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The United States has said that its forces have killed Abu Sayed, the leader of ISIS-Khorasan, the terror group’s affiliate in Afghanistan. The news comes days after ISIS admitted its 45-year-old leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed in an air strike in the Iraqi province of Nineveh. Chief Pentagon spokesperson Dana White said in a statement said Sayed was killed “in a strike on the group’s headquarters in Kunar Province on July 11. US Navy Captain Bill Salvin, spokesman for US Forces Afghanistan who provided additional detail of how Abu Sayed was killed said he was killed in an airstrike…

The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has taken delivery of five Super Mushsak fighter planes from Pakistan to enhance its air power capability. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) report that the Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal, Sadiq Abubakar and members of the Senate and House of Representatives Committees on NAF inspected the war planes on Friday in Kaduna. Sadiq said the planes which would be unveiled later, were acquired for the training of air force personnel and to improve the air power of the Force. The air chief, who witnessed the graduation of 269 NAF special squad for the…

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has been texting forward Alexis Sanchez, 28, to try to presuade him to stay. (Sun) French striker Kylian Mbappe, 18, has indicated that he could leave Monaco as interest from Arsenal increases. (Marca – in Spanish) Nemanja Matic, 28, could join Juventus after Chelsea have given the Serb midfielder permission to miss pre-season trips to China and Singapore alongside Diego Costa. (Guardian) Arsenal have also shown interest in Matic and could offer Chelsea a swap deal with English midfielder Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, 23. (Calcio Mercato) Kasper Schmeichel, 30, has seen his hopes of joining Manchester United grow…

The Osun Head of Service, Mr Sunday Owoeye, on Friday confirmed the abduction and killing of the Permanent Secretary, Bureau of General Services, Office of the Governor, Mrs Olufunke Oluwakemi Kolawole. Owoeye, who confirmed the killing in a statement in Osogbo, said the killing of the permanent was a rude shock. It was gathered that the permanent secretary was traveling to Abuja from Osogbo on an official assignment when hoodlums kidnapped her and took her to an unknown destination. The deceased was said to be driven in her official car and was going to attend the inauguration of the Permanent…

A former Soviet counter-intelligence official attended a meeting last year with senior aides to President Donald Trump and his son, it has emerged. Rinat Akhmetshin, now a lobbyist, confirmed to US media he was present at the Trump Tower encounter. Donald Trump Jr was promised damaging material on Hillary Clinton at the meeting, his emails show. Mr Trump Jr has only previously acknowledged that a Russian lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, was present. The president’s eldest son has played down the 9 June 2016 meeting since it was reported this week. But the Senate Judiciary Committee has asked 39-year-old Mr Trump Jr…

The US Justice Department on Friday filed a lawsuit seeking to recover assets that include a $50 million Manhattan apartment and an $80 million yacht that it said were bought using money generated from a scheme to pay millions of dollars in bribes to a former Nigerian oil minister. The civil lawsuit, filed in federal court in Houston, alleged that two Nigerian businessmen conspired with others to pay bribes to the minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke, who oversaw the African country’s state-owned oil company. The lawsuit said that in return, Alison-Madueke steered lucrative contracts with a subsidiary of Nigerian National Petroleum Corp…

AC Milan have agreed a deal with Juventus to sign Italy defender Leonardo Bonucci for a reported 40m euros (£35.1m). Bonucci, 30, spent Friday in talks with Milan and will sign a five-year deal subject to passing a medical. He has won six league titles in seven years with Juve, and signed a contract extension until 2021 last December. The move comes weeks after Juventus boss Massimiliano Allegri said Bonucci would be “leader of the dressing room”. ???????? @bonucci_leo19 at #CasaMilan pic.twitter.com/p4T1CufZK7— AC Milan (@acmilan) July 14, 2017 An official statement on the website of AC Milan read, “AC Milan…

Manager Jose Mourinho has said it is “possible” Zlatan Ibrahimovic could sign a new deal at Manchester United. Striker Ibrahimovic, 35, is currently recovering from knee surgery at Manchester United’s training ground. Mourinho said: “If the decision is to stay and wait until December – he can’t be back until them – why not wait? We are speaking and changing ideas.” The Manchester United boss also said he wants to sign “one or two” more players this summer. The Old Trafford club have already spent £106m on Victor Lindhof and Romelu Lukaku during the transfer window and have been linked…

Diego Costa and Nemanja Matic will miss Chelsea’s pre-season tour of the Far East amid suggestions that both will leave Stamford Bridge. Chelsea leave for China on Monday and manager Antonio Conte has told both players they will not be selected. Striker Costa, 28, wants to return to Atletico Madrid, even though they are under a transfer ban. READ: Man City complete £45m Kyle Walker signing Manchester United have been trying to reach an agreement to sign midfielder Matic, 28. .@DavidLuiz_4 was in high spirits heading out to training this morning! ???? pic.twitter.com/M32m0Lz5Er— Chelsea FC (@ChelseaFC) July 14, 2017 However,…

Floyd Mayweather has accused Conor McGregor of making a series of alleged racial slurs that included insults directed at his family. Mayweather rounded on his rival at Wembley Arena in the final leg of their four-date world tour to promote their boxing bout at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on August 26. McGregor is alleged to have made the comments in the early hours of Friday morning during the third stop of the tour in New York. “I respect every country. Racism still exists. It’s all about treating people like you want to be treated. To get respect you…