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The 2016 Premier League champions Leicester City have signed Liverpool fourth choice goalkeeper Danny Ward for £12.5m. Ward leaves Anfield after slipping to fourth choice following the arrival of Alisson for a record £66.8m from Roma. New signing @dan_ward52 has a message for the City fans ????Join us as we #WelcomeWard to #lcfc! ???? pic.twitter.com/BIL9oKT8VS— Leicester City (@LCFC) July 20, 2018 Ward, 25, who has made four appearances for Wales but only managed two for Liverpool, has signed a four-year contract and the Reds have included a 20% sell-on clause in the deal. “I’ve come here to develop my all-round…

Real Madrid have signed Brazil’s 18-year-old Vinicius Junior for £38.7m and as unveiled the signing at the Bernabeu Stadium. The teenager, who can play as a winger or forward, joins from Flamengo after a deal – which is a record for a player under 19 – was agreed a year ago. ????⚽ @vini11Oficial#WelcomeVinicius pic.twitter.com/C9d4B7vfIY— Real Madrid C.F. ???????????????? (@realmadriden) July 20, 2018 Madrid president Florentino Perez said: “He’s a player who is already considered one of the great hopes of Brazilian and world football.” Vinicius made 37 league appearances for Flamengo, scoring seven goals. He played a significant part in…

Three persons have died and many injured when a train hit a commercial bus at Pen Cinema railway crossing in Lagos State on Friday, authorities have confirmed. An eyewitness, Mr Raji Oladimeji told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the accident occurred when the bus driver was trying to make U-turn on the rail line. “We warned the driver not to make U-turn at that particular point when a train was approaching but he refused. “So, it was in the process of making the turn that the approaching train crushed the bus where people hanging on the train fell…

The grandmasters of data, Globacom, has unveiled an initiative tagged Smartphone Festival aimed at giving unbeatable value to its customers who desire to own various categories of smartphones. The company is making the offer in partnership with original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), including Samsung, Nokia, Huawei, Infinix and Techno, among others. With the Smartphone Festival, Glo customers will be able to get smartphones of their choice at the best price from any Gloworld shop across Nigeria. In addition, each smartphone purchase will come with six months of free data, extended warranty, screen guards, memory cards and phone covers, among many other…

Former Nigerian finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has been appointed to the board of directors of social media platform, Twitter. She served under President Olusegun Obasanjo from 2003 to 2006 and President Goodluck Jonathan from 2011 to 2015. Twitter co-founder, Jack Dorsey announced the appointment on the platform. “We’re adding Ngozi (@NOIweala) and Bob (@authorzoellick) to the Twitter board. Welcome! Sadly we’re also saying farewell to our friend Marjorie (@marjscar). She’s been an amazing advocate for journalists everywhere, and pushed us constantly to better inform people. Thank you M. We’re adding Ngozi (@NOIweala) and Bob (@authorzoellick) to the Twitter board. Welcome!…

WhatsApp has said it will limit how many times messages can be forwarded in India, to curb the spread of false information on its platform. The announcement comes after a spate of mob lynchings were linked to messages that circulated on WhatsApp groups. The government on Thursday reissued a warning to the company that it could face legal consequences if it remained a “mute spectator”. With more than 200 million users, India is WhatsApp’s biggest market. WhatsApp said its users in India “forward more messages, photos, and videos, than any other country in the world”. Groups on the platform can…

Tottenham forward Son Heung-min has signed a new five-year contract to keep him at the club until 2023. The South Korea international, 26, agreed a five-year deal when he joined from Bayer Leverkusen in 2015, and has since gone on to score 47 goals in 140 appearances for the London side. ????️ “I want to give it back on the pitch."Sonny discusses the reasons for signing a new contract with the Club.#COYS pic.twitter.com/dlBohOnt50— Tottenham Hotspur (@SpursOfficial) July 20, 2018 READ: VIDEO: Klopp interrupts Alisson’s video to catch a glimpse He played in 53 of Spurs’ 55 matches in all competitions…

The senator representing Kwara South, Rafiu Ibrahim, has refused to give details of a N180 million project he nominated. The senator who is chairman, Senate Committee on banking, insurance and other financial institutions did not only refuse to give details but also went on to label Tracka, a transparency agent as ‘lazy’. Tracka had demanded that the senator provides the status on the degraded Offa-Ojoku Afon road in Kwara South district but he refused to provide any information. “We tracked the N180m for biological control of degraded Offa-Ojoku Afon road in Kwara South Senatorial District, Kwara state. We observed that…

Nigeria’s new national airline will require initial capital of between N54 billion and N107 billion ($150 million and $300 million), and the government is seeking a strategic partner to operate the carrier, the government stated in a document seen by Reuters on Thursday. The West African country’s previous national carrier, Nigeria Airways, was founded in 1958 and wholly owned by the government. It ceased to operate in 2003. Hadi Sirika, minister of state for aviation, on Wednesday said the government would not own more than five percent of the new carrier, called Nigeria Air. He made the comments while providing…

*300,000 more unemployed graduates to be engaged In fulfilment of its promise, the Buhari administration has concluded arrangements to deploy and formally engage 300,000 new beneficiaries in the second batch of its N-Power Volunteers Corp effective from 1st August, 2018. With 200,000 beneficiaries currently benefitting from the programme, this means that by August, 500,000 unemployed Nigerian graduates will be beneficiaries of the scheme, which is a crucial part of the administration’s National Social Investment Programmes (N-SIP). The N-Power Volunteer Corp scheme is designed to benefit all Nigerians irrespective of their backgrounds and is currently in the 36 states and the…