Arsenal target Luis Suarez sings his way into Liverpool training ground

LUIS SUAREZ cranked the volume up on his music and drummed on his steering wheel as he entered Liverpool's Melwood training ground this morning.

Luis Suarez sings his way into the training ground

It was almost as if the star striker had no care in the world… daren't tell him Kopites are burning his shirt, then.

Starsport exclusively revealed this morning how Arsenal were readying a £51m bid for the hitman.

It would smash the English transfer record for a player who has been ordered by Liverpool to train on his own.

Arsenal preparing a bid for Suarez

“It's about respect - that's the only thing we look for”

Brendan Rodgers

Asked whether there was any way back for the 26-year-old, boss Brendan Rodgers said: "We first of all need to assess where [the situation] is.

"Things have been said that are derogatory against the football club, his teammates and the supporters.

"There's a few bridges to cross before that [playing for Liverpool] can happen again.

"It's about respect - that's the only thing we look for.

"This is one of the most iconic football clubs in the world. You can't disrespect it."

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EXCLUSIVE: Arsenal prepare record £51m offer for Luis Suarez

ARSENAL are set to smash the English transfer record by offering up to £51m for Luis Suarez.

Suarez was ordered to train away from the first-team following his public outburst

Liverpool yesterday took a hardline approach with the Uruguay hitman, ordering him to train away from the first team.

They are furious at Suarez for his public outburst, where he claimed the Anfield side had broken their word - and breached his contract - by not letting him go.

He insisted Liverpool agreed to let him leave if they did not reach the Champions League and a bid over £40m came in.

Suarez also said he would take his case to the Premier League after the Gunners bid £40m plus a pound a fortnight ago, having initially offered £35m. But Starsport understands the Gunners are prepared to pay more than the £50m Liverpool received from Chelsea for Fernando Torres in January 2011.

Boss Arsene Wenger is well aware a wrangle over the wording of the contract is sure to involve lawyers and could run on for months - ensuring they do not get their man in this transfer window, which closes on September 2. Yesterday Wenger admitted the club's pursuit of Suarez was on hold.

"At the moment the situation is on standby," he said.

"I really don't know what will be decided by Liverpool, that's for sure."

Wenger is poised to up the offer for the Uruguayan

“He [Suarez] believes the £40m amount that is mentioned, if that is offered, gives him the right to go”

PFA chief executive Gordon Taylor

PFA chief executive Gordon Taylor, who is liaising between Suarez and Liverpool, revealed that if the issue was taken to the Premier League, the forward could remain on Merseyside.

He said: "These buy-out clauses have caused no end of problems in the past and continue to do so.

"He believes the £40m amount that is mentioned, if that is offered, gives him the right to go.

"Liverpool are saying that is a minimum figure from which they will consider negotiation and of course they will want to keep the player, unless they replace the player with someone as good or better, which is not going to be easy in a short period of time.

"There are different ways it can be interpreted. If it goes to the Premier League, it will take time and the window is then closed. It is a delicate situation."

Liverpool are fighting to hang on to defender Daniel Agger after apparently receiving a £15m bid from Barcelona.

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Manchester United suffer Cesc Fabregas snub

CESC FABREGAS has made his feeling clear over Manchester United's bid to bring him back to the Premier League.

Spanish international star Cesc Fabregas

The 26-year-old has come out insisting he is "very happy" at Barcelona, and isn't looking to leave Spain this summer.

David Moyes' side had two bids for the former Arsenal man rejected by Barcelona earlier this summer, while Barca's sporting director Andoni Zubizarreta declared at the start of the week that United had given up on trying to sign the Spain international.

Speaking in a press conference today, the midfielder said: "Triumphing in Barcelona is what I have been hoping for all my life, it's been my dream since I was a child.

"I am very happy at Barcelona and I haven't spoken to any other club in the last two years."

Cesc Fabregas has revealed he won't be moving away from Barcelona this summer

Fabregas also defended himself over not making his feelings clear earlier during the height of the speculation.

"I've been relaxed about it the whole time, I didn't have to clarify anything because the only thing I was thinking about was staying at Barca," he said.

"As I haven't deceived anyone or hidden anything, I told the club's press department that I would speak when it was my turn to speak to the press."

"Stories have been invented, I don't know why speculation grew even after Tito (Vilanova, former Barca coach), Zubizarreta, Tata (Gerardo Martino, new Barca coach) and (Barca vice-president Josep) Bartomeu all said they wanted me to stay.

"I was never given any sign from the club to make me think they didn't want me, I have always felt wanted here. I spoke to Bartomeu, the president (Sandro Rosell) in person and Tata also told me he wanted me to stay and there's been no problem."

"What I have to do is do everything better because I'm at the biggest and most demanding club in the world."

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Stephen Fry demands Winter Olympics boycott over Russian anti-gay laws

STEPHEN Fry has written to the Prime Minister demanding that the UK strip Russia of staging the Winter Olympics to make a stand against their anti-gay laws.

Stephen Fry said an absolute ban on the Russian Winter Olympics was 'essential'

The Winter Olympics are set to take place in 2014, but Stephen Fry said they should be hosted in another country, comparing the persecution of gays in Russia to the treatment of Jewish people at the hands of Nazis.

Claiming that Russian police "ignore" beatings, murders and humiliations of gay people, Fry said: "An absolute ban on the Russian Winter Olympics of 2014 on Sochi is simply essential.

"Stage them elsewhere in Utah, Lillyhammer, anywhere you like.

"At all costs Putin cannot be seen to have the approval of the civilised world."

The letter, which is addressed to David Cameron, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and Lord Coe, saw Fry praise the PM, despite his dislike for Tories.

Fry was scathing about Russian president Vladimir Putin

The actor said he had the 'utmost respect' for David Cameron

“An absolute ban on the Russian Winter Olympics of 2014 on Sochi is simply essential”

Stephen Fry

He added: "I especially appeal to you, Prime Minister, a man for whom I have the utmost respect.

"As the leader of a party I have for almost all of my life opposed and instinctively disliked, you showed a determined, passionate and clearly honest commitment to LGBT rights and helped push gay marriage through both houses of our parliament in the teeth of vehement opposition from so many of your own side.

"For that I will always admire you, whatever other differences may lie between us. In the end I believe you know when a thing is wrong or right.

"Please act on that instinct now."

The IOC recently said that it had received assurances from the Russian government that their laws will not affect athletes taking part in the Games.

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Big Brother gun raid ordeal

DEXTER KOH revealed he had a gun pointed at his head during a dramatic armed robbery.

Dexter Koh has suffered anxiety attacks since his ordeal

The 28-year-old said he still suffered nightmares after thugs threatened to shoot him during a raid on holiday.

Dexter confessed everything to his housemates as he tried to explain his “strange and guarded” behaviour in the house.

He admitted that the incident, which happened in Portugal, left him “freaked out” and crippled by anxiety attacks.

Reliving the attack he explained: “Some guy got in the car. He had a gun and put it against my head.

“Because I was wearing a suit, they thought I was the one with the money.

“There’s nothing like having a gun in your face though to give you nightmares.

“I was freaked out, my mates saved me.”

As the rest of the house listened in shock, Dexter went on to admit it had a huge impact on him.

He added: “I was having anxiety attacks a few months ago when all that stuff came out. I remember being at an interview and I couldn’t speak, I was getting agoraphobia.

Dexter had a gun pointed at his head during an armed robbery (PICMODELLED)

“I do have the ability to make people want to carve their own face off.”

Dexter

“I was starting to get OCD. I turned my phone off because I was frightened of it ringing.”

Dexter has divided opinion since being in the spy house and he has admitted he knows his odd behaviour drives people mad.

The wannabe also confessed that even his friends do not really know him.

He said: “I do have the ability to make people want to carve their own face off.

“I’m very honest with myself and I’m real.

“People don’t know my background. Even my friends don’t know the real me.”

The self-styled PR guru says he now has to “keep people guessing” over his fortune so he does not become a target.

Dexter, who claims he once blew over £100,000 in a London nightclub, said: “Before this, I kept myself to myself. I like bling and nice clothes, but I like to keep people guessing. You can’t trust anyone these days.

“Everyone is always out to get someone if they have something better than them.

“No-one can be happy for people doing well.”

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Tulisa hippy crack drug shock

POP star Tulisa faced fresh trauma last night after being caught up in a storm over deadly hippy crack.

Tulisa looked sexy in a crop top and leather skirt (WENN)

The pop babe had been partying in a club to celebrate actress Chelsee Healey’s 25th birthday.

But as the group left the night spot, clubbers on the street outside appeared to be gorging on the dangerous legal high.

Many were breathing from balloons filled with the dangerous laughing gas, dubbed hippy crack.

Shocked N-Dubz star Tulisa was bundled into a taxi as she ended her night, leaving Chelsee and other pals behind.

More and more people are trying hippy crack, real name nitrous oxide, even though it can cause hallucinations, brain damage or even death.

Although the effects of the high last for only a few minutes, users say the sensation is similar to a hit of heroin or crack cocaine.

There is absolutely no suggestion that either Tulisa, 25, or Chelsee took the substance, which is legal.

And as the former X Factor judge left in a taxi after a night on the booze, other clubbers emerged and decided to carry on the party outside.

Pictures have emerged of canisters scattered across the floor.

There is no suggestion that either Tulisa or Chelsee took the substance

“Tulisa only went to the club last night and then went home.”

A spokesman for Tulisa

And a mystery man was pictured outside the club clutching a suspicious-looking blue balloon.

A source said yesterday: “Some of the partygoers stumbled across this guy in jeans who was blowing up the gas from the balloons.

“Chelsee and some others were crowding round him. Tulisa left sharpish.”

Tulisa and Chelsee dined at trendy Gilgamesh restaurant in Camden before hitting the dancefloor at London’s DSTRKT nightclub with mates.

X Factor’s Marcus Collins, 25, and TOWIE stars Joey Essex, 23, and James Diags, 20, joined the knees-up.

A spokesman for the singer said: “Tulisa only went to the club last night and then went home.

“If this happened elsewhere last night she is not aware of it and not involved.”

A spokesman for Chelsee Healey refused to comment.

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Boko Haram Was Online with Al Qaeda During 'Conference Call' Intercepted by the U.S.A.

Boko Haram leaders were among participants in an extensive “conference call” organised by Al Qaeda to plan massive terrorist attacks. This fact was reported on August 7, 2013, when more details of the interception by the U.S. intelligence became available.

The data obtained from the ‘conference’ triggered the closure of 20 American embassies, including four from sub-Saharan Africa countries, namely, Rwanda, Burundi, Mauritius, and Madagascar.

Officials, according to initial media reports, said the decision was taken after communications between al Qaeda leader, Egyptian-born, Ayman Zawahiri, and the group’s leader in Yemen, Nasser al-Wuhayshi, were intercepted last week. From other sources it has been gathered that the discussion between the two al Qaeda leaders was in a conference call that included the leaders or representatives of al Qaeda and its affiliates, who called through a presumably secure network, from different locations.

Three anonymous American operatives reported of more than 20 al Qaeda operatives were on the call.

“Al Qaeda members included representatives or leaders from Nigeria’s Boko Haram, the Pakistani Taliban, al Qaeda in Iraq, al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, and more obscure al Qaeda affiliates such as the Uzbekistan branch,” the report said. “Also on the call were representatives of aspiring al Qaeda affiliates such as al Qaeda in the Sinai Peninsula, according to a U.S. intelligence official.” “This was like a meeting of the Legion of Doom,” another intelligence officer concluded.

The report, widely sourced by other U.S. media on Wednesday, reflected the global reaches of Boko Haram as the Nigerian government struggles back home to contain the deadly group that has massacred thousands of civilians.

Again, while Boko Haram appears on the U.S. list, the notorious Somali terror group, Al Shabaab, which operates on the horn of Africa, was not mentioned, potentially, a measure of Boko Haram’s strategic importance in the global terror network.

Also during the meeting, the various al Qaeda leaders discussed in vague terms plans for a pending attack and mentioned that a team or teams were already in place for such an attack. For some leading members of Congress, the revelation that al Qaeda’s leadership in Pakistan is actively managing and directing the operations of several affiliates directly refutes the Obama administration’s repeated assertion that the leadership of the core of the group has been decimated by American drone strikes and special operations forces while the affiliate groups have been strengthened. 

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Why Okonjo-Iweala Should Resign Now! By Bayo Olupohunda

She was recently listed as one of the most powerful women in the world. Her name conjures up the image of an Amazon who symbolises excellence and the height of intellectual achievement.

She is by no means a role model and a worthy example of the level Nigerian women can attain if given the opportunity to excel. There is also no doubt that the Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, is one of Nigeria’s proud exports. One cannot but admire her simplicity and self-effacing demeanour. Personally, I am in awe of her spartan fashion style.

It portrays a woman not given to vanities or the mundane. For someone who has achieved global acclaim, one would expect her to wear her achievements like a diadem as most Nigerians of even lesser status are won’t to do. But not so for our finance minister who is found to usually spot her simple Ankara fabric and trademark round head tie jauntily placed on her head. She seems not to take herself too seriously.

That Okonjo-Iweala is loved and spoken of in fond terms by ordinary Nigerians is also not in doubt. This outpouring of love was displayed in 2012 when she contested the position of the President of the World Bank. Many Nigerians rooted for her. Her quest to be African’s first woman to head the Breton Wood institution became a national obsession. With the media rooting for her candidacy, her fellow citizens thought she was qualified to lead the foremost global financial institution. When she lost, Africa was disappointed. Prior to her 2003 appointment by Obasanjo as finance minister and head of the Economic Management Team, only a few Nigerians knew her. As a finance minister, she was known to have tenaciously used her influence to negotiate a deal with the Paris Club to pay a portion of Nigeria’s external debt (US $12bn) in return for an $18bn debt write-off. Her role in the deal was widely acknowledged.

Sallah Tragedy: Auto Accidents Took Lives of 12

Yesterday, at the very end of Ramadan (Eid-el-Fitri) at least 10 people died yesterday while 24 others were injured in multiple accidents along major roads leading to Gusau, Zamfara State capital. At the same time two people were killed in another crash in Ogun State.

The first accident occurred along Bungudu-Maru Road in Zamfara as a result of head-on collision involving Golf and Toyota cars where seven people died instantly, others sustained serious injuries.

The second crash occurred along Damba, a few kilometres to the state capital where nine passengers of a vehicle were injured while a housewife, Malama Rabi from Biyabiki village in Tsafe Local Government Area died on the spot.

According to a source, 19 passangers who were travelling in a bus along Maru town were involved in an accident. Two people lost their lives with several others sustaining serious injuries. All the victims of the multiple accidents were on their way to meet up with the sallah celebration in their various towns and villages.

The bodies have been deposited at the Federal Medical Centre, Gusau, while those injured were at various nearest hospitals. Spokesman of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC), Zamfara State command, Garba Lawal, confirmed the death of 10 people.

The FRSC spokesman attributed the accidents to over-speeding and dangerous overtaking by drivers.

Meanwhile, two people were killed while 12 others, including a pregnant woman, were injured during a fatal auto crash when two vehicles collided at Iperin area of Ijebu-Ode/Ibadan Road on Tuesday.

The vehicles, a Toyota Serena bus marked SMK 760 AP and a Mercedes Benz lorry with registration number XV 353 MUS. The bus which took off from Ijebu-Ode was heading towards Ibadan before its front tyre bust, causing the driver to lose control.

He had a head-on collision with the on-coming Mercedes Benz lorry

The driver and the passenger in front of the bus died immediately while passers- by rescued 16 other passengers in the two vehicles. They were taken to both Ijebu-Ode General Hospital and Roona Private Hospital in the town.

One of the survivors, Rebecca John, said four members of her family were travelling to Ibadan to attend the convention of the Gospel Faith Mission International (GOFAMINT) when the accident occurred. Though weak, she said the victims were members of GOFAMINT in the Waterside area of the state.

The Chief Medical Director, Ijebu-Ode General Hospital, Dr. Wellington Ogunsanya, confirmed the accident.

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PHOTOS: Beyonce Goes For The Short Hair After On Stage Accident

R&B Singer and Buisness mogul Beyonce yesterday on social media app instagramm unveiled her new pixie look to the amazement of her millions of fans.

She ditched her trademark long weaves for an edgy short pixie crop. She had recently been involved in an on stage accident in late july when her long hair got stuck in an electric fan as she performed "Halo" on stage in Montreal. Whatever it is, it looks great on her.

Beyonce's hair stuck in an electric fan on stage last month. Members of her crew rushed to help her while Beyonce kept singing without missing a beat.

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PHOTOS: Don Jazzy Pays Baba Fashola A Visit

The Mavin boss visited the Lagos State governor's office yesterday to commiserate with him on the death of his father.

Fashola had recently lost his dad to the cold hands of death and has been receiving guests and family members to his home to mourn the sudden passage of his dad.

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