Kevin Hart is a phenomenal comedian/actor but before he takes praises from you and I, he believes he couldn’t have achieved what he has achieved over the years without his predecessors including Hollywood big weight, Will Smith. In his recent interview with ‘The Breakfast Club’ on Power 105.1FM, the ‘Ride Along’ star had nothing but praises for the ‘Fresh Prince of Bel Air’ for being consistently humble, sociable and talented. “I met Smith at the [Golden] Globes and me and that guy .. We had a moment,” he narrated to the hosts. “As soon as he saw me, and we…
Author: David Folami
Yemi Alade, 26, has confirmed that she is in a relationship. In an interview with The Sun recently, the ‘Johnny’ singer revealed that she is seeing someone but didn’t identify who her man is. “Yes, I am seeing someone. I am not single and that’s all I am going to say (Laughter). My love life is my business. I am not getting married immediately but when its time, I will. Right now, I’m taking my time” she said. In the interview, she however describes the characteristics of her man. “My ideal man is someone who has goals and working toward…
Top Nollywood actress Mercy Johnson Okojie is a hands-on mother. The 31-year-old movie star who gave birth to her third child in December shared a photo of herself on Instagram taking her two oldest kids to school. Mercy Johnson who is looking rather slim wrote in the caption “Dropping off my babies at school, blessed day everyone.” On December 11, 2015 Mercy Johnson gave birth to her third child at about 9:00 pm at University Of Maryland (Saint Joseph) United States Of America. Her baby’s name is Angel Onosetale Okojie.
Popular Nigerian singer Solidstar did a crazy thing yesterday (January 19) when he pulled down his pants, and showed his fans egg plant. The ‘Skibo’ singer shared a picture of him rocking only a black Versace boxer that revealed his egg plant. Solidstar did not care about the eye popping move. As a matter of fact he wrote “now some pple wud pick up their most expensive cheap phones to comment crap o, am waiting.” Trust Nigerians to hit back at the singer. In the comment section they blasted Solidstar who is a father of one. Last week the Achievas…
Adele, Kendrick Lamar and The Weeknd are among the stars already picked to thrill audience at the 2016 Grammy Awards scheduled for February 15. Although, Adele’s latest album, ’25’ will have to wait until next year’s Grammy to get a nomination, the British songstress is expected to bring the heat at this year’s big music event. Organizers announced the first round of artists to perform at the show on Wednesday, January 20 and the ‘Hello’ singer is on. Besides the likes of Kenderick Lamar, The Weeknd and Little Big Town lined up to also perform their hits, MusiCares’ person of…
Poland hot-shot Robert Lewandowski said Wednesday that Bayern Munich do not need to sign another striker as the prospect of a rival for his position arriving in Bavaria loomed large. “If I am here, why do Bayern need a new striker?” asked Lewandowski in a press conference after Bayern chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge sparked transfer rumours recently by praising Napoli’s Argentina international Gonzalo Higuain. “I am prepared to play 60 games a season and we have other top players in our attack. “I do not need competition in order to train even harder.” Lewandowski sent Bundesliga records tumbling last September by…
Serbian defender Nemanja Vidic has left Inter Milan after his contract was terminated by mutual consent, the Italian club said on Monday. The former Manchester United skipper moved to Inter in July 2014 and made 28 appearances last season but has been sidelined due to injury this season. “F.C. Internazionale would like to announce that the club has terminated Nemanja Vidic’s contract by mutual consent,” Inter said on its website. Vidic, who formed a formidable partnership with Rio Ferdinand at the heart of the United defence and won five English league titles as well as the Champions League in 2008,…
There are only a handful of clubs who start the season with the realistic goal of winning the Premier League, yet there are many more who can entertain the thought of lifting the FA Cup. Yet so great is the wealth gap between England’s top-flight clubs and the rest that many teams now regard avoiding relegation from the Premier League as an achievement in itself. Given a choice between top-flight survival and a ‘good Cup run’, there are plenty of clubs who will take the former, with Portsmouth — FA Cup winners in 2008 but now playing in English football’s…
Barcelona coach Luis Enrique is wary of the threat posed by Athletic Bilbao forward Aritz Aduriz before the holders play their King’s Cup quarterfinal, first leg at the Basque club on Wednesday. A robust striker who is particularly strong in the air, Aduriz was suspended for Sunday’s La Liga game at Barca, which the Spanish and European champions won 6-0 after Bilbao had goalkeeper Gorka Iraizoz sent off in the fourth minute. The 34-year-old, who is in the best form of his career and has scored 11 goals in La Liga this term, returns for the Cup clash, a repeat…
Barcelona star Lionel Messi and his father’s trial for tax fraud will begin on May 31 at a court in Barcelona, a regional superior court said Wednesday. Messi, recently crowned Ballon d’Or winner for a record fifth time, and his father Jorge have been charged with tax fraud for allegedly failing to declare 4.16 million euros ($4.69 million) in taxes related to his image rights between 2007 and 2009. The trial will run until June 3, the Catalan Superior Court of Justice said in a statement. State prosecutors are asking for both men to be sentenced to prison terms of…
Arsenal defender Per Mertesacker has asked the club’s academy players to make the most of goalkeeper Petr Cech’s vast experience and get better. Cech, who won the Premier League title four times during his 11-year stint with Chelsea, has started all 22 league games for the Gunners this campaign, keeping 10 clean sheets, the joint-most, to help propel the club to the top spot. “Huge experience. He has won a lot of titles, including the Premier League. He knows … how to stay consistent and, to get information, advice and opinions from him makes us stronger,” Mertesacker told the club’s…
Liverpool manager Juergen Klopp has dispelled doubts about Chritian Benteke’s suitability to the team’s high-pressing style of play and said the striker has a long-term future at Anfield. Benteke, who joined from Aston Villa for a reported 32.5 million pounds ($45.97 million) during the close season, has scored seven goals in 24 appearances this season. Despite being the club’s leading goalscorer, the Belgium international has struggled to nail down a regular starting place since Klopp replaced Brendan Rodgers at the Merseyside club in October. “Of course he has a future, that is not a question. He is a goalscorer and…
The “big” teams in the Premier League have not turned on the turbochargers yet, Leicester City manager Claudio Ranieri said, as his side sit level on points with leaders Arsenal after a surprise transformation from regulation strugglers. Behind the Gunners on goal difference, Leicester now have a seven-point cushion for Champions League qualification and the nine-point gap to the final European qualification place in the table. “The big teams haven’t switched on the turbo yet – and we hope they don’t switch on turbo,” Ranieri told British media. “It is a crazy league because, if it was a normal league,…
This year’s African Championship edition was always going to garner a lot of interest from Nigeria’s football community especially among the NPFL’s new disciples. Judging from the social media response- that’s basically one way to tell nowadays how many people kept an eye on the game from their offices and homes- the game was taken seriously. More like it’s more revered ‘brother’, the African Nations Cup, this Championship has teeming follower-ship and for the Nigerian Contingent, expectations are to high heavens despite Sunday Oliseh’s repeated claims that his is a youthful side, not obsessed with winning the Championship. Having played…
Late goals by Ciaran Clark and Idrissa Gueye gave Premier League strugglers Aston Villa a 2-0 win over fourth-tier Wycombe Wanderers in their FA Cup third-round replay on Tuesday. Bottom of the Premier League and seemingly destined for relegation to the Championship, Villa had only managed a 1-1 draw with Wycombe – currently seventh in League Two – when the two teams first met 10 days previously. The reunion at Villa Park proved a similarly close-fought affair, but Clark’s 75th-minute header and a last-minute Gueye strike earned Villa a fourth-round tie at home to Manchester City. “The most important thing…
Leicester City have been defying the odds all season – and Ben Chilwell says the Foxes’ current run of form gives them a great chance of knocking Tottenham Hotspur out of The FA Cup. Claudio Ranieri’s charges will entertain Spurs at the King Power Stadium in Wednesday night’s third round replay, following a 2-2 draw at White Hart Lane. The two sides also met in the Premier League last week, with Robert Huth heading a late winner for Leicester, who are second in the table on goal difference. And England Under-20 international Chilwell believes his team-mates can produce another notable…
Former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Doyin Okupe, has said that his former boss is nothing like late Ugandan dictator, Idi Amin. Okupe made the comment after former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor, Charles Soludo accused Jonathan of running Nigeria’s central bank like Idi Amin ran Uganda’s. “I have read what Soludo said but sincerely I don’t see any reason to compare former President Jonathan with Idi Amin,” Okupe told Punch. “It is a baseless point. Idi Amin was a tyrant and an all-in-one. He fought the British by deporting foreigners from his country. That is what I know…
Over 1000 traders in Adamawa state lost their means of livelihood to a fire outbreak which rocked the state at the weekend, burning down 875 shops. The Yola market figures did not include that of Ngurore and Numan markets which was also burnt down by fire almost at the same time, chairman, Gamzaki traders asaociation, Malam Ibrahim Mohammed said. He stated this while receiving a delegation of Adamawa peace initiative(AUN- API) who paid him a sympathy visit to condole with the traders. He further explained that although,no life was lost but over 1000 traders lost their means of livelihood with…
<img src="https://www.theinfostride.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/President-Muhammadu-Buhari-Media-Chat-300×216.jpg" alt="President Muhammadu Buhari" width="300" height="216" class="size-medium wp-image-116113" /The reportedly missing 2016 National Budget on Monday, December 18, arrived the National Assembly (NASS) Complex at about 11.00 am. Report said a mini commercial bus with number plate BENUE XA374GTJ transported the Budget copies from an unknown location to complex. It is believed that the copies may have been brought in from a Printing Press. The copies were dispersed to legislative chambers at the back entrance of the complex by the White House. It was gathered that the copies of the budget were initially off loaded at a corner near…
eports reaching Theinfostride has it that the sacked acting Chairman of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in Adamawa State, Shuaibu Yamusa is dead amidst crises that erupted the party last week between the governor and the three Senators representing the state. Yamusa who was sacked by the state governor Bindow Umaru Jibrilla after the Senators from the state visited him, died this morning and will soon be buried. The struggle has also polarised the party and its supporters into antagonistic camps. Although,this cat and mouse relationship between the governor and the APC senators have been existing since their inauguration. They…