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Former Chelsea midfielder Alexei Smertin says Jose Mourinho has returned to Stamford Bridge to win the Champions League which eluded him during his first spell in charge of the Blues. Mourinho led Chelsea to the Premier League title twice from 2004-07 as well as two League Cups and one FA Cup. The 50-year-old, who won the Champions League with Porto and Inter Milan, is back at Chelsea on a four-year deal. "His target will be to win this trophy," Smertin told BBC Radio 5 live. It will be tougher for Mourinho this time. Manchester United are hugely strong, even with David Moyes coming in as he will have a few quid to spend on an already fearsome squad, while Manchester City will be stronger again. Even winning the domestic title will be tough, but he will not worry about that - he will back his own ability. Mourinho twice steered Chelsea to the Champions League semi-finals during his first stint in charge, only to lose to Liverpool on both occasions in 2005 an...

Don't be surprised if you start seeing more and more fees on your wireless bill. That's one of the takeaways from a new report of the U.S. mobile market, according to Tero Kuittinen, a mobile analyst and vice president at Alekstra, a firm that works to reduce companies' phone bills. Because fewer new customers are signing up for wireless plans, giants like AT&T and Verizon are looking everywhere they can for additional revenue, which means charging their existing subscribers more, Kuittinen wrote on BGR . Only 1.1 million new wireless accounts were created the first three months of 2013 , according to the report from Chetan Sharma Consulting, a firm that specializes in mobile trends and strategy. This represents a whopping 60 percent decline over the number of new connections in the same quarter of 2012. That's a huge problem for the wireless industry, which thrived in previous years as new customers signed up for mobile subscriptions. In the year 2000, ...

Many gamers were overjoyed on Wednesday when Microsoft announced it would remove the most controversial restrictions for the Xbox One after much backlash. No longer would Xbox One owners need to connect their consoles to the Internet once a day or face byzantine restrictions on selling used games when they buy the systems in November. While the stunning change of heart showed the power of public pressure, the death of these features to quell angry gamers has brought out another set of critics. It's clear that Microsoft had envisioned a future of gaming that was really, truly always connected -- though some of their assumptions may have been a bit ambitious. The original page on the Xbox site regarding connecting online made the dubious assumption that "every Xbox One owner has a broadband connection." But Microsoft's original plan would have allowed digital games to be shared with 10 friends and family, with others being able to log in and play the titles. Th...

Blue Ivy is looking so grown up! Beyonce and Jay-Z's little girl was photographed in New York City with her nanny Wednesday, looking adorable in a seafoam-colored dress and gold sandals. The 15-month-old made a cute pout at the photographers snapping her pic as her nanny carried her through the street. It's no surprise she looks picture perfect. Rita Ora recently told Marie Claire U.K. Blue Ivy probably has more clothes than both her parents. "I’d definitely want to raid Blue Ivy’s wardrobe more than Beyoncé’s," she said. "It is probably ... bigger than both of their wardrobes put together. That’s the wardrobe I wanna be in!" Bey and Jay's little angel has been seen out and about with her famous mama recently. Blue Ivy hit the road with the "Bow Down" singer for the European leg of her Mrs. Carter Show World Tour. On June 11, Beyonce and Blue Ivy were spotted at a park in Brooklyn's Park Slope neighborhood, according to the New ...

Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are certainly in for a new life direction with the birth of their first child -- and that direction seems to be North West . According to reports from TMZ, which were later confirmed by People, the pair have named their baby girl North . Though rumors of the directional name surfaced in March , they were swiftly denied by Kardashian. An inside source confirmed the baby name news to People while TMZ got a hold of the newborn's Cedars-Sinai hospital birth certificate, which allegedly bears the name North West . Still no confirmation from the happy couple.

It's the kind of electronic junk that piles up in basements and garages — an old computer motherboard with wires sticking out. But because it was designed by two college dropouts named Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, it could be worth more than half a million dollars (€375,000). An Apple 1 from 1976, one of the first Apple computers ever built and forerunner of today's MacBooks, IPads and IPhones, goes on the auction block at Christie's next week. The bidding starts at $300,000 (€227,000). "This is a piece of history that made a difference in the world; it's where the computer revolution started," said Ted Perry, a retired school psychologist who owns the old Apple and has kept it stashed away in a cardboard box at his home outside Sacramento, California. The green piece of plastic covered with a copper-colored labyrinth of memory chips was one of the first 25 such computer elements, and sold for $666.66. About 200 were made but most have disappeare...

  Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho, has started calling the players that will play vital roles, ahead of the new season. The Portuguese has already spoken with Ramires and Kevin de Bruyne, assuring them of their roles, as he seeks to make similar impact like he did in 2005. Ramires said Mourinho told him he tried to sign him while he was manager at Inter Milan and Real Madrid. “I am eager to start working with Mourinho, my phone rang recently and it was Mourinho,” he told Globo Esporte. “It surprised me. We talked a lot and he said nice things. “He said that he requested Inter Milan and Real Madrid sign me when he was coaching those teams, he said that he is happy that I am in Chelsea’s squad. “That made me very happy, and I told him that he can count on me, that I’ll do what I can to help him be a winner at his new spell at the club. “I was already eager to work with him and I am now even more motivated after finding out that he wants to work with me. I am feeling we w...

  The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) have insisted that they will not back down, in their decision to reduce thee winning bonus of the Super Eagles. The national team arrived late in Brazil for the Confederations Cup, after delays due to protests over slashed bonuses and subsequently, missed flights. The NFF now pays the squad members $5,000 – half of what they used to recieve and the general secretary Musa Amadu, says there won’t be any going back, because of their financial situation. “Even at $5,000, the Super Eagles remain among the best-paid national teams in Africa,” he said. “It is a decision of the NFF executive committee, taken after thorough deliberation, and we cannot go back on it no matter the amount of blackmail. “The NFF have gone to great lengths to explain the situation that we have found ourselves and we expect those who should have an understanding of this matter to give dispassionate opinion.”

Actress Liz Dalsiva has just been delivered of a baby boy at a hospital in Surulere last week sunday. The actress who was alleged to have three people hanging on her neck as owners of her pregnancy, we learnt, is in good health condition alongside her baby. Well, now that the baby has finally come, let’s see if the nasty allegation about her is just a hoax or a calculated attempt to rubbish and disrepute the well-dressed Yoruba actress, Liz. The preparation for the naming ceremony is going on as two cows and caterers are at her residence in surulere.

If gist reaching First Weekly Magazine is anything to by, then the short drama witnessed during the Bisi Ibidapo Obe/Dino Melaye saga might repeat itself again. But this time, it will shift to another Yoruba actress named Liz Da Silva. Tale-bearers within the Yoruba film industry alleged that the upcoming sexy actress, Liz Da Silva, who recently held her baby shower in May in Lagos in the presence of few friends, is not sure, who is responsible for her pregnancy out of her three lovers. According to speculations within the Yoruba movie industry circle, Lizzy, as she is fondly called by her friends, has allegedly taken her pregnancy to three different men, none of whom has accepted responsibility for the unborn baby. Digs done by First Weekly Magazine showed that Liz Da Silva first went to MC Oluomo, who allegedly slept with her on the night of Oshodi Day, which held in December 2012, but MC Oluomo reportedly denied responsibility for the pregnancy. Rumour-mongers told Firs...

It is no longer news that son of ‘holiness preacher’ and the General Superintendent of Deeper Christian Life Ministry, Pastor W.F Kumuyi walked down the aisle with his heartthrob over the week. However, teeming followers of the respected former university don have condemned the classy wedding, which they tagged: Un-deeper-life-stic. A close look at the weeding pictures of the couple posted online saw the bride donned in accessories that had been anathema to the ministry. She was clad in a transparent fitted stylish short sleeves wedding gown, eyelashes, earrings makeup and wedding flower, which had never happened in the history of the ministry. An angry follower of Kumuyi, after viewing the pictures commented, “People have refused to live their own life but rather attach it to an apron of hypocritical philosophy and man made doctrine. I exonerate the dynamic Senior Kumuyi,I think it is the people that have refused to change, I respect Kumuyi and his teachings but the people h...

The Lagos State Government on Saturday said it had taken a number of precautionary measures to guard against flooding in the state. Mr Tunji Bello, Commissioner for the Environment, stated this in an interview in Lagos. Bello said that although the state government had always undertaken routine flood prevention measures, it had stepped up preparations in view of heavy rainfall predicted this year in the state. The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NIMET) had on Thursday alerted Lagos State and some other states in the South West that they would experience heavy rainfall and flooding. Dr Anthony Anuforom, NIMET Director-General, who gave the alert, said the impact would be minimal if the affected states took proactive measures. Bello said part of the measures taken by the government included construction of new drainage channels, canals and aggressive expansion of existing ones. “We are also desalting drains and we are clearing canals across the state to ensure free flow of wa...

Lagos State First Lady,Dame Abimbola Fashola, has called on community leaders, traditional rulers and non-governmental organization in Lagos to use their influence to sensitize residents, especially pregnant women and children, to the need to use primary healthcare centers in their locality in order to reduce maternal and child mortality in the state. She made this call at the Lagos West II Senatorial District town hall meeting on maternal and child reduction programme at Awuwo Odofin Local government secretariat, noting that more people would use the services provided by the primary healthcare centers if community leaders as well as traditional monarchs would make public announcement. “To enable all targeted groups take advantage of these services, community leaders needs to be actively involved. We don’t want our children and pregnant women to die young. I appeal to Lagosians to take advantage of this opportunity by ensuring that every member of the family, particularly children ...

The story of how the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, continues to act against its own rules and the price it is paying The fate of those who would come after me would be worse than what the party is putting me through”.  That was the curse placed on the Office of the Chairman, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.  It was Barnabas Gemade who placed it. In 2001, after the shambles that attended the party’s move to dump Gemade as Chairman, the latter wanted a competitive election.  Gemade sought to engender an electoral process that would produce the new Chairman.  He wanted to re-contest, having failed to benefit from the additional one-year for the tenure of members of the PDP National Executive Committee, NEC.  And because the maximum party leader of the time, President Matthew Okikiolakan Aremu Olusegun Obasanjo, no longer wanted to suffer Gemade, the latter “just had to go”. For the PDP, it sometimes obeys its own rules in the breach. It was in bitterness that Ge...

In a blog post published Thursday , Instagram introduced the app's new video-sharing feature by showcasing four short cinematic clips people had shared with its service. There was a video of Kobe Bryant walking through a doctor's office on crutches; another of babies gurgling on a blanket; a whimsical one of an amusement park ride above the mountains of Hong Kong; and a video of a latte being made in a Santa Cruz café. Once the new service went live to Instagram users, however, the videos rushing in were of a decidedly different sort: Every few seconds brought a new clip of people speaking into their smartphones, extended at arm's length, with expressions of disbelief, horror, surprise, confusion and excitement. There were stop-action videos of people smiling and sticking their tongues out. One girl filmed herself lip-syncing to Miley Cyrus. "This is awkward!" another teen squealed. It marked a major moment not only for Instagram -- which had just anno...

1. Blackberry = Attention seeker 2. Sony = Misunderstood 3. Apple iPhone = Classy 4. Nokia = Very loyal 5. LG = Loner, kinda boring 6. Samsung = All about style 7. Motorola = Old school 8. HTC = Very serious about life 9. ZTE = Settles for less 10.Huawei = just awesome. 11 Those phones with 2 simcards = boring always 12. Techno = pretenders where do you fall?

Former Super Eagles defender, Bright Omokaro has said that the Eagles made appreciable improve-ment in their match against Uruguay on Thursday in the on-going Confederations Cup compared to their first outing against Oceanian champions, Tahiti. “There was a commendable approach, which the boys took this time around; they improved a lot upon the previous game against Tahiti. “Football is a game of luck, and it dangles. It can swing in your favour and at other times, can favour the other side. I’m happy they are showing improvement,” Omokaro, nicknamed 10-10 during the 1990 Africa Nations Cup in Algeria, said Also contributing, Harrison Okagbue, a former coach of Uganda, said the Eagles were not left a slim chance to qualify and that Keshi should work on their mind set. “Right now, we are in a tight corner. For us to prevail, we have to defeat Spain. “It will sound strange though, but we can still come out victorious if only the boys can play their best and learn how to pass ba...

Satisfied with the level of work carried out by army engineers in the reconstruction of internal roads within the Barracks at Onitsha, Governor Peter Obi Friday presented another cheque of N100 Million Naira to the Army, bringing it to N200 million given to them so far for the project. Presenting the cheque, the Governor said that it was in line with the policy of his Government to work with all the Federal agencies in the State on the reason that all of them ultimately serve the good of the State and her people. He regretted that before he became Governor, it was  a cat and mouse relationship between Anambra Government and Security agencies in the State and that the State suffered because of that. “If you remember, in that reckless era, the State was burnt down. But I can assure you that with the level of civility we have restored, such a thing would not happen again, the Governor said. He also urged the army to continue to utilize the funds properly. He said that Government...

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  Video, meet Instagram. Facebook on Thursday announced that it had added video recording, editing, filtering and sharing capabilities to Instagram, the immensely popular photo sharing service Facebook bought last year for $1 billion. "We need to do to video what we did to photos," said Kevin Systrom, the co-founder and CEO of Instagram. "What we've done is made Instagram better." The app allows Instagram's 130 million monthly active users to record 15-second collages of video clips. Users can delete and re-record clips, and the app features Cinema, a video stabilization tool. Like photos that are shared on the app, videos on Instagram will have 13 custom filters. If any of this sounds familiar, it's because Facebook is taking a page right from Twitter's book. In January, Twitter released Vine , an app that records (and then plays on a loop) 6-second video clips. For Twitter, Vine has been nothing short of a huge succe...