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Alvaro Morata has arrived in London ahead of his club record move to Chelsea with cameras there to greet him as he walked through Heathrow airport with wife Alice Campello. The Spanish striker jetted in from Real Madrid’s Los Angeles training base overnight and reunited with Campello, who is believed to have travelled from Spain to be with her husband for his unveiling as a Blues star. Asked by Sky Sports News why he was joining Chelsea, he said: ‘Because it is the best club. Antonio Conte is one of the best coaches of the world and I am so…

Veteran US Republican Senator John McCain has been diagnosed with brain cancer and is reviewing treatment options, according to his office. The options may include chemotherapy and radiation, his doctors said. The 80-year-old politician is in “good spirits” recovering at home. The tumour was discovered during a surgery to remove a blood clot from above his left eye last week. A Vietnam veteran, Mr McCain spent more than five years as a prisoner of war. The six-term senator and 2008 Republican presidential candidate underwent surgery at a clinic in Phoenix, in the state of Arizona, last Friday. Tissue analysis revealed…

Bature Brewery a new beer company is hoping to penetrate Nigeria with its unique kind of beer that is flavoured from pale ale with tangs of passion fruit and mango to a heady stout, plus, wait for it, its got 10 per cent alcohol. The company is pioneering craft brewer in Nigeria and is seeking to expand and grab more of a market dominated by Heineken and Diageo. According to Reuters, Bature Brewery has faced a slog to launch the first commercial products from its microbrewery tucked behind a burger joint in the capital, seeking to gain a foothold -…

A property firm, 1004 Estate Limited, has instituted a suit against the Lagos State’s Attorney-General (AG), for allegedly issuing two conflicting advices on a criminal matter. The firm in a motion of notice and motion ex-parte, filed before the court by its lawyer, Oluwafemi O. N. Olabisi, of Festus Keyamo Chambers, is seeking an order of Mandamus compelling the AG to review it’s decision to wit: a review of the purported and undated nolle prosequi in respect of charge No: 179/2016, pending before Magistrate W. B. Balogun. It also seeks an order affording the victim/complainant opportunity to make representation before…

Alvaro Morata has said goodbye to his Real Madrid team-mates as he prepares to seal a £70.6million move to Chelsea. Morata embraced Madrid boss Zinedine Zidane and shared a quiet word with the manager in a video posted to the club’s official YouTube account. The striker was then mobbed by a series of Madrid team-mates, including Isco, Dani Carvajal and Gareth Bale, as he bid farewell to the squad at their Los Angeles training base. ????????????This is how Morata bid farewell to the Real Madrid players and coaching staff.???????? #RMTour #HalaMadrid pic.twitter.com/8nq2fDnmPx— Real Madrid C.F. (@realmadriden) July 20, 2017 Morata…

Nigeria is to deploy troops and police to reduce violence in the northern state of Kaduna, the acting president’s spokesman said on Wednesday, as ethnically charged violence pressures a government already fighting Boko Haram in the northeast. Clashes between Muslim herders and Christian farmers have killed hundreds in the region over the last few years. The violence is partly over land use in Nigeria’s middle belt region and some northern areas, but also has religious overtones in a country almost evenly split between the two faiths. Police said 32 people were killed on Tuesday in clashes between herdsmen and villagers…

Telecoms group 9mobile is open to new investors but will continue to manage the business in the meantime, its chief executive said on Wednesday at an event to officially announce the company’s new name to replace Etisalat Nigeria. UAE’s Etisalat terminated its management agreement with its Nigerian business in June and surrendered its 45 per cent stake to a trustee following regulatory intervention to save the local company from collapse due to debt. 9mobile CEO Boye Olusanya said the company had retained its workforce and that Etisalat’s withdrawal had not led to a loss of business opportunities. “Like any business…

Chelsea fans will be “punching the air” after the club agreed a deal to sign Real Madrid striker Alvaro Morata, says former Blues winger Pat Nevin. Morata, 24, will discuss personal terms and have a medical after Real accepted an offer of about £60m for him. Chelsea had previously tried to re-sign Romelu Lukaku, but the Belgium striker instead joined Manchester United. “It’s not the one they were left with, it’s the one they wanted, absolutely,” Nevin told BBC Radio 5 live. The deal was announced a day after manager Antonio Conte signed an improved contract with the Premier League…

A Federal High Court in Ikoyi, Lagos State, Nigeria has ordered temporary forfeiture of a property at Banana Island, Lagos bought for $37.5m in 2013 by Former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke. The property, designated as Building 3, Block B, Bella Vista Plot 1, Zone N, Federal Government Layout, Banana Island Foreshore Estate, has 24 apartments, 18 flats and six penthouses, according to the court process filed before the court by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Apart from the property, the court also ordered temporary forfeiture of the sums of $2,740,197.96 and N84,537,840.70, said to be…

France’s head of the armed forces Pierre de Villiers resigned on Wednesday after a heated dispute with President Emmanuel Macron over defence budget cuts, bringing to a head an early test of the newly elected president’s mettle. In a statement, 60 year-old Pierre de Villiers said he had tried to maintain a French defence force with the ability to do an increasingly difficult job within the financial constraints imposed on it, but was no longer able to sustain that. “In the current circumstances I see myself as no longer able to guarantee the robust defense force I believe is necessary…