'I hope to return to Real Madrid soon' - Cristiano Ronaldo

Portuguese superstar, Cristiano Ronaldo has admitted that he misses his former club, Real Madrid and "hopes to return to Madrid soon" as he received the Marca Leyenda award.



The Portuguese superstar spent a decade at Real Madrid, where he won four of his five Ballons d’Or and four Champions Leagues, as well as two La Liga crowns and two Copa del Rey titles, scoring a whopping 450 goals in just 438 games for the club.



He moved to Italy to join Juventus last summer in search of a new challenge, but he admits that he misses the Spanish capital and felt sad to leave Los Blancos as he received the prestigious Marca Leyenda award in Madrid.



Speaking at the awards ceremony, Ronaldo said;


"I felt sorry when I left Real Madrid. I miss both [Manchester and Madrid] but because of life's circumstances I have lived more years in Madrid, my children and my girl were born here, so I miss Madrid more.

"This trophy will be in a very nice place in my museum. Madrid is special, I travel a lot but there are few cities like Madrid. Much of this award is derived from what I did in Madrid. It is a Spanish trophy and leaves me very honoured. Thanks to all those who have helped me to achieve it. It is a pride for me. And I hope to return to Madrid soon”.

Ronaldo also opened up on his ambitions as a child, the title that he treasures most, and his Champions League hopes for the coming season.


"I never thought about [reaching this level]. My dream was always [just] to be a professional player.

"All titles are important but possibly [the 2016 European Championship] because it is special. It is not the same, when you win something for your country and you know that it is more difficult, it is the most important thing in my career. I don't know [if I will win the Champions League this year with Juventus]. We will try, as always. Hopefully Juventus wins."

Mikel Obi receives rousing welcome as he joins Turkish football club, Trabzonspor (video)

Mikel Obi received a rousing welcome last night as he was officially welcomed to Turkish Football club, Trabzonspor.



The 32-year-old football star who announced his retirement from International football shortly after AFCON in Egypt, shared videos of Trabzonspor fans welcoming him to the club. The excited fans were chanting his name as he arrived the club house.



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17 people die after a Pakistani army plane crashed into a residential area (Photos)

At least 17 are dead after a Pakistani army plane crashed into a residential area in the major city of Rawalpindi early this morning, the country's military said in a statement.



Residents reported hearing a loud explosion at about 2 a.m. after seeing a plane flying unusually low over the city. "It was very, very low, unlike the planes that usually fly over the area. Suddenly, the plane started doing somersaults in the air and abruptly crashed" said restaurant worker Irfan Zareen.



The plane came down in a suburb of Rawalpindi, between Bahria Town and the Defense Housing Authority, which is populated by working-class villages. Zareen said a number of houses were either damaged or destroyed.



Bike shop owner Mehvish Iqlaq said army helicopters and ambulances arrived and sealed off the area within 10 minutes of the crash. The area had been dark, without street lights, when the plane came down, she added. "Perhaps the pilot had thought that was empty ground and attempted to land there," she said.



According to the military's Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) news agency, 12 of those killed were on the ground when the plane hit. The other five dead were crew members. Another two people have been reported injured.



Among the dead were two high-ranking officers in the Pakistan army, the statement read. There is currently no information about what caused the plane to crash into the city, which adjoins the Pakistani capital of Islamabad.

I am politically smarter than Bukola Saraki- Oshiomole

Adams Oshiomole, the APC National Chairman, says Bukola Saraki's loss in the last general election, has proven that he, Oshiomole, is politically smarter, than Saraki.



Oshiomhole said this while fielding questions from state house correspondents after a meeting with President Buhari yesterday July 29th. The former Edo state governor said under his leadership as APC chairman, he successfully uprooted the former Senate President, Bukola Saraki and his cronies, politically, in Kwara.



Noting that Saraki is equally a smart political player, Oshiomole said




”Remember I was saying that Saraki must be removed, people would say how would I do it? I said okay if he resists removal then we would uproot. We went to Kwara, we did OTOGE(Enough is Enough), we uprooted Saraki. You know who Saraki is? If you are talking of the smartest political player, seasoned smart guy, he is. But for every smartness he has, I have a superior smartness. At the end of the day who won?

“As a senate president, we uprooted him as senator, we uprooted his nominee for governor and senators, we put our own. Today, he doesn’t have one senator in Kwara, he doesn’t have one House of Representatives in Kwara. Everything in Kwara is APC and you can’t commend me for that?

“If you don’t, then I will be like lizard, I will praise myself if you State House correspondents don’t praise me''.

Recall that Oshiomole vowed to ensure the removal of Saraki as Senate President after the controversial election that saw him emerge as the leader of the senate was conducted in June 2015. Saraki who was not the APC's favored candidate for the position of Senate President, later defected from the party to the PDP in August 2018.

El Chapo's stunning wife Emma, 29, goes on vacation to Italy 2-weeks after her husband was jailed for life (Photos)

Emma Aispuro Coronel, the wife of famous Mexican drug lord, Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera a.k.a El Chapo has gone on vacation two weeks after her husband was sentenced to life in prison, plus 30 years.



Coronel has been sharing photos on Instagram from her vacation in Italy.


She posted a photo taken on a gondola near the Rialto Bridge on the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy. The 29-year-old also posted a snap of her Starbucks coffee and a piece of cake on her Instagram account with the caption: 'What diet?'



In the past week, Coronel has also shared pictures of El Chapo clothing line on Instagram.


Her trip comes less than two weeks after a federal judge in Brooklyn sentenced her husband El Chapo, 62, to life in prison, plus 30 years.



The 62-year-old drug lord was found guilty of 10 charges, including drug trafficking and money laundering, by a federal court in New York in February. Asides being handed a life imprisonment sentence on July 17, 2019, he was also given an additional 30 years for unlawful use of firearms. He was also ordered to pay $12.6bn (£10bn) in forfeiture. He however denounced his treatment, calling the trial unfair.

Lagos security guard remanded in prison for stealing N2,385 church offering

Michael Nwaogwu, a security guard was remanded in prison custody after being arrested by the Lagos State Police and arraigned before the Lagos State Magistrates’ Court sitting in Yaba for allegedly stealing from the offering box of a church.



The security guard was arrested for stealing N2,385 from the offering box of the St. Dennis Catholic Church in the Akoka, Bariga area of the state. His arrest came after another security guard identified as Musa Ayay found out that the offering box had been tampered with. The money was allegedly found in his underwear after a search was conducted.



Nwaogwu who was arraigned on one count of theft was granted bail in the sum of N30,000 with two sureties in like sum. The presiding magistrate, Oluwatoyin Ojuromi ordered that one of the sureties must be a blood relation of the defendant before adjourning the case till August 19 for mention. He is however to be remanded in prison custody until he perfects his bail conditions