Transfer news: Mourinho approves Ronaldo’s return to Manchester United

Manchester United manager, Jose Mourinho, has given his nod to the club’s attempts to bring Cristiano Ronaldo back.

La Sexta reports that Mourinho will have no issues over the return of his compatriot, who he worked with during his three-year spell at Real Madrid.

It is believed that a major clear out is imminent at the Spanish club.

Real will look to finally part ways with Ronaldo in the summer.

Real president, Florentino Perez, has reportedly resisted pressure from Ronaldo for a new deal this time, with the Portuguese captain unhappy at earning less than Lionel Messi after his bumper extension at the Camp Nou.

United could reportedly pay up to 352million in order to seal transfer at the end of the season.

Pep Guardiola congratulates Jose Mourinho and Manchester United on winning race to sign Alexis Sanchez

Pep Guardiola insists he has not fallen out with Alexis Sanchez because he is joining Manchester United rather than Manchester City.

Guardiola was keen to be reunited with Sanchez at City after working with him at Barcelona, only for the Chile star to agreed a monster £500,000-a-week contract with United.

He accepts Sanchez’s decision and wished the South American well as he switches from Arsenal to United.

“I repeat the same, the players and their managers decide what is the best for both of them,” said the City boss. “There’s nothing to add.

“My opinion of Alexis remains the same. It was a pleasure to be with him at Barcelona and he has decided to move to another club and I wish him all the best.”


Sanchez trained with Arsenal on Friday as he waits to leave the club (Image: Arsenal FC)
Guardiola shrugged off the question why City were not prepared to match United’s offer and congratulated them and Sanchez on the deal.

“I’m not a guy with the mathematics, with the numbers, so all I know right now is he is still an Arsenal player, Alexis Sanchez,” said the Catalan.

“I think he’s going to go to United, so congratulations to both of them.

“At the end the players when they have contenders, decide where they are going to play, even their managers decide where they are going to play, so good luck!”

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Benue massacre: Soyinka says Buhari acting like Jonathan

Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka has stated that President Muhammadu Buhari was acting like former President, Goodluck Jonathan in his handling of the activities of Fulani herdsmen across Nigeria.

While insisting that the President is handling the continued killings of farmers with kids’-glove, the poet pointed out that Jonathan did same with Boko Haram, leading to its subsequent escalation.

The Playwright wondered why the Buhari-led government had not considered some of the suggestions which stakeholders recommended as a solution to the crisis.

In an article on Wednesday, titled ‘Impunity rides again through killer herdsmen’, Soyinka stated that the herdsmen have declared war against Nigeria.

He recalled that afte,r “a hideous massacre” perpetrated by the herdsmen in 2016, a security meeting was called and the cattle rearers “attended the meeting — according to reports — with AK47s and other weapons of mass intimidation visible under their garments”.

“They were neither disarmed nor turned back. They freely admitted the killings but justified them by claims that they had lost their cattle to the host community,” he said.

“Such are the monstrous beginnings of the culture of impunity. We are reaping, yet again, the consequences of such tolerance of the intolerable. Yes, there indeed the government is culpable, definitely guilty of ‘looking the other way’. Indeed, it must be held complicit.”

“I am not aware that IPOB came anywhere close to this homicidal propensity and will to dominance before it was declared a terrorist organization.

“The international community rightly refused to go along with such an absurdity. The conduct of that movement, even at its most extreme, could by no means be reckoned as terrorism. By contrast, how do we categorize Myeti?”

Reacting to a statement that herdsmen were in defence of their stolen cows, the nobel laureate, said, “How do we assess a mental state that cannot distinguish between a stolen cow – which is always recoverable – and human life, which is not.

“Villages have been depopulated far wider than those outside their operational zones can conceive. They swoop on sleeping settlements, kill and strut. They glory in their seeming supremacy.”

Kehinde Bankole Welcomes A Baby In The UK?

Exclusive News From Ebiwali's Naija Parrot:
Ok, So Am Dropping this as its Hot, Actress and TV Host Kehinde Bankole is the latest baby mama in town, Ya, You heard that right, she just welcomed a cute baby in the UK, she's currently keeping it a deep secret but trust Ebiwali i got the gist first hand, No gossip is secret with me.

So as you know Months ago she was rumored to be pregnant but she neither denied or accept..

Time past, we moved, and News reaching me is that she has giving birth, and she's keeping it secret, Cos she knows the backlash she will recieve as a babymama..

Remember thats how Anna Banner and Yvvonne Nelson hid their own, till they couldn't hide it no more..

Anyway according to a friend close to her who said i should keep her name secret, the actress and the baby is doing fine and are currently in the UK.. You also recall she was in a rumored relationship with Actor Wale Ojo..

She seems to be good in keeping it secret, but things just got south.. And Boom i published it, Sorry, i can't keep my mouth shot.

Anyway Congrats to her and the baby..No need to hide. Expect Photos soon, Remember you read it from Ebiwali First.


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Benue attacks: Presidency blames Nigerians for not speaking against killing of herdsmen

The Presidency has faulted the killing of about 200 Fulani herdsmen and cattle in various attacks across the country, saying that “every life is valuable.”

President Muhammadu Buhari’s Personal Assistant on Social Media, Lauretta Onochie made the remark while sharing comments by the Secretary to the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association, Baba Othman Ngelzarma on her Twitter handle.

Onnochie wondered why Nigerians are silent on the death of herdsmen while crying about farmers and residents killed.

She wrote: “Every life is valuable.

“No one has a right to take any life.

“However, we are all silent on the murder of over 200 Nigerians.

“We are all caught up in the unfortunate loss of Nigerians on one side of the coin ONLY.

“The other side of the coin with over 200 lives lost, suffers in silence.”

Recall that Ngelzarma, had on Tuesday stressed that those who attacked Benue people were killers not herdsmen.

Ngelzarma said this while absolving his association of the killing allegedly perpetrated by Fulani herdsmen in Benue State.

Featuring on Channels Television’s programme, Sunrise Daily, the MACBAN leader maintained that herdsmen are peaceful people and not killers.

The MACBAN leader, who regretted the unfortunate killings, however called for an end to the “senseless killings.”

Six notorious armed robbers arrested in Ondo

THE Police in Ondo state on Wednesday arrested six notorious armed robbery suspects, including two suspects, Moruf Oguntade and Adetayo Ogunbadejo, who claimed to be private officers of the Nigerian Army.

Speaking on the arrest, the state commissioner of Police, Gbenga Adeyanju,  disclosed that the armed robbery suspects were arrested along Akure /Owo expressway in Ogudu Camp along Emure town.

The police boss explained that the hoodlums blocked the road leading to the expressway around Emure town in order to rob vehicles or kidnap people during the operation.

He said men of the state police command received the information about the activities of the robbers and swung into action,  leading to the arrest of one the robbers, Jacob Amos,  who confessed to the crime and led the police to their hideout.

According to him, five other members of the group were arrested in Shagari village in Akure, Ondo state capital, but said three other members of the gang ran away.

The armed robbers included, Amos Jacob, Moses Aleka, Iliyasu Suleiman and Jayeola Ojo and the two army officers which Nigerian Tribune learnt are serving in Kaduna state.

Adeyanju stated that all the arrested suspects confessed to the crime and explained the part they took during the robbery operation.

Speaking to journalists, illiyasu Suleiman who claimed to be a computer repairer said he was invited from Kogi state and lured to the robbery operation by his friends who claimed to be Internet fraudster popularly known as “Yahoo boys”.

Suleiman, 37 years old, said the need to raise money for his mother burial led him into the robbery saying ” I joined the gang to raise enough money for my mother’s burial.

He said “When I came, he told me it was Yahoo. It was when I got to him that it became a different thing, I told them I cannot go out like this, and they said there is no problem. It was when we went out that I know it was a real problem. The village people shouted at us and we ran. I was later arrested by the Police.

“I am a repairer of the laptop, he told me to come and that he will teach me how to make faster money with Yahoo. When I came, I asked him, where is the laptop? He said I should not worry. On the eight days, he said we should stroll out, he gave me a knife, he gave the other guy cutlass and he handled the pistol.

“I am appealing to the police to sympathize with me because of my late mother, I don’t care what they want to do to me I want to witness her burial.”

The Police Commissioner listed some of the items recovered from the suspects to include,  Army uniform,  one Beretta pistol,  cutlasses, knives, charms, one Hummer Jeep and three booklets of Army pass used by the officers.

He, however, said detectives from the command have been on the trail of three members of the gang with a pledge to bring them to book soon.

NIA Buhari appoints Ahmed Abubakar as head of intelligence unit

President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Ahmed Abubakar as the substantive Director General of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA).

The appointment, which was announced by a social media expert, Abubakar Sadiq Ibrahim, has stirred several conversation, was made known to the public via Twitter.

All about new NIA Director General

The new Director General is Ahmed Rufai Abubakar He is a retired career Foreign Service officer, till his appointment served as Senior Special Assistant to the President (SSAP) on Foreign Affairs/International Relations.

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Ahmed Abubakar

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Abubakar had extensive experience working with the United Nations in peace support operations, mediation process, preventive diplomacy and good offices, as well as the promotion of good governance and respect for the rule of law and human rights.

He also briefly served as Senior Adviser at the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF), with headquarters in Ndjamena, Chad, before his appointment as SSAP.

Abubakar holds a B.A degree in French Language and Literature, and an M.A degree in Francophone Maghrebian Literature, both from Bayero University, Kano.

He is also fluent in English and Arabic.

His appointment is with immediate effect..

University Of Ibadan VC Replies Angered Student Union President Who Calls Him "Abacha" On Facebook

Following the allegations the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ibadan Prof Idowu Olayinka levied against the suspended SUG president over planned protest, the VC and an ex-student traded words on Facebook.
The VC had on Sunday, January 7 posted on his Facebook page that the student union president, Aderemi Ojo and his sympathisers in the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) are planning to disrupt the second-semester examinations scheduled to start on Monday, January 8.
UI VC goes vulgar on Facebook as ex-students call him Abachaplay
Prof Olayinka stated in his post that the Student Union has been suspended and any student parading himself as a student union member is doing so at his own risk. He concluded saying “We should not allow anarchists disrupt the relative peace we have on the Campus.
UI VC goes vulgar on Facebook as ex-students call him Abachaplay
Reacting to the Facebook allegation, which the VC later deleted, a former SUG president of the university, Babatunde Badmus commented saying the tone of the VC's write up shows he would be a better Abacha.
He wrote: “Imagine the posture from a vice chancellor of my own prestigious University of Ibadan. THE TONE OF THIS WRITE UP shows that the vice chancellor will be a better ABACHA. Can you suspend ASUU, NASU and other staff unions?”
And the VC responded
Angered by the comment, Prof Idowu replied,  “Your father and forbears are descendants of Abacha.”
UI VC goes vulgar on Facebook as ex-students call him Abachaplay
Badmus replied again saying “Mr Vice Chancellor Sir. Please don’t go vulgar‎ just answer the questions above”. The VC did not respond afterwards and later deleted the conversation.