Jonathan Frees 167 Suspects

President Goodluck Jonathan

The Ministry of defence has realeased from custody over 167 suspects arrested during a military campaign to end an islamist insurgency in the northeast. In a statement released and signed on Friday by the Director of Defence Information Major Gen. Chris Olukolade expressed they were following orders by the Nigerian President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan.

Nigeria Sweeps Awards Full List

Lira and Cara Tshabalala At The Gala

At the just concluded GLO/CAF Award in Lagos, Nigeria at the Eko Hotel & Suites on Thursday night, Nigeria swept 5 Awards out of the 11 at stake.

Keshi Dedicates Award

Super Eagles head coach has dedicated his GLO/CAF Coach Of The Year Awards to his team and crew for their support and contribution since he got into office.

Yaya Makes History Beats Mikel To Retain Crown

Ivory Coast midfielder Yaya Touré, has beaten Nigerian midfielder Mikel Obi and fellow compatriot Didier Drogba to win his third successive African footballer of the year award.

Walcott will be missed

England manager Roy Hudgson has admitted Theo Walcott will surely be a loss to both club and country due to a knee injury sustained in Arsenal's win against Spurs during their FA Cup third round tie.

FA Cup Date Moved

Here is to confirm that the FA CUP forth round match  between Arsenal and Coventry City as been rescheduled as follows:

Arsenal v Coventry City
Friday, January 24, 2014
Kick-off: 7.45pm

Event of the match resulting into a draw,
replay will be played as follows:

Coventry City v Arsenal
Wednesday, February 5 2014 (Please note that this date
is subject to change to allow for live TV coverage)
Kick Off: 7.45pm

FA CUP DRAW

FA Cup forth round draw:

Stevenage VS Everton

Sunderland VS Kidderminster or Peterborough

Bolton VS Cardiff

Chelsea VS Stock

Huddersfield VS Charlton or Oxford Utd

Port Vale or Plymouth VS Brighton

Asenal VS Coventry

Nottingham Forest VS Ipswich or Preston

Southampton VS Yeovil

Southend VS Hull

Birmingham or Bristol Rovers or Crawley VS Swansea 

Sheffield United VS Norwich or Fulham

Rochdale VS Macclesfield or Sheffield Wednesday

Wigan or MK Dons VS Crystal Palace

Blackburn or Manchester City VS Bristol City or Watford 

Bournemouth or Burton VS Liverpool


Games to be played on weekend of January 25/26

Officially, Mr. Bez Idakula

At last, the “that stupid song” crooner Bez Idakula finally sealed his long time affair with Bolatito Ladoja at the Guiding Light Asssembly Church in Parkview Estate, Ikoyi.

SUNDAY FA CUP 3RD ROUND RESULT

Sunday 5 January 2014 Third Round
Kick Off  Home  Away

13:00 Nottingham Forest  5 - 0 West Ham United
15:00 Sunderland AFC 3 - 0 Carlisle United
15:15 Derby County 0 - 2 Chelsea
16:00 Liverpool 2 - 0 Oldham Athletic
17:30 Manchester United  1 - 2 Swansea City

FA CUP 3RD ROUND RESULTS

FA CUP 3RD ROUND RESULTS

Wigan Athletic 3-0 MK Dons
Yeovil Town 4-0 Leyton Orient
Southend 4 -1 Milwall
Bristol City 1-1 Watford
Everton 4-0 QPR
Aston Villa 1-2 Sheffield United
Middlesbrough 0-2 Hull City
Arsenal 2-0 Tottenham
Blackburn 1-1 Manchester City1
Barnsley 1-2 Coventry City
West Bromwich0-2 Crystal Palace
Stock City 2-1 Leicester City
Newcastle 1-2 Cardiff
Southampton 4-3 Burley
Rochdale 2-0 Leeds United
Norwich City 1-1 Fulham
Kidderminister 0-0 Peterbrough
Macclesfield 1-1 Sheffield Wednesday
Bolton 2-1 Blackpool
Doncaster 2-3 Stevenage
Brighton 1-0 Reading
Grimsby Town 2-3 Huddersfield Town

Walcott welcomes competition

As Arsenal fans clamour for the addition of firepower in their frontline, in-form Arsenal winger Theo Walcott has stated he’ll welcome the addition of competition in the squad to bluster their chances of success as the January transfer window kicks open.

Olivier Giroud has been Arsenal talisman all season long but an injury to the Frenchman and Nicklas Bendtner as left Arsenal with need of a striker.

In his words: ‘To be fair that is for the manager to decide if he wants to go out and buy anyone, whoever will come to the club in January, if not it is going to make the club stronger anyway. It is always nice to have competition with players coming in, but January is such a difficult period in the transfer market to get players in, especially the top players.

‘The boss has already said that he is looking for special players and we have got a lot of special players in that dressing room,’ he added.

Arsene Wenger has been linked with a move for Fulham’s talisman and former Manchester United forward Dimitar Berbatov in the papers and in past months we have heard about interest in Juventus Fernando Llorente.

Days back Llorente had stated his desire to stay with the Turin club stating he’s happy in Italy.
In his words: ‘Joining Juventus was a very good move for me, now am happy,’ he told La Stampa. He further complimented his strike partner Carlos Tevez. “He is a warrior, I like his attitude.”

Gunners stay up

Arsenal left it late at the Emirates against Cardiff City with goals from Nicklas Bendtner and Theo Walcott ensuring the league leaders climb back to top the log on new year’s day with a 2 – 0 victory after Manchester City had briefly stayed up. The Gunners who showed a tired display after a congested round of 3 games in a week got a boost from substitute Nicklas Bendtner’s goal on the 88^th minute after replacing German machine Lukas Podolski. There were wins for title rivals Manchester City, Liverpool and Chelsea as the title race stretches on.