‘Cannibal’ Luis Suarez back home

 

Luis Suarez flew home to Uruguay on Friday after being thrown out of the Soccer World Cup in Brazil and banned from soccer for four months for biting Italian defender Giorgio Chiellini in a Group D match earlier this week.

 

The Liverpool Striker was met by President Jose Mujica when he landed at a military base next to Uruguay’s main airport before dawn, an air force spokesperson said.

 

Mujica had joined hundreds of fans who gathered at the airport on Thursday night to show their support for Suarez but they left after a few hours when it became clear he had not yet left Brazil.

After his arrival on Friday, Suarez, his wife and other family members were driven to a home he has in the small coastal town of Solymar.

 

Soccer’s world governing body FIFA ruled on Thursday that the 27-year-old star striker cannot play in Uruguay’s next nine competitive matches and suspended him from all soccer-related activity for four months.

The punishment immediately ended his involvement in the World Cup in Brazil, with Uruguay due to face Colombia in a round of 16 tie on Saturday.

“He is totally distraught. He never thought the punishment would be so severe,” said Alejandro Balbi, a member of the Uruguayan Football Association’s board and Suarez’s lawyer.

FIFA ruled that Suarez bit defender Chiellini during Uruguay’s final group match on Tuesday, as his side knocked Italy out of the tournament with a 1-0 victory.

Suarez’s ban is the longest ever imposed at a World Cup. It means he is unlikely to appear in competitive matches for his country until 2016 and he will also miss the first two months of the Premier League season in England.

 

Although it was the third time Suarez has been banned for biting, his team mates and most Uruguayans jumped to defend him, believing the punishment was excessive.

“There are different standards. That’s what infuriates and hurts us most,” Mujica said on Thursday night in an appearance on a TV show hosted by former Argentine star Diego Maradona, who also said FIFA had gone too far and was treating Suarez like a criminal.

Suarez had missed Uruguay’s opening match of the tournament, a 3-1 defeat to Costa Rica, as he recovered from knee surgery but returned to score both goals in the side’s 2-1 victory over England.

 

 

Liverpool To Sell Luis Suarez To Barcelona For £80million

Latest reports coming out of England suggest that Liverpool are ready to sell Luis Suarez to Barcelona for £80million as they began moves to revamp their attack.

Dailymail reports that with Barcelona having made clear that Suarez’s four month worldwide ban from football does not impact on their intentions to sign him, Liverpool have wasted no time in moving to offload Suarez and find the right replacements.


Though Liverpool are stunned by the length of the ban Suarez received from FIFA on Thursday for biting Giorgio Chiellini, there is an acceptance now is the right time to let the striker leave after he embroiled them in controversy once again, although it is not known how much Barca would be prepared to pay.
It was gathered that the Anfield club have concluded plans to make Adam Lallana a replacement for the Uruguayan as Southampton is believed to have finally accepted a £25million offer for the England international, four weeks after receiving it from Anfield officials.


Liverpool have also launched a bid to sign Lazar Markovic from Benfica. The Serbia international is one of the hottest young properties in European football and has a £20million release clause in his contract.

                        Suarez at his grand mother’s house in Montevideo
Reports have it that Suarez’s lawyer Alejandro Balbi was in Barcelona on Friday to discuss his client’s future when new Barca head coach Luis Enrique maintained there would be no issue about going for the 27-year-old.
He compared Suarez to the legendary former Barca and Bulgaria forward Hristo Stoichkov and said: ‘Stoichkov deliberately trod on a referee but he was still considered a great player.’

                                        Suarez, his wife and daughter
Analysts believe for Liverpool to get £80million for Suarez would represent excellent business and hope Brendan Rodgers would be given the funds to reinvest in a squad that came within two points of winning the Barclays Premier League last season.(Naij.com)

Suarez's grandma defends him

 

Montevideo - Uruguay striker Luis Suarez has been unfairly victimised in his "barbaric" expulsion from the Soccer World Cup for biting, his disconsolate grandmother said on Thursday.

"Everyone knows what they've done to Luis. They wanted him out of the World Cup. Perfect, they did it. They chucked him out of there like a dog," a sobbing Lila Piriz Da Rosa told Reuters from Suarez's birthtown Salto in north-west Uruguay.

Piriz, who has 22 grand-children, said football authorities had been watching Suarez from the outset.

"This was on purpose," she said of the sanctions given to the brilliant but volatile Suarez, who has been punished three times now for biting and once for racism.

Earlier on Thursday, world soccer's governing body FIFA suspended him from all football-related activity for four months and banned him from playing in Uruguay's next nine competitive games for biting Italian defender Giorgio Chiellini

"They had their eyes on him to see what he does. It's barbaric what they've done to him," Piriz added.

Suarez, who had a tough and humble infancy in Salto some 500 kilometres from the capital Montevideo, wears his family affections on his sleeve and was flying home on Thursday.

He moved to Montevideo when he was six.

"I'm his granny and I love my boy loads,!" Piriz said. "Please don't ask me any more."

About 500 fans gathered outside Montevideo's Carrasco international airport to express solidarity with Suarez and chant his name. Some had been waiting for hours, waving Uruguay flags, posters of Suarez and replicas of the World Cup trophy.

Airport authorities said, however, that he was to be whisked out privately and to his home in the coastal resort of Solymar, about 40 kilometres outside Montevideo.

- Reuters

Justin Bieber: Engagement Ring Shopping For Selena Gomez?

Is Justin Bieber making arrangements to wife up Selena Gomez?
If reports are to be believed, he was spotted shopping at a Calabasas, Calif. jewelry store this week, looking for the "perfect rock for his princess!"
Beliebers? Arming themselves with pitchforks as we speak.
Rumors aside, engagement talk is probably premature (although the Bieber fan revolt we joke about might actually occur) at this stage of the game.
The fact that we're even semi-seriously discussing them making the ultimate commitment is telling, though, given where they were just 2-3 months ago.
Insiders say the Biebs is finally ready to “settle down” with his "first and only love." What better to repay the Selena Gomez boob job he's getting in return!
Justin was covered up in big sunglasses, a hat and an all-black ensemble, keeping a low profile as he shopped for jewelry at LA’s Commons at Calabasas.
Rumors say he was picking out something special and sparkly for Selena for her 22nd birthday on July 22. That does sound pretty wonderful, no?
The star supposedly has the perfect proposal in mind, and all he needs is the ring. Whether this happens anytime soon is another story, but he's serious!
“Justin is talking about proposing to Selena, he’s looking for the perfect rock for his princess,” a source reveals. “He’s been telling her she’s the only girl for him."
"He ready to settle down and have babies.”
Please, please no.

Jealous? Woman Stabs Husband's Mistress

Temitope Ajayi, a 28-year-old housewife in Ogun has been arrested and dragged to court after she was accused of assaulting her husband’s mistress.

According to Premium Times report, Temitope stabbed the victim, Ganiyat Yusuf on the head and also poured urine on her for cooking for her husband while she was away.
She was arraigned on Thursday at a Magistrate Court in Isabo, Abeokuta, Ogun State.
Addressing the court, the police prosecutor, Banji Sangotokun said the offence was committed at about 2p.m on June 24 in Adigbe area of Abeokuta.

He said the victim and the accused were neighbours. Temitope had left her husband’s house for his family home where she was taking care of her father-in-law who was sick. While away, she got news that Ganiyat was cooking for her husband.
She was said to have taken offence and this led to the assault on Ganiyat.
The prosecutor disclosed that the victim was hospitalized following the assault, adding that the offence is contrary to and punishable under section 335 of the criminal code laws of Ogun State.

However, Temitope pleaded not guilty to the one count charge of stabbing levelled against her.
Presiding over the matter, the magistrate, Anthony Araba, granted the accused bail in the sum of N50,000 and one surety in like sum, while adjourning the case to August 25.
Spouses are going to the extreme out of jealousy. It would be recalled that a cheating husband had run over his pregnant wife with his tricycle after she caught him kissing and cuddling his lover in their matrimonial home.

Pastor Refuses To Wed Couple Because Bride’s Wedding Dress Is ‘Too Sexy’

Apostle Michael Canty of The Truth Ministries Holiness Church recently angered an entire wedding party and might have damaged his new ministry’s reputation after he refused to allow a bride wed her husband on her wedding day because he felt her dress was too sexy.

Lisa Washington said ‘she’s never been more embarrassed than Saturday’ when a local pastor refused to officiate and allow the bride to wed her husband on her wedding day in his facility. Both families were present and the food was waiting to be served at the bride’s aunt house.

Family members flew and drove long distances to be present for the couples special day. Upset and frustrated, guest at the wedding practically ‘begged’ the leaders of the church to reconsider but to no avail, not a budge.
“I can’t believe this! I flew here to attend my cousin’s wedding and now I have to put up with this crap. Now this so-called pastor doesn’t want to come out of his office” said the cousin of the bride.
The wedding scheduled Saturday, June 10th, was scheduled for 3pm. At 2pm, the pastor greeted the bride and groom when he noticed the bride’s dress. According to the bride’s mother, the pastor jokingly asked ‘where is the other half of the dress?’ Not thinking anything of it, the family laughed it off and continued applying make-up to the bride. Around 2:30pm the pastor asked a leader of the church to ask the bride and the family about the other part of her dress. The bride informed the leader ‘this is it’. The leader reported the news to the pastor and then the pastor informed face-to-face the bride and groom at separate times he could not perform the wedding with the bride in her selected dress. The pastor told the bride she would have to cover up her bosom area and find a way to add length to the dress. The bride informed the pastor there is no way to accomplish this with so short notice and she has to wear her dress. The pastor let her know, he would not perform the ceremony then walked back to his office.
The wedding party tried many times to change the pastor’s decision but their efforts was ineffective. Around 4:15pm guest at the wedding were growing impatience and were looking for answers for the delay. When they were told the reason for the delay around 4:35pm their impatience change to anger and disbelief.
After hearing how the bride was crying her eyes out in back, a minister who was a guest at the wedding offered to perform the ceremony. When the minister asked the pastor for permission to perform the ceremony, the pastor told him ‘no’ and expressed to him how his request was disrespectful.
AmericaPreachers.com asked the bride and groom for pictures of the dress but instead was
sent an email with a link of the exact dress worn by a professional model from the companies website. The bride did mention, ‘there were small alterations made to the dress to fit more desirably to my [bride] vision.’ “I’m a unique person, I chose this dress because it’s different than the traditional wedding gown you see at every wedding” the bride said.
Two days later the couple is not married and is currently looking into options to recoup money their family lost with travel, food, and other expenses.
The Truth Ministries Holiness Church was established 14 months ago and currently rent a converted shoe store for worship services. Calls to Apostle Canty and Truth Ministries were not returned. Neither the bride or groom were members of the church.

We Can't Beat France By 10-0 — Keshi

As the Super Eagle’s of Nigeria prepare to take on the Their French counterparts at the FIFA World Cup, round of 16, many have belittled the African’s chances of advancing.

Critics including Nigerians are even touting that Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema will be the one to score the goals.
This latest development has highly infuriated Keshi, when reporters asked him what he thought about the probability of Nigeria facing Karim Benzema. He replied quick as a flash: “And France will be facing Musa, Emenike … ”
“All the teams are good. It doesn’t matter [who you face],” Keshi noted. “You have to appreciate that. It is only Nigeria that don’t appreciate that.
Nigerians always think that every team we face we have to kill them 5-0, 10-0. It doesn’t work that way.”
The Eagles are riding high on confidence after a good outing against Argentina, which they lost 3-2.

Kelly Rowland Shows Off Growing Bump in White at “On The Run” Tour

Kelly Rowland was in Miami, Florida to support her best friend Beyoncé and Jay Z at the opening show of their “On The Run” tour.
 
The “Kisses Down Low” singer was looking fab and glowing in a white crop top, which accentuated her growing baby bump, and a matching white skirt.
Fans at the show snapped the mom-to-be greeting fans and watching the electrifying show.

Photo: 2Face’s Daughter Rocking Her Dad’s Cap

6-month-old Olivia Idibia rocked her daddy’s “Brooklyn NYC” face cap and looked every bit the superstar in it. Proud mommy Annie said: #tbt#2wksAgo#myworld.

Check out Olivia’s cool animal print leggings, she’s so adorable!

Man Rapes 17-Year-Old Girl, Draws Blood From Her Private Part

A man, Tom Edumun, has been arrested for allegedly raping a 17-year-old girl and extracting blood from her private part at Kwata Zawan, Jos South Local Government Area of Plateau State.

Premium Times reports that the victim of the incident, name not disclosed to protect her identity, narrated her ordeal to journalists at the Nigeria Union of Journalist, NUJ, press centre in Jos on Thursday, 26 June, 2014.
According to the minor, who is a final year secondary school student, Mr Edumun, who is a co-tenant with her father, had made several attempts to rape her and later succeeded in March.
She explained: “He had been asking me to sleep with him but I kept refusing, until that fateful day, sometime in March, when my father travelled to the village and nobody was at home. He forced himself on me and had sex with me in our room. Thereafter, he threatened me with a knife, that if I told anyone he would kill me,” the terrified girl said of her alleged attacker who is married with two children
“After that day, he called me to his car and drove me to a house far away from our compound. He took me to a room where two other men were waiting. They laid me down and he (Mr. Edumun) used a strange instrument to draw blood from my private parts. The three of them were holding knives. They threatened to kill me if I told my father.

“It kept disturbing me. I was becoming afraid. I could not face my father and tell him; so one day I told my younger brother, Tonzum, about all that the man had done to me. I wrote a note to my father, and then ran away to Abuja to inform my aunt. She was the one who called my father and told him. He then asked me to come back home here in Jos,” the victim narrated.
According to the victim, the first of five children, she often went on errand for her rapist and his wife.
“I was very close to the wife. When this incident happened, I confided in his wife but she did nothing about it instead she threatened to beat me up. She harassed my stepmom and Dad,” she said.
The victim’s father, Gonzuk Emanuel, who is a teacher at Government Secondary School, Gyel, said he had reported the matter to the (B) Division of the Nigerian Police at Bukuru, Jos south last Wednesday.
While responding to why he took action three months after the incident, Mr. Gonzuk said he had earlier reported the matter to their landlord and later to the village head, but the matter could not be settled privately because the alleged rapist had failed to cooperate with the community leaders.
It was gathered from the father, who remarried after the mother of the victim died, that Mr. Edumun and his wife had threatened to kill his daughter.
He said the suspect was arrested by the police on Wednesday, 25 June, 2014 and detained.
Meanwhile, efforts to speak with the police at the station where the culprit was detained proved unsuccessful.