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Temperatures are forecast to plummet, but Carlo Ancelotti wants his Bayern Munich to turn up the heat at icy Freiburg on Friday when the Bundesliga resumes after the winter break. Temperatures are set to dip as low as minus nine degrees Celsius (15.8 Fahrenheit) for kick-off at Freiburg’s Schwarzwald Stadium when the German league resumes after the four-week break. Bayern lost on their last appearance at Freiburg, who stunned the visitors’ then-coach Pep Guardiola with a 2-1 win in May 2015 and Ancelotti wants no repeat. Back then, Bayern had already won the league and Freiburg were fighting to avoid the relegation which eventually saw them spend last season in the second division. Fast forward 20 months and Bayern arrive in south-west Germany three points clear at the top of the Bundesliga. They are chasing a fifth straight league title to extend their record dominance of Germany’s top flight. Ancelotti is in no mood to let low temperatures be a factor. “It will be...

Arsene Wenger fears the huge wages being offered by big-spending Chinese clubs could cause problems when the Premier League teams look to negotiate new contracts with their star players.  Wenger is currently locked in talks with Arsenal duo Mesut Ozil and Alexis Sanchez as the pair reportedly seek parity with the best-paid players in the Premier League. The Arsenal manager is hoping for successful resolutions to those contract stand-offs, but he believes the money on offer in the China Super League may persuade the Premier League’s star names to ask for even bigger pay packets to stay in England. Chelsea striker Diego Costa has been linked with a move to China, with an offer of £600,000-per-week ($739,000) reportedly on the table for the Spain international. Two of his former Chelsea team-mates, Oscar and John Obi Mikel, have already moved to Super League outfits, while former Manchester United striker Carlos Tevez became the highest-earning player in the world when h...

According to DAILY TRUST, the Presidency has said that the wife of the leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, is not in detention but merely keeping her husband’s company “in the apartment in which he is kept”.   A high ranking source in the Presidency who spoke anonymously said, “She is not under detention. it is her wish, to care for her husband. Upon his request on an occasion, the children joined them during Ramadan. That is what happened,” the official said.

Barely 24hrs after his epic rant on Snapchat that saw him fire his manager of many years, Kamal Ajiboye and call out Sony Music, HKN star, Davido has taken back his words and has employed a new manager. Davido who must have been following good intellectual advice that he can’t manage his music career himself has appointed little known Ayo George as his new manager. The singer’s outburst was obvious that something went wrong between the himself and his manager which he didn’t disclose other than saying he would be his own manager. Less than 24hrs later he has taken a U-turn already in what many believe is a good move if he wants to make any impact in the Nigeria music scene as he suggested in his Snapchat rant.

Manchester United’s relative failure on the pitch has not been reflected off it as for the first time in over a decade they top Deloitte’s Football Money League for revenue in the 2015/16 season. United — who were last on top in the 2003/04 campaign — earned record revenue of 689m euros (£515.3m, $736m) — and dislodged Champions League holders Real Madrid who have ruled the roost for the past 11 years. United’s topping of the revenue table — in a season where they failed to sparkle under Louis van Gaal in the league or the Champions League leading to him being sacked — is largely down to one thing according to Tim Bridge, Senior Consuiltant at Deloitte. “It is the commercial power of Manchester United that takes them to the top of the league,” he told AFP. More galling perhaps for Real is that despite passing the 600m euros barrier for the first time they also found themselves edged into third by bitter rivals Barcelona, who bettered them by just 100,000 euros — 620.2m euro...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has declared a Kastina-based businessman, Idris Usman, wanted for an alleged N1bn fraud involving the Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme otherwise known as SURE-P. The suspect, who is the Managing Director, Idris Kwado and Sons Limited and Aminu Dikko and Sons Limited, was given a contract of N1bn by the immediate-past governor of Kastina State, Ibrahim Shema, who has been charged for an alleged N11bn fraud. The commission in a statement on Tuesday, said, “Alhaji Idris Kwado Usman, the Managing Director, Idris Kwado and Sons Limited and Aminu Dikko and Sons Limited, is a Katsina-based contractor wanted for complicity in the misappropriation of over N1bn SURE-P funds in Kastina during the tenure of former Governor Ibrahim Shema. “Usman, 49, is dark in complexion, hails from Katsina Local Government Area and had his last address as Kwado village, off Ring Road, Katsina.” SURE-P was a scheme established by the Fede...

The biopic is distributed by Lionsgate’s Summit Entertainment and will feature newcomer Demetrius Shipp Jr. as Tupac Shakur. Tupac Shakur   biopic “ All Eyez on Me ” is finally on its way to theaters. The movie from Morgan Creek Productions is distributed by Lionsgate’s Summit Entertainment and is set to be released on the late rapper’s birth date on June 16. The biopic follows the story of Shakur’s rise to stardom as a hip-hop artist, actor, poet and activist,   The Hollywood Reporter   reports. It will also feature Shakur’s imprisonment and his controversial time at Death Row Records. The movie’s title is named after Shakur’s fourth studio album which was released in 1996 and sold 10 million of the 75 million in total sales of Shakur’s albums. Newcomer Demetrius Shipp Jr. is set to portray Shakur in “All Eyez on Me”. Other cast members are including   Katerina Graham , Dominic Santana,   Hill Harper , Jamal Woolard, Keith Robinson and “ The Walking D...