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A member of Chelsea's first-team squad would 'rather lose than win' for Jose Mourinho, according to BBC Radio 5 Live presenter Garry Richardson, who added they are 'fed-up' with the way he is dealing with them A member of  Chelsea 's first-team squad would "rather lose than win" for Jose Mourinho, according to BBC Radio 5 Live presenter Garry Richardson.  Sportsweek 's Richardson reported that Mourinho's relationship with his player had hit "rock bottom".  He said: "Let me tell you what I know on the Chelsea story. My information comes from a Chelsea first team player. "The information was actually passed to me by a football contact. I was told that Jose Mourinho's relationship with many of his players is at rock bottom. "I was told they're fed up with the way he's been dealing with some of them. They're fed up with his outbursts. I was told that his relationship particularly with  Eden ...

 The match between home clubs,Sunshine Stars and Lobi Stars played last week Saturday in Akure, Ondo State was declared inconclusive after football fans said to be loyal to Sunshine Stars, stormed the football field and attacked the referee and other football officials for failing to award their preferred team two penalty kicks.The fans stormed the pitch because they believed the referee has been partial in his officiating.Other reports alleged that the angry fans were Lobi stars supporters. The official camera man of Lobi stars was also beaten to a pulp during the process while his camera was destroyed.He was immediately rushed to a nearby hospital. Disclosing the news via their twitter handle,Lobi stars Sunshine star fans of attacking them. when will Nigerian football grow?

MTN Nigeria said it raked in about N5 billion from its caller tune subscription alone through its social media impact platform. The Managing Director of the company, Mr. Michael Ikpoki, who was the key note speaker at the Advertising Association of Nigeria, ADVAN, awards for Marketing Excellence 2015 with theme  Social Impact Marketing , revealed this in Lagos. The Managing Director, who emphasised the social impact of his company’s activities, said the social impact of marketing cannot be over looked in the present day marketing space. He said in 2013 the company generated N5 billion from the industry through caller ring tune alone. Mr. Ikpoki, who also stated that MTN had a very high responsibility to build its brand equity, noted that “the only way to grow our economy is to grow our brands.” For MTN, he said: “I adopted the principle of sharing value,” which he described as generating economic value in a way that also produces value for society by addressing its chall...

MTN has finally bowed to pressure as it has accepted to pay the N1.04 trillion fine slammed on it last week by the telecoms regulatory authority, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC). Accordingly, the telecoms operator was fine for violating its directive on SIM deactivation. This follows series of meeting held between MTN management team from South Africa and Nigeria with the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo. The telecoms operator which has largest subscriber base in Nigeria, it was gathered, may have agreed to pay the fine to sustain the interest of its telecoms business. Industry sources who confirmed the new arrangement, disclosed that the federal government is already yielding to the plea, which according to him, was part of the agreement reached at the series of meeting held at the weekend in Nigeria. “There have been series of meeting at the Presidency between the Vice President Osinbajo and MTN team both from South Africa and the Nigerian arm. MTN wanted a...

IMF Africa Director, Mrs. Atoinette Sayeh recently noted at a press conference at a World Bank event in Lima, Peru, that “…those measures introduced by CBN to restrict demand and limit access to official foreign exchange for certain imports are quite detrimental to economic activities and invariably led to a lot of unhappiness in the private sector”. File: Indeed, Naira devaluation is probably the most potent weapon against the prosperity of Nigerians. Nigeria’s migration from a potential industrial power house with bustling social affluence, to a subdued and stumbling economy clearly began with the adoption of IMF’s Structural Adjustment Programme during Babangida’s regime: the chorus from International Agencies, at that time, was also that falling oil prices with an unserviced debt burden and the consequent restriction of trade credit to Nigeria, were the products of an allegedly overvalued Naira exchange rate. Consequently, Sayeh, apparently concluded that “these measures wer...

Ahead of the swearing in of the ministerial nominees following their successful screening and confirmation by the senate last week, the Presidency has denied releasing any list that assigned portfolios to them. The denial followed the speculated list of portfolios which made the rounds especially on social media on Sunday. Responding to Vanguard on the issue, the Special Adviser to President Mohammadu Buhari, Mr. Femi Adesina said that the list did not emanate from the presidency as it was not officially signed. “Any communication from the presidency must be officially singed. Was that list signed by me or Mr. Garba Shehu? Please, ignore it”, he said. He also did not reveal when the inauguration ceremony of the Ministers would hold. Meanwhile, the speculated portfolios go as follows: Agric and Natural Resources Audu Ogbeh (Benue), Agriculture and Natural Resources, Geoffrey Onyema (Enugu), Attorney General, James Ocholi (Kogi), Aviation Sen Hadi Sirika (Katsina) ,Defense A...

Some hilarious tweets from the E-fight between Kenyan and Nigeria. . #KenyaVsNigeria . The fastest mean of transport in Nigeria is witchcraft #KenyansVsNigerians . #KenyansVsNigerians … @johnnygachanja , if we hv 2 do this then lets take west africa as a whole,fighting nigeria alone is belittling. . You cannot even tell whether they mean " cheap or sheep " " chop or shop " " hi or eye " Nigerians tho lol #KenyansVsNigerians . #KenyansVsNigerians 140 characters ain't enough for Nigerians to say one sentence thing. . Aye @JohnnyGachanja let's not bully our brodas and sisters from the west. #kenyansvsnigerians . The ground is not level yoh. . If it's on population and corruption then.Nigeria win by default. #KenyansVsNigerians . It is only in Nigeria where people wear weaves to differentiate between men and ladies #KenyansVsNigerians. . any Nigerian can mention"Judge" With...