Yaya Toure named Africa's best

Football | Africa

 

Yaya Toure landed the African Footballer of the Year award on Thursday for the third time running.
The Manchester City midfielder edged out Nigeria's John Obi Mikel and fellow Ivorian Didier Drogba to make it a hat-trick of wins, emulating Abedi Pele and Samuel Eto'o.
Ghanaian Abedi Pele won three in a row between 1991-93 while Cameroonian Eto'o took the award from 2003-05.
Eto'o, who plays up front for Chelsea, also won it in 2010.

Wits loan out four for rest of season

Football | Absa Premiership

Bidvest Wits have agreed to loan deals for four of their players as they trimmed down their squad for the second half of the Absa Premiership season, officials said on Thursday.

Miguel Timm has joined Mpumalanga Black Aces for the rest of the season while experienced centre back Musa Bilankulu has gone to Bloemfontein Celtic.
Bilankulu’s departure on loan comes after just six months and five matches at third placed Wits, who he joined from Lamontville Golden Arrows in July.

Timm had only played three games this season.
Letsie Koapeng and Sipho Mngomezulu have gone to National First Division club Chippa United.

Everton sweating on injured quartet

Football | Barclays Premier League

Fifth-placed Everton have injury doubts over Ross Barkley, Leighton Baines, Phil Jagielka and Sylvain Distin for Saturday's English Premier League home game with struggling Norwich City.
Midfielder Barkley has a toe injury while left back Baines has a back problem. Centre halves Jagielka and Distin have hamstring strains.
"Those four players are the ones we have got a question mark over," manager Roberto Martinez told the club's website (www.evertonfc.com) on Thursday. "Everyone else is fine."

Everton, seven points adrift of leaders Arsenal, are looking for their third home win in a row following victories over Southampton in the league and Championship side Queens Park Rangers in the FA Cup.
Norwich, who are sixth from bottom, have midfield pair Bradley Johnson and Wes Hoolihan and defender Sebastien Bassong available after injury.
"Our form away from home has improved from earlier in the season," said manager Chris Hughton. "That had to be the case and it needs to be the case again this weekend because we're going to a very good side."

Arrows sign Pirates duo on loan

Football | Absa Premiership

Relegation-threatened Lamontville Golden Arrows continue their bid to strengthen their squad for the second half of the Absa Premiership season by taking Manti Moholo and William Twala on loan from Orlando Pirates.
The move continues a recent tradition of the Buccaneers helping out the Durban team with playing talent.

Arrows, who are bottom of the standings, last month secured the Ghanaian centre-back Seth Owusu on a free contract and this week added the Zambian striker Festus Mbewe on a six-month loan from champions Nkana FC.
Veteran goalkeeper Arthur Bartman, who had retired and was training Maritzburg United's goalkeepers this season, has been persuaded to don his gloves again and join Arrows as a back-up goalkeeper.

Moyes on manager of the month shortlist

Football | Barclays Premier League

Manchester United manager David Moyes, reeling from three defeats in a row in 2014, must think that every cloud has a silver lining after being nominated for the Premier League's Manager of the Month award for December.
Moyes's side have endured a terrible start to the New Year but they did manage four wins, a draw and two defeats from seven league matches at the end of 2013.
The Scot has been nominated along with Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini, who went unbeaten in December, Chelsea's Jose Mourinho and Everton's Roberto Martinez.
Chelsea had five wins from seven games, one draw and a defeat while Martinez, who replaced Moyes at Everton, led his side to four wins from six matches, one draw and one defeat.

Glo-Caf Awards : Live blog

Football | Football Features

Welcome to our coverage of tonight’s 2013 GLO-CAF Awards in Lagos, Nigeria. The highlights will be the announcement of the African Footballer of the year, 2013.
The event has taken on greater significance with the choice down to one of Yaya Toure, Didier Drogba or John Obi Mikel. The event will be live on your world of Champions, SuperSport 9 on Channel 209 at 10pm CAT. Former Nigeria International, Sunday Oliseh and Carol Tshabalala from Supersport will anchor the show.
We will combine live updates on the proceedings, comments and your tweets in this blog. Join the conversation and share in the excitement. Use #SSFootball to leave your comments on Twitter.
We'll pull the best of them into our coverage below.

Bayern set to sign Rode from Frankfurt

Football | Transfer Watch

Eintracht Frankfurt midfielder Sebastian Rode will join Bayern Munich when his existing contract expires in the summer, his current club admitted.
Eintracht chairman Heribert Bruchhagen confirmed from the club's winter training camp in Abu Dhabi that Rode, a 23-year-old defensive midfielder, was on his way to the reigning champions.
Rode is the second player to commit to joining Bayern in the summer, after the Bundesliga leaders confirmed the signing of Borussia Dortmund and Poland striker Robert Lewandowski on a pre-contract agreement last weekend.
Rode, who joined Eintracht from Kickers Offenbach in 2010, had been linked with a move to Bayern for several months.

Sophia Bush Got To Know Herself Better By Dating The Wrong Guys

 

Brooke Davis and Lucas Scott, the fictions characters of the once popular Season series, ‘One Tree Hill’ were never meant to be just like Sophia Bush and Chad Michael Murray shouldn’t have dated in the first place… ironically, they were stars in this movie but when Sophia caught the handsome Chad unable to stop chasing after hotel heiress Paris Hilton and cheating on her, she kicked him away and started dating Google program manager Dan Fredinburg. Sophia has admitted that the wrong guys have always come her way, we are wondering if Dan is one of them too.
She said “I’ve dated a couple of the wrong guys, but I’ve also had great love in my life. I think every woman on Earth has dated the wrong guy at some point.”She said: “At the end of the day, I’m an open book. If I were looking at myself objectively,

Alesha Dixon Desperate To Keep Daughter, Azura Out Of Limelight

 

We were taken aback when Britain’s Got Talent judge Alesha Dixon and a Nigerian dancer, Azuka Ononye, who once earned about £1.25k a month, started dating, people whispered that Azuka wanted her for money, a story that was rubbished, with Azura Sienna their daughter now 14 weeks, Alesha has started work but wants Azura out of the paparazzo’s way.
She recently launched her first fragrance Rose Quartz and talks about motherhood. Once upon a time, Azuka was the backing dancer for Alesha before they got to know each other better, she said : “I have been fully in the mummy zone! She has become my world! She’s only 14 weeks – she smiles all the time. I haven’t shown her off yet, I try and keep [her] out the limelight as much as I can. I just want to keep everything balanced.”

Kelly Osbourne Separates With Fiancé Matthew Mosshart

 

Kelly Osbourne said her separation from fiancé Matthew Mosshart barely a month after Kelly has gushed that 2014 is going to meet her a single lady, is an amicable split, that is the truth, the couple who met in the Summer of 2011 at Kate Moss’s wedding and they found love that December did not see a reason to be together again.
“Kelly Osbourne and Matthew Mosshart have decided to end their engagement,” her rep told Us Weekly. “The split is amicable and the pair continue to have nothing but the utmost respect for one another. Kelly is looking forward to a new year full of fresh beginnings.

Ex Miss Venezuela, Monica Spear And Husband Murdered In Cold Blood…

 

This are interesting times that tries human should. In the late hours on Monday, ex-Miss Venezuela, Monica Spear, 29 and her husband Henry Thomas Berry, 39, were both murdered in cold blood on a roadside near Puerto Canello, the Venezuela’s port after their car broke down. This act was said to have been carried out in the presence of their daughter who was also shot in the leg during the process.
Sources says the divorces couples who still enjoy the company of each other were waiting for a towing van when the incident happened. We heard the ex-beauty queen who is also an actress shuttles between Venezuela and US, but was vacation back home.

Chris Brown Junks Appeal Deal In D.C. Assault Case

 

Chris Brown was in court yesterday and the singer rejected the plea deal offered to him in connection to his alleged assault in Washington… The singer who was in court with his body guard, Christopher Hollosy, were both charged for breaking the nose of a Twenty year old man who tried to get a picture with him.
The prosecutor had offered Chris to plead guilty as charged but his lawyer says the deal was turned down because Chris and Christopher are not guilty. The man who was punched in the face was said to have forced his way to the singer tour bus which made his body guard perceive him as treat. It would be recalled that Chris has just finished a five year probation, community labor and domestic violence council. Chris and body guard are due back in court on February 20.

Lydia Forson Says AMAA Has Raised The Quality Of Films Over The Past Nine Years

 

Lydia Forson is in the news. The actress says the Africa Movie Academy Award (AMAA) is a major partner in upping the standard of movies in Africa…The Ghanaian actress says the African film industry has “raised the quality of films over the past nine years. If we compare the movies made in 2006 to 2012 some of those movies would not even qualify for screening now. Through AMAA you’re forced to see what other countries are doing and you realize you probably have to step up your game. And it has created healthy competition for filmmakers”.

Zaron Ready To Strip Yvonne Nelson Off Her Ambassadorial Position…

 

From one scandal to the other Yvonne Nelson has bathed in the last four days. The sultry actress who just finished fighting a tweet war with a Nigerian blogger is at the moment fighting another major war in her career and this time, it’s about her ambassadorial position with Ghanaian beauty house, Zaron. We heard that the hair and make-up fashion house is not happy with the recent bleaching saga that has trailed the actress recently.

Few weeks ago, the actress was listed as one of the bleaching celebrities. The actress has since made statement that she is not into bleaching “My present skin tone is as a result of the constant use of the famous Queen Elizabeth Cocoa Butter. About 3 years ago, I was fortunate enough to secure a deal to be the ‘Face of Queen Elizabeth Cocoa Butter’ and as part of the contract, I was given a lifetime supply of the body cream. I have therefore been using this cream exclusively for 3 years,

Lady Gaga To Open Michael Jackson Memorabilia Museum

 

Someone is remembering the late King of Pop, Michael Jackson, and it is no other person than Lady Gaga, she is ready to spend big as she plans on opening a museum that will contain her large collection of Michael Jackson memorabilia, she is indeed a great fan of Michael and this is the reason she will want to put all the memorabilia in a safe location where people can come and see them, not that she is doing it for money because she got enough, the proceeds from the museum will go to charity.

She said “I will put together a museum and put the money to a foundation he cares about,” Gaga told UK newspaper The Mirror. “The reason I bought Michael’s clothes was because my tour clothes mean more to me than anything, my awards, records.

Boob Sucking Picture: Banky W Say’s “It’s Not Me”

 

Picture of a look-alike Banky W sucking boobs of a female alongside another girl surfaced online few hours ago and the singer who is currently working on getting a bigger and better artiste than Wizkid has said he is not the one in the picture.
The singer who twitted “Dude is def fatter… His eyebrows aren’t arched the same way mine have always been. It’s not me, but I can see why some think otherwise. Sorry folks, that picture looks like a whole lot of fun… but it’s not me. Striking resemblance though, from that angle.” He concluded.

Sandra Bullock Wins Big At People’s Choice Awards

 

Actress and Producer Sandra Bullock has just walk away with the highest number of awards at the People Choice Awards concluded few hours ago… Sandra walked away with the favourite movie actress, comedic actress, dramatic actress and the favourite movie duo award she sheared. Robert Downey Jr’s Iron Man 3 won three awards, the favourite movie, action movie and the film’s star, and favourite action movie star.
Justin Timberlake also took home three awards.