weekly reports Cannon finally signed divorce documents ahead of Carey and Packer’s September trip to Greece, where the couple had a fight that ended their engagement. The singer and the America’s Got Talent host agreed on joint custody of their 5-year-old twins, Moroccan and Monroe. Carey and Cannon, who got married in April 2008 and split December 2014, also kept the earnings they made during their six-year marriage due to a prenuptial agreement. Meanwhile, Mariah Carey recently broke-up with…
Pop icon Lady Gaga, who owns six cars and just this year obtained a driving licence, said on Wednesday that she wants to “drive all over Tokyo”. The singer made the comment a week after she displayed her bad driving skills on the popular “Carpool Karaoke” segment of the US “Late Late Show”, terrifying host James Corden who sat next to her. She arrived in the Japanese capital on Tuesday to promote her new album “Joanne”. “I think I would drive all over Tokyo,” the 30-year-old said at a press conference. “I think I wouldn’t stop driving, if I could.”…
There are rumours that celebrity couple Ubi Franklin and Nollywood actress Lilian Esoro have split. Lilian Esoro is said to have split from her husband, after the birth of their son, over alleged reports of infidelity and domestic abuse. According to unconfirmed reports, trouble has been brewing with the Franklins a year after they got married. The actress was noticeably absent during the grand opening of Ubi’s new business venture Tilt Terrace in Lekki, on October 30, 2016. The event was attended by several A-list celebrities but Lilian Esoro was conspicuously missing. From all indications, Lilian is not in the…
Uche Ogbodo is sparing no words for fat shamers. The actress was involved in a war of words with a troll fat shaming actress, Rita Edochie. “She’s so fat,” a follower said. “She is so Fat and you are so stupid!” she wrote. “You are calling out on a woman who is old enough to be your mother!!!” she admonished him. Adding, “I bet your momma ain’t even this Sexy & good looking.” This is not the first time the star would be shutting down trolls on social media. Recently, she clapped back at ‘haters’ who called her ugly. Rita…
Gareth Bale became the fastest Champions League goalscorer in Real Madrid history, netting the opener for his team at the 57-second mark against Legia Warsaw. Real needed just 27 touches, including one intercepted pass by Legia, to put the ball in the back of the net from after Cristiano Ronaldo headed the ball to the Welshman, who powered a left-footed shot home from just outside the penalty area. Zinedine Zidane’s team are currently leading Group F despite being level on points with second-placed Borussia Dortmund.
Borussia Dortmund left striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang out of their squad to face Sporting Lisbon on Wednesday due to “internal reasons.” Aubameyang was expected to start the Champions League tie but was missing from the 18-man squad named. Both coach Thomas Tuchel and chief executive Hans-Joachim Watzke confirmed the player had been dropped but insisted he would be back with the squad on Thursday. “We totally accept there will be speculation. But internal means internal.” Tuchel said on Sky. No reason was given for his late omission from the team but he is reported to be at the Westfalenstadion.
For the first time ever, Manchester City played a European giant at their own game and matched their opposition in a Champions League fixture as if they were equals. What Pep Guardiola achieved on Tuesday night, as his side bettered Barcelona 3-1 at the Etihad, was hugely important on their progression in the competition. The Catalan was brought in to improve the club’s performances in the top level of European football and there were eyebrows being raised after a disappointing 3-3 draw with Celtic in September. It got worse in their next fixture, a 4-0 hammering by Barcelona at the…
When Arsenal went 2-0 down inside 15 minutes against Ludogorets in the Champions League on Tuesday, it had all the hallmarks of a classic Arsenal collapse. On the first day of November, their bogey month of late, Arsenal were crumbling like autumn leaves on the ground. But their old habit of mixing stellar performances with major letdowns has been replaced this season by a pattern of producing results in games where they may have previously folded. The 3-2 comeback win in Bulgaria was only the latest example of why many think there is something different about Arsenal this year. It…
It’s probably strange to say this of a player who has won as much as Zlatan Ibrahimovic, but now is as good a time as any to retain faith. The Swede has only scored once in his last 10 games and has not only struggled for his finishing touch but also looked listless and lacking in energy. Ibrahimovic’s underwhelming performances of late have put his preseason boasts into context and, for now, any comparisons to Eric Cantona look fanciful. Having said that, it still makes some sense to persist with Ibrahimovic as the focus of United’s attack. Though he and…
Crawl before you walk. Walk before you run. Run before you fly. It might be a (tired) cliche, but it still carries some significance. Not in the sense that change can’t be radical or that gradual evolution is the best kind. Rather, the mark of a good manager — not just in football — is knowing what to change, how to change it and when to change it. And, if your changes go too far, to have the humility to dial them back. Pep Guardiola landed in the blue half of Manchester with the joint tag of messiah and revolutionary.…
At which point can Jose Mourinho be judged as Manchester United manager? Many United fans would say not yet, but their place as meek bystanders to a burgeoning Premier League title race — United are eighth, eight points behind leaders Manchester City — was not what they had been promised this summer. Despite failing to beat Burnley in Saturday’s 0-0 draw after 37 shots on goal, Mourinho is granted patience because he is neither David Moyes nor Louis van Gaal, predecessors who melted under the pressure at Old Trafford. Though his starting record is already worse than Moyes’ single season…
Arsenal defender Shkodran Mustafi wants to make sure Mesut Ozil does not get carried away after his winning goal against Ludogorets — but the defender did admit that his teammate is “incredible.” Ozil’s 88th-minute goal was the talk of the Arsenal camp after he completed a 3-2 comeback win in spectacular fashion in Bulgaria on Tuesday. But Mustafi, who has previously said he is not afraid to criticise Ozil in order to keep him at him best, jokingly tried to talk the goal down at first. “I don’t want to say too much because it will get in his head…
Barcelona president Josep Maria Bartomeu has dismissed reports linking striker Luis Suarez with a move to Premier League side Manchester United. United manager Jose Mourinho signed Zlatan Ibrahimovic in the summer but the Swedish striker’s age, coupled with Wayne Rooney’s drop in form, have led to suggestions that he is on the lookout for a new frontman. Reports in the English media earlier this week claimed United would offer €140 million to Barca in the hope of luring former Liverpool man Suarez back to England. But Suarez, 29, recently said he would love to retire at the Camp Nou and…
Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho has said that he wants to stay at the club at least until the end of his contract but, after that, “who knows.” Mourinho signed a three-year contract when he arrived at United this summer, with the option of an extension until at least 2020. It has been a challenging start for the former Chelsea manager at his new club, which has included two FA charges, which he refused to react to on Wednesday. Mourinho was banned for a game and fined for allegedly using ”abusive and/or insulting words towards a match official” in the…
Jose Mourinho has said it was a “professional decision” to bring Bastian Schweinsteiger back into the Manchester United fold. Mourinho said the former Germany captain had conducted himself well during his exile and was an option if there were problems in midfield. On Monday, United released pictures showing Schweinsteiger and Henrikh Mkhitaryan in training. Schweinsteiger, signed by Louis van Gaal in 2015, had not been training with the first team following Mourinho’s arrival in the summer. The midfielder said in August that he “will be ready if the team needs me” but United subsequently wrote him off as an asset…
Antoine Griezmann scored a 93rd-minute winner as Atletico Madrid secured their place in the last 16 of the Champions League on Tuesday with a hard-fought 2-1 victory over FC Rostov at the Vicente Calderon. Griezmann’s brilliant volleyed effort gave Atletico the lead just before the half-hour mark, but Rostov immediately replied through Sardar Azmoun. Atletico struggled to create chances throughout, but got a break deep into added time when Griezmann fired home and the goal was allowed to stand despite Rostov’s furious protests for offside. “They are a similar team to us: they defend and counter-attack well. They made it…