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Japanese striker Kazuyoshi Miura is the ultimate evergreen player. His professional career started in 1986. And he’s still going. At 52 (he turns 53 in February), Miura has just signed on the dotted line to play in the J1 League, Japan’s top division, for the 2020 season. ✅ Older than the head coach ✅ Started playing before most of his teammates were born ✅ 35th season as a professional football Kazuyoshi Miura signs for another year with Yokohama FC. He is 52 years old. pic.twitter.com/hqjCyg2VH0 — #AFCU23 (@theafcdotcom) January 12, 2020 “I was able to renew my contract with Yokohama…

The N32.9 billion fraud trial of alleged internet celebrity, Ismaila Mustapha (alias Mompha) on Wednesday continued before a Federal High Court in Lagos State. Mompha is charged by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on 14 counts bordering on fraud, money laundering and operation of a foreign exchange business without the authorisation of the Central Bank of Nigeria. He was arraigned alongside a firm, Ismalob Global Investment Ltd. He pleaded not guilty to the charges, and was granted bail in the sum of N100 million with one surety in like sum. EFCC accused the defendant of procuring Ismalob Global…

The Nigerian passport has been ranked among some of the weakest in the world. Although Nigeria is regarded as Africa’s largest economy, the Nigerian passport suffered the worst decline in rankings on the annual Henley Passport Index. Analysis of the details of the 2020 Henley Passport Index ranking released on January 7th showed that Nigeria tied with Djibouti for the 95th position, providing access to 46 countries. In the last report released in the fourth quarter of 2019, the country’s passport maintained the same position alongside Djibouti and Myanmar. In the last decade, the Nigerian passport has recorded a significant…

Former Imo Gov. Rochas Okorocha has felicitated Sen. Hope Uzodinma of the All Progressives Congress (APC) over the Supreme Court ruling declaring him the winner of the 2019 governorship election in Imo. But some stakeholders in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state described the judgment as ”a rape of democracy”. It was learnt that the Supreme Court nullified election of Emeka Ihedioha of the PDP as the governor of the state and declared Uzodinma winner of the governorship election held in Imo. However, Okorocha, who is representing Imo West Senatorial zone at the National Assembly, said he would…

Security agents have barricaded Imo Government House, Owerri, following the Supreme Court judgment against Gov. Emeka Ihedioha on the March 9, 2019 governorship election in the state. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the country’s apex court on Tuesday gave the ruling against Ihedioha of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). The court directed the immediate swearing-in of the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate Chief Hope Uzodinma as winner of the seat. NAN also reports that the verdict was met with mixed reactions in various quarters of the state after Ihedioha’s initial victories at the Governorship Election Petition Tribunal and…

Leicester City have asked Manchester United about the availability of 24-year-old defender Luke Shaw in case fellow English left-back Ben Chilwell, 23, moves to Chelsea. (Mail) Paris St-Germain are ready to rival Inter Milan for Tottenham Hotspur and Denmark midfielder Christian Eriksen, 27. (Mirror) Spurs are edging closer to a first signing under Jose Mourinho after Benfica’s 21-year-old Portugal midfielder Gedson Fernandes completed a medical in London on Monday. (Evening Standard) Atletico Madrid chief executive Miguel Angel Gil Marin has been in Paris to negotiate a deal with PSG for their Uruguay forward Edinson Cavani, 32. (Marca) Arsenal’s 28-year-old France striker Alexandre Lacazette is an option for Atletico if they are unable to sign Cavani. (Sky Sports) Manchester City have ruled out 25-year-old…

U.S. President Donald Trump has called Qassem Soleimani a “son of a bitch” in his latest round of fierce criticism of the Iranian general he had assassinated earlier this month. Trump told a rally in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on Tuesday that there were many “young men and women walking around without arms and without legs” because of Soleimani. “Great percentages of people don’t have legs right now and arms because of this son of a bitch,” Trump said, adding that “he should have been killed 20 years ago.” Trump was this week forced to defend the targeted killing of Soleimani after…

The impeachment trial of US President Donald Trump in the Senate is likely to begin next week Tuesday with key players sworn in later this week, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said. McConnell said he expected the House of Representatives to deliver the articles of impeachment against Trump to the upper chamber today. “We believe that if that happens — in all likelihood — we’ll go through preliminary steps here this week which could well include the chief justice coming over and swearing in members of the Senate and some other kinds of housekeeping measures,” McConnell told reporters. “We hope to…

A 49-year-old cleric, Adebayo Kabiru, on Tuesday, appeared before an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court for allegedly defrauding one Mrs Oluwadamilola Oyesomi of N4.3 million. Kabiru, whose address was not provided, is facing a two-count charge of fraud and stealing, to which he pleaded not guilty. The prosecutor, ASP Ben Emuerhi, told the court that the defendant committed the offences with some others still at large, in December 2018 at Pen-Cinema, Agege area of Lagos. Emuerhi said that the defendant collected the money from the complainant within a space of two months to make certain sacrifices. “He converted the money to his…

President Muhammadu Buhari has commended the Supreme Court for the ‘courage and perseverance’ to return Sen. Hope Uzodinma of the All Progressives Congress (APC) winner of the March 9, 2019 governorship election in Imo. The president made the commendation while reacting to Tuesday’s Supreme Court judgment that sacked Emeka Ihedioha of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as Governor of Imo State and declared Uzodinma winner. President Buhari said: “The road to justice may be long and tortuous, but it is the best path for anyone aggrieved. “Under the new administration, a new journey to build a new Imo with new…