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Former Arsenal boss, Arsene Wenger, looks set to make his return to football after accepting a job with FIFA, according to ESPN. Wenger has not been directly involved with the professional game since he left the Emirate Stadium last year. The Frenchman has recently hinted that he would welcome a return, provided the right offer came along. The newspaper reports Wenger has now accepted a role with the world governing body as a technical director. The 69-year-old will take on the post at FIFA while he waits a suitable offer. The requirements of his new position are yet to be defined but FIFA are hoping to utilise Wenger’s vast experience and knowledge. Wenger, who spent over two decades at Arsenal has been working as a TV pundit since leaving the Gunners.

A week After young Nigerian rapper and singer, Olanrewaju Pelepele shared an emotional video online talking about how depressed he was and his plans to take his own life. At the time, he wasn’t taken seriously and now, he has made good on his promise and has taken his life. He was found stone-cold dead in his apartment on Friday, September 20th, 2019. His death stems from his long battle with depression and his inability to fully break into the Nigerian music industry despite 10years of hard work.

Paul Simon knows a talent when he hears the person sing. That is why the singing icon allowed Kodi Lee to perform Simon And Garfunkel’s 1970 hit  Bridge Over Troubled Water  during the quarter-finals of  America’s Got Talent . On Wednesday, Lee crossed the final bridge to become the 14th season’s champion, netting US$1mil (RM4.19mil) and a chance to headline shows at Paris Las Vegas Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas from Nov 7 to 10. The 22-year-old, who is blind and has autism, was an early hot favourite to triumph. He was fast-tracked to appear in the quarter-finals, with the judges, including Simon Cowell and actress Gabrielle Union, gushing over his performance in the audition round. On Wednesday, the other nine finalists were not a match for Lee. His win was also a triumph for his mother who spotted his talent early and took efforts to help forge a path for him. “I realised he’s an entertainer. Through music and performing, he was able to withstand living i...

Madonna is set to ban mobile phones for her London residency. The 'Material Girl' hitmaker will be performing for 15 nights at the city's iconic Palladium venue in February next year, and she could enforce a rule introduced on her 'Madame X' tour which got underway in the US this week.  When punters enter the venue, they must put their phone in a lockable Yondr case, which can only be opened in certain designated areas. The devices stay in the possession of the owners throughout the evening. In an email sent out to ticket buyers, they were told: "Use of cellphones, smart watches, smart accessories, cameras or recording devices will not be permitted in the performance space." Meanwhile, the Queen of Pop was recently forced to reschedule some dates at the start of her tour due to the "highly specialized production elements" of the show. In a statement, the 'Vogue' hitmaker admitted she had "underestimated" the time...

Super Eagles of Nigeria dropped one place, from 33rd to 34th in the latest ranking released by FIFA on Thursday.   The Super Eagles, who were held to a 2-2 draw by Ukraine in a friendly last week at the Dnipro Arena gathered 1482 points during the month under review. Gernot Rohr’s men however remain unmoved in Africa as they maintained third position behind the Teranga Lions of Senegal (20th in the world) and Carthage Eagles of Tunisia (29th). Reigning African champions, the Desert Foxes of Algeria (38th) and Morocco (39th) completes the top five teams on the continent. Benin Republic and Lesotho, the Super Eagles opponents in the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers double header billed to hold on November 10th and 14th ,are 18th and 39th respectively in Africa and are 83rd and 137th in the world in the latest FIFA Ranking Nigeria will face five-time World Champions, Brazil in a friendly on October 13 at the National Stadium in Singapore. Belgium remain in top positio...

Huawei will step up its presence in the global market for computer hardware, a top company official said on Wednesday, as the Chinese telecom giant weathers a US assault on its 5G network and smartphone business.  Deputy chairman Ken Hu said the strategy is based on expectations that "incredible computing power" is going to be needed as the world turns to complicated and resource-hogging future technologies such as artificial intelligence and autonomous vehicles. "We have a lot of challenges ahead of us. We need to beef up our computing power, explore new architectures, and develop processors that meet people's needs across all scenarios," Hu said at a tech conference in Shanghai. Huawei is already the world leader in telecom networking equipment, the number two smartphone producer, and is expected to dominate in ultra-fast future 5G networks. But it has been swept into the trade war between China and the United States, with its future prospects now ...

The Malawian Government announced that it had hired two buses to repatriate nationals, who were displaced, following xenophobic attacks on foreigners in South Africa. The buses left Johannesburg on Tuesday evening and the repatriated Malawians would be back home on Thursday, Secretary for the Department of Disaster Management Affairs, Wilson Moleni, said in a statement.  Moleni said the repatriation was decided after the government received a report from the Malawi High Commission in South Africa that 113 Malawians had been displaced. The displaced Malawians were being kept in temporary shelters set by South Africa’s disaster management authorities in Katlehong town, 35 kilometres east of Johannesburg, the secretary said in the statement.  He added: “Out of the 113 displaced Malawians, 76 expressed willingness to return home’’.  Upon arrival, the repatriated Malawian nationals will be provided with temporary shelter in the commercial city of Blantyre before trav...