Manchester City have formally lodged an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) against their two-year ban from UEFA competitions relating to Financial Fair Play breaches. UEFA confirmed last week concluding an investigation prompted by a series of Der Spiegel articles fed by the Football Leaks platform that City will be banned from […]

A Chinese man infected with coronavirus and his wife have been charged in Singapore for lying to health authorities investigating whether they had passed the illness to others, officials said Wednesday. Singapore has recorded nearly 100 cases of the COVID-19 infection since the illness first originated in the Chinese city of Wuhan last December. With […]

Liverpool forward Takumi Minamino has revealed how former Manchester United player and Japan teammate Shinji Kagawa helped convince him to move to Anfield. Minamino signed for the Reds in January for just over £7m following a set of impressive performances for Austrian side RB Salzburg. The 25-year-old is still settling into life in England though, […]

Prince Harry was back in Britain on Wednesday for the first of a final round of public appearances before he and his wife Meghan step back from their royal duties. The Duke of Sussex, who has moved his family to Canada, was pictured arriving in Edinburgh late Tuesday ahead of a meeting of businesses involved […]

Zimbabwe’s stadiums have been declared unsuitable for high-profile matches by the Confederation of African Football (CAF), forcing sports authorities to seek an alternative venue for an upcoming Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Algeria. The country’s football association (ZIFA) said Tuesday they had received a letter from Cairo-based CAF stating none of the southern African […]

Iran on Wednesday reported four more novel coronavirus deaths among 44 new cases in the past 24 hours, taking the total number of fatalities to 19 and infections to 139. Health ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour called on Iranians to refrain from travel as he announced the new tallies on state television. Fifteen new COVID-19 cases […]

Manchester City are firmly established as one of Europe’s elite these days, but the all-conquering team that won a domestic treble in 2018-19 is a very different beast to the one Nedum Onuoha remembers. Onuoha came through the youth ranks at City, and the slick machine managed by Pep Guardiola is a world away from […]

By Chinonso Alozie – Owerri Some doctors in Imo state, on Tuesday, said that in the South East region, they have a functional radiotherapy machine for the treatment of cancer patients. This reaction in Owerri, came days after the chairman House of Representatives committee on health, Paschal Obi, representing Ideato South/North, from Imo state, said […]

China’s coronavirus crisis has sparked a thriving black market in fake medical supplies, forcing a crackdown from authorities who have seized 31 million counterfeit or substandard face masks. Fraudsters have begun producing illegal products to satisfy runaway demand as masks and disinfectant remain in short supply and manufacturers struggle to keep up. In one case […]

The novel coronavirus outbreak in China may end up saving one of the world’s most trafficked animals after Beijing announced a total ban on the sale and consumption of the pangolin. The scaly mammal — listed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (ICUN) as threatened with extinction — is a traditional delicacy across […]

Arsene Wenger thinks Chelsea broke “rule number one” after a brutal lesson from Bayern Munich pushed them to the brink of Champions League elimination. Bundesliga champions Bayern took a giant step towards the quarter-finals of the competition with Tuesday’s resounding 3-0 success at Stamford Bridge. A second-half brace from Serge Gnabry, followed by Robert Lewandowski’s […]

There are now more new cases of the coronavirus reported each day outside China than inside the hardest-hit country, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday. “Yesterday, the number of new cases reported outside China exceeded the number of new cases in China for the first time,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told diplomats in […]

Greece on Wednesday reported its first coronavirus case, a woman who had recently travelled to northern Italy. A health ministry spokesman said the 38-year-old woman was in a Thessaloniki hospital and in good condition. “She is in good health and being monitored by a team of excellent colleagues in Thessaloniki,” said the ministry’s spokesman Sotiris […]

 Issues 7-day removal order to occupants By Olasunkanmi Akoni The Lagos State Government, through Taskforce on Environmental and Special Offences Unit, on Wednesday, issued a 7-day removal notice to owners, occupants of illegal structures around government public schools at Mile 2, along Badagry Expressway and environs. Other identified illegal structures include: Shanties, mechanic workshops, petty […]

Manchester United offered a huge package to tempt Erling Haaland to join in the January transfer window, according to reports. It is common knowledge that Man Utd tried to sign Haaland before he agreed to join Borussia Dortmund instead, with the Norwegian feeling a move to the Bundesliga was the right choice. ALSO READ: Klopp explains […]