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Angel Di Maria has revealed that his stint with Manchester United was short because of his argument with coach Louis Van Gaal . Manchester United signed the Argentine super star from Real Madrid for a British record of 60 million pounds in 2014 after winning the champions league with the Spanish giant. Di Maria's early performances were promising as he scored vital goals in his first few games for the Red Devils, he won Manchester united's player of the month for September after  netting two goals and provided two assists in his first four games for United . His strike in the 5-3 loss against Leicester city was voted Manchester united's goal of the month for the month of September . But he loses form in the business end of the season and he ended up leaving for Paris Saint Germain after playing just 32 games and scored just four goal for the Red Devils.  "I was at Manchester and everything was fine with Van Gaal during the first two months and af

Pep Guardiola Manchester city manager Pep Guardiola has confirmed that his players at Barcelona helped him to win two UEFA Champions league titles. Nigerian Journalist Oma Akatugba quizzed Guardiola at a press conference ahead of Manchester city's Champions league round of 16 tie with Schalke O4. The journalist wanted to know Guardiola's stance to a disagreement that has splits his countrymen. "You are extremely popular in Nigeria after your achivement with Barcelona" the journalist began. "And you caused a massive Argument on Nigeria's Twitter space. Those who are for Pep believed that Pep is the greatest manager in the world. And those who are against Pep argued that Pep has not been able to win the Champions league since he left Barcelona and their argument is because you don't have players like Messi, Iniesta and Xavi that is why you have been unable to win the champions league." Oma concluded. "I completely agree with them

Saturday night started on a good note for Barcelona's midfielder Kelvin Prince-Boateng as he made his Laliga Santander debut against Real Valladolid at the Camp Nou, but he returned home to find out that his house as been robbed by some hoodlums.  The Ghanaian returned to his home in the northern part of Sarria district after the match and found out that his jewelries, watches as well as money worth 300,000 to 400,000 euros has stolen while he was away playing for Barcelona at the Camp Nou. Marca reported that same thing happened to Boateng's teammate Jordi Alba last year when the Spainard was playing for Barcelona against Inter Millan in Italy. The 31 years old joined Barcelona on loan from Sasuolo in this January transfer window. 

Former Arsenal gaffer, Arsene Wenger has revealed the reasons why he snubbed Real Madrid on more than one occasion. The experienced manager had been linked with Real Madrid in recent years but he insisted on completing his project with Arsenal before leaving in 2018. " For me, the coach's work has to have an impact on three different levels,. "Mr Wenger said in Monaco ahead of the Laureus World Sports Award. " First, in the careers of the players that you work with. Secondly, in the style of the team. And, thirdly, in the structure of the club for which he works. For me, the aspect is very important as I felt that it was not the time to leave Arsenal because we were still developing the structure." The 69 years old, who is currently available after he left Arsenal in the summer of 2018, was asked if he will consider managing Real Madrid in the future. "I can't answer you because I don't know what's going to happen in the future. M

INEC Chairman The Independent National Electoral commission ( INEC) has postponed the Presidential and the National Assembly elections as well as the Gubernatorial and House of Assemblies elections. The INEC chairman Prof. Mahmood Yakubu announced the new development at a press conference in INEC headquarters in Abuja . He made the announcements at about 2:30am today, Saturday, February 16, 2019. He cited challenges on logistics as the main reason for the postponement of the general elections. Some of the States where logistics challenges occur are Ekiti and Niger states. The new date for the Presidential and National Assembly election has now been scheduled for Saturday, February 23rd 2019 and the Gubernatorial and House of Assemblies elections moved to Saturday, March 9th, 2019. See below the official letter uploaded on the electoral body website and social media pages. Photo credit:@inecnigeria

INEC Chairman Prof. Mahmood Yakubu Ahead of tomorrow's Presidential and National Assembly elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, released seven valid voting procedures that must be followed by the electorates. The seven voting procedures are outlined on the electoral body's website. The steps as outlined by INEC are as follows. STEP 1: Upon arrival at the Polling units, join the queue and present yourself to INEC officer APO111, at the polling unit who will whether you are at the correct polling unit and check if the photograph on the PVC matches your face. If satisfied He/she will direct you to the next INEC official (APO1). STEP 2: The official (APO1) will request for your PVC to confirm that your card is genuine and your details, using the smart card reader. He/she will ask you to place your finger on the card reader to confirm that the PVC belongs to you by ascertaining, the card reader will contains the name, photograph and finger pri

photo credit: UEFA The knockout stages of this season's UEFA champions league has begun, with loads of mouthwatering clashes set to take place. Players has already thrilled us to loads of goals in the group stages of this year's edition and it certain they will be willing to add to their tallies as the business end of the season approaches. Bayern Munich and Poland forward, Robert Lewandowski is currently leading the goal scoring chart with eight goals with Barcelona and Argentina talisman, Lionel Messi next on the list with six goals to his name. Juve's Paulo Dybala, Roma's Edin Dzeko, Hoffenheim's Andrej Kramric, Moussa Marega, PSG's Neymar and Ajax Dusan Tadic are all on 5 goals each. They are followed closely by Karim Benzema, Mauro Icardi, Kylian Mbappe, Antoine Griezmann, Harry Kane and Rapheal Guerriero who has 4 goals each to their names. Meanwhile Juventus talisman Cristiano Ronaldo, who is the competition's all time top scorer h

Ahead of the forthcoming general elections in Nigeria, the Independent National Electoral Commission,INEC, has released the numbers of registered voters in all the 36 states of the federation. The body responsible for the conduct of free and fair elections has released the numbers of registered voters in each states that make up the federation. INEC chairman Prof. Mahmood Yakubu has made it clear that the total numbers of  registered voters is 84,004,084. According to INEC, Lagos state has the highest numbers of registered voters with 6,570,291 eligible voters while Ekiti state has the lowest numbers of registered voters with 909,967 eligible electorates. The mouthwatering Presidential election and the National Assembly elections will take place on Saturday,16th of February 2019 while the Gubernatorial and House of Assembly elections will take place on the 2nd of March. Below is the breakdown of  the total numbers of registered voters in each state as disclosed by the elect

Israel Adesanya is fast becoming a household name in the Ultimate Fighting Championship, which is popularly known as UFC234. He has receives numerous Awards and people loves him for his skills. He won the UFC Breakthrough of the year award in 2018. Here are some unknown fact of Adesanya which many people do not know. We have compiled  5 of those facts for the mixed martial art fighter. HE WAS BORN IN LAGOS Israel was born in Lagos, Nigeria on the 22nd of July 1989, his heritage has been traced to Yoruba tribe. He was a pupil of Chrisland school in Opebi, Ikeja, he also attended Bells Secondary school in Ota, Ogun state. He moved to Rotorua in New Zealand at the age of 13, he finished his college education at the Rotorua High School. HIS CAREER When he was in Nigeria, he trained taekwondo briefly but his mother stopped him after he broke his arm during the training. After his high school education, he moved to Auckland, where he began kick-boxing training at the cit

Portuguese forward, Cristiano Ronaldo has been offered a reunion with Real Madrid after the Spanish giant invited his new club Juventus to the 2019 Trofeo de Bernabeu . Cristiano, who scored more than 400 goals for Real, left the Spanish capital to join the Turin based club after nine huge successful years. The easiest way to make money: click to learn how to earn money by reading news online   Real Madrid has planned to use the 2019 Bernabeu trophy to appreciate and honour the club's all-time highest goalscorer. Madrid did the same for Gonzales Raul in 2013, when the Spaniard played at the Santiago Bernabeu for the last time with his team Al Saad. Raul played for both Real and Al Saad in that match.  The European champions will play this year 's Bernabeu trophy against AC Milan at the El Stadio Santiago Bernabeu.