NUBDISH blogspot: 2015-05-17

Wednesday 20 May 2015

Arsenal and Chelsea start transfer talks over Petr Cech

Arsenal have opened talks with Chelsea about signing Petr Cech this summer.

Mirror Sport understands the Gunners and French champions Paris Saint-Germain have both made official contact with the Blues, who have reluctantly agreed to sell their long-serving goalkeeper.

Cech, who turns 33 on Wednesday, is believed to prefer a move to Arsenal, and a sensational £10million deal between the bitter London rivals is now a growing possibility.

Manchester City will make a £40million bid for Liverpool contract rebel Raheem Sterling.

The 20-year-old England international has told Anfield boss Brendan Rodgers he wants to leave the club, with deposed champions City and new Prem kings Chelsea potential destinations.

But when Sterling - BOOED by fans as he collected the Reds' Young Player of the Year award on Tuesday night - holds crunch talks with the club this week he will be told they won’t sell him this summer.

"Hello, hello, pay attention to the manager!"

Manchester United boss Louis van Gaal produced what was described as the "greatest speech of all time" to steal the show at the club's player of the year awards evening.

After Spanish goalkeeper David De Gea won both the Players' Player and Fans' Player of the Year accolades for a second year running, Van Gaal took to the stage live on MUTV.

The country is currently generating about 2,000 megawatts of electricity, down from over 4,000MW recorded early last month, the Federal Government has said.

It also revealed that though power generation was a meagre 2,000MW; there was enough gas to produce over 6,000MW.

Raheem Sterling was booed at Liverpool’s awards ceremony as the fans vented their anger on the contract rebel.

Sterling was jeered when he received the Young Player of the Year award. One fan shouted “stay Raheem” as he gave a short acceptance speech, thanking his team-mates.

Governor Kashim Shettima

Borno State Governor Kassim Shettima has said there is the likelihood that the over 200 female students of the Government Secondary School, Chibok abducted by the Boko Haram fighters on April 14, 2014 may be held in bunkers in Sambisa Forest.

He therefore called on the military to go after the Boko Haram Islamic insurgents and liberate the girls.

Louis van Gaal has warned several players are in for a "rough summer" as he plots a Manchester United overhaul.

Speaking at the club's end-of-season awards ceremony, the manager promised further changes after a £25m move for PSV winger Memphis Depay, who completed his medical at Carrington earlier this week, as he attempts to deliver the Premier League title in his second year.

Van Gaal told MUTV: "When you purchase other players, you get another stimulus in the group, and you need that."

Iraq's government has called for volunteers to fight against Islamic State and help retake the city of Ramadi.

A cabinet statement said a voluntary recruitment drive was necessary to fill shortages in squads in the west of Anbar province.

Contrary to expectations, a former acting National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Chief Bisi Akande, has said that the party will not choose the next President of the Senate through zoning.

Akande, who spoke with some journalists in Ikeja, on Tuesday, explained that zoning was strange to the APC.

Floyd Mayweather shows off $830k gambling win

Despite beating Manny Pacquiao in the richest boxing bout in history, worth $300m on Saturday, May 2, 2015, Floyd Mayweather has not cut short his gambling lifestyle as he recently flaunted a $827,272.7 win.

MI Abaga got an insane amount of love from the Awka crowd at the Star Music Trek concert powered by Nigeria’s favourite beer, Star Lager.

The gig, which took place on Saturday, May 16, 2015, saw the female fan burst into tears while MI was performing on stage and the rapper sure made her night by bringing her on-stage, after which he gave her a passionate hug and sang to her specially.

President of the United States, Barack Obama, announced via tweet that he was now on Twitter.

“Hello, Twitter! It’s Barack. Really! Six years in, they’re finally giving me my own account” was his first tweet. His Twitter handle is @POTUS, which stands for President of the United States.

Jose Mourinho insists he is powerless to stop Petr Cech joining Arsenal. Mourinho has admitted for the first time that the decision is “not in my hands” as he gave a huge hint that Chelsea will be willing to sell to their bitter rivals.

Gunners boss Arsene Wenger wants a new No1 keeper this summer and Cech - who is 33 this week - is ready to move after losing his place to Thibaut Courtois.

Chelsea boss Mourinho, in an interview with talkSPORT’s Alan Brazil Breakfast show, said: “If it’s in my hands he would never go, would never go to big clubs with fantastic teams. Big candidates to win the Premier League. I would never let him go.”

There are not many people who have become multimillionaires as a direct result of misbehaving at school, but Jack Cator is one of them.

Back in 2005, the then 16-year-old was annoyed that his secondary school in Norfolk, eastern England, had put strict blocks on its computer network, to prevent the pupils from accessing music and games websites.

So, as a keen computer programmer he decided to use his knowledge to hack the system.

In a statement issued by Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) spokesman Olisa Metuh, he claimed that the PDP would deactivate its Twitter and Facebook accounts over an alleged hacking.

The Twitter handle, @PDPNigeria, on Sunday tweeted out “we accept responsibility for all that has gone wrong & bad in the last 16years & we give you Nigerians the credit for successes recorded,” which the PDP have formally stated was from a hacker.

Raheem Sterling is expected to tell Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers he wants to leave Anfield this summer.

The England forward has already turned down a new £100,000-a-week contract, and denied being a "money-grabber" in a BBC Sport interview last month.

In the over five years that President Goodluck Jonathan has been presiding over the affairs of the country, the Federal Government has borrowed N5.04tn from the domestic debt market.

Jonathan became Nigeria’s acting President on February 10, 2010 and substantive President on May 6, 2010 following the death of President Umaru Yar’Adua on May 5, 2010. On May 29, 2011, he was sworn in as an elected president.

Records at the Debt Management Office showed that the domestic debt of the Federal Government stood at N3,466,360,000,000 (N3.47tn) as of March 31, 2010.

Nigeria VP Sambo & wife beg Nigerians for forgiveness

Vice-President Namadi Sambo, and wife, Amina Sambo, on Monday urged Nigerians they offended while they served as the nation’s number two family, to forgive them.

The vice-president, who spoke to newsmen shortly after a valedictory meeting with his supporting members of staff, at Aguda House, Abuja, said he had forgiven all those he had interacted with in the last five years.

Bad news if you've just been to the loo - you're doing it wrong. The humble toilet is a standard installation in our homes, but it might not be helping us have the healthiest bowels we can, according to an author who is an expert in bowel movements.

In fact, we should ditch the throne and squat down to defecate, according to Giulia Enders. Currently studying for her doctorate in microbiology in Frankfurt, Giulia's debut book, Darm mit Charme, which translates as Charming Bowels, has sold 200,000 copies in her native Germany, and people are gripped by her descriptions -and diagrams - of how we should be pooing.

UEFA president Michel Platini has revealed some of its financial fair play rules will be "eased" - a move likely to be welcomed by clubs such as Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain.

Last season big-spenders City and PSG were both handed £49m fines by European football's governing body and had transfer restrictions imposed after investing huge sums of money on players in recent seasons.

Despite that, City made the biggest outlay by any English side in this year's January Transfer Window, signing £28m Wilfried Bony from Swansea.

Burundi's president has sacked three cabinet ministers, as protests resumed after last week's failed coup.

The president's spokesman denied that the dismissal of the defence, external relations and trade ministers was linked to the coup attempt.

The management of the Lekki Port Lagos Free Trade Zone Enterprise has announced the commencement of work on the construction of the N325bn Lekki seaport situated in Ibeju-Lekki, Lagos State.

The total value of the marine and land infrastructure for the L port was given as N156bn.

The Iraqi city of Ramadi has fallen to Islamic State (IS) after government forces abandoned their positions, officials say.

The police and military made a chaotic retreat after days of intense fighting.

But the US refused to confirm the capture, saying the situation was "fluid and contested" and it was too early to make "definitive statements".

A former Head of State and elder statesman, Gen. Yakubu Gowon, has expressed confidence in the ability of the coming administration of Muhammadu Buhari to restore the lost glory of education in the country.

Gowon stated this on Saturday at the official commissioning of Bogoro Community Study Centre of the National Open University of Nigeria, located in Bogoro, Bogoro Local Government Area of Bauchi State.

Kim Kardashian has spoken for the first time about what Bruce Jenner looks like as a female - and she is most impressed.

Kim, 34, says that the moment she saw him fully dressed as a woman was "amazing."

In a interview in the US, the reality television star said: "It was amazing and she looked beautiful, really beautiful."

There are indications that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is revisiting investigations into the fuel subsidy fraud cases which it abandoned since 2012.

It was learnt on Sunday that the EFCC authorities decided to step up the investigation at the twilight of the President Goodluck Jonathan administration whose disposition towards the subsidy fraud and other corruption cases, sources said, did not encourage the prosecution of the suspects.

Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho rejected a potential return to Real Madrid as manager, according to Guillem Balague.

Balague claims Madrid had drawn up a list of potential replacements that included Chelsea boss Mourinho - a man who only ended an oft-tempestuous three-year spell at the Bernabeu in 2013.

The Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole, on Sunday said his new wife, Lara, was not a model.

He said he would rather described his new wife as “a model in my heart.”

Oshiomhole, who made this known at a special thanksgiving mass held at the Immaculate Conception Cathedral in Auchi in honour of the new couple, added that Lara was not a replacement for his late wife, Clara.

The Peoples Democratic Party has said that it is not contemplating a change of identity, noting that the vision of its founding fathers remains timeless.

The party also said it was open to merging with other political parties and associations that shared its ideals.

The party insisted that it was still a national political party with the strength and spread to regain pre-eminence, despite losing control of the Federal Government and some states in the last general elections.

Messi goal gives Barca title as Ronaldo scores hat-trick in Real's 4-1 win over Espanyol

Lionel Messi's goal gave Barcelona their 23rd Spanish title as they beat Atletico Madrid in La Liga. Messi's 41st league goal of the season ensured that Real Madrid will finish second - despite Cristiano Ronaldo's hat-trick against Espanyol.

With one game left Barca hold a four-point lead ahead of rivals Real.

The Anambra State Police Command on Sunday debunked media report that a certain restaurant in Awka, the state capital, has been dishing human flesh to unsuspecting members of the public in its menu.

According to the report, the police, had on discovery of the restaurant, closed down the place.

Maria Sharapova warmed up for the defence of her French Open crown in the best way possible by claiming the Italian Open title for the third time in Rome.

Sharapova won a hard-fought final against Spain’s Carla Suarez Navarro, losing the first set and winning a very tight second, before romping through the decider to triumph 4-6 7-5 6-1.

Sharapova felt she made too many errors in the opening set and at the beginning of the second, but said: "I thought the errors I was making were really close. I felt like I was doing the right thing and I'm glad I gave myself a chance to cut those down."

Islamic State militants have made further gains in the Iraqi city of Ramadi, with reports of them taking a key military command centre.

Local officials have said the city is on the verge of falling, with army reinforcements unable to hold ground.

The prime minister called on troops not to abandon their posts, while telling Shia militias to prepare to deploy.

Novak Djokovic stormed past Roger Federer 6-4 6-3 in the Rome Masters final to perfectly set up his French Open challenge.

The upcoming Roland Garros tournament remains the only Grand Slam trophy to elude Djokovic's grasp, yet his mighty form in 2015 has transitioned without any problems onto the clay courts.

With the acronym, GMB (General Muhammadu Buhari) he rode to victory at the last general election but he now wants to be addressed differently.

The official portraits of Nigeria’s president-elect and his vice-president, have been unveiled by their media team in Abuja.

Pope Francis has canonised two 19th Century nuns who lived in Ottoman-ruled Palestine, making them the first Palestinian saints in modern times.

Marie Alphonsine Ghattas and Mariam Bawardy were among four new saints declared in Rome's St Peter's Square.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and over 2,000 Christian pilgrims from the region attended the ceremony. The move is seen as a token of Vatican support for dwindling Christian communities in the Middle East.

President Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday apologised to Nigerians who he might have offended in the process of taking decisions during his eight years of staying in the Presidential Villa, Abuja as Vice President, acting President and President.

He said since nobody was perfect, there was no way he would not have done some things that some people would have found annoying, saying he did not do such things deliberately.

The All Progressives Congress on Sunday dismissed as mere fiction, a list of ministers being circulated especially on Social Media.

According to the APC, the party has nothing to do with the said list and urged Nigerians to wait for the authentic one which will be made public through the appropriate channels.

This was contained in a statement signed by the National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, in Abuja.

Migrants rescued from a sinking boat off Indonesia have told the BBC that about 100 people died after a fight broke out over the last remaining food.

Survivors told of horrific conditions. Three men separately said people were stabbed, hanged or thrown overboard. The 700 rescued migrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh are being processed by the Indonesian authorities.

Thousands of migrants are estimated to be adrift in South East Asian waters, denied permission to land.

Paris St-Germain were crowned French champions for the third consecutive season after a hard-fought away victory over Montpellier.

PSG needed only a point to be certain of becoming only the fourth Ligue 1 club to win three consecutive titles.

Chelsea are planning a shock raid on Premier League title rivals Manchester City for Edin Dzeko.

Jose Mourinho will lose the muscular presence of Didier Drogba when the 37-year-old Ivorian’s contract expires next month. And newly-crowned champions Chelsea are viewing powerful Bosnia & Herzegovina international Dzeko as the ideal replacement.

City will listen to offers for the 29-year-old - and a fee of £15million was quoted when interest from Juventus, Inter Milan, Borussia Dortmund and Wolfsburg was lodged.

The US says its special forces have killed a senior Islamic State (IS) member and captured his wife in a rare ground raid in eastern Syria.

Abu Sayyaf helped direct oil, gas and financial operations for IS, as well as holding a military role, said a US Department of Defense statement. It said forces tried to capture him, but he was killed after engaging them.

It is the first time the US is known to have carried out a ground operation to attack IS within Syria.

A Nigerian restaurant in Anambra has reportedly been shut down for cooking human flesh and serving it to customers.

The police were tipped off by locals who suspected something horrific was taking place inside the kitchen.

They raided the hotel restaurant to discover human heads which were still dripping with blood in plastic bags.

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