Money speaking:Mikel Obi’s Luxurious Lifestyle – N850m Mansion, Cars

One of Nigeria’s own, Chelsea Football Club Midfielder, John Mikel Obi, is definitely living life to the fullest. What a luxurious lifestyle!

With an annual salary of close to $6 million (N1.14bn) outside revenues from endorsements and commercials, the challenge would be how to spend it so it is understandable if he at least invests in a place he calls home.

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See:Burnley relegated from Premier League

Burnley were relegated from the Premier League on Saturday despite winning 1-0 at fellow strugglers Hull City, which left them seven points from safety with only two games remaining.
Promoted from the Championship last season, Burnley gave themselves hope of avoiding the drop by stunning defending champions Manchester City 1-0 in March, but they subsequently went six games without winning, losing five.

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Odemwingie tips Stoke to finish above 50 points

PETER Odemwingie says he would love a new contract at Stoke – but on merit and not through sentiment. And he has tipped the Potters to finish the season with 50 points. The 33 year-old winger, made his comeback from the subs’ bench on Saturday after eight months out with a cruciate knee ligament injury.

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Falcons to play Canada, New Zealand

Nigeria Football Federation is hoping to have the Super Falcons play international friendlies against New Zealand and Canada, hosts of the FIFA 2015 Women World Cup starting in June.

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Latest News:- Puyol Set To Leave Barcelona

Barcelona captain Carles Puyol, 35, has announced on Tuesday that he will leave the club at the end of the season after a decorated 15-year career at the Camp Nou.

Puyol, who did not reveal whether he will continue playing elsewhere, has been plagued by injuries over the last couple of seasons and has undergone three knee operations.

“At the end of the season I will leave FC Barcelona. The club are aware of this and we are in agreement,” he said.

“We will rescind the final two years of my contract that were still to run.”

Puyol signed a new deal with the club in January last year, but admitted in June that he would not stay if injuries continued to prevent him from playing a significant part on the field.

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2016 Olympic Qualifiers: Falcons plot Mali’s fall again

On May 9, the national senior female football team, Super Falcons and their Malian counterparts will lock horns in an all-important 2016 Olympic Games qualifying match at the National Stadium, Abuja. Both teams have become familiar foes having met during the qualifying matches of the 11th All Africa Games (AAG) in September at which the Super Falcons won 9-1 on aggregate.

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England’s FA sought black player quotas

Two officials from the Football Association told former England manager Graham Taylor to limit the number of black players in his squad, a new book has claimed.

Taylor, who managed England from 1990 to 1993, has denied the claim, made in ‘Pitch Black: The Story of Black British Footballers’, written by Emy Onuora, the brother of former professional footballer Iffy Onuora.

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See How magical Messi ruined Guardiola home coming

Barcelona’s Lionel Messi struck twice and set up Neymar in the final 13 minutes as Pep Guardiola’s return to the Camp Nou as Bayern Munich coach ended in a 3-0 defeat in the first-leg of their Champions League semi-final.

On his 100th appearance in European football, Messi’s double moved him back ahead of Cristiano Ronaldo as the all-time leading scorer in the Champions League and Barca to the brink of their first final in four years.

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Footballer Rio Ferdinard Loses 34 Year Old Wife To Cancer.

Former England defender Rio Ferdinand announced this morning that his wife of six years and mother of his three children, Rebecca Ferdinard died in a hospital in London following a short battle with cancer.

Ferdinand announced the sad news on the club’s website this morning. He said

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Super Eagles camp starts in May

Nigeria head coach Stephen Keshi says he will start calling up national team players to a training camp next month as he begins preparations for the 2017 Africa Cup of NationsThe tactician is keen to get an early jump on assembling the Super Eagles, having failed to lead them to this year’s AFCON finals in Equatorial Guinea – a shortcoming which almost cost him his job.qualifiers.And, with the AFCON 2017 qualifiers set to kick off in June, where they will face Chad in Abuja, Keshi – who was re-appointed as head coach this month – is hopeful of getting an early start on his preparations.“We need to start camping next month because time is not on our side again since the fixtures for the AFCON 2017 qualifiers have been released by CAF,” Keshi told Goal.“We will definitely start off with the players based here in Nigeria and move on until the required time the overseas clubs can release our players for us.

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‘I cried when I was not declared winner of Airtel music TRACE’

Nigeria’s winner and 1st runner up at the just concluded Airtel Trace Music Star, Jitey Peters has opened up on how she felt after Tanzania-born Mayunga Andrew Nalimi was announced the winner of the keenly contested reality TV show.Recounting her experience at the viewing party which held last Saturday, at Vapors, Victoria Island, Lagos, Peters said “I cried when I was not announced the winner of the show. It hurts so much because that was my moment and I lost out, but I wasn’t surprised that he won.”

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Relays: Okagbare leads Nigeria’s medal charge

Nigerian sprinters have a common goal; to finish in the top three in their respective events at the second IAAF World Relays billed for Nassau, Bahamas this weekend.

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