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Super Eagles striker, Emmanuel Emenike, has that retired form the national team after five years. He wrote on Instagram on Monday night, “No more Eagles career! After five great years, I am happy to announce that I have put full-stop to my national team career for the sake of national peace.” “It’s a pleasure for me to have played for this great country. I never regretted it and I think it’s the best time to end it. Million thanks to all the fans who have been very supportive during the good and bad times. Emenike went on to list his achievements for the National team as he made the announcement as he humbly accepts his poor goal scoring form since AFCON 2012.  “I am very proud of my performance, I am proud of my team mates and I am very proud of the nation called ‘Nigeria’. My AFCON gold medal is a sign of great achievement, My AFCON top scorer award speaks a lot about my commitment and dedication to the team. Super Eagles is a camp not a family house, and it shouldn&#

Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo won Europe’s Golden Shoe yesterday, which recognizes the top scorer across the continent’s top five leagues. It’s the fourth time he’s won the award, and it comes after last season, when he scored 48 goals in 35 La Liga games. No one else in the history of the award has won it four times. Ronaldo said he wants to win it twice more. The Portuguese forward is 30, coming off his best domestic campaign ever, and is seemingly indestructible, and so there’s really no reason why he won’t.

Maurice Cooreman has expressed satisfaction with the promotion of Ikorodu United to the Glo Premier League. For the first time since his coaching career started in Nigeria’s top flight with Gabros International (now FC Ifeanyiubah) back in 2003, Cooreman stepped down to the lower division after accepting to coach the newly formed club. “I want to applaud my players and the sponsor for the promotion of Ikorodu United. We worked hard to achieve the feat as a team. My coaches as well, who adapted to my philosophy have proven to be quite supportive in our quest for promotion. “My target was to get Ikorodu United to the Premier League and I’m excited we achieved promotion,” he said to supersport.com. Cooreman boosted his squad with the trio of Cyril Olisemah, Lucky Edjebare and Shedrack Francis, who have top flight experience. Apart from Gabros, Cooreman has managed Lobi Stars, Bendel Insurance, defunct NPA, Ocean Boys, Enyimba, Kaduna United, Warri Wolves and Gombe United.

Ghana, rising Ghanaian Actress, Effia Odo who just made her debut movie premiere appearance of “Royal Diadem,” has revealed why she is not at home with bras. According to her, impressing any man by wearing bras to make her small breasts look big is not one of her concerns. “My breasts are small, so, what’s the point of wearing a bra?” Efia told eTV Ghana’s Late Night Celebrity Show with Giovanni. She added: “I will like the men to know what they are going to get should they approach. I don’t want to wear push up bras and shifting things and pushing things just to impress.

Mikel Obi posted a picture of a newborn set of twins on his Instagram page. The footballer wrote: ‘My whole world in my arms’, ‘Welcome to my world my angels’. Olga Diyachenko

The amount spent by Barclays Premier League clubs during the summer window passed £800million on the final day of trading, but most of the talk centred around two deals that did not happen. De Gea's long-anticipated £29million move from Manchester United to Real Madrid collapsed on Monday night and both clubs appeared at odds over who was to blame. West Brom striker Berahino, meanwhile, hit out after the Baggies blocked Tottenham's attempts to sign him. Berahino appeared to threaten never to play for the club again after two deadline-day bids from Spurs were rejected. De Gea remained at Old Trafford after the paperwork for his switch to the Bernabeu, which would have included Keylor Navas moving in the opposite direction, was not submitted before Spain's deadline of 11pm Monday. Real issued a strong statement defending their conduct, insisting they did "everything necessary" to implement the move. That came after United

                                                                           Mauricio Pochettino was left without the recognised striker he craved when Tottenham Hotspur’s efforts to prise Saido Berahino from West Bromwich Albion on transfer deadline day failed amid drama and anger. Spurs had already had offers worth £18m and £22m for Berahino turned down, and it emerged that one of the packages had been structured around payments of £3.5m each year for five years, which had served to infuriate West Brom and their chairman, Jeremy Peace.                                                                        At 5pm, with the positions entrenched and emotions swirling, Berahino had taken to Twitter to suggest he did not intend to play again for Peace’s club. “Sad how i cant say exactly how the club has treated me but i can officially say i will never play Jeremy Peace,” Berahino wrote.              

                                  Finally, Nigeria’s national male basketball team, D’Tigers showed their talents by winning a first ever FIBA Afrobasket Championship on Sunday night in Tunisia when they beat 10-time champions, Angola 74-65. Chamberlain Oguchi scored 19 points and was voted the Most Valuable Player of the tournament and was also named in the team of the tournament alongside teammate, Al-Farouq Aminu. Captain of the team, Olumide Oyedeji, had said the team was the most talented of the teams that came to Tunisia and that claim was justified even though one of their best players, Ike Diogu, did not play a single minute of the competition because of a twisted ankle. Oluchi, the MVP, said: “It’s the best moment of my life, to be able to come here after missing the last AfroBasket, to be able to come here and do this with my brothers, it feels amazing. “I’m happy to be able to share this moment with them and for me personally, it’s just really gre

            Liverpool have announced the signing of the Nigerian forward Taiwo Awoniyi, who will immediately head out on loan with FSV Frankfurt.  The 18 year-old, who joins the club having previously represented Imperial Academy in Nigeria. He does not qualify for a work permit yet hence his loan move to Germany. Liverpool are understood to have paid around £400,000 for Awoniyi’s services. He told his new club’s website: “This is the biggest club in the world and I’m privileged to be here. I’ll try to develop myself very well so that when I come back to Liverpool I’ll be able to add value to the team. When I’m in the red shirt, I will always give my very best to make the fans happy.” Awoniyi is a Nigeria Under-23 international. He has also played for the Super Eagles at the Under-17 and Under‑20 World Cups and earned a call-up for the senior Nigeria squad in 2013.

                                     On first glance it looks like Limerick have pulled off the transfer of the century and signed Barcelona striker Neymar.  But on closer inspection, it turns out the Barcelona striker has not swapped La Liga for the League of Ireland.  It is in fact 16-year-old Barry Cotter, who bears an uncanny resemblance to the Brazil World Cup star.  While Neymar will line up in the Champions League, former Avenue United and Ennis Town forward Cotter will play in the under-17 National League after signing for Limerick.     But he shares his doppelganger's confidence telling the club website: "I'm looking to score at least one or two goals in each game for the rest of the season."

                                                                                   Mayweather’s Incredible Fleet  Lauded as one of the greatest pound for pound fighters in the history of the sport, Mayweather Jr has earned well over $400million throughout his career, and is no stranger to showing it off. After beating fierce rival Manny Pacquiao in the match dubbed ‘Fight of the Century’, Mayweather took home an eye-watering sum of £116,554,424 in prize money as he took his undefeated run to a supremely impressive tally of 48. The 38-year arrived the Mayweather Boxing Club to prepare for what could be his final fight against Andre Berto on September 12th, and did so in typical Mayweather style by driving in his brand new £3.1million silver Koenigsegg CCXR Trevita. And he wasn’t about to stop showing off there either. Money Mayweather parked up next to his three Bugatti Veyrons and a white Ferrari before heading inside the gym.           

Bolt claimed his second gold medal of the Beijing World Championships by winning the 200m, with the Jamaican blowing away the competition to win the final with a world leading time of 19.57seconds. He even had time to slow down and celebrate over the last 20 metres, which clearly left one cameraman so perturbed that he felt he had to do something to stop him.                       But he was back up and celebrating in no time

Arsenal are probably the biggest losers following the Champions League group stage draw – after landing Bayern Munich. Manchester City also face a tough task to qualify but Manchester United and Chelsea will be delighted with how the balls were pulled out. Overall, it must be said that all the English clubs will expect to qualify for the next round. The Gunners were handed a tricky draw in group F against European giants Bayern Munich as well as Greece’s Olympiacos and Dinamo Zagreb. Man United drew arguably the best top seed in PSV Eindhoven in a fixture that will see Memphis Depay return against his former club in group B. They also face an awkward trip to Russia to face CSKA Moscow and a trick tie against Wolfsburg. Chelsea will be satisfied with their opponents in group G as they landed Porto, Dynamo Kyiv and Maccabi Tel-aviv. City will face last season’s finalists Juventus in group D along with Europa League winners Sevilla. The new draw system saw the

Nigerian Striker Taiwo Awoniyi Leaves For England To Under Go Medical Before Signing For Liverpool This Weekend                               The forward, 17, a product of Imperial Soccer Academy has been strongly linked with a switch to the Reds in recent weeks. And now the deal has been confirmed by a spokesman for the Nigeria FA, who says Awoniyi will miss next month’s All African Games, where he was set to star for the Under-23 team. Awoniyi will leave this week for England to sign his contract with Liverpool,’ Timi Ebikagboro said. That is why he is not here training with us for the All Africa Games. Awoniyi is the most promising striker who chas been watched by Monaco and Porto in th e past.

               The Olumide Oyedeji led National Basketball Team of Nigeria D'tigers has been in blistering form at the on-going Africa Basketball Championship in Tunisia. After recording great feats over Central Africa Republic and Uganda respectively, D'Tigers unbeating runs came to an end by the Tunisian National Team in the group stage. The Nigerian team found them selves under intense pressure while playing against the host team who enjoyed maximum home support. The defense of D'Tiger was suspect as Sala Mejri star player of the Tunisian side took advantage of the lapses created to score 22 points and 7 rebounds. D'Tiger in group A came out second place behind Tunisia rebouncing on Mozambique whom they defeated with a wooping 83-47 points to advance to the quater final stage. However, Nigeria has been ceded against Gabon in the quater final stage of the tournament.   D’Tigers’ unbeaten run in Group A of the ongoing 2015 Afro

                       Reports reaching us from the camp of the National Athletics Team recently competing for honours at the World Championship events in Beijin confirms that the Nigerian Team is ill equipped hence, they are sparingly dressed in what ever they can lay their hands on unlike other teams who are seen in uniformity. A statement picked from Okagbare's Blog states: None of the team member competing here wears any semblance of Nigeria's Green and White while the foreign based athletes also wears variouse colours. We are so disorganised here that one would think we are in a local Competition. This has not really motivated us said one of the athletes who begged not to be mentioned. Team Nigeria athletes competing at the 15th IAAF World Championships in Athletics are the worst dressed athletes here in Beijing. When Complete Sports visited the athletes’ Conference Hotel abode Tuesday afternoon, the athletes were seen dressed in vario

                                     A hamstring injury prevented Nigerian sprint queen, Blessing Okagbare from competing at the women’s 200m race at the World Athletics Championship in Beijing. After a disappointing last finish at the finals of the women’s 100m, all hopes of a medal for Blessing in Beijing were hinged on the 200m. Okagbare, who was listed in the startlist of Heat 3, was however missing for the race. The Athletics Federation of Nigeria ( AFN ) has released a statement revealing that she was injured during the pre-race warm-up. “ A hamstring injury during warm up on Wednesday prevented Blessing Okagbare from participating in the heats of the 200m ,” the statement read. “ Okagbare, who went for surgery shortly before the All Nigeria Athletics Championships held in Warri, Delta State, was certified fit for the World Championships. The injury probably re-occurred because of rounds she did in the 100m. ” A report forwarded by the med

                              Spencer Stone (from left), Anthony Sadler, and Alek Skarlatos helped tackle a gunman aboard a high-speed train. Stone, Skarlatos and Sadler were traveling together when they heard shattering glass and saw people running, Skarlatos' brother Peter said. Sadler, on his first trip to Europe, said they acted right away.                       "My friend Alek Skarlatos yells, 'Get him!,' so my friend Spencer Stone immediately gets up to charge the guy, followed by Alek, then myself," Sadler said. "The three of us beat up the guy," Sadler said. "In the process, Spencer gets slashed multiple times by the box cutter, and Alek takes the AK away." Spencer suffered cuts to his head and neck, and his thumb was almost cut off, Norman said. Skarlatos, who joined his friends on vacation after returning from Afghanistan, seized the rifle and hit the suspect in the head with the muzzle. Norman and S

Bolt Has Now won 9 World Titles. Three Golds In The 100M, Three In 200M, Three In Sprint Relays Usain Bolt produced perhaps his greatest performance of all as he put a troubled build-up behind him to beat two-time doper and clear favourite Justin Gatlin to retain his world 100m title.  The controversial Gatlin came into the final on a 28-race unbeaten run and apparently relishing his role as the sport's bad guy. But at the same Bird's Nest stadium in Beijing where Bolt announced himself to the world with two Olympic golds and two world records in 2008, the Jamaican superstar came past a faltering Gatlin at the death to snatch victory by one hundredth of a second.  Bolt's 9.79 seconds was more than two tenths off his world record, but this was a night for athletics to celebrate victories rather than times.  Canada's Andre de Grasse and young American Trayvon Bromell were

If  Mario Balotelli  wants to play senior football this season then he must find leave  Liverpool ,  Brendan Rodgers  has warned. The striker has been told he is surplus to requirements at Anfield and Rodgers has insisted he will not change his mind after the controversial striker's poor first season with Liverpool. The unwanted trio of players - which also includes Fabio Borini and Jose Enrique - have been told to train with Liverpool's youth team, prompting the defender to claim last week that Rodgers has "alienated" them. But Rodgers shifted the blame right back on the players on Sunday, arguing Liverpool will not stand in the way of a transfer, telling reporters: "He [Balotelli] clearly knows his situation and where he's at. "There's nothing to add. All of the players understand where they're at.

The Valencia centre-back arrived in England on Monday to seal his switch to the Etihad Stadium. The Premier League club are closing in on a £25 million deal for the Argentina international center-back, and Otamendi has now joined agent Jorge Mendes in Manchester for talks . The move will not, however, include Eliaquim Mangala heading in the opposite direction, with City having abandoned plans to offload the Frenchman, who gave arguably his strongest performance for the club in Sunday's 3-0 win over Chelsea.

Florentino Perez believes that  Real Madrid  and  Sergio Ramos  are "united forever", after the defender penned a new five-year deal with the club. Ramos was heavily linked with a summer switch to Manchester United but, on Monday, the Centre-half committed his future to Los Blancos until 2020. Consequently, Perez now believes that the World Cup winner will finish his career at the Santiago Bernabeu. "Today is a great day," the Blancos supremo told reporters. "Real Madrid has satisfaction that Sergio will be with us for five more years. "Ramos is a symbol of Madridisma, which has made us love him for many years with his character, desire and huge heart. "That's why Real Madrid and Ramos are united forever."

Nigerian popular actress, Tonto Dikeh, is finally set to say ‘I do,’ as on Monday, she released stunning photos of her introduction ceremony with her boo, Churchill Olakunle Oladunni Obasanjo, held in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital. The Nollywood actress has since changed her name to Mrs Tonto Obasanjo,

An 11-year-old girl, who became pregnant as the result of a rape, just gave birth in Paraguay because the government did not allow her to have an abortion, according to Amnesty International. The girl was allegedly raped by her stepfather when she was 10. He was arrested, and the girl's mother has been charged with negligence, the Associated Press reported.  According to the girl's mother's lawyer, the child gave birth to a baby girl via cesarean and both are healthy and resting.  Paraguayan authorities had come under fire earlier this year after many human rights organizations had called on them to allow the child to have an abortion. The girl's mother had asked for her daughter to have an abortion, but the government in Paraguay refused to allow it. 

  At a recent show in Sapele, while 2face was performing, a girl jumped unto the stage, pulled 2face Idibia from behind, took off her clothes and began to strip off 2Face's clothes in the full glare of everyone including his wife. -