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Tottenham Hotspur striker Harry Kane will have beaten every goalscoring record by the time he retires, according to the club’s manager Antonio Conte. The 29-year-old England captain needs just three more goals to become Spurs all-time record scorer after his brace in Wednesday’s 4-0 thumping of Crystal Palace. The double — which took Kane’s tally to 15 in the Premier League this season — moved him on to 264 goals, two shy of the late Jimmy Greaves’ tally. Kane has 198 Premier League goals to his credit, with only Alan Shearer (260) and Wayne Rooney (208) ahead of him. “I…

Barcelona president Joan Laporta said Thursday he believes a European Super League could be up and running from 2025 if a key court ruling goes in the project’s favour. A suit alleging football governing bodies UEFA and FIFA had abused their power when they threatened to expel clubs or players who joined a proposed Super League is awaiting a verdict from the European Court of Justice. European football was rocked in 2021 by an attempt by 12 clubs to set up a Super League, but after a backlash by fans and governments, most pulled out of the project. Barcelona, Real…

Chelsea signed France international defender Benoit Badiashile from Ligue 1 side Monaco on Thursday for a fee believed to be just under 40 million euros ($42 million). The 21-year-old central defender signed a “seven-and-a-half-year contract”, according to a statement from Chelsea. Badiashile has been a pivotal figure at Monaco, helping the club finish third in Ligue 1 for the past two seasons. He was handed his international debut by Didier Deschamps last September, although he did not make the World Cup squad. “At 6ft 4in, Badiashile is a dominant defender in the air but equally comfortable with the ball at…

Consumer electronics giant, Sony and automobile manufacturer, Honda, who collaborated last year to develop and manufacture electric vehicles, have revealed the name of their new car brand: Afeela. The two giants unveiled their first car innovation during the Consumer Electronics Show. Sony Honda Mobility chief executive Yasuhide Mizuno, who led the reveal of the prototype of the company’s first car, which looked like a mid-sized sedan, offered minute detail about the vehicle. “At the heart of this mobility experience is the word ‘feel,’” Mizuno said, explaining that the focus will be on sensing and interacting with people. Honda’s safety and…

The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Gen. Lucky Irabor says 613 rehabilitated low-risk repentant terrorists will be transferred to their state governments for reintegration into the society. Irabor made the disclosure during the fifth Stakeholders’ Meeting of Operation Safe Corridor (OPSC), on Thursday in Abuja. Represented by the Chief of Defence Training and Operation, Maj.-Gen. Adeyemi Yekini, the CDS said the 613 clients are currently undergoing deradicalization and rehabilitation handled by the OPSC. He said that the meeting would exhaustively discuss the Deradicalization, Rehabilitation and Reintegration (DRR) Programme ahead of the transfer of the rehabilitated clients to their state governments.…

Former President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Dr Olisa Agbakoba (SAN) on Thursday, said that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) ought not to have been in existence. He said the commission currently operated outside the constitution. Agbakoba said this at a news conference in Lagos. According to him, since the EFCC is a creation of the National Assembly, it does not have the powers to interfere with the activities of state governments. The senior advocate of Nigeria, insisted that the 1999 Constitution only provided one police force for Nigeria, adding that since the Anti-graft agency was not a…

Deputy President of the Nigerian Senate and governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Delta State, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, has warned that any bank, lending institution, or credit union that lends or advances money to the administration of Governor Ifeanyi Okowa, so close to the end of its tenure, does so at it’s own risk. Okowa, who is also the running mate of the PDP’s presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar, is in the final months of his eight year-reign as governor of the oil-rich state. The warning was contained in a statement Omo-Agege personally approved “on behalf of the…

Udora Orizu writes that the uncommon role played by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, in seeing to the suspension of the eight month old strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, is now riddled with accusation of deception The House of Representatives last week engaged in a war of words with the President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke over his claim that the Speaker, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, used deception to convince the union to call off its eight months strike action. Osodeke had in an interview while accusing Gbajabiamila…

Shortly after his emergence in 2019 as the 14th President of the Senate and Chairman of the Ninth National Assembly, Ahmad Ibrahim Lawan promised to ensure the 2020 Appropriation Bill was passed and signed into law by the President before the end of that year. That promise would have sounded outlandish in many ears and many would have dismissed it outright as a flight of fancy induced by Lawan’s euphoria of electoral victory. Going by precedent under the Fourth Republic, there were valid reasons for such scepticism. By 2019, it had become normal for the Appropriation Bill to come into…

Following various policies by the Central bank of Nigeria (CBN) to boost cashless economy, analysts have noted that electronic transactions in Nigeria peaked at 3.5 billion in 2022, thus ranking Nigeria number 6 globally. Also, going into 2023, forecast for the Nigerian economy appears gloomy with the customary downturn of the economy in an election year, prompted by the anxiety that follows change of political power as well as global and various economic indices. Furthermore, analysts predict that banks would taper down on operating expenses and become more profitable this year from non-interest income. Speaking to THISDAY on his forecast…