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Revenues at La Liga winner Barcelona hit a record €914m (£809m) in the 2017-18 season, the club has said. The Spanish football giant also said it was on track to achieve revenues of €1bn by 2021. Barcelona received a world record transfer fee of £200.6m from Paris St Germain for Brazilian Neymar in 2017. Since then the Catalan club has twice broken its transfer record on the signings of Ousmane Dembele (£96.8m) and Philippe Coutinho (£106.4m). VIDEO: Cristiano Ronaldo undergoes medical, meets fans Operating profits at the club were €32m, while the net profit was €13m. “The board has valued…

Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue says he has ceased to be a member of the All Progressives Congress (APC), following what he called “a red card” given to him. Ortom made this known on Monday in Makurdi shortly after swearing in a new Special Adviser on Bureau for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Mr Jerome Shimbe who replaced Mr Titus Zam, sacked on July 8. According to him, the red card from APC will enable him to join any political party that has an ideology worthy of being adopted by his administration. The governor stated that the strained relationship between…

The big day is here. Cristiano Ronaldo’s has arrived Turin ahead of his £100m transfer from Real Madrid to Italian giants Juventus. Born on the Portuguese island of Madeira, where the airport is named after him, Ronaldo has had a successful career at Real Madrid, scoring 450 goals in 438 games for the club. As captain of the Portuguese team in the 2018 World Cup, he scored four goals, including a hat-trick against Spain. Portugal made the last 16 of the tournament, in stark contrast to Italy, who failed to qualify for the first time since 1958. ???? Stepping into…

The Nigerian Army has denied reports that Islamist sect Boko Haram attacked northern local council of Bama in Borno state. The army also dismissed reports that the terrorist group attacked soldiers and captured military vehicles during the raid. Reacting to the news, Brigadier General Texas Chukwu, director Army Public Relations said, “The attention of the Nigerian Army has been drawn to news making the round alleging attack on soldiers and capturing of military vehicles by Boko Haram in Bama Local Government Area of Borno. “The Nigerian Army wishes to state categorically that the report is not only untrue but misleading…

Italy will allow 450 migrants who were picked up from an overcrowded boat on Saturday to disembark in Sicily. The decision was taken after Italy said that France, Germany, Malta, Portugal and Spain had each agreed to take 50 migrants. Malta and Italy had earlier each insisted that the other country should allow the boat to dock. Italy’s new government has toughened its policies in an effort to stem the flow of arrivals on its shores. So far, only women and children, 57 people in all, have been allowed to land in the Sicilian port of Pozzallo. The migrants were…

Real Madrid will have to pay a world record transfer fee in excess of £200m for Chelsea to agree to the sale of Belgium international Eden Hazard, 27. (Times – subscription required) Chelsea’s Belgium goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois says the contract he has been offered by the Blues is “different than I can have” elsewhere. The 26-year-old has been linked with Real Madrid. (Mirror) Courtois says of Chelsea team-mate and compatriot Eden Hazard: “Wherever I go, Hazard must come along.”(Evening Standard) Chelsea are interested in signing Lazio midfielder Sergej Milinkovic-Savic this summer. The 23-year-old Serb has also been linked with a…

Nigeria has been listed among countries most at risk as global warming brings more high temperatures, necessitating the need to keep people cool and preserve food and medicine. In a study released today by the non-profit Sustainable Energy for All Group, more than a billion people are estimated to be at risk from a lack of air conditioning and refrigeration to keep people and things cool. About 1.1 billion people in Asia, Africa and Latin America – 470 million in rural areas and 630 million slum dwellers in cities – were at risk among the world’s 7.6 billion people, the…

A US woman whose vehicle plunged off a California cliff has been found alive a week after she was reported missing. Angela Hernandez, 23, survived by using the hose from her jeep’s radiator to siphon water from a creek, Monterey County Sheriff’s office told the BBC. She was found by hikers on Friday after they saw her vehicle partially submerged at the bottom of a 60m (200ft) cliff in the Big Sur area. Ms Hernandez was conscious but had a shoulder injury, police said. She also appeared to have suffered concussion. READ: Clear the air over alleged forged NYSC certificate,…

Novak Djokovic earned his first Grand Slam title in more than two years by beating Kevin Anderson to win his fourth Wimbledon championship. Djokovic, seeded 12th, won 6-2 6-2 7-6 (7-3) to claim a 13th Slam – his first major since the 2016 French Open. Reacquainting with an old friend… ????#Wimbledon #TakeOnHistory pic.twitter.com/2xMVX5X951— Wimbledon (@Wimbledon) July 15, 2018 The Serb, 31, quickly took control to win the opening set in 29 minutes, breaking twice more in the second set. Djokovic saw off five set points in an even third set before dominating the tie-break to seal victory. He dropped to…

France won the Fifa World Cup for the second time by overcoming Croatia’s bold challenge in a thrilling final in Moscow’s Luzhniki Stadium. Didier Deschamps’ side repeated the success on home soil at France ’98 by a victory margin that hardly looked possible as Croatia stood toe-to-toe with the favourites for an hour. Croatia also felt their luck deserted them, but ultimately France ran out victorious to erase the memories of the loss to Portugal in the Euro 2016 final in Paris. In one of the most exciting World Cup finals of the modern era, played out to a soundtrack…