Author: Vincent Osuwo

Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp has admitted he was wrong to criticise £100 million signings seven years ago, with Liverpool set to break the British transfer record to buy Brighton’s Moises Caicedo after a fee of £111 million was agreed overnight. The Liverpool manager acknowledged that a contract had been reached between the two clubs, but no agreement with the player had been reached. Klopp has, however, backtracked on comments made after Paul Pogba’s big-money move to Manchester United. Liverpool agree record £110m Moises Caicedo deal While reacting to Pogba’s record-breaking move, Klopp reportedly said “The day that this is football,…

A number of Manchester United fans are reportedly preparing a demonstration before the club’s first home game of the season to express their objection to Mason Greenwood’s reintegration into the first squad. According to The Athletic, the protestors, who are all frequent match goers who wish to stay anonymous for the time being, intend to vent their feelings ahead of Monday’s game at Old Trafford versus Wolves. 21-year-old Greenwood was arrested in January 2022 and suspended on full pay by United a short time later after charges of alleged rape and assault were made against him. Manchester Utd to decide…

Tottenham have reportedly stopped Harry Kane’s travel to Bayern Munich for a medical. This comes on the heels of Daniel Levy attempting to renegotiate the conditions of Harry Kane’s £86.4 million sale to Bayern Munich at the eleventh hour. The attacker was driving to Stansted airport this morning when he discovered that Tottenham had revoked his clearance to travel to Germany. Bayern prepare second Harry Kane bid, Man Utd back for Kolo Muani Talks between the two clubs are continuing this morning in an attempt to reach an agreement. The Englishman has verbally agreed to a four-year deal. The 30-year-old…

Thursday, a yet-to-be-identified woman was crushed to death alongside her two-year-old daughter by a bus in the Ikotun area of Lagos. It was gathered that another trader was injured when a bus crashed into some stores along the roadside outside Toluwalase Hall on Governor’s Road in Ikotun. According to an eyewitness, Tayo, the driver escaped after being almost lynched by onlookers at the scene of the accident. Four escape death in Lagos helicopter crash “It is a Hummer bus; it probably lost its brake. It rammed into the shops and cleared about five of them. A woman and her daughter…

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) condemned the federal government’s move to dissolve university governing bodies across the country on Thursday. The union urged President Bola Tinubu to reverse his outrageous decision to dissolve the councils without finishing their terms of office. Comrade Christopher Piwuna of the University of Jos, National Vice Chairman of ASUU, spoke while presenting a paper at an event honouring retiring lecturers at the Joseph Sarwuaan Tarka University Makurdi (JOSTUM), formerly known as the Federal University of Agriculture, Makurdi (FUAM), in Benue State. ASUU kicks against universities curriculum designed by NUC Piwuna said, “It is…

Liverpool and Brighton have agreed a British record fee for midfielder Moises Caicedo. The cost is thought to be approximately £110 million, with the midfielder scheduled to go to Liverpool for a medical on Friday. Brighton set a bid deadline of midnight on Thursday, and if their appraisal was met, they would go with the highest bidder. Liverpool contact Brighton over Moises Caicedo According to reports, Chelsea’s willingness to pay £100m and Bayern Munich’s £90m did not match Liverpool’s offer of £110m for the player. The Ecuadorian who Brighton signed for £4.5 million from Independiente del Valle in 2021, will…

President Bola Tinubu has been urged by the Benue State Inter-tribal Association in Politics (BSITAP) to consider the Idoma People for ministerial appointments. In a statement issued in Markudi, the Association’s Secretary, Ocholohi Ogolekwu, extended their call to the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Senator George Akume, and endorsed a United Nations Habitat Ambassador to Nigeria, Dr. Raymond Edoh, as the best candidate to represent the Idomas. The group, which expressed confidence in Sen. George Akume, the Secretary to the State Government, pleaded with the President to respect “the already existing mutual political understanding between the two tribes…

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has ordered the deployment of military forces in Niger in a bid to restore constitutional order in the country. The regional body has therefore ordered the Chief of Defence Staff Committee to promptly activate its standby force. Omar Alieu Touray, the president of ECOWAS, delivered the order while reading the resolution adopted during the extraordinary meeting on the Niger coup held on Thursday in Abuja. Niger Coup: Junta forms new government, appoints 21 ministers The leaders met in Abuja on Thursday to deliberate their course of action after the junta’s seven-day deadline…

Considerations are underway to scrap mid-Season breaks in the Premier League due to the overcrowding of the football calendar. The new rules, if set, could take effect in the 2024–2025 season, with FIFA’s rebuilt 32-team Club World Cup scheduled for the summer of 2025. The Premier League implemented the break in 2018, which took the form of a planned two week interval to reduce the stress on players. Manchester Utd to decide on Greenwood before start of Premier League season Richard Masters, the CEO, admits that it is being discussed because it may become impractical. “It is one of the…

The election of Muktar Umar Yerima of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) has been nullified by the National and State Houses of Assembly elections petition tribunal in Kano. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) named Yerima the winner of the Tarauni Federal Constituency House of Representatives election. However, the tribunal’s three-man panel, chaired by Justice I.P. Chima, ruled that Yerima was ineligible because he faked his primary school diploma. Atiku present for presidential election petition tribunal According to the tribunal, the petitioner, Hafizu Kawu of the All Progressives Congress (APC), who challenged Yerima’s election, was successful in proving a…