Author: David Great

Chelsea have offered £15m plus Spanish defender Marcos Alonso, 31, for Barcelona’s 33-year-old Gabonese striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang. (Athletic – subscription required) The Blues have also made enquiries about the availability of Manchester United and England defender Harry Maguire, 29, for a potential swap deal which would see US forward Christian Pulisic, 23, go the other way. (Mail) Borussia Dortmund chairman Hans-Joachim Watzke has denied speculation linking the Bundesliga club with 37-year-old Portugal forward Cristiano Ronaldo, he says there has been no contact with the Manchester United star. (Mirror) Leicester City’s French defender Wesley Fofana, 21, has asked not to be…

The Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA), has issued a travel advisory to Lagos residents in order to ease congestion and reduce delay along Lekki-Epe Expressway. LASTMA noted that from 8.00am, Saturday, 20th August, 2022 the intersection in front of Victoria Garden City (VGC) will be permanently closed. “In order to ease congestion and reduce delay along Lekki-Epe Expressway, the Lagos State Government, as part of the solutions, has, commencing from 8.00am, Saturday, 20th August, 2022, provided some measures as follows: The intersection in front of VGC will be permanently closed, hence motorists driving from Ikota Shopping Mall/VGC inwards Ajah…

Two purported Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA), Special Traffic Mayors (STM), Ibrahim Jibril Abu and Olamide Oshin were arrested yesterday by a patrol team from LASTMA Headquarter on Wednesday, 17 August, 2022 around 12.30pm at the Sheraton Hotel bus stop on Mobolaji Bank-Anthony Way for illegally apprehending a logistic motorcyclist. Remember that there have been incidences of impersonation of LASTMA personnel by some unscrupulous members of the public in time past. This is one of such cases which the agency has vowed to handle with the laws of the State. Upon proper investigation, it was discovered that Ibrahim Jubril…

Two pilots fell asleep at 37,000ft (11,000m), missing an airport runway before waking to safely land the plane, an aviation publication says. Air traffic tried to contact them after they overshot the point of descent into Ethiopia’s Addis Ababa airport. The pilots eventually woke up and landed the plane on its second approach, the Aviation Herald said. The Ethiopian Airlines crew have been put on leave pending investigation, state-run news outlet Fana reported. Monday’s passenger flight took off from Sudan’s Khartoum airport. The Boeing 737, with a 154-seat capacity, normally takes less than two hours on its route between the…

Chelsea boss Thomas Tuchel has been handed a one-match touchline ban and fined £35,000 for his confrontation with Antonio Conte at the end of Sunday’s derby against Tottenham. Spurs boss Conte has also been fined £15,000 after both managers admitted improper conduct during the 2-2 draw. Tuchel’s ban has been suspended temporarily, though, pending the full written reasons for the decision. It means he can be in the dugout for Sunday’s Premier League game at Leeds. The Football Association says the sanctions are subject to appeal. Both managers were sent off at full-time following the angry confrontation on the touchline.…

Chelsea have completed the signing of Cesare Casadei from Inter Milan after the Italian agreed a six-year contract with the Blues. A statement on the club’s website said the teenage midfielder is considered one of Italy’s brightest prospects after shining at youth level for club and country. he was part of the Italy side that reached the semi-finals of the European Under-19 Championship in the summer. Casadei is known as a complete midfielder, combining physicality and strength in the air with great timing in the challenge and excellent technique, as well as intelligent movement when arriving in the penalty area…

Real Madrid boss Carlo Ancelotti says midfielder Casemiro wants a “new challenge” and to leave the club as Manchester United close in on a deal worth up to 70m euros (£59.2m). Talks have progressed quickly and United are optimistic the deal for the Brazil international, 30, will be completed in the next few days. Casemiro trained with Real on Friday. “The negotiations are ongoing right now, he is still our player but his will is to leave,” said Ancelotti. “I have spoken with him. Casemiro, for what he has done and the person he is, we must respect that desire.”…

By Emma Okonji Globacom, an indigenous Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM) operator, will be celebrating 19 years of telecom service offerings in few days, having rolled out its initial GSM services on August 29, 2003. Globacom, which commenced per second billing system on its telecom network from the first day of its service rollout, crashed the cost of telecom services and forced other telecom operators to immediately begin per second billing system on their networks, after two years of billing subscribers exorbitantly with per minutes billing system. In 2010, Globacom berthed Glo1 submarine cable in Nigeria, and further crashed…

The Academic Staff Union Of Universities (ASUU) has explained why it rejected the federal government’s offer of academic salary structure. In a press statement signed by ASUU president, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke, the university body said it rejected the “Award”. Recall that at the resumed meeting of the Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN) and ASUU 2009 Agreement Re-negotiation Committee on Tuesday, August 16, 2022, the government team presented an “Award” of a Recommended Consolidated University Academic Salary Structure (CONUASS) prepared by the National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission (NSIWC) to ASUU. He said the 1981 FGN-ASUU Agreement, under the Shehu Shagari-led…

The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu has stated that President Muhammadu Buhari has rejected Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) insistence that they must be paid their six-month salaries since the strike begun. He also claimed that ASUU’s insistence on being paid their six-month salary has stalled negotiations between both parties. The controversial Adamu Adamu stated this during the weekly ministerial briefing organised by the presidential communications team at the Presidential Villa. “All contentious issues between the government and ASUU had been settled except the quest for members’ salaries for the period of strike, a demand that Buhari has flatly…