Liverpool have rejected Roma’s offer to take forward Xherdan Shaqiri on loan for the remainder of the season. Roma lost exciting youngster Nicolò Zaniolo to a season-ending ACL injury during a recent 2-1 loss to Juventus, so they have begun looking around for emergency reinforcements to try to maintain their push for Champions League qualification. […]

Borussia Dortmund agreed to insert a release clause of €60m in Erling Haaland’s contract to seal his signature during the January window. Haaland was pursued by Manchester United but made the decision to head to Dortmund instead, where he penned a four-and-a-half-year deal. According to ​Sky Deutschland, that contract contains a €60m release clause, and […]

Frees kidnap victims unconditionally By Bashir Bello Governor Aminu Bello Masari of Katsina State has given unrepentant bandits terrorizing the state 48 hours ultimatum to surrender, lay down their arms as well as free kidnapped victims in their custody unconditionally or face the consequences. Masari gave the ultimatum on Tuesday evening at the end of […]

Police officers in Lesotho are appealing for help to trace Prime Minister Thomas Thabane’s current wife who they want to question over the 2017 murder of his then-estranged wife. Maesaiah Thabane has not been charged, but police want to speak to her about Lipolelo Thabane’s killing, a government spokesman told journalists on Tuesday. The prime […]

Fast-rising Afro-fusion music singer, Bello Kelvin Olamide, a.k.a Mide Bellz is stopping at nothing to exert himself a musician of class and style on the Nigerian music scene; little wonder he was able to discover his passion and love for music at a very young age. In a chat with journalists, the Ondo State-born graduate […]

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), on Tuesday dismissed suggestions that President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the stoppage of salaries of university lecturers yet to enrol into the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS). Its President, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, in a statement in Abuja, said that rumours to that effect circulated in the […]

President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has congratulated Senator Hope Uzodinma on his victory at the Supreme Court which on Tuesday declared him the winner of the March 19, 2019, Imo State governorship election. Lawan also congratulated the All Progressives Party (APC) in the state for peacefully retrieving its mandate through the constitutionally stipulated judicial […]

Deloitte has published its 23rd annual Money League table for revenue generated in football, with Barcelona leading the way for the first time. In addition to topping the Deloitte Money League, Barcelona is the only club to break the €800million mark for revenue. The Catalan club generated €840.8m during the 2018-19 season, seeing them topple […]

On its part, the pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, has described the Federal Government’s announcement of southwest security outfit, Amotekun, as a joke taken too far. This is just as it called on the South-West governors to ignore the Attorney General of the Federation. Afenifere’s National Publicity Secretary, Mr Yinka Odumakin said: “They are joking. Now […]

The former governor of the State and Senator representing Imo West Senatorial District, Owelle Rochas Okorocha has Congratulated Senator Hope Uzodinma over his Victory at the Supreme Court which declared him the new governor of the State. Owelle Okorocha also Congratulated the APC members in Imo for the Victory. He called on all hands to […]