Author: David Folami

Just a few minutes after Paul Okoye tendered his apology on Instagram, Peter Okoye responded with a post telling fans to expect a performance from P-Square at Pal Mundo Festival holding on the 26th of March in Ahoy Rotterdam. We are not sure for certain, but this looks like the duo is ready to set aside their differences and come back together.

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Paul Okoye has publicly apologised over the recent divide that has trailed P-Square in recent times. Even though he admitted that he and his brother, Peter Okoye have issues, He revealed that it was not his intention for things to get out of hands. Paul also revealed that their brother, Jude Okoye was only a Scape goat and victim in the fight between them. “All you all want is psquare,…all I want is family, love and care!!! Social media is the new root of all evil!! There’s family before Psquare and there will always be family after PSquare ….Jude was…

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Pep Guardiola insists he is happy that David Alaba has pledged his future to Bayern Munich by signing a new contract. The Bundesliga leaders announced on Friday that the Austria international has extended his deal, which had been set to expire in 2018, until June 2021. Alaba had been linked with a possible transfer to Manchester City at the end of the season to join up with Guardiola when he takes charge at the Etihad Stadium, but the Bayern boss praised the club for securing the defender’s future. “I’m very pleased with his extension,” he said. “He’s one of the…

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Real Madrid star, Cristiano Ronaldo on Thursday, March 17 meet a young fan Ahmed who lost both of his parents in a terrorist attack. Ahmed’s parents both died in a terrorist attack in July 2015 while the teenager suffered serious burns himself. He captured sympathy from the football world as he was a huge fan of the game and Real Madrid. The Ronaldo fan visited Real Madrid stadium, Santiago Bernabéu and their training ground, Valdebebas where he met his idol. He had the opportunity to snap photos with Ronaldo and other Real Madrid players after training. The youngster watched the…

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Gareth Bale has been left out of Wales’ squad to face Northern Ireland and Ukraine in international friendlies later this month. The Real Madrid winger was not in manager Chris Coleman’s list of 26 names to host Northern Ireland on March 24 and travel to Ukraine on March 28. Coleman revealed the decision had been made in collaboration with Zinedine Zidane’s side, with only three matches under Bale’s belt since he recovered from a calf problem that had kept him out for six weeks. “It was a joint decision and Real Madrid have been absolutely first class,” said Coleman. “Both…

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Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger believes Barcelona are more beatable than ever despite his team’s loss to the La Liga giants in the Champions League. A 3-1 second-leg defeat on Thursday saw Barca complete a 5-1 aggregate victory over Wenger’s men, who exited in the last 16 for the sixth consecutive season. Despite that, the Frenchman feels the European champions are a worse team than previously. “The regret I have from the two games against Barcelona is that maybe they were more beatable than ever before when we played against them,” Wenger said. “They are not so much out of reach.”…

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Paris Saint-Germain star Zlatan Ibrahimovic would be open to a return to AC Milan, according to the club’s former sporting director Ariedo Braida. Ibrahimovic, 34, is expected to leave the Ligue 1 champions when his contract expires at the end of the season. The Sweden captain has been linked with moves to the Premier League and MLS, but Braida ??? now head of Barcelona’s sporting commission ??? feels a return to Milan may be possible. Ibrahimovic spent two seasons at AC Milan and scored over 50 goals in all competitions before departing for PSG, while he has also spent time…

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Bayern Munich coach Pep Guardiola is coy about potentially facing his future employers Manchester City when the quarterfinals draw for the Champions League is made on Friday. Bayern’s stunning four-goal fightback on Wednesday at the Allianz Arena sealed their 4-2 last 16, second leg, win over Juventus for a 6-4 aggregate victory. The fightback keeps alive Guardiola’s chances of bringing the Champions League trophy to Munich at the third and final attempt before his high-profile move to City next season. But Guardiola baulked when asked whether he would now like to face his future employers in the quarterfinals or the…

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This season’s Manchester United highlights reel is hardly vintage but Marcus Rashford’s cameo contribution to it offers a glimpse of more entertaining times ahead. United’s established names and big-money signings have laboured under the much-maligned Louis van Gaal with Thursday’s Europa League defeat by Liverpool the latest low. But in Rashford, Cameron Borthwick-Jackson, Jesse Lingard, Will Keane and James Wilson to name but a few, there is evidence that the club’s famed Academy production line is still in working order. Injuries to first-teamers may have forced Van Gaal’s hand to some extent, but United’s new generation have shown promise when…

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Following Thursday’s Europa League elimination by arch foes Liverpool, Manchester United’s supporters find themselves in the grip of an unfolding nightmare as Sunday’s derby trip to Manchester City approaches. The 3-1 aggregate loss to Liverpool left the FA Cup as the only trophy United can win this season and if they lose to local rivals City at the Etihad Stadium, they will be seven points below the Champions League places with only eight games of the season remaining. Failure to qualify for the Champions League would complete an abject season for United, prompting their under-fire manager Louis van Gaal to…

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Super Eagles defender, Kenneth Omeruo has been ruled out of the side’s 2017 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) double header against the Pharaohs of Egypt. Omeruo’s club, Kasimpasa in the Turkish top flight informed the Nigeria Football Federation that the defender is down with a groin injury that will sideline him for the next two weeks. Eagles’ team administrator, Dayo Enebi said the development has already been communicated to the side’s head coach, Samson Siasia and the team medics. “Omeruo’s injury and subsequent withdrawal from the Egypt games has been communicated to the coaches and the medics. “The player is…

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Dele Alli has told his Tottenham Hotspur teammates to forget their chastening Europa League exit and focus on making a final push to win the Premier League title. Mauricio Pochettino’s side were given a reality check by Borussia Dortmund as the German club cruised to a 2-1 victory at White Hart Lane on Thursday to complete a 5-1 aggregate success. Pochettino admitted the one-sided last-16 tie showed his team remain way short of the standards set by Europe’s elite clubs. But Tottenham’s teenage midfielder Alli insists the humbling defeat will be completely forgotten if the season ends with the north…

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President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday urged religious, community and political leaders to mobilise their followers against corruption and other crimes. Buhari made the call at International Islamic Conference on Peace and Nation Building organised by Jama’atul Izalatil Bid’ah Wa’Iqamatis Sunnah (JIBWIS), in conjunction with the Muslim World League, Makkah, Saudi Arabia, at Yar’Adua Centre, Abuja. He stated that the call had become imperative in view of the fact that Nigeria had suffered many years of official neglect and corruption leading to the common man’s untold hardship. He assured that his administration would do everything possible to safeguard lives and property…

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The Supreme Court has given the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) permission to try former Abia State Governor, Orji Uzor Kalu on corruption charges. The decision was announced by Justice Suleiman Galadima today, March 18, 2016. Kalu has been accused of participating in the laundering of N5.6 billion in public funds. He allegedly committed the fraud during his tenure as governor of Abia between 1999 and 2007. The EFCC took Kalu to court in 2007 but the case was stalled due to various court orders. The Abuja Federal High Court and Court of Appeal had earlier refused to stop…

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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has urged the Senate to revisit the Nigerian Gender and Equal Opportunities Bill it dropped on Tuesday. This is contained in a statement by Amb. Kema Chikwe, the party’s National Women Leader on Friday in Abuja. Chikwe said it was important to revisit the bill, especially in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). “On behalf of the entire PDP women, I join members of the civil society to express profound disappointment and displeasure over the dismissal of the Nigerian Gender and Equal Opportunities bill by the Senate. “This regressive action ironically occurred at…

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President Muhammadu Buhari has said that Nigeria can no longer afford to import food items. Buhari made the comment on Thursday, March 17, 2016, while receiving the new Bulgarian Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr Vesselin Blagoer Delcher in Abuja. ‘‘We must produce what we eat. We don’t have unlimited resources to continue the importation of food items that can be produced locally,” Buhari said. “Fortunately, some Nigerians have shown foresight by building factories that process agricultural products within the country. They have created a value chain that boosts employment, protects our foreign reserves and safeguards the economy from external shocks. “We…

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Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai has warned soldiers to avoid violating human rights while discharging their duties. Buratai made the call on Friday, March 18, 2016, while addressing officers and soldiers at the headquarters of the 82 Division in Enugu, Vanguard reports. “Our rules of engagement during security operations touch on the observation of human rights at all times,” he said. “You must behave professionally, protect lives and uphold the dignity of humans during all your operations. If you apply all the rules of engagement and still have cause to open fire as a last resort, then…

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The Osun State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola, has ruled out the possibility of paying workers’ salaries for the month of March, giving the low federal allocation the state got. The Cable reports that the state got N6.23 million as against the the N56 million it received in September 2015. Aregbesola said the March allocation can not even cover the electricity bills of the state secretariat. The Governor said back in 2015; “Money coming from the Federation Account has dipped seri­ously and our hope for survival is in our hands; what our forefathers lived on was agriculture.” “For September, our state got…

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The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) has assured Nigerians that fuel scarcity will end really soon as the Mosinmi Depot, near Sagamu has been reopened for loading. This was disclosed in Lagos on Friday, March 18, by the South-West Chairman of the union, Alhaji Tokunbo Korodo. He said the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has started pumping petroleum products to the depot for distribution to marketers across the country. According to him, if the NNPC maintains the loading flow, the current nationwide fuel scarcity will fizzle out in no time. NAN reports the depot was shut…

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