Chelsea humiliates Mourinho’s Man U 4-0

Chelsea supporters taunted Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho with chants of “You’re not special anymore!” as his Stamford Bridge return yielded a humiliating 4-0 defeat on Sunday. With seven major titles across two spells, Mourinho is Chelsea’s most successful ever manager, but his return to his old stomping ground ended in one of the most chastening results of his career. Pedro Rodriguez opened the scoring after just 30 seconds and Chelsea did not look back, Gary Cahill, Eden Hazard and N’Golo Kante completing an emphatic Premier League victory. It was…

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Double honours for OGD, elected President, Nigerian-Finnish Business Council, becomes SWAN National Patron, says ‘Sports key to economic development’

Former Governor of Ogun State, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, has described sports as a veritable tool for economic development, just as he called on financially-muscled Nigerians to invest in sports. Daniel, made the remarks on Friday in Sagamu, while playing host to members of the National Executive Committee of the Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN) who were at his residence to pay him a courtesy visit. He noted that sports can create employment, empowerment and above all, develop the society economically. “I want to use this opportunity to call on…

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Princewill Does It Again, Breaks More Records with the Movie 76’

Prince Tonye T.J.T Princewill’s soon to be released (Nov 25th) Nollywood production, “76” has once again made headlines. “The highly anticipated movie had it’s equally eagerly anticipated European premiere at the BFI London Film Festival held over the weekend and just like the experience in Canada, tickets were sold out days before the screening. Prince Tonye was during the same period, a guest on BBC’s Focus Africa. See pictures attached. No Nollywood movie has done Toronto and London back to back in the same year, until now. Showing made in…

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Sokoto govt, Nigerian Army team up to establish new schools

Sokoto state government and the Nigerian Army have teamed up to establish two new schools in Sokoto town and Shagari local government area. While one of the schools, a primary, will have boarding facilities that will cater for children aged between five to 12 years, the other, a secondary school, will be for day students and will be sited at the Giginya Barracks, Sokoto. A press statement issued in Sokoto Sunday signed by the state Commissioner of Basic and Secondary Education, Dr. Jabbi Kilgore, said the partnership with the military…

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Police rescue 12-year-old girl in Orimerunmu, arrest kidnapper

The Ogun State Police Command has arrested a suspected kidnapper, Odele Tosin, for allegedly masterminding the kidnap of a 12-year-old girl, Eniola Oyekanmi, in the Ketu area of Lagos. The victim was said to have been kidnapped on Friday by the gang at the Orimerunmu area of Ketu. Policemen from Mowe Division of the command reportedly rescued Oyekanmi around 1am on Saturday in a hotel at Mowe, Obafemi-Owode Local Government Area of the state. The victim was taken to the hotel, while the gang demanded a ransom. The state Police…

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