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UEFA’s Club Financial Control Body (CFCB) has cleared the way for several teams to compete in next season’s competitions after Europe’s soccer governing body relaxed its rules on multi-club ownership, it said on Friday. Aston Villa and Vitoria Sport Clube, Brighton & Hove Albion and Royal Union Saint-Gilloise, plus AC Milan and Toulouse, had proceedings opened against them due to a potential conflict with the multi-club ownership rule. Milan and Toulouse are majority owned by RedBird Capital Partners, while Aston Villa owners Nassef Sawiris and Wes Edens have a stake in Vitoria. Brighton owner Tony Bloom has a stake in…

Arsenal defender William Saliba has signed a new four-year deal until 2027. The 22-year-old French centre-back became a key player for the Gunners last season after making his first-team debut in August. He played 33 games, 27 in the Premier League, and scored three goals in all competitions. The Gunners spent much of the season at the top of the table before losing out to eventual champions Manchester City. Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta said: “To have William extend his contract with us was something we have wanted to do for a long time. William proved last season just how good…

The President, Bola Tinubu, has set up a committee on tax reforms and named Taiwo Oyedele as Chairman. Taiwo Oyedele recently shared his perspectives on the executive orders concerning various tarrif changes recently signed by Nigeria’s President Tinubu. Oyedele is a highly accomplished professional with extensive expertise in fiscal policy, taxation, and economic matters. He currently serves as PWC Africa’s tarrif leader. In addition to his role at PwC, Oyedele holds several important positions in prestigious organisations. He is the Thematic Lead for the Fiscal Policy and Planning Commission and serves as the Chairman of the West Africa Debt Management…

Nigeria and China will build the first-of-its kind baseline Interferometry to monitor earthquakes and volcanic eruptions in Nigeria and Sub-Saharan Africa. Interferometry’ is a measurement method using the phenomenon of interference of waves (usually light, radio, or sound waves). The measurements may include those of certain characteristics of the waves themselves and the materials that the waves interact with. WMA President Osahon Enabulele pens emotional insight on Turkey earthquake In addition, interferometry is used to describe the techniques that use light waves for the study of changes in displacement. This displacement-measuring interferometry is extensively used for calibration and mechanical stage…

Manchester United are hopeful of concluding a deal for Inter Milan goalkeeper Andre Onana. United boss Erik ten Hag is keen to resolve concerns over the goalkeeping situation at Old Trafford amid uncertainty over David de Gea’s future. De Gea’s contract at Old Trafford expired at the end of last month, with no agreement over a revised offer put to the former Spain international. Onana, 27, kept eight clean sheets in 24 games in Serie A last season. The Cameroonian also kept eight clean sheets in 13 matches in the Champions League last season, the most of any goalkeeper in…

The number of people aged over 100 in Italy hit a record high last year, the national statistics office said on Friday, as the average age of the population grows at a faster pace than its European Union peers. In its annual report, ISTAT said the share of the population aged over 100 had tripled since the beginning of the century and totaled almost 22,000 people as of January this year, most of them women. 40 missing in Italy migrant boat mishap – UN At the other end of the age range, the figures showed births declining to a historic…

An overnight fire in a retirement home in Milan killed six people and injured around 80, including three who are in critical condition, Italian authorities said on Friday. The fire started in a first-floor room of the facility. It was put out quickly and did not spread to the rest of the building, yet it produced a vast quantity of toxic fumes. Inter defender Milan Skriniar joins PSG Two residents burned to death in their room, while four others died from intoxication, Milan Mayor Giuseppe Sala said, speaking to reporters on the scene. “It could have been even worse. Having…

Rumuji Police Division, Emohua Local Government Area, Rivers State, has arrested a preacher known only as Pillar for suspected defilement of a 15-year-old girl, which resulted in pregnancy. Mr. Amesi ThankGod, the minor’s elder sister’s brother, complied with the arrest of the pastor of a new generation church in the Ndele neighbourhood. “If her mother goes to the farm, the girl usually goes to church to relax and returns home by evening,” ThankGod replied. She began vomiting a few days ago, leading my wife to take her to the doctor. Her pregnancy was verified by the test results. That’s how…

The House of Representatives has issued a warning to educational institutions against raising tuition costs in the aftermath of the recently approved Student Loan Act. It also determined to host a legislative conference with all stakeholders in the education sector on student loan and access to higher education. Terseer Ugbor, the member representing Benue State’s Kwande/Ushongo federal constituency, moved the motion during plenary, which was considered. Presenting the motion, Ugbor said the aim of the act was to enable students to borrow to fund their education away from traditional parental provision. He said: “The use of student loans and educational…

Global rice rates, now at their highest in 11 years, are set to rally further after India moved to boost payments to farmers, just as El Nino threatens yields for key producers and alternative staples get costlier for poor Asians and Africans. India accounts for more than 40% of world rice exports, which were 56 million metric tonnes in 2022, but low inventories mean any cut in shipments will fuel food costs driven up by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last year and erratic weather. “India was the cheapest supplier of rice,” B.V. Krishna Rao, president of the Rice Exporters Association…