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Rangnick downplays talk of unrest at Man Utd

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The German has suggested the squad he inherited is too big, with many players unhappy at their lack of playing time.

United suffered a demoralising 1-0 home defeat to Wolves on Monday that could prove costly in their bid to finish in the Premier League’s top four.

The Mirror newspaper reported on Thursday that as many as 17 players wanted to leave the club, who are 22 points behind leaders Manchester City.

“If you have that many players and 10 outfield players can play and three being substituted, then of course you have quite a number of players — in our case 12, 13, 14 players who don’t even play, or not even being in the squad,” said Rangnick on Friday.

“Then those players are not happy about that situation. It’s obvious, it’s clear.

“In total, we have a big squad. I tend to explain to players every two or three weeks why they are not playing but obviously I cannot do that every game and that is an issue in our team as well as in other clubs.”

Paul Pogba and Edinson Cavani are the two highest-profile stars out of contract at the end of the season.

Anthony Martial looks set to leave in January, with Sevilla reportedly close to agreeing a loan deal for the France international.

Dean Henderson, Jesse Lingard, Juan Mata and Donny van de Beek could also move on in search of more first-team action.

“We have players with contracts expiring in the summer,” said Rangnick. “We have maybe also one or two players who still want to leave, although they are under contract.

“It’s about the players dealing with that in a professional way. Everybody has the chance and the option to show in training, to show up and then get a chance to play.

“If this is not the case then of course the player together with club and the agents, they need to discuss the situation.”

Monday’s FA Cup third-round clash with Aston Villa could have been an opportunity for Rangnick to use some of his fringe players.

But the pressure is on the German not to crash out of the competition at the first hurdle after suffering the first defeat of his short reign against Wolves.

Burna Boy and Wizkid’s new single, ‘Ballon D’or’ video released

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Nigerian born super stars Burna Boy and Wizkid have launched a new song tagged ‘Ballon D’Or which is presently receiving accolades from fans and enthusiasts in the entertainment industry across Africa.

The loaded song was produced by P2j, inspired by Ballon D’Or .

P2j , born Richard Olowaranti Mbu Isong, is a Nigerian, London-based music producer, vocal producer and songwriter who specializes in multiple genres such as afro-house, afro-pop, afro-jazz and afro-rap.

BBallon D’ is a celebrated trophies given to best male football player in the world as a honour for their outstanding professional soccer performance.

Wizkid’s collaboration with Burna opens a new chapter in his career , adding to his retinue of achievements. The star is the first African, to bag an international award from The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), a feat no Nigeria has achieved. The award was in recognition of his role in the award-winning single with Drake “One Dance”, which topped the chart for months and with three Billboard Music Award to his credit.

Although the song is technically Drake‘s single, Wizkid has songwriting credits for the One Dance which has the Guinness World Record as the most played song on Spotify with over 1 billion streams.

Burna Boy, known as the African Giant, joined forces with Justin Bieber on the 8x GRAMMY nominated album Justice and with 9x GRAMMY Award-nominee Sia for “Hey Boy”.

2021 has been good Burna Boy , as the star unleashed his talents in several fronts, expanding his collaboration with list of great artistes: Jon Bellion in “I Feel It”, also in the songs: “Rotate,” by Becky G, “Want It All” featuring Polo G, “Question” ft Don Jazzy, and several others.

Burna Boy is currently nominated for the 64th GRAMMY awards alongside the multiple GRAMMY-award winning Angelique Kidjo for Best Global Performance on “Do Yourself.”

Listen to ”Ballon D’Or” here and on all digital platforms.

Davido opens his multi-million Naira mansion, treats family, friends and stars to a party gig

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Nigerian top musical star, Davido, with the birth name, David Adedeji Adeleke, treated celebrities and top personalities in the entertainment industry to his housewarming party, at his newly acquired mansion at Banana Island, a highbrow residential area in Lagos State.

The event saw the creme de la creme in the entertainment industry in Nigeria in attendance, with different expensive wines for guests, as the singer’s music blasts in the air.

The musical star just acquired the home for an undisclosed amount, but there are talks in town, saying the mansion cost the singer a fortune.

The housewarming party themed, ‘Welcome to 2022,’ was a ‘splendid experience’ according to those who attended the party.

Legendary actor Sydney Poitier is dead

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Legendary actor Sydney Poitier dies at 94

The legendary actor, and civil rights activist Sidney Poitier has died at the age of 94, according to a report.

The news of his passage broke on several Bahamian news outlets. Poitier, also a director and respected humanitarian died Thursday , January 6.

The talented actor was known for his roles in classic films including “To Sir With Love,” “In the Heat of the Night” and “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner.”

Sidney was acknowledged globally for his iconic roles as a trendsetter for his peers and also to generations of Black performers who succeeded his time.

Born in Miami, Florida, in 1927, Poitier was a Hollywood icon and legend who helped pave the way for Black people in the entertainment industry. He was the first Black actor to win an Academy Award for Best Actor, receiving the honor in 1964 for his performance in Lilies of the Field. The Academy bestowed a second honorary award to the actor in 2001.

Early in his career, the Bahamian-American helped break down color barriers and was committed to bringing noble, intelligent portrayals of Black people to the forefront. He opened up the possibility of bigger and better roles for Black actors and championed for social justice throughout his life.

Being the first Black actor to win an Oscar in the Best Actor category made him a Caribbean-American superstar. He landed roles outside of the many stereotypical ones that many Black actors were typically offered

His cause of death was unknown and no statement from his family has been made public yet.

I know a lot of grownups who are stupid – Wizkid

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'I don't like religion' - Wizkid says

Fans of Nigerian popular super star, Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun, known as Wizkid, are finding it hard to understand the reason behind the musician’s post on his Snapchat, alluding to how he feels towards certain issues.

The star made the revelation of his feelings to some personal issues on Wednesday, especially, to the issue of religion and his being.

Wizkid said, he does not believe in religion and feel strongly too that age does not represent one’s intelligence

According to him:

“I don’t wake up sad, I don’t wake up poor in life, in health and in spirit and I don’t wake up with hate in my heart.

“Don’t waste your life with temporary situations. Live life, Age isn’t a representation of how smart you are.

“I known plenty stupid grown people too. And I don’t believe in religion.”

Simi admonishes upcoming artistes to be serious with their career rather than posting nonsense on their social media pages

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Simi advices upcoming artiste to be serious with their career

Nigeria’s sonorous Musician Simisola Ogunleye, popularly known as, Simi has rebuked upcoming artistes for playing with their careers by indulging with unserious issues online instead of promoting their career.

The artiste make her feelings known through her Instagram stories to advise serious upcoming artiste to stop posting on theor social media pages irrelevant stuff that are not connected to their career or music.

She urged them to desist from posting shoes and sunsets until they have being able to turn their career into great success.

“You’re a serious growing artist and you have only three posts on your page: a picture of sunset, one of aeroplane and one of your shoe.

“Nothing with your music in it, that’s not a great tool.

“If you want it badly always be selling yourself leave the mysterious shit for when you’ve won. Even then, still leave it,” Simi said.

Spain shrug off Nadal absence to beat Norway at ATP Cup

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Veteran Roberto Bautista Agut upset world number eight Casper Ruud on Monday to give Spain their second straight win at the ATP Cup, a record matched by Hubert Hurkacz’s Poland.

The 33-year-old Bautista Agut is the lead singles player for his country in the absence of 20-time Grand Slam champion Rafael Nadal and has stepped up in style.

After crushing Chile’s world number 17 Cristian Garin in Sydney on Saturday, he backed it up with a battling 6-4, 7-6 (7/4) victory over Ruud, the first Norwegian to win an ATP Tour title.

“I played very good with very few unforced errors,” said 19th-ranked Bautista Agut. “It’s a good start (to the season) and I’m feeling good.”

It ensured Spain won the tie with an unassailable 2-0 ahead of a dead doubles rubber after Pablo Carreno Busta made a quick start when he dismissed Norway’s 345th-ranked Viktor Durasovic 6-3, 6-3 in just 69 minutes.

Former top-10 star Carreno Busta is now 4-1 in singles in his ATP Cup career, having beaten Chile’s Alejandro Tabilo on Saturday.

“It’s always important to win the first match. Today I felt more and more comfortable than the first day,” he said. “We need to get the rhythm, we need to get the confidence.”

Norway have lost both their opening ties in Group A, which also features 2020 champions Serbia and Chile, who play Monday evening.

Serbia are led by Dusan Lajovic in the absence of Novak Djokovic and he faces Garin.

In the other evening clash, Stefanos Tsitsipas’s Greece take on Diego Schwartzman’s Argentina.

World number four Tsitsipas pulled out of his top-10 showdown with Hurkacz on Saturday, not wanting to risk his right elbow yet after surgery in November.

However, he did play doubles that night and is listed to meet Schwartzman in a must-win clash for Greece after losing their opening tie. Argentina are 1-0 after beating Georgia on day one.

Like Spain, Hurkacz ensured Poland also went 2-0.

But the world number nine was forced to dig deep against Georgian Aleksandre Metreveli, ranked just 570, who stepped in after Nikoloz Basilashvili pulled out before the match.

But once he found his groove, last year’s Miami Open champion raced to a 6-7 (5-7), 6-3, 6-1 victory.

“He played well in the first set and things were not going my way. But I got better with each set and am happy to get the win,” Hurkacz said.

Kamil Majchrzak gave Poland a strong start when he dropped just two games against Aleksandre Bakshi, winning 6-1, 6-1 in 53 minutes.

Poland can book a place in the semi-finals if they defeat Argentina on Wednesday, with only the top nation from each of the four groups making the knockouts.

Super Eagles gears up for Cameroun 2022 AFCON as training commences in Abuja

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ABUJA, Nigeria (TVAFRINET) – As training commenced yesterday ahead of the Cameroun 2022 Africa Cup of Nations, more players have started showing up at the Super Eagles camp.

The first stage of the training took place at the Moshood Abiola National Stadium, Abuja with coach Austin Eguavoen participating.

Presently, out of the 28 invited players, eleven are already in camp, as others are being expected in the coming days.

The Cameroun 2022 AFCON will start on Sunday as the host nation, Indomitable Lions of Cameroun will slug it out with Burkina Faso.

Algeria as the reigning champions, will defend their trophy against Sierra Leone.

On Tuesday, January 11, the Super Eagles and Pharaohs of Egypt will begin their first leg campaign in Garoau. The Cameroun 2022 AFCON is expected to run from January 9 to February 6, 2022 – with matches to be held in different cities.

According to an official with the Super Eagles team, more players came in yesterday but was late for them to participate in the training.

The players in camp are Moses Simon (FC Nantes, France), Francis Uzoho (AC Omonia, Cyprus), Henry Onyekuru (Olympiacos, Greece), Peter Olayinka (Slavia Praha, Czech Republic), and Chidozie Awaziem (Alayanspor, Turkey).

Others are Chidera Ejuke (CSKA Moscow, Russia), Daniel Akpeyi (Kaizer Chiefs, South Africa), Sadiq Umar (UD Almeria, Spain), Olisa Ndah (Orlando Pirates, South Africa), John Noble (Enyimba FC), and Taiwo Awoniyi (Union Berlin, Germany).

Super Eagles media Officer, Babafemi Raji, stated that COVID-19 protocols was be fully observed in yesterday’s training, which was open to journalists.

The last time Super Eagles trained at the Abuja stadium was in preparation for 2015 AFCON qualifier against Egypt.

Russia, China, Britain, U.S. and France say no one can win nuclear war

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MOSCOW/WASHINGTON – China, Russia, Britain, the United States and France have agreed that a further spread of nuclear arms and a nuclear war should be avoided, according to a joint statement by the five nuclear powers published by the Kremlin on Monday.

It said that the five countries – which are the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council – consider it their primary responsibility to avoid war between the nuclear states and to reduce strategic risks, while aiming to work with all countries to create an atmosphere of security.

“We affirm that a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought,” the English-language version of the statement read.

“As nuclear use would have far-reaching consequences, we also affirm that nuclear weapons — for as long as they continue to exist — should serve defensive purposes, deter aggression, and prevent war.”

France also released the statement, underscoring that the five powers reiterated their determination for nuclear arms control and disarmament. They would continue bilateral and multilateral approaches to nuclear arms control, it said.

The statement from the so-called P5 group comes as bilateral relations between the United States and Moscow have fallen to their lowest since the end of the Cold War, while relations between Washington and China are also at a low over a range of disagreements.

The Pentagon in November sharply increased its estimate of China’s projected nuclear weapons arsenal over the coming years, saying Beijing could have 700 warheads by 2027 and possibly 1,000 by 2030.

Washington has repeatedly urged China to join it and Russia in a new arms control treaty.

Geopolitical tensions between Moscow and Western countries have increased over concerns about Russia’s military buildup near neighbouring Ukraine. Moscow says it can move its army around its own territory as it deems necessary.

Last Thursday U.S. President Joe Biden told his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin that a possible move on Ukraine will draw sanctions and an increased U.S. presence in Europe, where tensions are high after Russia’s military buildup at the border.

U.S. and Russian officials will hold security talks on Jan. 10 to discuss concerns about their respective military activity and confront rising tensions over Ukraine, the two countries said.

A conference on a major nuclear treaty that was set to begin on Tuesday at the United Nations has been postponed until August due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Nigeria’s Auditor General of the Federation accuses police high command over missing 178,459 arms, ammunition

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ABUJA, Nigeria – Following a report, office of the Auditor General of the Federation (AuGF) has accused the police high command over alleged disappearance of about 178,459 different types of arms and ammunition in 2019.

The report, was written, signed and forwarded on September 15, 2021, by AuGF, Adolphus Aghughu, addressed to the Clerk to the National Assembly, claimed that the police high command was unable to account for unserviceable and expired firearms and ammunition.

The report referenced AuGF/AR.2019/02 expressed concern over the development, since the missing arms could find their ways into wrong hands.

The report blamed the situation on alleged weaknesses in the internal control system at the Nigeria Police Force.

The disclosures are contained in pages 383 to 391 of the ‘Auditor General for the Federation report on non-compliance/internal control weaknesses issues in Ministries, Departments and Agencies of the Federal Government of Nigeria for the year ended December 31 2019’.

The report reads in part: “In the event of any loss of stores, the officer in charge of the store in which the loss occurs shall report immediately to the head of department or unit but not later than three days, by the fastest means possible, if the loss occurs away from headquarters.

“Audit observed from the review of Arms Movement Register, Monthly Returns of Arms and Ammunition and Ammunition Register at the Armoury section that a total number of lost firearms as reported as at December 2018 stood at 178,459 pieces.

“Out of this number, 88,078 were AK-47 rifles, 3,907 assorted rifles and pistols across different police formations, which could not be accounted for as at January 2020.

“Formal report on the loss of firearms through dully completed Treasury Form 146 (loss of stores) were not presented for examination. Records obtained from force armament at Force headquarters showed 21 Police Mobile Force (PMF) Squadron, Abuja, did not report a single case of missing firearm, whereas, schedule of missing arms obtained from the same PMF showed a total of 46 missing arms between year 2000 and February 2019.

“The value of the lost firearms could not be ascertained because no document relating to their cost of acquisition was presented for examination.”

The report continues: “Several number of firearms from the review of Arm Issue Register, Monthly Returns of Arms and Ammunition obtained from Force Armament, Force headquarters for various state commands, formations, zonal offices, training institutions, squadrons and physical inspection of firearms and ammunition at the Force Headquarters have become unserviceable and dysfunctional.

“Records of the total number of unserviceable firearms were not produced for examinations and there were no returns from Adamawa State Command, Police Mobile Force (PMF) 46, 56,64 and 68 for the period under review.

“Similarly, returns were not submitted by some police training institutions and some formations, and physical verification of firearms and ammunition at the Force Armament, Force Headquarters showed large quantity of damaged and obsolete firearms which needed to be destroyed.”

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