Chelsea manager Antonio Conte warned his players not to succumb to complacency ahead of the Premier League leaders’ home game against Arsenal on Saturday. Chelsea are nine points clear of second-place Tottenham Hotspur and Arsenal, who trail their north London rivals on goal difference, and odds-on favourites for the title. But Conte, who won eight […]
SUPER Eagles striker Odion Ighalo is worried stiff that he hasn’t received a call from coach Gernot Rohr after his move to China. The former Watford of England goal scorer signed for Changchun Yatai and will earn close to £200,000 per week thereby overtaking Skipper Mikel Obi as the highest paid Nigerian footballer. Ighalo’s fear […]
Jamaica’s Usain Bolt has no plans to extend his career beyond this year’s world championships in London and has ruled out a return to Australia for the 2018 Commonwealth Games. Bolt, who completed a ‘treble treble’ of 100m, 200m and 4x100m Olympic titles at the 2016 Rio Games, had his 2008 relay gold stripped last […]
By Ochereome NnannaLOOK at the irony of “change”, which took effect in America on January 20th 2017, compared with what happened in Nigeria on May 29th 2015. Unlike Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari, a former military Head of State, the newbie United States President, Donald Trump, has never occupied any governmental post before now. Donald Trump […]
European Council President Donald Tusk says Donald Trump like Russia’s Putin, China and radical Islam now poses a threat to the European Union. The conservative former premier of Poland said this in a letter to EU national leaders few days to the Malta summit where they will debate relations with the United States. The summit which […]
By Emmanuel Okogba Nigerian international Odion Ighalo has completed a move to Chinese club Changchun Yatai in a reported £20 million fee. Ighalo who previously turned down a £300,00-a-week move to China last summer has scored 39 goals in 100 appearances since joining Watford from Granada in 2014. Ighalo A statement by his now former club, Watford […]
Jose Mourinho has confirmed Wayne Rooney will remain at Manchester United for the rest of the season despite reports linking him with a move to the Chinese Super League. The Chinese transfer window does not close until the end of February and the England forward’s name has been linked repeatedly with astonishing offers from a […]
Nigerian and Watford striker, Odion Ighalo may be on its way to China. But he may change his mind if he accepts the loan bid by West Brom Albion. According to a report in Watford Observer, Watford have reportedly agreed a £20m deal with Chinese club Chongchun Yatai the striker. Odion Ighalo Head coach Walter […]
Jose Mourinho turned down a “big offer” to go to China, the Manchester United manager disclosed in an interview published Monday. The 54-year-old Portuguese boss did not disclose which club made the proposal but said he would not criticise anyone who made a highly lucrative move to the developing Chinese Super League. Jose Mourinho Last […]
Mourinho The irascible Portuguese coach has described a mounting schedule as a ‘nonsense’ and ‘a laugh’ in an extraordinary outburst that followed his side’s comfortable passage into the fifth round of the FA Cup with a 4-0 home win over Championship side Wigan. That leaves United as the only English team battling for four trophies […]
EXCLUSIVE It’s about to go Beast Mode in Finland … where Marshawn Lynch and Gary Barnidge are gearing up to run a female tackle football camp … TMZ Sports has learned. Turns out, women’s football is EXPLODING in the Nordic country — they’ve already got a whole bunch of female full contact pro teams … […]
Donald Trump hurtled through his first week in power, punching out at critics, dishing up “alternative facts,” polarizing public opinion and making good on an electoral promise to shake up Washington. One week into the Trump era and there is a serious case of political whiplash in America’s capital. Just a week ago, an outsider […]
By John Egbokhan As more Super Eagles like Odion Ighalo, Emmanuel Emenike and Nosa Igiebor prepare to join captain John Obi Mikel in the Chinese Super League, Coach Gernoit Rohr may well reconsider his position not to extend invitations to Nigerian players moving to China to play soccer. Mikel’s move to Tiajin Teda at the […]
Edo’ll become economic hub of Nigeria—Gov Obaseki SIMON EBEGBULEM, BENIN CITY It is becoming obvious that the two major leaders in Edo state today, Omo N’Oba N’Edo Uku Akpolokpolo, Oba Ewuare 11 and Governor Godwin Obaseki, share the same vision and mission and have the will to take drastic decisions in areas that have been […]
AS many as three Super Eagles players are expected to join captain of the team John Obi Mikel in China before the end of the January transfer window. Mikel moved to Tiajin Teda after 11 years with English Premier League side Chelsea, and reports coming out of England has it that Odion Ighalo of Watford […]
Manchester City midfielder, Yaya Toure has criticised fellow footballers who have traded Europe for China, saying he would prefer to follow Manchester United forward Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s example and stay in a competitive league. Wayne Rooney has also played down the prospect of a summer move to China by insisting he is in a “happy place” […]
Argentine forward Carlos Tevez said Saturday he will have to earn every yuan of his reportedly world-leading salary as he officially joined Chinese Super League side Shanghai Shenhua, declaring it his “new home.” Carlos Tevez Tevez, who arrived to a rapturous fan welcome Thursday, is arguably the highest-profile foreign player to ever play in China, […]
Walter Mazzarri has brushed aside Odion Ighalo’s future despite West Brom holding talks over signing the Watford striker. The Baggies wanted to land the Nigerian international last summer and have renewed their interest this month. West Brom boss Tony Pulis is known to be keen on Ighalo and has made him a key target in […]
Pedestrians pose with a waxwork figure of US President-elect Donald Trump is prepared to be placed on a street after it was unveilied at the Grevin waxwork museum in Seoul on January 20, 2017.The waxwork was displayed for around 30 minutes outside Deoksugung palace in central Seoul. Meanwhile most Asian markets turned lower as nervous […]
NO less than 45 African countries have indicated their interest to participate in the forthcoming celebration of Festac77 @ 40 that would start on April 1 across the country. Dr. Ferdinand Anikwe, the Director-General, Centre for Black Arts and Africa Civilization, CBAAC, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos. Anikwe said that […]
Borussia Dortmund’s Colombia striker Adrian Ramos is set to quit the Bundesliga to join Chinese Super League club Chongqing Dangdai Lifan, the German team said. Sixth-placed Dortmund, who face Benfica in the last 16 of the Champions League next month, are at Werder Bremen on Saturday when the Bundesliga resumes after the winter break. Ramos, […]
Diego Costa could be back in the Chelsea starting line-up against Hull on Sunday after he made up with the Premier League leaders’ manager Antonio Conte, British media reported Wednesday. The 28-year-old striker — whose 14 goals this season has spurred Chelsea to a seven-point lead at the top of the table — was pictured […]
By Emmanuel Elebeke & Favour Ulebor INDICATIONS have emerged that the Chinese government is collecting data on its citizens to an extent where their movements can even be tracked in real-time using their mobile devices. This was disclosed by a group of researchers from Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global […]
*Osinbajo silent on monarch’s claim By Emma Amaize, Egufe Yafugborhi, Godwin Oghre, Brisibe Perez & Ochuko Akuopha WARRI—THE Olu of Warri, Delta State, His Majesty, Ogiame Ikenwoli, has fingered the Federal and Delta State Governments for allegedly acquiring the site of the Nigerian Maritime University, NMU, in Warri South-West Local Government Area of the state, […]
By Babajide KomolafeINTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund, IMF, yesterday affirmed that Nigeria will this year recover from economic recession, projecting that the nation’s economy will grow by 0.8 percent in 2017. Citing increased crude oil production due to security improvement, the IMF in its latest World Economic Outlook (WEO) released, Monday, said that Nigeria Gross Domestic Product […]