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The 23-year-old moved back to Old Trafford during the summer for a world-record fee, joking that he "went on holiday" for his four-year spell with Juventus Paul Pogba has described Manchester United as his "house" and always expected to come return.The 23-year-old moved back to Old Trafford for a world-record fee during the summer, four years after leaving for Juventus for a nominal fee after struggling to break into the first team under Sir Alex Ferguson. "I have United in my heart," he told Sky Sports. "It's my house. When I left I always knew that I would come back. For me, it's just normal. It's like I went on holiday and just came back. Seriously. Nothing really changed. I'm the same person." Pogba was rested for the EFL Cup quarter-final victory over West Ham but hopes to face Hull City in the semi-finals on the way his first piece of silverware in the United first team. "I'm looking forwar...

Paul Wesley  has directed five episodes of  The Vampire Diaries , but tonight's outing, "Detoured On Some Random Backwoods Path to Hell," is (sadly) his last. "This is the last one that I'll ever do—on this show," he tells E! News. Not because he doesn't want to direct anymore, but because the show is ending (duh). In fact, Wesley already has a gig lined up directing an episode of Freeform's  Shadowhunters  in March. But right now, he's enjoying filming the final few episodes of  TVD —they're on season eight's 13th episode, right now (out of 16)—and hopped on the phone with us to discuss his directing ambitions and whether Stefan and Caroline ( Candice King ) can have a happy ending. Wesley:   Yeah, for sure, to a degree—I think it's run its course and all things must end, but yeah of course! It wasn't really my goodbye, because of course I did go back to filming literally the next day. So it's not like I was sa...

The Liga trio are in the running for the prestigious individual gong but Luis Suarez misses out, despite claiming the Golden Shoe award after netting 40 league goals in 2015-16 Barcelona star Lionel Messi, Real Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo and Atletico Madrid forward Antoine Griezmann are the remaining three nominees in the race for the inaugural The Best FIFA Men's Player Award. High-profile names such as Gareth Bale, Luis Suarez, Neymar, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Robert Lewandowski all made the initial 23-men shortlist, but miss out on a podium place. The original list of 23 names has been trimmed down to the Liga trio after voting by captains and coaches of national teams, select members of the media and fans voting on the official FIFA website. Ronaldo enjoyed a hugely successful 2016 as he guided Madrid to Champions League glory, before capping a fine year by leading Portugal to their first major trophy at Euro 2016. Messi, meanwhile, helped Barcel...

The Manchester City boss knows his team must contain two players he knows well from his time in Spain when they take on the Blues at the Etihad Stadium on Saturday Pep Guardiola has warned Manchester City of the threat that will be posed by Diego Costa and Pedro when Chelsea visit the Etihad Stadium on Saturday. Guardiola managed Pedro at Barcelona and also faced former Atletico Madrid striker Costa during his time at Camp Nou. The Catalan knows both forwards will present a significant barrier to City maintaining their unbeaten home record in the Premier League this season. He said of Costa: "He’s a top player. He made an amazing season at Atletico and then came here. He's a top player. He is a top scorer and has good movement when he runs in behind." Of Pedro, he added: "I hope Pedro doesn't perform well. "I have to thank him, he made me a better manager. He works great between the lines, near the box he's a killer. He is one...

The Italian has admitted he would rather the Belgian playmaker was not playing for Manchester City in the clash at the Etihad Stadium on Saturday Chelsea manager Antonio Conte has admitted it is a "pity" the Blues sold Kevin De Bruyne ahead of their clash with Manchester City on Saturday. Conte's side have won seven consecutive top-flight matches and sit one point clear of Liverpool and City at the top of the Premier League ahead of the meeting at the Etihad Stadium. De Bruyne is likely to play a key part in City's attempts to overturn that deficit, with the Belgian having developed into one of the world's outstanding midfield playmakers since Chelsea allowed him to join Wolfsburg in 2014. And Conte has admitted he is an admirer of a player the Blues allowed to slip from their grasp under Jose Mourinho. "De Bruyne played with Chelsea and I think he is a really great player," Conte said when asked if Chelsea had let De Bruyne...

Jennifer Lopez  is no longer mixing business with pleasure. As the Grammy-nominated "Let's Get Loud" singer continues to work on her upcoming Spanish-language album with ex-husband  Marc Anthony  (due sometime in 2017), a tabloid is claiming the musicians may reunite romantically. In  Us Weekly 's Dec. 12 issue, a source claims Anthony, 48, is "still in love" with Lopez, 47, and he is now actively "trying to get back together with her." Even if that's true,  Lopez is uninterested in anything other than making music with her ex-husband. "She is not looking to get back together with him," an insider says. Anthony separated  from his third wife  Shannon De Lima  in November, three months after Lopez ended her on-and-off four-year relationship with choreographer  Casper Smart . "As soon as he heard Jennifer split with Casper," a source reveals to  Us Weekly , "[Anthony] wanted out." When  Leah Remini  a...

Yesterday, Nokia  officially handed the keys  to its brand to upcoming phone maker HMD, which already has plans for Android-powered phones and tablets. We looked through the leaders of the new company and it turned out that many of them had long stints at Nokia. If that isn’t enough to ease your worries that we’ll be disappointed once New Nokia phones launch try this on for size - Google had plenty of input for the new devices. Seeing how warmly the Pixels were accepted raises hopes of a return to form for Nokia handsets. Details on what was said are private, but it’s clear that HMD’s ambitions are world-spanning.  "We are not going to skip any markets in the long term,"  says President Folrian Seiche.  "We want to be one of the key competitive players in the smartphone business,"  says CEO CEO Arto Nummela. "We will be extremely true to the Nokia brand,"  Nummela claims.  "The Nokia brand is known for simplicity, ease of use, reliabi...

Nokia on Thursday, announced its intentions to launch android powered smart phones in first quarter of 2017. The HMD Global, which announced this in a statement said Nokia hopes to become a major player in the global smartphone market. Its path to reaching that goal according to HMD Global will begin in the first half of 2017 with the arrival of the first Nokia-branded smartphone products running Google’s Android mobile operating system. The company has enlisted the help of FIH Mobile Limited, a subsidiary of Foxconn, to handle manufacturing duties. Led by a number of former Microsoft and Nokia employees, HMD Global said it has given Nokia brand the best chance yet to succeed in a smartphone-first world.  ‘‘Given today’s fiercely competitive landscape and the fact that several key markets are becoming saturated, finding success won’t be easy,’’ it said. Before Google, Apple, Samsung, LG, HTC, Sony, Huawei and a host of other modern-day handset makers rose to prominence, Nokia rul...

The Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, Friday, cautioned President Mohammadu Buhari against taking the $30 billion foreign loan proposed by the administration, saying there was no guarantee the loan would be repaid in the remaining two years in the life of the administration Savannah Centre for Diplomacy, Democracy & Development (SCDDD) supported by Ford Foundation, in Abuja, advised the government to be focus and make more investment in the economy instead of seeking for foreign loan. The Emir, who however said he was not totally against the government’s asking for foreign loan, suggested instead that, “If we can get it at concessionary it is good,” adding, “But if you want to get the money, the government should look elsewhere.”  Sanusi who said “Let me make this issue clear, I will be happy if they get the loan to invest in the power sector, energy and road,” however, expressed concerned that, if the government would pay back the $30 billion in two years even though they ...

Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari is expected to declare open the Chief of Army Staff’s annual conference for 2016 scheduled to take place in Owerri from Dec. 4 to Dec. 10. According to a statement issued by the army Spokesman, Col. Sani Usman on Friday in Abuja, the theme of conference is “Consolidating on the Gains of Counter Insurgency Operations Toward Achieving National Security”. Usman said that the conference which was part of activities in the Nigerian army’s forecast of events was designed to critically appraise its activities and operations in the preceding year. According to him, it will also make projections for the incoming year.  He said that in line with the theme, special emphasis and appraisal of the counter insurgency and military operations in the North-East and South-South regions, as well as other operations would feature prominently.  “The conference appraisal is aimed at making the Nigerian Army more responsive in the fulfillment of its constitution...

MultiChoice Nigeria, has concluded plans to broadcast live the Sunny on Sunday concert on DStv Channel 198 and GOtv Channel 29 on Sunday, December 11. The world-class concert which will hold at Federal Palace Hotel and Casino, Victoria Island, Lagos, marks the grand finale of the 70th  birthday celebration of one of Nigeria’s music maestros, Chief Sunday Adeniyi Adegeye, popularly known as King Sunny Ade. After decades of superlative performances as a Juju exponent, King Sunny Ade, who is understandably one of Nigeria’s music greats, turned 70 on September 22, 2016.  For those that do not know, the Grammy-award nominee has been performing on stage for upwards of 50 years.  He has under his kitty over 70 albums, including collaborations with artistes such as Steve Wonder, Many Dibango, Youssou N’Dour, Salif Keia, among many others. Martin Mabutho, General Manager, Marketing and Sales, MultiChoice Nigeria, speaking on the collaboration, said: “We are proud to celebrate...

Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has hailed the Federal High Court, Abuja judgement, ordering the release of the leader of the Shi’ite Muslim sect, Ibrahim Zakzaky and his wife, as well as payment of payment of N50 million damages awarded against the Department of State Service (DSS).  The governor, who had called for the release of El-Zakzaky two weeks ago, however said he won’t be surprised if the federal government does not obey the judgment, adding that; “The judgement will be for posterity even if in their usual style of impunity, those holding power in Abuja ignore the judgment.”  He called on men of the judiciary to save democracy in Nigeria as well as Nigerians from tyranny by being courageous and firm even in the face of intimidation, harassment, blackmail and character assassination by those whose desire is to muscle opposition and turn Nigeria to as one party state.  In a statement issued on Friday, by his Special Assistant on Public Communications ...

Former minister of finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala​,​ was on Thursday​,​​ ​honored with the Global Fairness Award in Washington DC, United States. The award was presented to her by the Global Fairness Initiative in recognition of her contribution to sustainable development,​ through serving others,​​ ​and her consistent focus on implementing development programs that benefit the poor and less privileged. Speaking at the event in Washington DC, the former minister expressed gratitude for the recognition and pledged to continue to fight for fairness for the less privileged.  “I appreciate the Trustees of the Global Fairness Award for recognizing a lifetime devoted to development, including the privilege I have now of working for children’s immunization, through Gavi, and for managing climate risk in Africa through the African Risk Capacity. ​  ​Let 2017 be a year of continued fight for fairness for the most vulnerable among us, and those left behind in this world.” Other...

The Corps Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC), Dr Boboye Oyeyemi, announced on Friday that 70 operatives of the commission were killed by reckless drivers this year. Oyeyemi, who made the announcement in Abuja at the FRSC end of the year management strategy session said that the FRSC officials were killed performing their jobs. He said that although the figure was lower, compared to the 160 deaths recorded last year, the trend was disturbing and needed to be addressed. Oyeyemi said the FRSC had declared war on reckless drivers because such drivers were responsible for about 40 per cent of deaths of officials of the FRSC in active duty.  “I have been raising this alarm since last year that we are experiencing increase in violence among drivers and lawlessness. “Losing 70 personnel is not a joke, may their souls rest in peace. “It is sad to note that some killing and maiming of operatives, including those from sister agencies is very worrisome. “A recent occ...

Andre King  has decided to use his platform on  Growing Up Hip Hop  to come out of the closet. The reality star, and friend of  Angela Simmons , opens up about his sexuality on the series during tonight's episodes and E! News has the exclusive interview with  Swizz Beatz 's brother. "I came to [my family] and I was just honest and I said, ‘You know what, I have something that's been laying on me and I just really want to tell you guys something,' and I just told them that I am gay and just identify as me. They were just really proud of me and happy and they all gave me so much love and just really said, you know, this is big. This is bigger than you doing your reality [show], this is your reality," King tells us. "That felt so good to get the love." King shared that hearing his family's reaction was a "powerful" moment for him. "It was so embracive and there was so much love, it felt like such a weight lifted ...

Mariah Carey   is one of the most successful singers of all time, but it wasn't always that way. In an exclusive sneak peek at Sunday's premiere of  Mariah's World , the "Obsessed" songstress opens up about her humble beginnings while sailing the Italian seas on a yacht with her nephew  Shawn . "I think me and Shawn have a great relationship because we both understand what it's like to literally come from nothing," Carey says. "We did not grow up this way, people have to understand this.""This is not normal back in the day," Shawn laughs. "I've always had this love affair with music, ever since I can remember. When I was like four years old, my mother encouraged me to sing," Mimi explains. "I started doing demos when I was like 12 years old, I was a backup singer. I moved to Manhattan alone as a teenage girl. It was an exciting time for me, even though I had nothing."   "I lived like on a ...

While promoting Sunday's season three premiere of   The Royals  Thursday morning,   Elizabeth Hurley ' s son  Damian Hurley , who gusts stars on the new season, revealed his celebrity crush (and it's a good one!). "I'm in love with  Kaia Gerber , " the 14-year-old said with a giant smile, adding, "If she happens to see this…" "Yeah, she's gorgeous," Elizabeth added. "I know her mom obviously."  "I do not, as of yet," the teen joked. "Fingers crossed." "We've gone through stages where he's had crushes on all sorts of [girls]," the gorgeous 51-year-old actress explained. "He had a Selena Gomez  crush, which went on for a very long time." "It's still going on now!" Damian said.

Selena Gomez  has made some changes after taking a self-imposed hiatus for three months. The actress participated in  Thrive Global's questionnaire   and opened up about what fuels her, gives her strength and more. Perhaps it's no surprise then that the "Hands to Myself" songstress mentioned her break. When asked when was the last time she felt burned out, she answered, "Three months ago, before I took a hiatus to take care of myself." Having reassessed the people she surrounds herself with, as well as what she needs and doesn't need in life, Selena revealed that she no longer feels as addicted to her cell phone. "I recently took 90 days off. During that time I did not have my cellphone," she explained. "It was the most refreshing, calming, rejuvenating feeling. Now I rarely pick up my phone, and only limited people have access to me." After canceling her Revival World Tour, Selena made sure to focus on herself, and sh...