Nigerian singer, Tiwa Sawage is currently promoting her new album, R.E.D., which she recorded while pregnant with her first child. The crooner in an interview with BBC Africa’s Bola Mosuro opened up on a lot of things including how she’s juggling motherhood and her career. When asked about the message she was trying to pass across in her song ‘Say It”, Tiwa disclosed: “One of the things i think we don’t do in Africa a lot of things we should talk about we don’t. I experienced that in pregnancy. After my pregnancy i went through a tough time emotionally, and…
Author: David Folami
Former Brazil international Cafu feels Neymar has already surpassed both his Barcelona team-mate Lionel Messi as well as Real Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo when it comes to his technical ability. Neymar had to settle for third at the 2015 FIFA Ballon d’Or behind Messi and Ronaldo, but Cafu nonetheless feels his compatriot is already on a higher level than the illustrious duo in one area of his game. “Looking at his technical skills, I would say Neymar is stronger than Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo right now,” Cafu told reporters. Neymar has been a key figure for Brazil since making his…
Louis van Gaal claims he wants his Manchester United players to be “horny” as they look to overturn a Europa League deficit against Midtjylland. United head into Thursday’s game at Old Trafford looking to bounce back from a hugely disappointing 2-1 defeat in Denmark last week which prompted angry outbursts from the travelling supporters. Van Gaal’s side responded with a comfortable 3-0 win away to Shrewsbury Town in the FA Cup on Monday and the former Netherlands boss has underlined the importance of his players’ desire to improve as they aim to keep their European campaign alive. “Desire – it…
Bayern Munich centre-back Jerome Boateng believes Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo can smell a defender’s fear in one-on-ones. Real Madrid star Ronaldo and Messi have scored 63 goals between them for their clubs this season, with the latter’s combination with Luis Suarez and Neymar at Barcelona drawing praise. Boateng gave an insight into what it was like coming up against the world’s best and how they capitalised on scared defenders. “With Ronaldo or Messi, whatever option you choose is difficult if they come at you with open space. They’re just so fast,” he wrote for The Players’ Tribune. “Neymar and…
Midtjylland coach Jess Thorup insists it would be a miracle if his side reach the Europa League last 16, despite holding a 2-1 lead over Manchester United. The Danish champions shocked Louis van Gaal’s side in the first leg last week and head to Old Trafford knowing they are 90 minutes away from the biggest shock in their short history. Van Gaal bizarrely called on his United players to be “horny” with desire to overturn their first-leg deficit and Thorup concedes they remain firm underdogs against the three-time champions of Europe. “I just heard that two minutes ago in the…
Manchester City captain Vincent Kompany has reminded his teammates not to give up on their dream of winning the Premier League because they have come from behind to lift the trophy in the past. City are now six points behind leaders Leicester with 12 matches remaining after a damaging 2-1 home defeat against title rivals Tottenham on Sunday. Manuel Pellegrini’s side are down in fourth place and will need to overhaul Arsenal, Tottenham and Leicester in the final weeks. But City claimed the title in 2011-12 and 2013-14 despite having been eight and seven points off the top respectively with…
Manchester City captain Vincent Kompany said they played like a team “hungry for success” as they put a poor recent run behind them to move to the verge of the Champions League quarterfinals with a 3-1 win at Dynamo Kiev on Wednesday. City had lost their previous three matches, denting their Premier League hopes with back-to-back defeats by Leicester City and Tottenham Hotspur and exiting the FA Cup with a humiliating 5-1 loss at Chelsea. They put in a barn-storming first-half display in Ukraine, however, and held off a Kiev fightback after the break to edge closer to a maiden…
Leicester City captain Wes Morgan wants the Foxes to leave their own legacy after the club’s surprising run to the top of the Premier League table drew comparisons to shock title wins by smaller clubs in the past. Claudio Ranieri’s side, who were on the brink of relegation for a majority of the last campaign, are currently two points ahead of second-placed Tottenham Hotspur in the league with 12 games remaining. “We just want to write our own legacy and put our own names in the history books and do it for ourselves,” Morgan told British media. “I’m sure the…
Liverpool goalkeeper Simon Mignolet believes a League Cup victory this weekend could instigate a period of sustained success for manager Jurgen Klopp similar to the trophy-laden spell Jose Mourinho enjoyed during his first stint at Chelsea. The German manager could win his first silverware in England if Liverpool beat Manchester City in Sunday’s final and it was Chelsea’s 3-2 win over the Anfield side in 2005 that set Mourinho on course to become the club’s most decorated manager. “I remember for Chelsea a few years back, it was the League Cup they won (in Mourinho’s first season) and after that,…
Jose Mourinho says he is in the dark about a possible switch to Manchester United but that he hopes to be back in football this summer. The Portuguese, who was sacked as manager by Chelsea in December despite winning the English title last year, has been heavily tipped by British media to take over from current United head coach Louis van Gaal in June but he was coy when asked by students at Singapore’s North Light secondary school. “That’s the one million dollar question and nobody knows and I’m the first one not to know,” Mourinho replied to the young…
Sacked Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho said on Wednesday he is “happy not to have a job” at the moment and kept coy about taking the helm at Manchester United, saying that was “a one million-dollar question”. Mourinho spoke before students at a suburban secondary school in Singapore in conjunction with a scholarship foundation set up by Valencia Football Club owner Peter Lim, who is from the city-state. Asked by a student United fan whether he would be the next manager of the English Premier League club, Mourinho replied: “That’s a one million-dollar question that nobody knows, and I’m the first…
Louis van Gaal, the Manchester United manager, has said the criticism being levelled at the club this season could be having a negative effect on his players’ performance. United are in the quarterfinals of the FA Cup after winning at third-tier Shrewsbury on Monday, and will play West Ham at Old Trafford next month. However, they have lost seven Premier League games so far this season — the latest at Sunderland, threatened by relegation, last weekend — and are now fifth in the table, six points fourth-placed local rival Manchester City, who currently occupy the final Champions League place on…
Disgraced ex-Bayern Munich president Uli Hoeness says he just wants to be a club fan following his release from prison on Monday as he weighs up his future after serving half of his sentence for tax fraud. The 64-year-old has served 21 months of his three-and-a-half year sentence after being convicted in March 2014 of having evaded paying at least 28.5 million euros ($31.5 million) in taxes. He served his sentence in Landsberg prison, where Adolf Hitler wrote ‘Mein Kampf’, and has been on day release since January 2015, working in Bayern’s youth academy, under a parole system which meant…
Manchester City may be toiling domestically at the moment but they produced a superb European away performance to beat Dynamo Kiev 3-1 in Ukraine in their Champions League last 16, first leg on Wednesday. Manuel Pellegrini’s side did enough to win the game in the first half with Sergio Aguero and David Silva both scoring to underline their importance to City. Dynamo pulled a goal back in the second half through midfielder Vitaliy Buyalskiy, but Yaya Toure’s late beauty ensured that City are very much on course to reach the quarterfinals for the first time in their history. “It was…
President Muhammadu Buhari, on Tuesday, February 23, 2016, met with Nigerians resident in Saudi Arabia. Buhari arrived in the holy land on Monday, February 22, 2016, and was received by the Governor, Prince Faisal Bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud. He was also hosted to a reception by Saudi King, Salman Bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud.
Nigerian and Cameroonian soldiers have killed 23 Boko Haram terrorists during a joint operation in Borno State, the Nigerian Army has said. The disclosure was made via a statement issued by Army spokesperson, Colonel Sani Usman on Tuesday, February 23, 2016. It reads: “The joint operation which was carried out with Cameroonian forces was quite successful as a number of the terrorists were killed, some of their weapons and equipment either destroyed or captured.” “Unfortunately, 3 soldiers sustained injuries and a vehicle damaged as a result of an Improvised Explosive Device (IED). Troops also encountered about 10 other IEDs along…
President Muhammadu Buhari has said that all those found wanting in the 2016 budget padding scam will not go unpunished. The President said this while reacting to questions at a meeting with members of the Nigerian Community in Saudi Arabia at the Nigerian House in Riyadh on Tuesday evening. Buhari, who said that he never knew what was budget padding until when the case was reported in the 2016 budget, promised to fish out all those involved in the act with a view to sanctioning them to serve as deterrent to others. He announced that his administration had introduced a…
The Sokoto State Board of Internal Revenue said on Wednesday that it had collected about N6 billion as internally generated revenue in 2015. Chairman of the board Alhaji Musa Maccido, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Sokoto that much would have been collected if the businessmen community had paid their taxes. He said that only 10 per cent of business men and women in the state paid taxes to the government which was effecting the revenue generation in the state. Maccido called on the government to set up mobile courts to prosecute defaulters. He explained that such mobile…
The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu has said that China and Japan are refusing to cooperate with the agency’s war against corruption. Magu made the disclosure on Tuesday, February 23, 2016, during a meeting with the Association of Chief Audit Executives of Banks in Nigeria, Punch reports. “The cooperation from the Chinese end has been very minimal, it is not encouraging,” Magu said. “There is more collaboration from the US, the United Kingdom and Switzerland essentially through INTERPOL or government to government,” he added. Magu also urged the bankers to assist the agency in…
The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) leadership has approved a three months tenure for the newly appointed Chairman of the party, Ali Modu Sheriff, According to LI reports. It was reported that the decision was taken at the Ondo State Governor’s lodge in Abuja today, February 23, by a large number of the party’s stakeholders and authority. The meeting comprised of the PDP Governors’ Forum, the party’s Board of Trustees (BoT), the National Assembly Caucus, the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) and state caucuses. According to the Ondo State Governor, Olusegun Mimiko, who spoke to newsmen after the meeting, Sheriff was…