Jose Mourinho has been appointed Tottenham manager after the sacking of Mauricio Pochettino on Tuesday.
Former Chelsea and Manchester United boss Mourinho has signed a contract until the end of the 2022-23 season.
“The quality in both the squad and the academy excites me,” said the 56-year-old Portuguese. “Working with these players is what has attracted me.”
Spurs chairman Daniel Levy said: “In Jose we have one of the most successful managers in football.”
Tottenham reached the Champions League final last season under Pochettino, but lost 2-0 to Liverpool in Madrid.
The Argentine, who was appointed in May 2014, did not win a trophy in his time in charge of the north London club, with Spurs’ last silverware being the League Cup in 2008.
Levy added: “He [Mourinho] has a wealth of experience, can inspire teams and is a great tactician.
“He has won honours at every club he has coached. We believe he will bring energy and belief to the dressing room.”
Mourinho still has a home in London and won three Premier League titles – in 2005, 2006 and 2015 – as well as one FA Cup in two spells at Chelsea.
Having taken over at Manchester United in May 2016, he won the Europa League and Carabao Cup with them in 2017.
Mourinho was sacked by the Old Trafford club in December 2018, with the club 19 points behind league leaders Liverpool at the time, and had not managed another side before joining Spurs.
He has also previously managed Portuguese side Porto, where he won the Champions League in 2004.
At Italian club Inter Milan, Mourinho won a league, cup and Champions League treble in 2010 and was named Fifa’s world coach of the year, while he led Spanish team Real Madrid to the La Liga title in 2012.
He takes over a Spurs side that are without a win in their past five games and have slipped to 14th in the Premier League, 20 points behind leaders Liverpool after just 12 matches.
The Portuguese’s first match in charge is a trip to West Ham United on Saturday (12:30 GMT kick-off).
Mourinho has turned down a number of managerial opportunities, including in China, Spain and Portugal, since leaving Old Trafford.
A video has surfaced online showing two Babcock students having sex in their school clinic without protection on.
The video has since caused a stir online and is now trending as many have since began to share their thoughts on the video.
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The video saw both students aware engaging in the sexual act without protection on and just the girl in it deciding on giving the young man orals just at the end, a move that many have since began to clown on social media.
A convicted Internet fraudster, Hope Aroke, who is serving a 24-year jail term in the Kirikiri Maximum Correctional Centre in Lagos, has allegedly masterminded a $1m scam while in custody.
The convict, who is the subject of an investigation by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, reportedly organised the scam using a network of accomplices.
Hope was one of two Malaysia-based Nigerian undergraduate fraudsters arrested by the EFCC in 2012 at the 1004 Housing Estate, Victoria Island, Lagos, following a tip-off.
The EFCC spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren, said in a statement in Abuja on Tuesday that the lid on his latest fraud exploits from the correctional facility was blown open following intelligence received by the anti-graft agency.
According to the EFCC, preliminary investigation revealed that the convict, against the established standard practice, had access to the Internet and mobile phone in the centre.
The statement said, “Even more puzzling was the finding that Hope got himself admitted to the Nigeria Police Hospital, Falomo, Lagos, for an undisclosed ailment. And from the hospital, he would move out to lodge in hotels, meet with his wife and two children, and attend other social functions.
“The circumstances of his admission to the hospital and those who aided his movement from the hospital to hotels and other social engagements are already being investigated by the EFCC.”
Investigation by the anti-graft agency also revealed that Hope used a fictitious name, Akinwunmi Sorinmade, to open two accounts with First Bank Plc and Guaranty Trust Bank Plc.
He also allegedly bought a property at the Fountain Spring Estate, Lekki, Lagos, in 2018 for N22m, and a Lexus RX 350 2018 model registered in his wife’s name, Maria Aroke.
The convict was also in possession of his wife’s bank account token while in prison, which he used to freely transfer funds.
The commission said further investigation revealed that while his trial was ongoing in 2015, Hope bought a four-bedroom duplex on Plot 12, Deji Fadoju Street, Megamounds Estate, Lekki County Homes, Lekki for N48m
During his arrest, the Okene, Kogi State indigene, had claimed to be a student of Computer Science at the Kuala Lumpur Metropolitan University, Malaysia, but the commission’s investigation fingered him as the arrowhead of an intricate web of Internet fraud scheme that traversed two continents.
The statement read in part, “When Hope was arrested, a search conducted by the EFCC operatives on his apartment led to the recovery of several items such as laptops, iPad, travelling documents, cheque books, flash drives, Internet modem and three exotic cars – a Mercedes Benz SUV, a 4Matic Mercedes Benz car and a Range Rover SUV.
“He was eventually convicted by Justice Lateefa Okunnu of a Lagos State High Court on two counts of obtaining money by false pretences, cheque-cloning, wire transfer and forgery. He was sentenced to 12 years’ imprisonment on each of the two counts.”
An assailant has stabbed to death the son of former German president Richard von Weizsaecker in attack at a Berlin hospital that left one other person seriously injured, police said Wednesday.
The motive for the attack on Fritz von Weizsaecker, 59, on Tuesday evening was unclear.
Von Weizsaecker, a doctor, had just delivered a lecture on liver diseases at the Schlosspark hospital in the western Berlin neighbourhood of Charlottenburg when he was stabbed, a police spokesman said.
He died at the scene despite efforts to save him.
The suspect was overpowered by other people present, one of whom was severely injured by the attacker.
Police opened an investigation and were expected to release information about the assailant and the possible motive.
Chief of the liberal FDP party, Christian Lindner, voiced his grief about his friend on Twitter, saying that “once again we ask ourselves what sort of world are we living in.”
He was married with four children.
His father, Richard von Weizsaecker, was considered one of Germany’s great post-war political figures.
The elder Weizsaecker was president of West Germany from 1984 to 1990 and then held the same position in united Germany from 1990 to 1994.
He was previously a deputy in the lower house of parliament for the CDU now led by Chancellor Angela Merkel, and mayor of West Berlin.
Nigeria witnessed the conduct of another election in two states of the country this past weekend. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), constitutionally saddled with the responsibility of conducting elections in the country, declared David Lyon as elected in Bayelsa State for his first term as governor and returned Yahaya Bello for his second term in office. A re-run senatorial election for Kogi West Senatorial district, primarily between Senators Dino Melaye and Smart Adeyemi, was declared inconclusive.
As almost expected, lives were lost and lessons are yet to be learnt. All stakeholders involved in the electoral processes could (and should) have done better. If democracy is to truly take root in Nigeria, all hands must be on deck, starting from the INEC to the electorates.
In Bayelsa State, less than 4 days to the election, news filtered into town from the Courts that the deputy governorship candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in the election, Biobarakuma Degi-Eremienyo, has been disqualified for giving false information in a form submitted to the INEC. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had taken both the governorship and deputy governorship candidates of the APC to Court over false information in their submitted forms to the INEC. Two days after, the Courts disqualified the APC from taking part in the election based on the conduct of its primary. Justice Jane Inyang gave the ruling in a case filed by Heineken Lokpobiri, one of the APC governorship aspirants. The Appeal Court, sitting in Port Harcourt ordered a stay of execution to allow the APC participate in the election.
According to the results announced by INEC, the APC convincingly won the Bayelsa polls. If I know anything about Nigerian politics, the last hasn’t been heard from the Courts. Starting from the opposition contesting the election to the in-house rancour of the APC, shocker(s) await stakeholders. David Lyon wouldn’t consider the INEC announcement as the permanent seal of his victory; atleast, in my opinion.
Kogi’s is shameful. From the unwarranted loss of lives to the destruction of properties, enough can’t be said of the sham interested parties made of the election. I, for one, think the result announced by INEC may not have truly reflected the wishes of the people. And that’s condemnable. For how long would we keep doing this?
The party office of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) was allegedly burnt on the orders of the governor; the governorship candidate of the SDP, Natasha Akpoti, said that much. She even went as far as saying Governor Bello gave the order to have her kidnapped and at other time, killed.
Although a candidate in the election, Yahaya Bello is the sitting governor. He’s supposed to be the Chief Security Officer of the State. But, when the Chief Security Officer is accused of being the brain behind unrest in an area, you can imagine the level of decadence that has perverted the land. He allegedly won and was returned elected. Not a few have reservations.
The Kogi West Senatorial election was declared inconclusive. Election results from 53 polling units in the senatorial district was cancelled. Senator Smart Adeyemi is reportedly leading Senator Dino Melaye with over 20000 votes. The total votes that could be obtained from the area is over 43000. The Law makes provision for an inconclusive declaration in case the difference in the votes between the candidates is less than the votes obtainable in the cancelled areas, and can swing the tides in favour of another; that’s the case here.
Election shouldn’t be a ‘do-or-die affair’. No man’s ambition is worth the death of another. The loss of lives and properties, especially in Kogi, was avoidable. Now that the elections are over, those who have lost loved ones and properties will be left to count their loss(es); this shouldn’t be the norm. Nigeria can do better. And, definitely. It’s now over to the Courts and the judiciary as a whole; hopefully, they wouldn’t get entirely perverted as other arms of government. Just hopefully.
Details have emerged of the meeting between former President Goodluck Jonathan and some leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Bayelsa on Monday, November 18.
The leaders of the party which just won the election, said their visit to Jonathan and his wife, Patience, was because of the importance of the former president to the effective governance of the state.
The leaders of the APC were led to Jonathan by a former governor of the state and current minister of state for petroleum, Timipre Sylva. At the meeting was the state’s governor-elect, David Lyon.
It was learnt that at the meeting, the APC top officials said they recognised Jonathan as the father and leader of the state.
According to Sylva, Jonathan deserves to be respected and honoured by all Bayelsans, irrespective of the political party they belong.
He said this was the reason Lyon was brought to the former president for his blessing and guidance.
“Being a former president of the country and a past governor of the state, Jonathan remains an asset to the state and his inputs will always be needed to advance the course of governance in the Bayelsa.
“As such it was important for us to introduce the governor-elect to him and seek his support and guidance in building a better Bayelsa,” Sylva was reported to have said. In his response, Jonathan urged governor-elect Lyon to focus more on the welfare and interest of the people of the state not minding whether they voted for him or not.
“As a former president of Nigeria, I am a father to all Bayelsans, hence my doors are open to all citizens irrespective of their political affiliations.
“Elections are over now, so I want you to see yourself as the governor of all Bayelsans and not only to the sections that voted for you. This is the way to move Bayelsa forward,” Jonathan said.
The Independent National Electoral Commission has officially declared the incumbent governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, as the winner of last Saturday’s election.
Governor Bello polled 406,222 votes to defeat his closest rival, Engineer Musa Wada of the Peoples Democratic Party, who polled 189,704 votes.
The Returning Officer, Professor Ibrahim Umar on Monday made the announcement after getting the results of the remaining two Local Government Areas; Ibaji and Lokoja, where Governor Bello was in the lead.
He said, “Bello Yahaya Adoza, having scored the highest number of votes is hereby declared the winner and therefore returned.”
It should be noted that the PDP refused to sign the results as declared by the Returning Officer.
There are unconfirmed reports that Davido has been arrested in Dubai for allegedly inflicting injuries on a supposed fan’s head.
According to the reports on Twitter, the victim had reportedly approached an already tipsy Davido in an elevator. Things didn’t go as planned as the music star got infuriated and broke a bottle on the victim’s head.
The police were called in, immediately and the music star was arrested while the victim was rushed to the Kuwait hospital in Deira. Davido and his team are yet to react to the allegations levelled against him.
However, the singer took to his Instagram page on Sunday, November 17, 2019, where he shared a photo of himself in a private jet.
Davido was however, spotted in London on Sunday, November 17, 2019, in London at Mayorkun’s concert. The singer performed alongside Mayorkun who is signed to his record label.
Let’s just say Davido will be controversially ending the year if this story has any iota of truth. This is not the first time Davido will be getting into trouble in Dubai. Recall the time he had a fight with Wizkid and his crew in the city in 2017.
However, music executive, Soso Soberekon has taken to social media to slam claims of the arrest down also. He wrote “Arrest? Lol davido is on his way to London to support his artist mayorkun”
The candidate of the All Progressives Congress in Bayelsa State, David Lyon, has emerged winner of the governorship election held on Saturday.
Lyon, who won in six of the state’s eight local government areas, defeated his closest rival, Senator Douye Diri of the Peoples Democratic Party.
Diri won in two local governments.
Lyon’s victory marks the first time the PDP would lose a governorship election in the state since the nation returned to democracy in 1999.
The Chief Returning Officer, Prof. Faraday Orumwense, had after he released the result of the Ekeremor Local Government Area, which was the last being expected by INEC on Monday night, promised that the final result would be made public before 1am on Monday.
Orumwense made good his promise as he announced that Lyon polled 352,552 votes to defeat Diri, who polled 143,172 votes some minutes after 1am.
Lyon was declared winner in six out of the eight local governments announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission at the Prof. Mahmood Yakubu Media Centre in the state commission’s headquarters in Yenagoa, the state capital.
The six local government areas won by the APC are Brass; Nembe; Ogbia, Southern Ijaw, Ekeremor and Yenagoa while the PDP won in the Sagbama and Kolokuma/Opokuma local government areas.
In the Sagbama LGA, Bayelsa East Senatorial District, the APC polled 7, 831 votes while the PDP scored 60,339 votes.
The result from Nembe LGA, Bayelsa East showed that the APC garnered 83,041 votes while the PDP polled 874 votes.
In the Kolouma/Opokuma LGA, Bayelsa Central, the APC scored 8,934 votes while the PDP scored 15,360 votes. In the Brass LGA, Bayelsa East, the APC got 23,831 votes while the PDP polled 10,410 votes.
The APC scored 24,607 votes in Yenagoa LGA in Bayelsa Central, while the PDP got 19,184 votes.
In the former President Goodluck Jonathan’s Ogbia LGA, Bayelsa East, the APC defeated the PDP candidate by garnering 58,016 votes while Diri polled 13,763 votes.
In Southern Ijaw Local Government, the APC candidate polled 124,803 votes while his rival got 4,898 votes.
Lyon also defeated Diri in Ekeremor LGA by polling 21,489 to the PDP’s candidate’s 18,344 votes.
But while Lyon and the Bayelsa APC were already celebrating, the Kogi State APC and its governorship candidate, Governor Yahaya Bello, would have to wait till after 10am today for the final result.
This is because INEC postponed the announcement of the results of governorship elections to Monday.
The Returning Officer for the Kogi State governorship election, Prof. Ibrahim Umar, said the postponement was necessary because INEC was still expecting results from Ibaji and Lokoja LGAs while that of Dekina needed clarifications.
But before the postponement, the electoral umpire had declared results of 18 out of the 21 local government areas.
Out of the 18 LGAs results, Bello won in 10 while his closest rival, Musa Wada of the PDP, won in eight LGAs.
With the results released by INEC, Bello who is the candidate of the APC in the Saturday governorship poll in the state, had polled 365,135 votes while Wada had 151,566 votes.
Bello won in the Ogori/Magongo, Ijumu, Kabba/Bunu, Adavi, Okene, Okehi, Mopa Moro, Olamaboro, Kogi, and Ajaokuta local government areas.
Bello polled massive votes in his stronghold, the Okene Local Government Area of Kogi Central Senatorial District, polling 112,764 votes against Wada’s paltry 139 votes in the area.
The governor also scored 64,657 votes in the Adavi Local Government Area of the Kogi Central Senatorial District against Wada’s 366 votes.
In the Ogori/Magogo LGA, Bello also won with 3,679 votes while Wada had 2,145 votes.
The governor also triumphed in the Ijumu LGA of the Kogi West. He scored 11,425 votes against Wada’s 7,587 votes.
In the Omala LGA, where the recently sworn-in deputy governor of the state, Edward Onoja, comes from, the governor lost to the PDP candidate, scoring 8,473 votes while Wada scored 14,403 votes.
In the Kabba/Bunu LGA where the Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Matthew Kolawole, hails from, Bello won with 15,364 votes defeating Wada who polled 8,084 votes.
The governor also won in the Okehi LGA, where the candidate of the Social Democratic Party in the election, Natasha Akpoti, hails from. The governor scored 36,954 votes,Wada polled 478 votes, while Akpoti scored 3,095 votes.
In Yagba East, Wada won with 7,546 votes against Bello’s 6,735.
In the Yagba West, where the Secretary to the State Government, Folasade Ayoade, comes from, the PDP won with 8,860 as against Bello’s 7,868 votes.
Results in the Mopa Moro LGA, where Bello’s Director-General on Media and Strategy, Kingsley Fanwo, comes from, was also close with Bello scoring 4,602 votes against Wada’s 3,581.
But in Idah, Wada polled 13,962 votes against Bello’s 4,602. In Ajaokuta, the APC scored 17,952 votes with the PDP scoring 5,565 votes. The PDP also lost in the Korto LGA. Its candidate scored 9,404 against Bello’s 14,097.
But in the Olamaboro LGA, Bello garnered 16,876 votes to defeat Wada, who polled 8,155 votes
