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Barcelona president, Joan Laporta, has revealed that they are close to reaching an agreement with Tottenham Hotspur to sell Clement Lenglet. Lenglet spent the 2022/2023 season on loan with the Premier League side. However, Laporta has confirmed they expect to reach an agreement over a permanent move this summer. “I think that we will reach an agreement for Lenglet with Tottenham. “Kessié future? We don’t know formally. If he wants to leave, we will respect it — but he can be very useful for Barça,” Laporta told La Vanguardia. It is understood that Lenglet is available this summer for as…

Frank Shaibu, the Special Assistant on Public Communication to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has backed the report by the European Union, EU, Election Monitoring Group that the 2023 presidential election was rigged to favour President Bola Tinubu. He affirmed the reports that the last general election in Nigeria was marred by electoral irregularities and failed to meet the minimum standard of credibility. In a statement he signed, Shaibu said, “even the dead knew that the last election lacked credibility, and even the Independent National Electoral Commission had been unable to explain why nearly five months…

The Oyo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has advised the gubernatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the last general elections, Teslim Folarin, not to associate his failure in the last governorship poll with the state governor, Engineer Seyi Makinde. The party made this disclosure on Monday while reacting to a recent statement credited to Folarin. Our correspondent gathered that Folarin had earlier on Saturday claimed that he lost the election to APC’s arrangements to win the presidency. Publicity Secretary of PDP in the state, Akeem Olatunji, in a statement made available to journalists, described…

A federal lawmaker representing Ado/ Okpokwu/ Ogbadibo Federal Constituency, Benue State, in the House of Representatives Philip Agbese has said the immediate past Chief of Defence Staff, Gen Lucky Irabor played a great role in the fight against Boko Haram insurgents. Agbese spoke to newsmen in Abuja on Sunday while reacting to Irabor’s retirement from the Armed Forces of Nigeria which took place on Friday. The lawmaker said Gen Irabor’s 30-month reign was “the best in the country’s recent history”, stressing that the former CDS left the military bigger, and better. According to Agbese, Irabor showed extraordinary patriotism, commitment, and…

Federal lawmakers who have been on two weeks break, will resume plenary on Tuesday, July 4th to fully commence the 10th National Assembly’s legislative business. Both the Senate and House of Representatives had adjourned plenary until July 4 to be able to assign permanent sitting positions and offices to the returning and new lawmakers. Before adjourning, both chambers sat briefly after a keenly contested election. The choice of the 10th Assembly’s principal officers as consensus candidates of the All Progressive Congress, had then generated criticisms, as other candidates rejected it vowing to go against the ruling party’s choice. However on…

The Independent National Electoral Commission, All Progressives Congress and President Bola Tinubu will from today present oral and documentary evidences before Presidential Election Petition Court to justify why Tinubu’s victory at the February 25, 2023 presidential poll must be affirmed, writes Alex Enumah. A five-member panel of the Presidential Election Petition Court (PREPEC) presided over by Justice Haruna Tsammani, had on June 23, adjourned hearing till July 3, in three different petitions seeking the nullification of the election that produced Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu as President. The five-man panel specifically adjourned to the said date for respondents in the various petitions…

A pro-democracy group, Citizens Network for Peace and Development in Nigeria (CNPDN), has urged aggrieved senators to embrace peace instead of creating crisis in the 10th Senate. The National Secretary of the Forum, Francis Okereke Wainwei, and other leaders of the CNPDN made the appeal while addressing journalists in Abuja Monday. While calling for calm, the group vowed to expose any federal lawmaker that could be planning any action that might cause disaffection in the National Assembly. It urged the President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, to intervene and facilitate a befitting burial for the late President of the Senate,…

Kwara State Governor, Alhaji AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, at the weekend said the administration would double down its efforts to make the state a tourism hub through the rich cultures of its peoples. Speaking in Lafiagi in Edu Local Government Area of the state during the Emirate’s Sallah Nko festival, the governor said the state is endowed with beautiful cultures that can attract tourists and boost local economy. The Sallah Nko festival is a yearly socio-cultural gathering where the people of Lafiagi Emirate, including village heads, pay homage to the Emir as part of the Eid celebration. This year’s edition involved the…

Napoli are growing increasingly confident of keeping Manchester United and Chelsea target Victor Osimhen by agreeing a new deal with him. According to Corriere del Mezzogiorno via Tuttonapoli, another round of discussion is set to take place between Napoli and Osimhen’s agent Roberto Calenda over the details of the proposed deal. Per the report, bar any monstrous offer from any of the striker’s suitors, he should stay for another year in Naples with his contract renewed and a probable release clause inserted into the new deal. The Italian Serie A champions are in a hurry to tie down their No.9 to…

According to reports in Italy, Milan are ready to sign Samuel Chukwueze and will contact Villarreal to start negotiations in the coming days. The Rossoneri are looking to bolster Stefano Pioli’s frontline this summer and want to bring in a new right winger capable of adding an extra layer to the attack. Chukwueze is Milan’s top target for this, with the club believing that he has all the qualities needed to make a difference: pace, power, creativity and finishing. As detailed by Daniele Longo of Calciomercato.com, Milan have already reached a verbal agreement with Chukwueze, finding common grounds on both his salary…