After his 2016 EP, Where The Bread At? Beast hit backs with a melodious rap single titled Game Challenge 3, his first release for 2017.
This is dope. Listen below and enjoy
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Friday, 3 March 2017
Enrique exit surprised Barca, says Suarez
Barcelona's Uruguayan forward Luis Suarez celebrates a goal during the UEFA Champions League football match FC Barcelona vs Celtic FC at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona on September 13, 2016. / AFP PHOTO / LLUIS GENE
Luis Suarez admitted he and his Barcelona team-mates were caught off-guard by coach Luis Enrique’s announcement that he will leave his position at the end of the season.
Former Spain international Enrique confirmed he would walk away from the Nou Camp when his contract expires in the summer in the wake of Wednesday’s 6-1 rout of Sporting Gijon.
The win sent Barca a point clear of Real Madrid at the top, albeit having played one game more, and the Catalan giants will look to bid their coach farewell with a third league title in as many seasons.
“It has surprised us a little, we didn’t expect it but it is an understandable decision and one that we accept,” Suarez told Barcelona’s club website.
“The job of coach is very difficult and requires lots of hours of hard work and he has to enjoy being with his family as well.”
Enrique cited the daily grind of the pressure as Barca boss and insisted he needed time to rest as he explained on Wednesday the reasons behind his decision to step down.
However, it was the sudden nature of his announcement rather than the decision to leave that shocked the most.
“In the summer he already told us he was considering this could be his final year,” said Barca president Maria Josep Bartomeu.
The 46-year-old Enrique has overseen the best part of three trophy-filled but turbulent seasons since replacing Gerardo Martino in 2014.
He won the Champions League, La Liga and Copa del Rey in his first season as Barca claimed an unprecedented second treble in 2015, matching their feat from six years under Pep Guardiola.
Barca then retained both their league crown and domestic cup title last year.
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Wednesday, 1 March 2017
INEC director faces prosecution over alleged N16m fraud (Read full details)
Gogo Anderson Waribo
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has concluded arrangements to prosecute Gogo Anderson Waribo, a Deputy Director of INEC in Akwa Ibom, and former Electoral Officer in Rivers.
A statement signed by the commission’s Spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren, and issued in Abuja on Wednesday said Waribo would be arraigned for allegedly collecting N16 million from the N23 billion-Diezani Allison Madueke’s 2015 general election bribery funds.
It said that Waribo was arrested by operatives of the anti-graft agency, following intelligence report that some INEC officers conspired with some staff of Fidelity Bank to defraud the Federal Government of several millions of naira.
“Although he has consistently denied involvement in the fraud, investigation revealed that the INEC Deputy Director’s name is on the list of beneficiaries of the money.
“He is alleged to have received the sum of N16 million through his First Bank account on March 27, 2015. Waribo allegedly gave N5 million from the N16 million to Peter Popnen, an ex- INEC official,’’ the statement said.
It said that the suspect would be arraigned in court when investigations were completed.
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Tuesday, 28 February 2017
Putin says new Syria sanctions would hamper peace talks…Read full details
A man takes a picture of destroyed buildings on a street in the northwestern border town of al-Bab on February 23, 2017 after Turkish-backed Syrian rebels fully captured the town from the Islamic State (IS) group.<br />Al-Bab, just 25 kilometres (15 miles) south of the Turkish border, was the last IS stronghold in the northern Syrian province of Aleppo. / AFP PHOTO / Nazeer al-Khatib
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday said Moscow opposed any new sanctions against the Syrian leadership as they would undermine peace efforts to end the country’s protracted war.
Russia and the United States are headed for a clash at the UN Security Council as Moscow prepares to veto a draft resolution that would impose sanctions on its ally Damascus.
“In terms of sanctions against the Syrian leadership, I think that now they are completely inappropriate,” Putin said at a press conference in Kyrgyzstan.
“This would not help the negotiation process but would only interfere or undermine confidence,” Putin said, adding that Russia “will not support any new sanctions in relation to Syria”.
The UN Security Council will vote Tuesday on the text drafted by the United States, Britain and France that would punish 11 Syrians and 10 entities linked to chemical attacks in 2014 and 2015.
Russia has vowed to use its veto to block the measure, which would be the seventh time that Moscow has resorted to its veto power to shield the regime of Bashar al-Assad.
A fresh round of UN-led peace talks aimed at ending the Syrian conflict are currently struggling to get off the ground in Geneva.
Putin — whose military intervention in Syria helped turn the tables in favour of Assad — lamented that the negotiations in Switzerland are “not going as smoothly as hoped”.
Russia’s delegation looks set to meet the High Negotiations Committee (HNC), the main opposition group, in Geneva on Wednesday, with the Assad opponents urging Moscow to step up pressure on Damascus.
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Monday, 27 February 2017
Anna Banner serves major cleavage in fierce new pictures
The ex beauty queen and mother of one showed off major cleavage in these fierce new photos from a photoshoot.
See more after the cut…
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Tuesday, 14 February 2017
Napoli out to defy Real Madrid in Champions League tie…See full details
Real Madrid / AFP PHOTO / PIERRE-PHILIPPE MARCOU
He is a tracksuit-wearing chain-smoker and former bank employee, but Maurizio Sarri certainly won’t feel intimidated when he leads Napoli against the mighty Real Madrid of French legend Zinedine Zidane.
“He’s a master, an extraordinary coach,” Arrigo Sacchi, who orchestrated AC Milan’s unprecedented run of success at home in Europe in the 1990s, said of the 58-year-old Italian coach.
On the surface, the differences between the coaches as they prepare to meet in Wednesday’s Champions League last 16 clash in Madrid couldn’t be more striking.
Zidane is a former World Cup winner who played for some of the world’s top sides including Juventus and Real before taking over the helm of the 11-time European champions.
The highest Sarri reached as a player was Serie B, and until 1999 he was still overseeing transactions between major institutions while working for the Italian bank Monte Paschi.
When Zidane hit a spectacular left-footed volley to secure Real’s ninth Champions League with victory over Bayer Leverkusen in Glasgow, Sarri was trudging the touchlines trying to lead Sansovino through the Italian regional championships.
It was only in 1999, while Zidane was playing for Juventus, that Sarri decided football, not finance, would be his breadwinner.
“I chose the only job that I could do for free,” Sarri explained in a 2014 interview to La Repubblica newspaper.
But what credentials he lacks Sarri makes up for with a passion and knowledge that allows him to squeeze every last drop from his players.
Former Napoli striker Gonzalo Higuain last season continuously paid tribute to Sarri for pushing him to target his new Serie A record of 36 goals as Napoli finished second in Sarri’s first season in charge.
This term, Napoli lead Serie A on goals scored with 57 in 24 games, 16 of which came from makeshift striker Dries Mertens, who has hit three hat-tricks since moving out of midfield to replace injured Poland striker Arkadiusz Milik.
Zidane’s team of ‘Galacticos’, one of the world’s most expensively-assembled side, are unbeaten in 11 consecutive Champions League games.
But Sarri is a wily operator who is adept at coming in under the radar. And sharp-suited ex-players who played a better level of football than he did hold no fear.
Sarri doesn’t wear a suit, smokes up to four packets of cigarettes a day and, unlike his famous peers, doesn’t do football diplomacy.
“Higuain would really be an asshole if he didn’t win the Ballon d’Or,” Sarri said candidly last season.
In the same campaign, Sarri copped a two-game touchline ban for calling former Inter Milan coach Roberto Mancini, like Zidane a player-turned-coach, a “poof”.
Sarri accepted the punishment, but was unrepentant: “It just came out,” he said. “I could just as well have called him a Christian-Democrat.”
But to believe Sarri crass or uneducated would be wide of the mark. Off the pitch he is a keen reader of literary works by John Fante, Charles Bukowski and Mario Vargas Llosa.
On it, he is passionate about the simple geometry of football, dead ball situations and where, exactly, his players should be positioned. He was one of the first in Serie A to use drones to film training sessions.
“Sarri is a perfectionist,” defender Kalidou Koulibaly told AFP. “He’s obsessed by the defensive line, our position. If you’re one metre off where you’re supposed to be in training, he stops everything.
“I quickly learned to stop punting the ball out from defence. The first few times, he came to me and said ‘stop, stop, stop. With me, no one plays the ball out like that! We play football, we can make some mistakes but we try to move the ball out cleanly’.”
As they prepare to take on Real, big things will be expected of Napoli’s offensive line of Mertens, Lorenzo Insigne and former Real forward Jose Callejon in a match fans throughout the world are waiting to see.
But Sarri won’t be fazed. He is likely to walk out from the Bernabeu tunnel as he did somewhere in the south of Italy 15 years ago: wearing a tracksuit with pockets big enough for a packet of 20.
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Saturday, 11 February 2017
Association disassociate selves from porn movies shot in Makurdi
File photo of video director PHOTO : AFP
Benue Association of Movie Producers (AMP) and Actors Guide of Nigeria (AGN) have disassociated themselves from two pornographic movies recently shot in Makurdi.
The two movie productions; the “IPhone 7 Babes and Feast of Death”, were shot in locations within Makurdi in December 2016 by film producer, Derrick Walter of Nollyniz Gate Productions.
The associations on Saturday in Makurdi, condemned the content of the movie productions and said the actors that featured in them were not their members.
A joint statement by the Chairman and Vice Chairman of the AMP and AGN, Rose Okwoli and Benjamin Ukwueze, respectively, described the productions as “archaic, barbaric, uncivilized , illegal and against acceptable moral and cultural norms which they are out to project”.
They also distanced themselves from the conduct and character of the artists shown in the obscene movies.
“They are not registered members of the bodies and the producer did not seek approval from AMP/AGN as is the usual practice for the production of the movies under reference.
“The associations strongly condemn the entire project; the abuse of professionalism exhibited by the producer, Mr Derrick Walter, owner of Nollyniz Gate Productions.
“We also condemn the desperation and profanity showcased by the so called artists in a bid to gain fame and popularity in the movie industry and the abuse of dignity and decency.
“The artists involved are not our registered members; the said producer did not seek the approval of AMP/AGN, none of the bodies gave approval for the production of such movies.”
They claimed to have been aware of the movies through various platforms on the social media and Internet.
The associations, however, assured that efforts were underway to correct the negative impact created by the movies in the state, adding that several vetting agencies were already contacted.
“We have already contacted the National Film and Video Censors Board, Nigeria Police Force, Nigerian Copyright Commission for necessary actions.”
They pledged to ensure the integrity and professionalism of all movies and actors involved in film production in the state, and urged all stakeholders to assist the Benue movie industry meet its set goals.
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Thursday, 9 February 2017
Wikipedia editors ban ‘unreliable’ Daily Mail as source
Wikipedia Foundation office in San Francisco, US. PHOTO: Eric Risberg/AP
Wikipedia editors have voted to ban the use of articles from British tabloid The Daily Mail and its globally popular website as sources, calling them “unreliable”, according to a statement.
English-language editors of the online encyclopaedia cited the newspaper’s “reputation for poor fact-checking, sensationalism, and flat-out fabrication”, said the statement posted on Wikipedia Wednesday.
The vote means the tabloid’s use as a reference should be “generally prohibited”, it said.
The Wikimedia Foundation, the not-for-profit organisation that runs the Wikipedia website, acknowledged the vote in a statement cited in The Guardian, but said it was up to its unpaid editors.
From now on, it said “the Daily Mail will generally not be referenced as a ‘reliable source’ on English Wikipedia, and volunteer editors are encouraged to change existing citations to the Daily Mail to another source deemed reliable by the community”.
The National Enquirer, a US tabloid, is the only news publication that “should never be used”, according to editors’ guidelines.
Content on Wikipedia is written and edited by a global network of volunteers who must base their articles on “reliable, third-party, published sources with a reputation for fact-checking and accuracy”.
The guidelines also highlight that special care should be taken when sourcing from state-associated news organisations, including the Chinese press agency Xinhua, North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency, and Press TV in Iran.
They warn they may be propaganda organisations, but do not outwardly ban them.
The Daily Mail’s reliability had been the subject of debate among Wikipedia editors since January 2015.
Some opponents of the move argued that “singling out one source does not deal with the other poor sources that are currently permitted”, and that historically the British tabloid may have been accurate.
The Daily Mail, Britain’s second biggest-selling daily newspaper, has previously been accused of racism, sensationalism and inaccuracies.
Its online operation, MailOnline, is considered to be the world’s largest English-speaking newspaper website with 24.5 million monthly unique visitors.
The group did not immediately respond to AFP requests for comment.
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