Former singer, Etcetera is not new to attracting arguments especially since his decision to become a newspaper columnist. However, the ex-X3m Music act might have passed a certain boundry after focusing his recent article on Nigeria’s international damsel, Asa. Titled ‘Asa, your collabos are getting dumber by the day,’ Etcetera tore into Asa for her features on Naeto C’s ‘Share my blessing’ and more recently Korede Bello’s ‘Somebody Great’. The writer believes Asa is gradually ending her star by featuring in ‘wack’ songs which might be damaging to her career. Fans of Asa are however not having none of this…
Author: David F.
Beautiful star, Kim Kardashian and American rapper, Kanye West have welcomed their second child, a baby boy today, Saturday, December 5, 2015. Kim made the announcement via her app saying, ‘Kanye and I welcome our baby boy’. . The name of the child is yet to be known though. Congraz.
Earlier in the week, Nigerian rapper, William Oriorha popularly called 2shotz was in the news again. This time, its for all the not right reasons. His wife of 2 years, Precious Jones allegedly claims that the rapper beats her, insults her parents, and he’s yet to pay her bride price. She later went on her Instagram page to pen a heart-felt message to her kids saying she feels she’s failed them as a mother. Though she’s yet to file a lawsuit against the rapper for assault and domestic violence, if she decides to press charges, 2shotz might face a fine…
Tonto Dikeh’s hubby, Olakunle Churchill has been honoured as a 2015 Nigerian Goodwill ambassador. Churchill received the award in recognition of his positive contribution to humanity at the ceremony that held on December 3, 2015 at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja. At the grand event, Ex-AGN president and actor, Segun Arinze was honoured as well. Congratulating her hubby, Tonto Dikeh wrote, ‘Congratulations to my husband on his prestigious United nation awards. You Indeed deserve this and much more, God just began your story..Super Duper Proud of you my KING-KONG.
February 10th 2013 was the day of the AFCON final with the Nigerian Super Eagles taking on Burkina Faso. Just after half time with Nigeria leading courtesy of Sunday Mba’s goal, left-back Elderson Echiejile pulled up and was replaced by Juwon Oshaniwa, then of Ashdod in Israel. It was his first game of the tournament. Surely he must have been nervous. “People don’t understand what is meant by a squad game. That a player is on the bench does not mean he is not capable. I knew I was capable and so when I got on all I was thinking…
A shaky Arsenal showed the mental strength manager Arsene Wenger was craving for, even if Olivier Giroud scored for both sides, by beating Sunderland 3-1 to go second in the Premier League on Saturday. With a tough Champions League match looming against Olympiakos Piraeus in Athens next week, and eight players currently on the injured list, Arsenal needed a win after a run of three disappointing league games. “I was more nervous than usual today because I knew it was a very important game for our season,” Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger told reporters. “We were edgy, nervy in the first…
Louis van Gaal hailed his side’s attacking display against West Ham United but said they “forgot to score goals” after a demoralising fourth 0-0 draw in their last six home matches on Saturday. Manchester United had 21 attempts at West Ham’s goal at Old Trafford but just one of those was on target as the Reds again frustrated the home fans at the ‘Theatre of Dreams’. “You can train every day on shooting at the goal and you have to know that we are doing that,” the Dutchman told reporters. “We put players in the position to score but you…
Manuel Pellegrini has blamed injuries and a stressful fixture schedule for Manchester City’s shock 2-0 defeat at Stoke City but goalkeeper Joe Hart was pretty honest when he said their performance had been unacceptable. Premier League leaders City were torn apart inside the opening 15 minutes at the Britannia Stadium with Marko Arnautovic scoring twice for the rampant hosts and they barely threatened Stoke’s goal thereafter. While key players such as Yaya Toure, Sergio Aguero and Vincent Kompany were out of action City still boasted an attacking of Raheem Sterling, Wilfried Bony, David Silva and Kevin de Bruyne, a quartet…
Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho has said a top-six Premier League finish may be the best his team can hope for after an eighth defeat of the campaign against Bournemouth on Saturday. Substitute Glenn Murray’s 82nd-minute header at Stamford Bridge caused Chelsea a 1-0 loss that left them three points above the relegation zone and 14 points adrift of the Champions League places. Mourinho had previously insisted that Chelsea were still capable of breaking into the top four, but he admitted that he might have to revise his objectives after the champions’ latest abject result. “Before this game it was realistic…
New Valencia coach Gary Neville viewed on from the stands as Santi Mina’s late equaliser handed his side a surprise 1-1 draw at home to European champions Barcelona. Luis Suarez had put the visitors into a controversial lead as he appeared to be offside before scoring at the near post, but Valencia’s work rate was rewarded when Mina fired into the top corner five minutes from time. Real Madrid are now just four points behind Barca as they bounced back from their embarrassing elimination from the Copa del Rey for fielding an ineligible player in midweek with Karim Benzema, Gareth…
Manchester United will be without captain Wayne Rooney and defender Marcos Rojo for their Premier League clash against West Ham United, manager Louis van Gaal said on Friday. Rooney has been ruled out of Saturday’s game at Old Trafford with an ankle injury he picked up in the 1-1 draw with Leicester City at the weekend, while fullback Rojo has suffered a repeat of the shoulder dislocation he had last season. “Wayne’s injury is more heavy than we thought and it’s a nasty injury,” Van Gaal told the club’s website (www.manutd.com) on Friday. “When we go on it’s been getting…
Wayne Rooney will be unavailable for Manchester United’s games against West Ham in the Premier League and Wolfsburg in the Champions League because of an ankle injury. Manager Louis van Gaal confirmed the striker’s injury, which he suffered in the 1-1 draw at Leicester, was worse than at first thought. The 30-year-old, who has played 499 games for the club, will miss Saturday’s home game against West Ham and the European fixture in Wolfsburg next Tuesday. “It’s a nasty injury. He shall not play his 500th game (on Saturday) because he is more injured than I thought so we have…
Confidence is very high at Liverpool under new manager Juergen Klopp but the German knows the precious commodity, “like a small flower”, could be destroyed if his side allow complacency to slip in ahead of Sunday’s visit to Newcastle United. After seven wins in their last eight matches in all competitions, including a 6-1 mauling of Southampton in the League Cup on Wednesday, Klopp is riding a wave of enthusiasm and renewed belief at Anfield. Liverpool, whose struggle for goals had become seemingly endemic at the tail-end of Brendan Rodgers’s reign, have found the net 14 times in their last…
England managers should be appointed on a tournament-by-tournament basis and be sacked should they fail, according to Crystal Palace boss Alan Pardew. In an interview with the Times newspaper on Saturday, Pardew made clear he would love to succeed Roy Hodgson, the 68-year-old whose contract expires after the European championship finals in France next year. “I don’t know about ‘the favourite’ but it’s a job I have specific views on,” said the Englishman, 54, whose Premier League side play at Everton on Monday. “To give yourself the best chance, the manager should be (appointed) tournament by tournament. You’re not building…
Leicester City manager Claudio Ranieri said his only thoughts were on his side reaching the 40-point target that usually guarantees Premier League survival despite their rapidly shortening odds to win the title. Bookmakers will not be hitting the panic button yet after installing City as 2000-1 shots before a ball was kicked this season, but Saturday’s 3-0 win at Swansea City put the Foxes top of the table by two points after nearly one third of the season. With Riyad Mahrez’s hat-trick in south Wales securing victory, Leicester’s points tally reached 32 from 15 games and their title odds were…
After a nine-month ankle injury setback Franck Ribery was named on Friday in Bayern Munich’s squad for this weekend’s Bundesliga trip to Borussia Moenchengladbach. Coach Pep Guardiola revealed on Friday that the 32-year-old French midfielder was on the brink of making his return. And it was confirmed by the reigning three-time Bundesliga’s champions later on Friday that he would be in the squad for Saturday’s game. “Franck has been training well this week. After nine months he feels no pain, which is delightful news. I believe he’ll be back in the team before the winter break,” Guardiola told a press…
Bayern Munich had their lead reduced to five points as they lost their unbeaten Bundesliga record on Saturday in shocking emphatic style, going down 3-1 away to Borussia Moenchengladbach. It is only the second time Pep Guardiola’s Bayern have lost at all this season after they went down 2-0 at Arsenal in the Champions League in October. Gladbach coach Andre Schubert praised his side’s “sensational performance” while Guardiola said Bayern must learn from their mistakes. “We lost our control after they went 1-0 up and they started to couter-attack,” said the Spaniard. “We have to be able to learn from…
Gonzalo Higuain should build on his sterling Serie A season to push his way into Ballon d’Or contention, says his coach at Napoli Maurizio Sarri. Napoli sit top of the league for the first time since 1990, when Diego Maradona led the ‘Partenopei’ to their second and last league crown, after Higuain hit a brace in a thrilling 2-1 victory over 10-man Inter Milan last week. The league leaders are expected to be welcomed by 16,000 travelling fans in Bologna on Sunday when they look to maintain a one-point lead over Inter, who host Genoa in Saturday’s late game. The…
The rising star of Jurgen Klopp battles Steve McClaren’s weak side this Sunday as the German’s re-energised Liverpool tackle the former England manager’s free-wheeling Newcastle United. Four consecutive wins has helped Liverpool move within sight of the Premier League top four and into the League Cup semifinals, while successive heavy losses to Leicester City and Crystal Palace have sent Newcastle careening into the relegation zone. Newcastle’s porousness and Liverpool’s attacking incisiveness could spell another bleak afternoon for McClaren, whose position is reportedly under threat after just two wins in 14 league games. But after a number of matches in which…
Troy Deeney and Odion Ighalo continued their brilliant goal-scoring form as Watford beat Norwich City 2-0 at Vicarage Road on Saturday to climb into the Premier League’s top half. In the first top-flight encounter between the teams since February 1988, Watford prevailed through Deeney’s 30th-minute penalty and an injury-time goal by his strike partner Ighalo. Deeney now has five goals for the campaign and Ighalo nine, and their goals have put Watford well on their way to achieving the minimum objective of avoiding relegation. Victory took Quique Sanchez Flores’s side up to ninth place in the standings and kept Norwich,…