Henrik Larsson Joins Koeman’s Barcelona Coaching Staff
Henrik Larsson Joins Koeman Coaching Staff In Barcelona, Henrik Larsson has decided to return to Barcelona under new manager Ronald Koeman to join the coaching team. The former Sweden striker captured two LaLiga titles in a two-year spell at Camp Nou as a player, the Supercopa de Espana and the Champions League
Larsson scored 22 goals in 62 appearances in all competitions but is perhaps most fondly remembered for coming off the bench to set up both Barca goals as they beat Arsenal 2-1 to become champions of Europe.
The former Celtic and Manchester United forward, who was head coach at Helsingborgs last year, has signed a two-year contract at Camp Nou.
Joining Larsson in taking up a role under Koeman is Alfred Schreuder, who has also signed a deal until June 30, 2022.
Schreuder was appointed head coach of Hoffenheim last March, having previously worked as Julian Nagelsmann’s assistant, but he was sacked in June.
In 2018 – 2019, the former Feyenoord midfielder was assistant to Erik ten Hag at Ajax as the Eredivisie side reached semi-finals of the Champions League with a series of sparkling performances. And now Henrik Larsson Joins Koeman Coaching Staff In Barcelona.
Marca reports the six-time Ballon d’Or winner sees himself more out than in at Barca.
According to Mundo Deportivo, however, Messi sees an exit as complicated with his €700million release clause as he Messi expresses doubts.
Staying at Barcelona and Koeman reportedly has his sights set on his first signing. The former Netherlands coach wants to sign Lyon star Memphis Depay, according to RAC1.
The Jadon Sancho saga appears no closer to ending. The Telegraph reports the star’s Borussia Dortmund team-mates are convinced he will stay at the Bundesliga club instead of moving to Manchester United.
Kai Havertz’s expected switch from Bayer Leverkusen to Chelsea seems to be going more smoothly. The Guardian says Chelsea are closing in on the star attacker with talks moving at an “encouraging pace”.
Juventus may be prepared to let Douglas Costa go. Tuttosport reports the Serie A champions are open to selling the attacker, who has previously been an apparent target for Manchester United. The report says Juve would be willing to sell Costa for just £17.9m (€20m). The Manchester Evening News, meanwhile, reports United have cooled their interest in a possible loan deal for Costa.
Lille defender Gabriel Magalhaes has been linked with a move. While Arsenal seemed ahead of Napoli in the race for the centre-back, Gianluca Di Marzio reports Manchester United are the latest club to make their move.
Leeds United look set to get a boost ahead of the start of the Premier League season. The Sun says Marcelo Bielsa is finally set to sign a new deal with Leeds – at £8m per year until 2022.
Lady calls Out Her Childhood Friend, Mide, Sleeping With Her Father.
Lady calls Out Her Childhood Friend, Mide, Sleeping With Her Father, A lady identified as Sandra has accused her childhood friend of sleeping with her father as the Name ‘Mide” trends Twitter.
According to Sandra, she said she has spoken to her friend Mide to leave her father alone, but Mide has refused to listen to her. Sandra said she refused to see her family ruined because of her father’s side-chick. She Tweeted:
I have decided to keep quiet for too long because of my family’s reputation but I can no longer hold it again. This thing has been going on for long and I’ve begged Mide, insulted her and even talked woman to woman with her because she is my friend but she has refused to leave my Father, one of your twitter and Instagram favourite has been sleeping with my Father and I don’t care about my reputation again. I’m going to expose her with receipts if she doesn’t apologize and leave my Father.
A girl I call my childhood friend wants to break my family but I can never allow it happen. I happened to read a message she sent to my Father, I was shocked, it triggered me to go through my Dads whatsapp and I found out they have been dating. I can’t keep quite again.
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BBNaija: Praise is the greatest liar in the house Says Kiddwaya
Billionaire son, Kiddwaya has said Praise is the biggest liar among the BBNaija lockdown show’s current housemates. Yesterday’s BBNaija diary session was fun and revealing, because Biggie ‘s role was played by the housemates. This has contributed to many shocking discoveries.
Biggie is currently on vacation, and due to that, Dorathy played the role of Biggie during Kiddwaya’s diary session.
During the session, Kiddwaya stated that Praise is the biggest liar in the house. He backed his claim by saying Praise talks to much, and people of such nature tend to lie so as to make stories interesting.
“Praise is the biggest liar in the house because he talks too much.
“People who tell too much stories tend to lie about them to make it interesting.
“No disrespect to him and his character but the things he’s made us believe he has done, to me I believe are lies.”
Yesterday, Brighto revealed that Praise’s wife is 60 something years old.
Praise who introduced himself as a single guy was later discovered to be married with a kid.
Brighto recently alleged that the woman Praise got married to and also has a child with is close to 60, claiming that Praise married her because of money.
Brighto alleged that Praise told him about his wife few weeks after they got into the house. He also alleged that Praise is with his wife for money. He said; “What I want to do now is, whenever he says anything, I’ll tackle him. I know his weak point.
“I know what you can tell him that can make him very angry, too pissed that he can even cry.
“You know he usually brags about ‘my son, my wife’, his wife is sixty-something [years]. I’m telling you something. I swear to God. He told me. Trust me.”
Teacher Rape A Student In Nasarawa, She is 15 Year Old, Mr Alaga Solomon Ari, a teacher with Sudan United Mission (S.U.M) Primary School, Agwatashi, Obi Local Government Area of Nasarawa State, has been arrested for allegedly defiling a 15-year-old pupil of the school.
“The suspect is happily married and has kids but is fond of defiling the kids of people. This is the fourth time he ‘s done something like that since returning from Lagos State, “he revealed.
It was gathered that Mr Ari allegedly sent the victim to get a broom from a classroom after the school closing hour, when he followed her and unlawfully defiled her.
The act was also confirmed to LGA Chairman Muhammad Iymoyga Oyigye who immediately told the police and ordered his arrest.
According to the PPRO, “On 16/08/20, at about 0745hrs, a case of rape was reported, that one Alaga Solomon had on 14-8-2020 lured and unlawfully had canal knowledge of a 15 year old girl at Agwatashi, Obi LGA of Nasarawa State”.
“Upon receipt of the information, the Police went after the suspect and arrested him”.
“The Commissioner of Police, Bola Longe has directed that the case be transferred to State Criminal Investigation Department in Lafia for thorough investigation,” he said.
Mr Alaga Solomon Ari, is currently in custody while investigation is being carried out to unravel the incident.
Police Arrests Immigration Officer With 164 Stolen Cows
Police Arrests Immigration Officer With 164 Stolen Cows in Kastina State, including five other suspects, with the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), and seized 164 allegedly stolen cows.
The said immigration officer, Abubakar Shafiu, who was paraded with the other suspects in Katsina, told newsmen that the men: Mohammad Isah, Ibrahim Mohammed, Idris Mohammad, Usman Mohammed, and Saidu Lawal were his relatives based in Zurmi, Zamfara State’s local government area.
Besides, Shafiu who claimed to be a staff of the procurement department of NIS in Abuja, on annual leave, disclosed that he had escorted some truckloads of cattle out of Zamfara before their arrest.
He, however, denied that the cattle were stolen but were being conveyed to Potiskum and Buni Yadi in Yobe State, by their owners as a result of bandits’ activities in Zamfara State.
Police Public Relations Officer in Katsina command, Gambo Isah, however, confirmed that the suspects were intercepted at about 1.30 a.m. on Thursday in Jibia, Katsina State, on the basis of credible intelligence by a combined team of Nigerian customs and police while carrying three truckloads of suspected rustled cows with Shafiu escorting.
“Investigation is ongoing in this matter; we all know so many cows have been rustled in Katsina and Zamfara States, and precisely, we know that Zurmi is a hideout of so many criminals.
“We are not relenting, we are going to investigate the sources of these cows and ensure that anyone of the suspects found wanton is taking to court for prosecution,” he said.
JAMB Shifts Admission Processes For 2020/20201 Session To September
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board JAMB Shifts Admission Processes the start of the post-Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (post-UTME) screening for the 2020 admission processes in universities, polytechnics, and educational colleges until 7 September.
This was announced by the Board Registrar, Ishaq Oloyede, on Monday, after a consultative virtual meeting with Vice Chancellors, Rectors, and Provosts of tertiary institutions.
The screening would now hold between September 7 and November 18 since JAMB Shifts Admission Processes .
According to the board, the date shift becomes necessary to accommodate candidates who would be taking part in the Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE) based on school this year.
He explained that WAEC starts the Senior School Certificate Examination on Aug. 17, it will go on till Sept. 7. Similarly, on Sept. 2 or thereabout, NABTEB will commence its own examination that will go on till Oct. 15, and immediately after that, NECO starts from the 5th to Nov.18.
The JAMB boss said institutions whose post-UTME screening was mandatory for candidates would have to spread such exercise in two phases.
“For those institutions who want to take post-UTME, that cannot be earlier than the 7th of September and it will be held twice – from 7th September to 4th of October, and then it will be held for the second time on the 18th of November to mop up those who are taking their school certificate examination,” he said.
Nigerian Lady: I Can’t Wait To Be Ebuka’s Baby Mama
Nigerian Lady: I Can’t Wait To Be Ebuka’s Baby Mama, Since she announced Big Brother host, Ebuka Obi Uchendu as her future baby daddy, a Nigerian lady on Facebook has gone viral on social media.
The 34-year-old former Manchester City skipper will immediately take over as first-team head coach on a four-year contract.
Kompany takes over from Frank Vercauteren after he had endured a frosty relationship with the Premier League winner.
“I want to fully commit to my role as a coach and need 100% of my time and focus for it. That’s why I’m quitting as a football player,” Kompany said in a club statement.
“I want to stay with the club for at least 4 seasons and prove that Anderlecht can play a modern style of football, with results.”
No Party Will Conquer the APC in Ondo, On the sidelines of the recent inauguration of the All Progressive Congress National Campaign Council for the October 10 Governorship Election in Ondo State, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State, Council Chairman spoke with journalists like Nseobong Okon-Ekong on the preparations of the council for the governor’s election and the endorsement of the candidate of the party, Governor Oluwarotimi.
What necessitated such a large campaign council -104 membersl? The large number of the campaign council is a reflection of the number of people who truly want to serve our party. It is a reflection of how committed our members are and how passionate they are to continue to serve the party at the national level. So, when you are called upon like this, I think it is not only a personal honour, it is also an honour for your state that you have been identified and you are willing to serve so as to deliver the election that we believe by the grace of God on October 10, 2020, our brother and friend, Governor Rotimi Akeredolu (SAN) would be returned as the Executive Governor of Ondo State.
You are a first term governor with more than one year in office, why your choice as the chairman of the APC National Campaign Council for the Ondo State governorship poll?
Four years ago, Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau State was appointed as the chairman of the APC National Campaign Council for Ondo State. He was a first term governor and he was a little bit over one year in office at that time and he did a fantastic job. He was able to uproot the Iroko in Ondo at that time. So history has just repeated itself. He is here standing beside me with a wealth of experience and knowing all the terrains very well. It is in the same context that I have also emerged not because I am lacking in number of years as a governor but given the antecedent of what has also happened four years ago and given the pedigree that I am also bringing to the table.
Is your choice as the chairman of the campaign council, an endorsement of the National Leader of the party, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu on the candidature of Governor Akeredolu?
The endorsement was not simply a mutual endorsement of Asiwaju. You have seen the Senator Ajayi Borofice in this endorsement. You saw our uncle, Olusola Oke, you saw meetings at which Isaac Kekemeke was present and you saw meetings at which Dr. Olusegun Abraham was present. After the primaries they all came together in the National Campaign Council well before our decision. They’ve all gone ahead in Ondo State to solve their problems by themselves and they’ve all said we’re going together and we’re supporting Governor Rotimi Akeredolu ‘s candidacy. So it’s a unified matter. They have supported our work a lot.
But we know that the most critical thing is about the people in Ondo State. It is about good governance. It is about what the Governor or our party is doing and what we have said to the people that we will equally do. It is not an easy job but we believe in Governor Akeredolu. We believe that what he has started as a true progressive, he will not only take Ondo State to a higher level; people will see real governance and people-driven governance at the highest level. So, with the good job that he is doing, all of them on their own have endorsed that he should continue and the least we can do is to support that convergence and that is why we are here.
How do you see your emergence as the Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Campaign Council for the Ondo State governorship election?
I am deeply honoured to be appointed as Chairman of the APC National Campaign Council for Ondo State governorship election, scheduled to hold on October 10. I am sure that the decision by the Chairman of the Caretaker/Extra Ordinary National Convention Planning Committee of our party, Governor Mai Mala Buni and other members must be a difficult one, considering a number of very eminent individuals and highly qualified personalities we have in our party.
It is humbling to lead a team of very experienced women and men who would be working with other colleagues and stakeholders to retain Ondo State in the coming election. This is a moment of personal honour for me, but also of deep personal responsibility. I do not take this lightly and I believe every member of this high level council feels the same way.
What chance does your party in the governorship poll? And do you think APC’s candidate and incumbent governor, Mr. Oluwarotimi Akeredolu has done enough for him to be re-elected?
Today, our great party the All Progressives Congress has begun a march to another victory in Ondo State. I have described this journey as a repeat performance of what we did less than four years ago, when the people of Ondo State filed out in their numbers to elect my brother and friend, Governor Rotimi Akeredolu (Aketi) as their sixth executive governor. The only difference in this year’s experience is that our victory will be a landslide.
Four years ago, the people of Ondo State affirmed their believe in progressive governance and today, that believe, the validation of our party, the APC as an assemblage of well-spirited Nigerians who are poised to serve the humanity has yielded positive results with several achievements recorded by the Governor Rotimi Akeredolu-led administration. The need for us to do more and because we know that we can do more for the people, is the reason why our party is confident of victory at the polls. The party’s confidence is further buoyed by the giant strides of Governor Akeredolu in different areas of human endeavours.
We know that since APC-led government of Governor Rotimi Akeredolu was sworn in on the February 24, 2017, Ondo has moved from her hitherto parlous state and has returned to a trajectory of growth and development. This is a major feature of our party. We pride ourselves as harbinger of peace, progress and purposeful leadership wherever we have our foothold.
So, you are confident that APC will win Ondo governorship poll…
Yes, the tasks given to us by the APC Caretaker/Extra Ordinary National Convention Planning Committee will be approached with the highest sense of responsibility. We know that the people of Ondo State cannot afford to return to retrogressive life after experiencing progressive governance offered by the All Progressives Congress. Therefore, all the 104 members of the APC National Campaign Council for Ondo State Governorship election will roll up their sleeves and work hard for the victory that we truly and genuinely deserve. Let me also use this opportunity on behalf of members of the National Campaign Council, to pledge our commitment, passion and dedication as we take up this national assignment to deliver Ondo State to the All Progressives Congress.
We are very confident of victory. No party in Ondo can defeat the APC. The people of Ondo were dissatisfied with Iroko’s eight years of motion without movement so they decided to give the progressives the opportunity and so far, Governor Akeredolu has done very well. He has impacted meaningfully on the lives of the poor masses, the middle class as well as the upper class in Ondo. In fact, his sterling performance has made our job a lot easier.
What is your message to the major opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in respect to the Ondo State governorship election?
They should really not waste their time. But election is something that is not over until it is all over, so we are not going to take anybody for granted. We are going for an election and it is going to be issues based. We will ensure that we campaign on the platform for the people of Ondo State to see the need to continue with the progressive government that they have. He is doing very well, we have seen it but he knows that he still has the capacity and he has the energy to further advance what he is currently doing. That is why we are with him and we know he will do that.
What’s your message to other party members?
First, I’d like to thank our great party, APC, for giving us this great opportunity to serve at national level; it’s a rare privilege and we’re not going to take it for granted! We also thank the National Convention Committee led by Governor Mai Mala Buni for believing in us being able to maintain Ondo State for our party. We also wish to give the President, Muhammadu Buhari (GCFR) a letter of confidence that Ondo will remain in the All Progressive Congress fold. On this note, I would like to invite all faithful party members to join the committee to accomplish this mission that the Party leadership has put before us. We in Ondo State are on the march to victory.
