Chelsea legend Didier Drogba refuses to play for his club Montreal Impact after being told he'd be on the bench

Drogba, 38, has come off the bench in 2 of the club's last 4 matches and has scored 21 league goals in 35 matches since joining the club in 2015 but on Sunday after learning from manager Mauro Biello refused to play the match which they drew 2-2 against Canadian rivals Toronto.

'I spoke with him (on Saturday) and he didn't accept the fact that he would come off the bench and, in the end, he didn't want to be in the 18,' coach Mauro Biello said. 'He decided not to play.'

The MLS club originally stated that back pain was the reason that the 38-year-old didn’t play but have now backtracked after rumours of a discord between Drogba and the manager surfaced in the media.

“There was tightness in his back, yes, but he was capable of playing. The organisation will have to handle this,” Manager Biello reported before the match.

Russia 2018: We're a big nation, We'll prepare sufficently and beat Algeria - Alex Iwobi boasts

Arsenal and Nigeria star Alex Iwobi has boasted that coach Gernot Rohr's tutored side will beat Algeria when the two sides battle for three points in the 2018 World Cup qualifier to take place in Uyo next month.

The striker who has been a beaming light for Arsenal and the Super Eagles since rejecting a chance to represent the Three Lions of England opened the scoring in Nigeria's 2-1 win over Zambia last Sunday in Ndola and says Nigeria have nothing to fear against an Algerian side boasting stars like Slimani and PFA player of the year Riyad Mahrez.

Photo: Nigerian stem cell donor denied entry into the UK to save her sister diagnosed with Leukaemia

A 23-year-old Nigerian woman has launched an appeal to the Home Office/UK Visa & Immigration to allow for her sister to visit the UK from Nigeria for a lifesaving stem cell (bone marrow) transplant.

May Brown (pictured) is currently undergoing Leukaemia treatment at King’s College Hospital in London and is said to be distraught by the decision. She is now pleading with authorities to allow her sister entry to ‘save my life...

Ms Brown, who is married to a former British soldier was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukaemia last year. Consultants have confirmed her only chance of survival is to receive a stem cell transplant from a donor with a matching tissue type as hers.

"I am what I am today because God used my mum to mould me" - Sen. Murray-Bruce celebrates mum as she turns 90

Businessman/senator, Ben Murray-Bruce is celebrating his mother as she turns 90 years old. Sharing photos of the both of them together via his official Facebook page, Murray-Bruce wrote: 

"With my mum as she turns 90. I Love her to pieces. She taught me to love and respect women. I am what I am today because God used my mum to mould me."

16 year old Girl dies after being ‘drugged with cocaine, gang- raped and impaled on a wooden spike’ outside school

16 year old Lucia Perez from Mar del Plata, Argentina  has died after she was abducted in front of her school by a drug gang, drugged with Cocaine and marijuana and gang raped and forcefully pierced her on a wooden spike leading to multiple internal injuries that led to her death, court prosecutors say

After the gang finished raping her, they took her to a drug rehabilitation clinic to receive treatment for what doctors at the clinic thought was just a cocaine overdose.

Only on closer examination, did medical staff find out that the gang guys had washed and re-dressed her to cover up her horrendous injuries before leaving her in a critical condition at the clinic

Boko Haram faction to negotiate release of 83 more Chibok girls - FG

Senior Special Assistant to President Buhari on Media and Publicity, Shehu Garba, says leaders of the Islamic State-allied faction of Boko Haram that released 21 of the abducted Chibok school girls, is willing to negotiate the release of 83 more of the girls. In an interview with Reuters yesterday, Garba said 

"These 21 released girls are supposed to be tale bearers to tell the Nigerian government that this faction of Boko Haram has 83 more Chibok girls. The faction said it is ready to negotiate if the government is willing to sit down with them". 

Shehu added that the Federal government is prepared to negotiate with any faction of Boko Haram.

The Islamic State-allied splinter group said the rest of the kidnapped Chibok girls were with a faction of Boko Haram that is under the control of figurehead Abubakar Shekau. 

Photos: Bauchi State police arrest 88 criminals, rescue 100 hostages, recovers arms, cash and stolen domestic animals

The Bauchi State Police Command has arrested over eighty eight (88)  suspected criminals involved in kidnapping, armed banditry, cattle rustling, rape and other violent crimes. Suspects comprises of Fifty Nine (59) suspected kidnappers, Fourteen (14) Armed Robbery suspects etc. The Command also rescued about 100 hostages, Various locally manufactured weapons and other exhibits recovered paraded alongside the suspects includes 40 motorcycles, domestic animals, vehicle, cash, laptops and phones.

This was contained in the list of achievements recorded by the Command between September 2016 till date and made available by the Commissioner of Police, CP ZCP ZAKI M. AHMED during a press conference held on Friday, October 14th.  See the full text below: