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For once, Louis van Gaal left that confounded black file of his on the dug-out seat and leapt up into the rain to convey some unbridled emotion. Such was the significance of an opening goal in this stadium, from which the home contingent could at last depart with the novelty of a victory last night. It was only their second here in the Premier League since September. The goal was not, by any means, the end of things. Only after the final effort of the match – a header, inches wide by the advancing Swansea goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianski – could Manchester United reflect on their first win in nine games. But Anthony Martial’s finish, taken with the contributions of Ashley Young, who supplied it, and Wayne Rooney, who delivered a second, puts distance between them and that crisis which left Van Gaal looking such a desperate soul behind the scenes at Stoke, eight days ago.  Rooney’s goal, intricately navigated in with his heel after Martial had taken the ball to the by-line and cut ...

CLOSE HOME NEWS SECTIONS METRO PLUS BUSINESS EDITORIAL OPINION COLUMNIST Home     News News Top Stories Olamide, Don Jazzy start New Year with beef January 2, 2016         Olamide, Don Jazzy 90328 Simon Ejembi Music industry heavyweights Olamide and Don Jazzy have started the New Year by turning on each other, leaving many in the music industry shocked. Both artistes had collaborated on the song Skelemba, which is included in Olamide’s November 2014 album Street OT, giving the impression that the two were more of friends. The relationship between both label heads turned sour following a series of events at the 2015 Headies Awards in Lagos after Marvin Record starlet, Reekado Banks, beat Olamide’s protégé, Lil Kesh, to the coveted Next Rated Artist prize. A visibly irritated Olamide expressed his frustration at the decision when he accompanied another YBNL act, Adekunle Gol...

Home     News News Man shot dead by his son after killing three January 2, 2016         699 A man shot and killed his wife and two others in his home in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve before his son wrestled the gun away and fatally shot him. According to a report by  theguardian.com,  the chain of events was apparently set off by a dispute over a washing machine. The two other victims killed were the son’s 48-year-old girlfriend who also lives at the house in the Rowland Heights area of the city and a 27-year-old man who was visiting, the county sheriff’s department said. The 54-year-old father was a heavy drinker with a large gun collection, and authorities had made dozens of previous trips to the home, the department said. Investigators were talking to surviving witnesses to establish what led to the father pulling out a semi-automatic pistol and opening fire. “It looks like it was a dispute b...