BIGNEWS24HOURS: 01/07/14

Tuesday 7 January 2014

Guardiola and Estiarte are newest Ambassadors

Bayern Munich manager Pep Guardiola, one of football’s greatest coaches, has become the newest Laureus Ambassador.

Also joining him as an Ambassador is Manel Estiarte, the greatest water polo player in the history of the sport, who is Pep’s assistant at Bayern.

Edwin Moses, Chairman of the Laureus World Sports Academy, said: “It is an honour to welcome two such giants of sport to Laureus. Pep is one of the most celebrated young coaches in any sport today and Manel is quite simply one of the greatest Olympians.”

Omoni Oboli has been off screen of late and she has decided to keep quiet about it. She has not been getting the scripts in the last few months and nothing has been heard about her acting career. Jist making around town has it the actress husband is not happy about the industry and he has stopped encouraging his wife from continuing with acting except she gets international scripts

On why she stop producing movies also, the hovering bird heard that as much as the actress would love to produce more movies, she still needs the support of her husband who is not ready to fund any at the

Lily Allen is one of the UK’s most successful female solo recording artists, this means money is not really her problem but when she turned down a gig worth £61 million, she couldn’t forgive herself, she has not gotten over it because the money could have make her richer, the gist was that she was asked to perform on the website, Second Life, which she would have been paid in the ‘virtual’ currency, Bitcoin. Interestingly, Lily only worth £6 million.

“About five years ago someone asked me to stream a gig live on Second Life for hundreds of thousands of Bitcoins,” Allen reveals. “As if, I said.” The singer, who gave birth to her second child,Marnie Rose, in January last year, came back to the music industry at the end of last year, recording a festive version of Keane’s Somewhere Only We Know for the John Lewis Christmas advert. Although Allen planned to come back to the charts eventually, she was expecting to be out of action for at least a couple more years.

Minister of Sports, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi

Football | Nigeria

Nigerian striker, Ikechukwu Uche has taken the time to reflect on his hat-trick that helped Villarreal thrash Rayo Vallecano 5-2 at Vallecas Teresa Rivero on match day 18 of the Primera División.
The forward netted the first, fourth and fifth goals of the encounter on Monday as the Yellow Submarine surged up to sixth on the standings.
Speaking to club’s official website, www.villarrealcf.es , the striker said his heroics on Monday night would not have been achieved if he did not receive the support of his teammates.

"I'll take the great work of (my teammates) who have left everything on the field (on Monday) so I could score three goals. I am happy and not only for the goals, but because we have started the year with a win and the truth is that I hope we can continue like this,” he said.

Monday’s milestone meant that Uche became the third Villarreal player to score a hat-trick in the Primera División after Diego Forlan and Juan Roman Riquelme.
He is also the first Nigerian player to score a hat-trick in Spain’s top flight since his elder brother, Kalu, performed the trick, also against Rayo, on March 11, 2012.

Football | Italy

Serie A title-chasers Roma beat a number of rival clubs in the race to sign Radja Nainggolan from Cagliari, the Italian capital's club said in a statement on Tuesday.
Roma will pay three million euros for Nainggolan to play the rest of the season on a temporary basis and six million euros from the 2014/2015 season when he will be hired permanently.
The contract runs out in 2018.

After a series of reported bids and counter-bids from Juventus, Milan and Napoli, the Belgian international put pen to paper with Roma.
Roma enjoyed a cracking start to the season under new coach Rudi Garcia, setting a Serie A record of 10 opening wins to underline their title credentials before a series of draws saw them slip behind leaders Juventus.

Football | Capital One Cup

Manchester United have to play the officials as well as the opposition, manager David Moyes complained after his side were beaten 2-1 by Sunderland in the League Cup semifinal first leg on Tuesday.

Moyes, under pressure after losing his third consecutive game in all competitions, pointed the finger at referee Andre Marriner, who he criticised for awarding a free kick that led to Sunderland's opening goal.

The referee also had a decisive hand in Sunderland's winner, pointing to the penalty spot in the second half after Adam Johnson had been felled by Tom Cleverley, allowing Fabio Borini to smash the spot kick into the roof of the net.

"It is difficult we just need to keep going," Moyes told Sky Sports. "We didn't do a lot wrong. I thought the referee was going to blow in our direction for (the free kick that led to) the first goal. I couldn't believe he gave (Sunderland) a free kick. It was a terrible decision.

Valencia forward Helder Postiga headed an equaliser in the final minute of added time to snatch a 1-1 draw at home to King's Cup holders Atletico Madrid in an intense and entertaining last 16, first leg tie on Tuesday.
After Raul Garcia had nodded the visitors ahead in the 72nd minute, Portugal forward Postiga finally beat inspired keeper Thibaut Courtois when he was on hand to send a mis-hit Sofiane Feghouli cross into the net from close range after 93 minutes.

In new coach Juan Antonio Pizzi's second game in charge, a fired-up Valencia dominated possession at the Mestalla but fell behind when a fluffed clearance by keeper Vicente Guaita fell to midfielder Garcia.
Garcia also had Atletico's best chance of the first half but his rising effort was well saved by Guaita, while Valencia's Juan Bernat drew a fine save from Courtois with a low drive seven minutes after the break.
Courtois made three more brilliant saves as Valencia pressed for an equaliser, first leaping to tip a curling effort from substitute Sergio Canales around the post in the 76th minute.
The Belgium international, on loan from Chelsea, then denied Pablo Piatti in the 82nd before producing possibly his best stop of the night a minute later from Feghouli's close-range blast.

London, Jan 7 - England's Football Association (FA) will reportedly take no action against Arsenal player Theo Walcott over his gesture to Tottenham Hotspur fans during Saturday's FA Cup clash

The England forward signaled Arsenal's 2-0 lead to Spurs' fans as he was being taken off the field in a stretcher following a knee injury that will rule him out of the World Cup this summer.

Rome, Jan 7 - Giuseppe Rossi's agent said the Fiorentina striker could recover from the injury he suffered against Livorno in six or seven weeks.
"It looks like a sprain with damage to the collateral ligament. We really got away with this one," Federico Pastorello wrote on Twitter Monday, reported Xinhua.

Kaka excited at best way to start new year

Milan, Jan 7 - AC Milan attacking midfielder Kaka was excited to score twice against Atalanta Monday, claiming it is for him the best way to start a new year.

The Brazilian star scored his 100th and 101st goals for Milan in their 3-0 win over Atalanta, and could hardly express himself when facing a gathering media after the game, reported Xinhua.

London, Jan 7 - FIFA president Sepp Blatter has reportedly accused Brazil of being 'badly prepared' despite five months left before the country hosts the World Cup this year.

The tournament opens on 12 June when the host nation face Croatia in Sao Paulo's Arena Corinthians, which, along with another stadium, were the sites of worker-related casualties, while six of Brazil's 12 stadium s have failed to meet the Dec 31 deadline set by FIFA.

The Ghana Movie Awards has come under fire days after it was held. Some producers whose works were nominated are not happy with the organizers and Leila Djansi is one of them. She has been vocal about it and she seems to be getting attention from what she is crying foul about. Joselyn Dumashad been nominated as a supporting actress in a movie Leila Djansi directed and Djansi has express her displeasure over the award categories.

She wrote on the social media “Ghana Movie Awards, what on earth? How can Joselyn Dumas be nominated in supporting actress, when the entire story of A Northern Affair was told from her point of view? Guys guys guys, if we are going to do something let us do it right. Please. We can’t continue like this. Get it together and get it right. GMA is a laudable enterprise but it needs to grow in the right direction.”

Stand-up comedian and Yoruba actor Baba Tee is in the news again. The comic actor says he is not back with his ex-loverYetunde Oduwole. The jist is, the actor denied his marriage to Yetunde months ago on screen and he didn’t find it funny with Yetunde. Sources says the two are lovers and have done their introduction but Baba T still run after everything in skirt also which does not go down well with the Yetunde.

But the straw that broke the camel’s back was the denial. And the two part ways. While they both have been seen at the some occasions, we heard the duo visited in separate capacities. It is good to be in company of an old friend but that does not mean they are together again… any way only God knows. We spoke to the actor and he say’s “I am not married, I am single and am not attached to anybody”. He dropped call as he concluded.

Scott Disick the longtime love of Kourtney Kardashian is so sad, three months after losing his mum, Bonnie Disick, he is mourning once again following the death of his father, Jeffrey Disick on January 3, the Kardashians have been very supportive and he was spotted with Kourtney recently at L.A. International Airport catching a flight to his native New York.

Scott hails from Eastport, New York, but he’s made his home on the West Coast for years now. He lives with his family in the Calabasas, California, home frequently seen on their E! show. His parents appeared a few times on the cable reality show, but it seems the dad of two spent more time with the Kardashian clan over the past few years.

It’s time to do the right thing and move on to the next level. While Raymond Usher picked Justin Bieber on YouTube and signed him up… Banky also experiment it with Wizkid and it worked also. Even though there was never a big fight about Justin Bieber leaving Usher, thing worked… unlike Banky and Wizkid. Now Banky has said to friends that he hope to sign bigger and better acts than Wizkid soon.

The singer opened up recently that “Bad news is more interesting to people than good news and when you don’t give people bad news, they just find a way to create it just to get traffic to their website or sell their newspapers. Contrary to what was reported, Wizkid never actually left (EME). We understood that we had to restructure because he was getting bigger”.

Darey’s songs is one that have sold the image of the Nigerian music well to the international scene. Now the entertainer-entrepreneur has announced the return of his concert series “Love Like A Movie”. The Valentine event, which debuted in 2013 will be produced by Livespot Productions.

The event, Darey says, “Will be one night of world-class performances that LLAM is known for, plus boundary pushing lights, lasers and pyrotechnic displays. A new venue, Oceanview, which is open air will present more head room for performances aerial,breathtaking stunts and slams. ‘It’s an unbelievable show we’reputting together this year. Unbelievable’, Darey says.

Darey Art Alade Love Like A Movie Concert For February 15

Last year, Kim Kardashian was present and other Nigerian top acts. But this year, Darey says two platinum acts will be visiting and it will feature dozens of Nigerian acts.

Ghanaian afro pop musician Nana Boroo is in critical condition in an undisclosed hospital in the United States. Nana was said to have been involved in a serious accident in the US where he had gone for business. Details of his accidents is still sketch but it has been reported in some quarters that the singer’s car ran into another car in New York.

That we cannot confirm. Nana Boroo born Nana Osei Bonsu is a talented act that redefined the music industry with his francophone touch. As a performer, Boroo’s first hit in Ghana “Aha ye de” off the album “Young executive” to the chat in Ghana for months. The graduate of Kwame Nkrumah University of science and technology has a degree in graphic design in 2007.

Justin Bieber’s manager, Scooter Braun has taken his exit from the bachelor’s hood by taking a knee down and popping the question, ‘Will You Marry Me?’to his girlfriends, Yael Cohen,the founder of F-ck Cancer at his home in Los Angeles, with Bieber and Selena Gomez back, we are expecting a great year for them, though, Scooter and Yeal has refrained from releasing a statement, both Braun and Cohen offered up clues on social media

Scooter tweeted “Loving 2014. Luckiest guy in the world “, while Cohen shared two telling images. In one, Cohen and Braun are holding hands and gazing lovingly into each other’s eyes. The other is caption-less image of a pink neon sign reading “yes.”

It is cosmetic surgery confession time, we can name a lot of celebrities who has gone through the knife to elude age, most of them denied it when they were confronted with the procedure, Kim Kardashian is not forth coming with what really made her maintain her shape after the birth of Nori, still under debate but Cameron Diaz has admitted that she has tried using Botox in the past, but she really looked ugly that she had to stop.

Diaz is excited aging gracefully rather than visiting doctors to cheat age on their bodies, the counselor actress who is currently promoting her new Body Book said: “I’ve tried Botox before, where it was like a little tiny touch of something. It changed my face in such a weird way that I was like, ‘No, I don’t want to be like that.’ I’d rather see my face ageing than a face that doesn’t belong to me at all.”

While others can’t remember their sources, Chiwetel Ejiofor can and seems to be carrying it in his mind everywhere he goes. Hardly will one know he is Nigeria. Unlike others that have actually identified with their Nollywood counterparts, he hardly make contact. But he can’t forget his sources.

Few hours ago, he visited some places and memories lay hands on his breast and he said to someone who knows about history “I am Igbo”. He was in Savannah, Ga., and decided to have a tour of the city and while on the tour, something made an impression on him: a 19th-century slave pen, used to hold newly arrived Africans before they were sent to auction then he recalled, “a sequence of bolts high on the wall.”

He says, “I said to the guide, who didn’t know anything about my background, ‘What are those bolts in the wall? And he said, ‘That’s the extra chaining for the Ibos.’ And I said to him, ‘I am Ibo.

has finally broken silence on the death of James Avery. Sure… he might still be in shock but few hours ago, Smith made statements on facebook and he was also quick to shear a picture of the crew of “Fresh Prince” in memorial of the last time they all met.

As you know, James Avery is Uncle Phil in “Fresh Prince”. Will wrote –“Some of my greatest lesson in Acting, Living and been a respectable human being came from Avery. Every young man needs and Uncle Phil. Rest in peace”. He concluded.

The fans of Harry Styles will be disappointed to hear that the One Direction star won’t be starring on Keeping Up With the Kardashians, every male who dates the Kardashian ladies are expected to join the ritual show but Harry who is reportedly dating Kendall Jenner, may take sides with Kanye West who is too busy with his music career to bother joining the Kardashian ladies in gossip and revealing their dirty linens to the public.

Harry really got enough secrets he will want to hide away which is a good reason for him to run from the show, he reportedly banned footage of his dates with Kendall Jenner from being shown on her family’s smash hit reality show. They have been spotted on a different outing since November and now currently enjoying a ski break in Mammoth, California

Little did we know that 12 Years A Slave will make such a buzz, it has become one of the most talked about movie since 2013, based on the autobiography of Solomon Northup, a free man from upstate New York, who was lured to Washington DC in 1841, kidnapped and sold into slavery is giving its actors and actresses a place in different award nominations , Kenyan actress, Lupita Nyong’o is among the nominees for this year’s EE Bafta Rising Star Award.

Nyong’o is nominated for best supporting actress at this year’s Golden Globes and was handed the breakthrough performance award at the Palm Springs International Film Festival over the weekend, and more can still be on the way, her colleagues, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Michael Fassbender along with McQueen and the film itself, are tipped to win Oscars. These guys are competing with the best actors from other movies.

Looking sexy apparently comes easy to Eva Longoria, who has been named Maxim’s woman of the year, the former Desperate Housewives actress who says she is an ace in the kitchen had recently blasted a media report claiming she had been cast on three Latin soap operas on Televisa, one of which is a role as the mother of Dancing With the Stars alum William Levy, a story which is false, well, she really reserve her Maxim award with her looks and achievements over the years.

“It’s especially awesome after how long it’s been since my first cover,” Eva said “I’ve had a beautiful relationship with Maxim over all these years … When someone sees the cover of this issue, they’re going to say, ‘¡Que rico!’ … Say it when something is really good.”

Because of her sexy image, the former ‘Desperate Housewives’ actress admits people are often “surprised” be her “domestic” skills. She said: “One thing people are usually surprised about when they get to know me is how domestic I am.So when you see the sexy Maxim cover and then you put it against me in an apron with flour in my hair, it takes a moment to reconcile that image.”

Gabrielle Union has never been no stranger to relationship drama, few days before Dwyane Wade popped the question to her, she attended a screening for the next episode of her latest project “Being Mary Jane,” ironically just a few weeks after Dwanye after getting Gabrielle engaged, the news of his secret child resurfaced like a demon to haunt him, however, the baby papa has confirmed that he has already confessed to her before the news went public.

Eva Longoria Named The Maxim’s Woman Of The Year

It can really be painful to Gabrielle who is always talking about relationship. Can’t be too much fun being asked to give relationship advice knowing her own messy situation is about to get put on blast. Has this stopped Gabrielle from talking about relationship? In a recent interview before now she said: ‘A lot of times as women, we look at men as a carton of milk and we see the expiration date come and gone.

This is amazing. Gone are the days when rappers wears baggy jeans, over-sized shirts with bandana and sun-shades. Then, they seem to be living a rugged life but now, everything has changed. Even smoking of weeds is done in a more civilized fashion. Before we get it twisted, news making around town has it that popular rapper, Eedris Abdulareem still have not gotten his own personal house.

Sources hint us that the rapper still stay in a two bedroom flat apartment with his family since he returned from his self-imposed exile few years ago. The house located at Aboderin Estate, Mangoro bus stop also firms his personal studio and we heard the house has also been a hid out for young chaps he has groomed to be his crew, smoking weeds almost every evening. We also heard that some artists in his good book has also worked from his home from time to time.

BIGNEWS24HOURS

Tuesday 7 January 2014

Guardiola and Estiarte are newest Ambassadors

Omoni Oboli Not Saying Anything On Not Getting Movie Roles!

Lily Allen Regrets Turning Down £61million’ Deal With Bitcoin

Controversial posts land celebrities in trouble

mikel afraid of scoring more goals

CHAN Eagles fly out, minister demands conduct code

CHAN: South Africa studying Eagles on DVDs

Uche pleased with hat-trick

Football | Nigeria

Roma sign Nainggolan for €9 million

Football | Italy

We are playing against officials - Moyes

Football | Capital One Cup

Valencia strike late to hold Atletico

FA to take no action against Arsenal's Walcott over `gesture` to Spurs fans in FA Cup game

Rossi out for six to seven weeks

Kaka excited at best way to start new year

Blatter accuses Brazil of being 'badly prepared' for 2014 FIFA World Cup

Leila Djansi Not Happy With Ghana Movies Awards Organizers.

Baba Tee Says He Is Not Back With Ex-Lover Yetunde Oduwole

Scott Disick Spotted With Kourtney Kardashian After Father’s Death

Banky W Wants A Better And Bigger Artists Than Wizkid…

Darey Art Alade Love Like A Movie Concert For February 15

Nana Boroo In Critical Condition In US Hospital

Justin Bieber’s Manager, Scooter Braun Is Engaged To Girlfriend, Yael Cohen

Cameron Diaz Confesses Trying Botox Procedure On Her Face

Chiwetel Ejiofor Still Remember’s Home… Says His Am Igbo

Will Smith Pays Tribute To ‘Fresh Prince’ Co-Star James Avery

Harry Style Will Not Star In Keeping Up With The Kardashians…

Kenyan Actress, Nyong’o Has Been Nominated For Bafta Award

Eva Longoria Named The Maxim’s Woman Of The Year

Gabrielle Union Talks About Relationship Amidst Controversy Over Fiance

Eedris Abdulkareem Still In A Rented Apartment!