Emmanuel Adebayor given compassionate leave after Facebook post

Emmanuel Adebayor

ottenham striker Emmanuel Adebayor will miss his club's final game of the season at Everton on Sunday after being allowed to return to his native Togo on compassionate grounds.

Adebayor published the latest in a series of lengthy Facebook posts this week in which he revealed he had contemplated suicide due to a family feud.

And concerns over the player's mind-set have prompted Spurs boss Mauricio Pochettino to step in on his behalf, Press Association Sport understands.

The 31-year-old, who has already been granted compassionate leave once this season, is also set to miss the club's post-season tour of the Far East, and his future at the club must now be in doubt.

Xavi: Spain’s greatest ever footballer?

        Xavi Hernandez

Two days before he partied with his Barcelona team-mates after playing a part in a club record eight league titles, Xavi Hernandez took to the stage at his club’s training ground in front of a packed room of journalists. His wife had commented that he’d been on edge for a few days; his mother, the strongest influence in his life, had finally accepted his decision.

“I didn't want this time to come,” he’d say, “I’ve been dreading this moment.”

Everyone knew that the diminutive midfielder from the nearby industrial city of Terrassa was going to announce that he was leaving the club where he’s been man and boy. A club where he’s shattered the club appearance record with 764 appearances in 17 seasons. The next highest is Carles Puyol with 593.

Buhari must start by jailing thieves –Kokori

         Frank Kokori

Human rights activist, Chief Frank Kokori, has advised the President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, to start his administration by prosecuting and jailing looters immediately after he takes oath of office on May 29.

Kokori, who is a former General Secretary of the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, said this during an interview with our correspondent on Thursday.

The activist said by immediately prosecuting looters, Nigerians would have an idea of what the Buhari administration stands for and change would gradually set in.

He said, “You cannot change everything in four years but when Nigerians start seeing little changes in three to six months and then in one year and you see people being prosecuted and jailed for stealing public funds,

Justin Bieber makes a sex confession during a fun carpool ride with James Corden

Justin Bieber

In another carpool episode, Justin Bieber rode shotgun with the Late Night Host, James Corden. 

The carpool ride immediately turned into a karaoke session with the two men belting out Justin Bieber's 2010 hit Baby.

National Assembly to abandon PIB

                                                                            David Mark and Aminu Tambuwal

The current National Assembly may abandon the Petroleum Industry Bill owing to the slow progress of work on it.

The PUNCH observed on Wednesday that it was becoming clear that the bill might be abandoned as senators and members of the House of Representatives have only 16 days to the end of the 7th National Assembly.

Findings showed that while the Senate is behind by not reporting the bill out of the committee stage, the House which started considering its own report last week, was being slowed down by disagreements among lawmakers over the many clauses in the proposed law.

For example, at the resumed consideration of the report by the House on Wednesday, members hotly disagreed over the funds oil majors were expected to share with the Federal Government for exploration activities in the River Basins.