10022018 - 2019 : How we'll stop Buhari - Opposition parties

46 — SATURDAY Vanguard, FEBRUARY 10, 2018
Tottenham confront Arsenal
in London derby
Action returns to the Premier
League this weekend, with
many marquee football games on
show from today through
Monday. The north London derby
between Tottenham and Arsenal
stands out as the clear highlight
of the upcoming Premier League
weekend. All the matches will be
live in HD on Supersport,
exclusive to DStv.
Speaking on the Premier
League fixtures and the North
London Derby, Mr. Martin
Mabutho, General Manager,
Marketing and Sales for
MultiChoice Nigeria, said:
“Millions of people around the
world will tune in to watch the
Premier League and its showpiece
games including the North
London Derby between
Tottenham Hotspur and Arsenal,
a game that has always
showcased some of the best
footballers in the world.
MultiChoice is thrilled to bring
all of the excitement of the clash
live and in HD to our viewers
across Nigeria and we ask our
viewers to tune in to find out who
wins this time.”
Also today, Manchester United
will be guests of Newcastle United
on Saturday, while Southampton
host Liverpool on Sunday.
Manchester City will look to
maintain their lead when they host
Leicester City, while Chelsea will
be hoping to recover from the
horror of their last two Premier
League fixtures when they face
West Bromwich Albion on
Monday.
“We remain committed to
providing the best sporting content
to our customers. Football fans in
Nigeria can look forward to
mouthwatering football fixtures
including the La Liga, the FA Cup
and the Champions League
knockout round,”
Mabutho enthused.
Joshua ready for Parker
Anthony Joshua appears to
have sent the strong
message that he is fit and ready
to step back inside the boxing
ring after showing off an
incredibly cut physique in his
latest Instagram post.
The world heavyweight
champion shared a photo of
himself lifting a medicine ball
in his latest training regime
and looked fitter than ever as
he displayed a torso that any
champion bodybuilder would
be proud of.
But the 2012 Olympic goldmedallist
will
find a much
more
functional
use for
those
muscles
than mere
display on
March 31,
•Asensio
when he defends his IBF,
IBO and WBA belts against
Joseph Parker at the
Principality Stadium.
It will be Joshua’s 21st
professional bout and the
sixth defence of his IBF
heavyweight title. He will
also have the chance to win
another belt with Parker the
current holder of the WBO
heavyweight title.
Both go into the bout
unbeaten with Parker
boasting 24 wins and 18
knockouts compared to
Joshua’s 20 wins and 20
knockouts. The New
Zealander’s last fight came
against Hughie Fury last
September, which he won
by a controversial split
decision after 12 gruelling
rounds.
•Joshua
ASENSIO
WANT
ANTS OUT
The Spain international has been linked with a move away
from the Bernabeu in recent months.
Asensio, 22, is desperate to get more game time at Real
under Zinedine Zidane.
The attacker has started just nine La Liga games this time out,
netting four goals and chipping in with four assists.
And according to Spanish news outlet Diario Gol, Asensio
will leave Real this summer.
They claim the winger already contacted Liverpool and
Chelsea over a possible transfer.
Diario Gol say Liverpool want Asensio as a replacement for
Philippe Coutinho, while Chelsea are in for the forward with
Eden Hazard’s Stamford Bridge future up in the air.
•Kane
•Team Nigeria
•Aubameyang
Conte’s position at
Chelsea uncertain
Chelsea boss Antonio
Conte appeared less than
happy as he left the club’s
Cobham training base on
Thursday, with his future at
Stamford Bridge remaining
shrouded in uncertainty.
Sportsmail revealed there
is major dressing-room
unrest at Chelsea but the
Italian has insisted he would
not be forced out of his job.
Conte has privately
acknowledged he will not be
Chelsea manager next
season but he is refusing to
walk away, preferring for
owner Roman Abramovich to
Winter Olympics will have the
greatest African
representation ever. But it’s the
Nigerian women who will
compete in the bobsleigh and
skeleton event who are among the
most remarkable.
The 2018 Winter Olympics
began in Pyeongchang, South
Korea on Friday and while South
Africa has sent a lone competitor –
alpine skier Connor Wilson – the
Games will have a broad African
representation.
decide his fate.
Some players,
however, find
Conte’s training
regime repetitive
and monotonous.
Similarly, some
have blamed the
tension at the
club’s Cobham HQ on Conte’s
‘bad moods’.
Conte, who earns £9millionper-year,
left the complex driving
his £15,000 Nissan Juke.
‘This is my wife’s desire to have
a small car because a small car
is easier to drive and then
especially if you are starting to
In fact, the Games will feature
the most African countries at a
Winter Olympics.
Eight countries from the
continent – Kenya, Morocco,
Ghana, Madagascar, South
Africa, Togo, Eritrea, and Nigeria
– will compete at this year’s event
with 13 athletes (a record since
1994) all vying to become the first
African to win a medal.
It is a monumental effort
considering the challenges the
athletes face to compete.
•Antonio
Conte
drive on the right,’ he has said of
the car choice.
‘This car is enough for my
daughter, for my wife because
my wife uses the car to bring
my daughter to school and if we
want to have a dinner around
Cobham we can go.
PyeongChang 2018: Team Nigeria in search of gold
Beyond the usual –
maladministration, lack of
funding and you know, the
weather – there’s the added
complexity that in many countries,
the federations that govern winter
sports simply do not exist.
When Senegal’s Lamine Guèye
became the first black African
athlete to compete in the games
back in 1984, he had to ask for the
help from the International Ski
Federation to set up the sport’s
federation.