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Manchester City will make a move for Paris St-Germain’s 18-year-old forward Kylian Mbappe if the Ligue 1 club are found to have broken Financial Fair Play rules. The France international joined PSG on a season-long loan from Monaco in August. (Sunday Mirror) City also want to sign Bayern Munich and Spain midfielder Thiago Alcantara, 27, who played under Pep Guardiola at Barcelona. (Mail on Sunday) Chelsea are interested in Bayern striker Robert Lewandowski, 29. Real Madrid are also considering bringing the Pole to the club. (Daily Star Sunday) Manchester United are considering a summer move for Leicester City’s 25-year-old England…

Championship leaders Wolves have been promoted to the Premier League with four games to spare after Fulham drew at home to Brentford. Fulham needed to win all four of their remaining matches to stand any chance of catching the Championship leaders. But Neal Maupay’s injury-time equaliser earned the Bees a 1-1 draw and ensured Wolves will play in the top flight next season for the first time since 2012. Wanderers, who host Birmingham on Sunday, require a maximum of four points to be crowned champions. The Moment.#ThePackIsBack pic.twitter.com/yVbzv1Ptdq— Wolves (@Wolves) April 14, 2018 Nuno Espirito Santo’s side have led the…

Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola will play golf rather than watch Manchester United’s game against West Brom on Sunday – despite knowing his side could win the Premier League title. City, who beat Tottenham 3-1 on Saturday, will be crowned champions if United lose at Old Trafford. “The only score I want to know is bogey or birdie,” said Guardiola, who will play with his son. “I think United will win. We depend on us.” City hold a 16-point lead over second-placed United, who have six games to play compared to City’s five. If United beat bottom club West Brom,…

By Chukwudi Enekwechi Mr. Laolu Akande is the latest target in the seemingly determined fight back of the defenders of our national commonwealth. He is no slouch in media matters, being an accomplished reporter and leading journalist who became a national editor way back in 1997 before his 30th birthday. His last reportorial assignment was at the US where he represented The Guardian newspaper including reporting from the White House and the UN. Since he left the paper is yet to fill the vacuum he filled for very many years before returning to Nigeria in 2015. Laolu Akande’s journalism credential…

Juventus captain Gianluigi Buffon says he stands by the comments he made about referee Michael Oliver after their dramatic Champions League quarter-final exit to Real Madrid. Buffon was sent off for dissent after Oliver awarded Real an injury-time penalty, and later said the official had “a bag of rubbish for a heart”. “The content remains and I stand by all of it,” the keeper told Italian TV. “I’d say them all again – maybe with a different type of language.” The 40-year-old Italy international added: “You find a way to speak, right or wrong, that at times can seem excessive…

Chelsea manager Antonio Conte says his team showed “the right fire in our eyes” as they mounted a remarkable comeback from 2-0 down to win at Southampton. The victory – thanks to three goals in eight second-half minutes – kept alive their faint hopes of a top-four finish in the Premier League. Dusan Tadic’s opener, a placed effort following Ryan Bertrand’s marauding run, and Polish defender Jan Bednarek’s left-footed shot looked to be lifting Saints out of the bottom three. But, with Mark Hughes seemingly on course for a first league victory as Southampton manager since arriving on 14 March,…

Parents of the missing Chibok schoolgirls on Saturday marked the fourth anniversary of their daughters’ kidnapping by Boko Haram, renewing calls for their release and thousands of others seized in the bloody conflict in northeast Nigeria. Mothers and fathers were among several thousand people who marched to the Government Girls Secondary School, where 276 girls were abducted on the evening of April 14, 2014. Fifty-seven escaped in the immediate aftermath and four years on, 112 are still being held — a global symbol of the Islamist insurgency that has devastated the region. Parents whose daughters have been released wore white…

The US, UK and France have bombed multiple government targets in Syria in an early morning operation targeting alleged chemical weapons sites. The strikes were in response to a suspected chemical attack on the Syrian town of Douma last week. Explosions hit the capital, Damascus, as well as two locations near the city of Homs, the Pentagon said. Russia’s ambassador to the US responded by saying the attack on its ally “will not be left without consequences”. “The nations of Britain, France, and the United States of America have marshalled their righteous power against barbarism and brutality,” US President Donald…

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, is representing Nigeria today at an emergency meeting of leaders of the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, holding in Lome, the capital city of Togo. The meeting is to take stock on developments of the prevailing security and political situation in Guinea-Bissau. ECOWAS leaders will receive a report on the situation, deliberate on the presentation and issue a communique at the end of the meeting. Prof. Osinbajo, who is accompanied to the meeting by Foreign Affairs Minister, Geoffrey Onyeama, is expected back in Abuja later today. In February, ECOWAS has imposed sanctions on…

The greatest talking point in our country this week has been the declaration by President Muhammadu Buhari that he would seek a second term in office next year. And naturally so. Desire by any President, whether positive or negative, should elicit great interest in the citizenry. The President that should be pitied is the one that says something, and the people just shrug, unconcernedly. He is of all men the most miserable. As to be expected, the notice given by President Buhari has engendered diverse emotions and reactions. The joy kiln has ben kindled in the hearts of many millions.…