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Manchester City believe they are in pole position to sign Lionel Messi and reunite him with Pep Guardiola if the 33-year-old Argentine striker leaves Barcelona. (Mirror) Former Spurs manager Mauricio Pochettino is the leading candidate to be the next Barcelona manager, with the club planning to sack Quique Setien in the coming days. (Guardian) Watford’s 37-year-old former England keeper Ben Foster has become a summer transfer target for both Chelsea and Everton. (Sun) Chelsea are inching closer to a deal to sign long-term defensive target Ben Chilwell, 23, from Leicester. (Independent) West Ham are holding out for a fee in excess of £80m for Chelsea target Declan Rice, 21. (Talksport) Ex-Bournemouth manager Eddie Howe doesn’t plan to return…

Robert Trump, the younger brother of the United States president, has died, the White House has confirmed. “He was not just my brother, he was my best friend,” Donald Trump said in a statement on Saturday. The president had visited his brother in hospital in New York on Friday afternoon, telling reporters: “He’s having a hard time.” US media reports had said Robert Trump was seriously ill, but it is unclear what he was suffering from. “It is with [a] heavy heart I share that my wonderful brother, Robert, peacefully passed away tonight,” the president said. “His memory will live…

Manchester City’s Champions League ambitions are in ruins once more after Lyon shocked Pep Guardiola’s side in the quarter-final in Lisbon. City started as firm favourites but came out second best against a fiercely determined Lyon in a game that swung on controversy and uncharacteristic errors in the closing stages. Lyon went ahead in the 24th minute with Maxwel Cornet’s smart finish but City, lifeless as Guardiola chose to play a three-man central defence, looked to have been revived by Kevin de Bruyne’s precise strike from Raheem Sterling’s pass after 69 minutes. Former Celtic striker Moussa Dembele, on as a…

Timi Frank, who some people call an activist and a former Deputy National publicity Secretary of the APC, has a penchant of drawing attention to himself by making outlandish allegations. Now, a close ally of Atiku Abubakar, Timi, in a press statement, asked president Buhari to call vice president Osinbajo to order for allegedly using State forces to suppress the media and free speech. He accused Osinbajo of “using the judiciary and security agencies to intimidate, harass and coerce journalists and media houses”. His words: “Osinbajo is known for using operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS), Police and…

Stoke City are set to sign former Chelsea midfielder John Mikel Obi on a one-year deal. The former Nigeria captain, 33, is a free agent having left Turkish side Trabzonspor by mutual consent in March. Earlier this week he told BBC Sport Africa he was open to a return to English football. Mikel made 249 Premier League appearances for Chelsea in an 11-year spell, which ended when he left Stamford Bridge in 2017. He won the Champions League and Europa League, two Premier Leagues, three FA Cups and the League Cup with the London side. Man Utd bid Saul, Ighalo rejects PSG…

Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State has expressed sadness over the death of a member of the Governor’s Advisory Council (GAC) of the Lagos State All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Lanre Razak, who passed away on Saturday morning at the age of 74 after a brief illness. Governor Sanwo-Olu, who described late Razak’s death as a rude shock, said the deceased was a great politician, a strong party man and an advocate of masses oriented programmes. Chief Razak, the Balogun of Epe, died on Saturday at Reddington Hospital, Lagos after a brief illness. He was aged 74. Governor Sanwo-Olu in…

Director-General of Buhari South East Youth Movement (BUSEYM), Engr. Nwabueze Onwuneme, has called on Igbo elites not to see President Muhammadu Buhari and the APC national leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, as stumbling blocks to the realisation of a Nigerian president of Igbo extraction come 2023 but rather as catalysts who, if well consulted can play a major role for the emergence of an Igbo man as president in 2023. Speaking during a radio programme, African Youths Leadership series programme of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in London, Onwuneme when asked about the seeming attacks on both leaders by some Igbo…

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Lanre Rasak has died at Reddington Hospital, Lagos aged 74. Rasak, who was a member of the Lagos Governor’s Advisory Council (GAC) reportedly died Saturday morning after a brief illness. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State has expressed sadness over the death of a member of the Governor’s Advisory Council (GAC) of the Lagos State All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Lanre Razak, who passed away on Saturday morning at the age of 74 after a brief illness. Governor Sanwo-Olu, who described late Razak’s death as a rude shock, said the deceased was…

A member of the National Broadcasting Commission (Board), Mr. Salihu Bamidele Aluko, has stated that the revised National Broadcasting Code is not the regulatory framework for the industry. Aluko, a lawyer, stated this in Abuja on Thursday while speaking at a press conference addressed by the NBC Board led by its Chairman, Alhaji Ikra Aliyu Bilbis. The revised code, which has sparked a huge public outcry, was unveiled three weeks ago by the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed. Mohammed was pointedly accused by the NBC Board of unilaterally tinkering with the code after it had been publicly…

The Insight by Lateef Adewole Tuesday, 12th of August, 2020, marked another commemoration of the annual International Youth Day (IYD). The theme of this year was: “Youth Engagement for Global Action.” It is centred on how the youths and young ones should be given a chance to partake in the activities which concern and affect them in particular and the world they live in. With the current global dynamics, youths are expected to rise to the occasion and take the lead in governance from the front, rather than from the back, as it seemed they are currently doing. Zeroing in…