Transfer News: Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger 'likes' Chelsea playmaker Juan Mata

Mata's future has been the subject of speculation throughout the summer and he was linked with a move to Manchester United as part of Chelsea's bid to try to sign Wayne Rooney.
The Spain international's omission from the Chelsea team which drew 0-0 at Old Trafford on Monday night only served to intensify rumours he could be sold before the transfer window closes.
Chelsea's impending signing of Willian will increase competition for places, even though Jose Mourinho has insisted that Mata is not for sale.
There were reports that Juan Mata senior, the player's father and agent, was at the Emirates Stadium to watch Arsenal's UEFA Champions

Fed Govt to Break off Negotiations with ASUU

Minister of Education, Prof. Ruquayatu Rufa'I

With no end in sight to the debilitating strike embarked on by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), the federal government, which has been holding negotiations with the union for weeks, with the aim of reaching a compromise on its demands, may be forced to break off negotiations, THISDAY investigations have revealed.

Arising from a meeting yesterday in Abuja, members of the committees set up by the federal government to negotiate with ASUU expressed their frustration that they had not been able to make any meaningful progress despite all the offers made to the lecturers and resolved to halt further negotiations.

A source, who was privy to the meeting, informed THISDAY that the decision by the federal government’s negotiating team to call ASUU’s bluff was also informed by security reports that the union had been infiltrated by opposition parties which have egged on the lecturers to remain inflexible to the government’s offers.

D'Banj,Burna Boy others shut down P'Harcourt for Hennessy Artistry

Nigeria’s Oil City, Port Harcourt witnessed one of the biggest parties of the year last weekend as the Hennessy Artistry 2013 club tour stormed the garden city with some of Nigeria’s biggest superstars.
Hosted by popular on air personality Olisa Adibua, the event held on Saturday, August 24, 2013 at the Lamborghini club in GRA, Port Harcourt and saw guests from different parts of the country come to witness the ultimate Hennessy experience. 

With energetic performances from fast rising acts: Pucado and Phyno, the event kicked off on a high note and fans sure got in the party mood. 

Fifi Ejindu awarded African Arts & Fashion Lifetime Award by AAA

Celebrated entrepreneur, architect, philanthropist and founder of African Arts and Fashion Initiative, Princess Fifi Ejindu, received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the African Achievers Awards at the African Arts and Fashion Banquet which was held at The Dorchester on Sunday, 4 August 2013. The Africa Fashion Week London Life Patron was given the award for her contribution towards the promotion of African Arts and Fashion across the globe.

African Achievers Awards is a canonical effort of praise for entrepreneurs, community builders and those who have efficiently contributed to the rising of Africa. While the achievers are selected in the categories of community development, leadership, arts and culture, business and entrepreneurism, agriculture, community service, rural development and education, Lifetime African Arts and Fashion Lifetime Award is given once every five years to global African art and fashion icons.

Science May Have Just Discovered Why Haters Gonna Hate | I'm not a jerk, I just have a "negative dispositional attitude." So shut up!

Why are some people just inclined to hate on things? To pick the dumbest, most negative facets of a situation and focus on them exclusively, ignoring anything good that might be there in favor of just ragging on things? According to a new study published this week, we may just be born that way, having a “negative dispositional attitude” from birth.

The study by researchers at the University of Illinois and University of Pennsylvania sought to explain why some people are just so relentlessly negative about the world around them, though they presumably did not take ask the simplest question involved there: whether the world objectively sucks. Instead, publishing in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, researchers suggest a new aspect of

SSS grills the mother of the boy found under Arik plane tyre hole

According to a report by Punch, the mother of the 14-year-old boy who successfully flew in the tyre compartment a Lagos-bound Arik flight from Benin airport on Saturday morning, was yesterday Monday August 26th grilled for hours by a combined team of security operatives from the Department of State Security Service and

President Jonathan fires Youth Minister, Inuwa Abdulkadir

The Minister of Youth Development, Inuwa Abdulkadir was fired yesterday Monday August 26th. The termination of the appointment of the

Omotola Jalade Ekeinde on the cover of UK magazine, Stella

Nollywood diva Omotola on the cover of the new edition of Stella magazine, UK. All hail the queen!

You Can Buy A Tiny Drone You Control From Your Smartphone, Get It In Time For The Holidays

You know what’s going to be weird in 5 years? trying to remember a time that the air around you was not swarming with tiny

Beyonce “Facebook Rant” Hints at Jay-Z “Marriage Trouble”?

Beyonce & Jay-Z cheer on the Brooklyn Nets!

Beyonce and Jay-Z are having “MARRIAGE TROUBLE,” according to MediaTakeOut, which claims the singer went on a “BIZARRE Facebook RANT” on Thursday, supposedly hinting at marital problems.
The unreliable webloid explains that Beyonce allegedly used “her private Facebook page” to post “some lyrics from Lauryn Hill’s song EX-FACTOR – which is about a woman breaking up with her man.”
Moreover, says MediaTakeOut, Beyonce supposedly changed the lyrics so that “she put HER NAME as the woman breaking things off.”