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Wednesday, 15 August 2012
MANCHESTER UNITED SIGNS £24M ROBIN VAN PERSIE FROM ARSENAL
MANCHESTER United have announced they've
agreed a deal to sign Robin van Persie from Arsenal,
subject to a medical and personal terms.
The announcement comes after an intense period of
negotiations and is subject to Dutch striker Van
Persie passing a medical and agreeing personal
terms.
"Manchester United is pleased to announce it has
reached agreement with Arsenal Football Club for the
transfer of Robin Van Persie," said a club statement.
"The deal is subject to a medical and the agreement
of personal terms. A further announcement will be
made in due course."
It is not anticipated there will be any problems with
either remaining part of the deal.
And providing it goes through without a hitch, Van
Persie could face Everton in...
Posted in: Thursday, 9 August 2012
OKUPE ON OBASANJO'S INFLUENCE IN OGUN STATE
FORMER Presidential spokesman under ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo, Dr. Doyin Okupe, yesterday said the leadership style of the former President cannot win elections again for the Peoples Democratic Party [PDP] in Ogun State.He described Chief Obasanjo as a liability to the party in the State, saying his strick could only work on national level to those who still believe in his ruling style. He was recently appointed as Senior Special Assistant to President Goodluck Jonathan on Public Affairs.Okupe who was Obasanjo’s Special Adviser on media matters for three years between 1999 and 2002 and he was displaced by Mrs Remi Oyo.He spoke after he was appointed PDP’s acting leader, at a stakeholders meeting, in Ijebu-Igbo.According to him;...
CLARK CHALLENGES IBB
Ijaw leader, Chief Edwin Clark, on Wednesday challenged former head of state, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida, to a public senility test.
Clark, who was reacting to Babangida’s description of the Ijaw leader as senile, said the test would determine the reasoning ability of both of them.
Babangida, who was reacting to some recent comments made by Clark, had said the Ijaw leader had lost focus and had become senseless.
Clark had attacked Babangida at a public lecture, where he accused the former military leader of having a hand in the Boko Haram insurgency.
However, his declaration was contained in a statement read at a press conference in Abuja by his lawyer, Mr. Kayode Ajulo.
Clark said both of them should sit at a public debate, without the assistance of aides, to debate issues so that Nigerians...
Monday, 6 August 2012
SYRIAN PRIME MINISTER DEFECTS
Syria's Prime Minister Riyad Hijab has
defected from President Bashar al-
Assad's administration and joined the
opposition to his rule, a spokesman said
on Monday in a statement broadcast on
Al Jazeera television.
"I announce today my defection from the
killing and terrorist regime and I announce that
I have joined the ranks of the freedom and
dignity revolution. I announce that I am from
today a soldier in this blessed revolution,"
Hijab said in a statement read in his name by
the spokesman.
The spokesman said Hijab was in a safe place.
Ascol...
Friday, 3 August 2012
MAYWEATHER RELEASED
Boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. has been
released from a Las Vegas detention center after
serving two months of a three-month sentence for a
domestic violence conviction, a detention center
official said early Friday.
Video from CNN affiliate KVVU showed Mayweather
leaving the facility.
The official from the Clark County Detention Center
said Mayweather was no longer in custody. No
explanation of why Mayweather was released before
the end of his sentence was given.
The undefeated boxer was convicted last year after
the police said he punched the mother of his children
at his home.
The high-profile athlete was to be kept in isolation
from the facility's 3,000 other inmates, the police
said when he was booked into the detention center in
June.
"He...
83 MILLION FACEBOOK USERS ARE FAKE!
The number of fake accounts on Facebook is
roughly the size of Egypt's population and
larger than most of the world's countries, the
company disclosed this week.
In a 10-Q filing, Facebook acknowledged that a total
of 8.7% -- or 83 million -- accounts on the network are
bogus. Of that 8.7%, 4.8% are duplicate accounts,
2.4% are user-misclassified accounts and 1.5% are
"undesirable" accounts, a.k.a. spam.
The figure is a bit higher than the company's
previous estimates. In a March filing, Facebook
claimed about 5% to 6% of its accounts -- or 40.3
million to 50.7 million -- were fake. The company also
says it bans at least 20,000 accounts daily and
estimates about 600,000 accounts per day are
compromised.
Taking the latest figures into account,...
Tuesday, 31 July 2012
CHEVROLET MANCHESTER UNITED STRIKES NEW SHIRT DEAL
Chevrolet will be the new name on Manchester
United's shirts from the 2014-15 season.
Chevrolet, the club's official car partner, will become
only the fifth shirt sponsor in the club's 134-year
history from the 2014-2015 season, in a seven-year
agreement that has been signed for an undisclosed
amount.
United's commercial director, Richard Arnold, told
the club's official website, www.manutd.com: "This is
a fantastic, long-term deal for the club. We have been
partners with Chevrolet for only six weeks, but
already they have produced some fantastic ideas
that will benefit both the partnership and our 659
million followers around the world."
Arnold added: "They are a key partner on our current
tour and I know they have enjoyed experiencing the
buzz...
FERDINAND CHARGED OVER TWITTER COMMENTS
Rio Ferdinand has been charged by the
Football Association over comments he made
at the end of the John Terry trial.
Following Terry's acquittal for allegedly racially
abusing Ferdinand's brother Anton, the Manchester
United defender responded to a tweet that
characterised Terry's Chelsea teammate Ashley Cole
- a defence witness in the trial - as a "choc ice".
The term is commonly understood to mean "black on
the outside, white on the inside" and was a reference
to Cole's testimony in court, in which he said he
never heard Terry make a racist remark towards
Anton Ferdinand during a match at Loftus Road in
October.
An FA statement said: "The FA has today charged
Manchester United's Rio Ferdinand with improper
conduct in relation to comments...
50 NIGERIANS EVACUATED FROM SYRIA
Mr Olugbenga Ashiru, the Minister of
Foreign Affairs, on Monday said about 50 Nigerians
had so far been evacuated from Syria following the
ongoing crises in the country.
Ashiru said in Abuja that the evacuees complied with
government's directive to leave Syria and he advised
others to vacate the Middle East nation.
"We have evacuated quite a lot of Nigerians from
Syria, it was not an airlift exercise like we did in the
case of Libya because they are very few.
"From the report I got, those moved so far are less
than 50, long before the situation deteriorated we
advised them to move.
"Some have decided to stay behind but it is their
choice.''
The minister also said that the families of the Charge
d'Affairs and officials at the embassy had been
relocated...
Monday, 30 July 2012
THE ARSENAL TRIO VISITS NIGERIA
The Arsenal players (Photo Source: Bada Akintunde J)
Over the weekend, the trio of Bacary Sagna, Per Mertesacker and Lukas
Podolski of Arsenal FC of England were in Nigeria to meet with a
select group of fans, at the Malta Guinness Low Sugar Workout launch
in Lagos.
Czech midfielder, Tomas Rosicky who was scheduled to come along,
pulled out of the trip, after sustaining an injury in a pre-season
game.
The Gunners who arrived in Lagos on Saturday morning, were taught
steps of the rave-of-the-moment Azonto dance, by Guinness World Record
holding dancer, Kaffy and her crew, at the launch which took place at
the Ball Room of the popular Eko Hotel, on Sunday.
They were presented Nigerian national team shirts, bearing their
names, upon...
