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Chelsea FC legend, John Terry, has returned to the club four years after he announced his retirement from professional football. The former England defender announced this on Wednesday via his verified Twitter handle, stating that he was returning to the Blues in a consultancy role with the club’s academy. He wrote, “I’m delighted to announce that I’m coming home, and have taken up a consultancy role @ChelseaFC academy. As well as delivering on-field coaching sessions, I will be involved in coaching discussions and mentoring our academy players.” Chelsea also confirmed the development in a statement noting that the appointment would…

The risk posed by the Omicron variant is still “very high”, the World Health Organization said Wednesday, after Covid-19 case numbers shot up by 11 percent globally last week. Omicron is behind rapid virus spikes in several countries, including those where it has already overtaken the previously-dominant Delta variant, the WHO said in its Covid-19 weekly epidemiological update. “The overall risk related to the new variant of concern Omicron remains very high,” the UN health agency said. “Consistent evidence shows that the Omicron variant has a growth advantage over the Delta variant with a doubling time of two to three…

Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta has tested positive for Covid-19 for a second time and will miss the Premier League clash with leaders Manchester City on Saturday, the club said. The 39-year-old Spaniard’s first positive test was in March 2020 which prompted English football to shut down as the pandemic took hold. He is the latest Premier League manager to test positive in the last few weeks following Aston Villa’s Steven Gerrard and Patrick Vieira of Crystal Palace. A club statement read: “Mikel Arteta will miss our match against Manchester City on New Year’s Day after testing positive for COVID-19. “Mikel…

Barcelona forward Ousmane Dembele, defender Samuel Umtiti and midfielder Gavi have tested positive for Covid-19, the Spanish club said Wednesday, bringing to six the number of infected first team players. “The players are in good health and self-isolating at home. The Club has reported the cases to the relevant authorities”, it said in a statement. The three players join left-back Jordi Alba, centre-back Clement Lenglent and defender Dani Alves, who also tested positive this week. Barcelona, currently seventh in La Liga, travel to Real Mallorca (15th) on Sunday. Several Spanish clubs have reported Covid cases, such as Real Sociedad on…

Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, Director-General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), says the agency is working with international partners to ensure Nigeria gets vaccines with long expiration date. Adeyeye spoke against the backdrop of the one million doses of vaccines that expired in November and were destroyed by NAFDAC and the National Primary Health Care Development Agency and the Abuja Environmental Protection Agency. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the 1,066,214 doses of expired AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines were destroyed at the Gosa Dumping site in Abuja. Adeyeye told NAN on Wednesday in Lagos…

Says minister’s projection for commission in 2022 assault on Niger Delta Civil Society Organisation, Niger Delta Peoples’ Forum, Monday, flayed Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio, for embarking on another round of diversionary tactics that was not in tandem with the wishes of Niger Deltans regarding NDDC. According to the group, “Senator Akpabio in his hogwash message deliberately chose to throw up his roundly-rubbished, archaic, and anti-Niger Delta views that violate the law setting up the NDDC, all in a futile attempt to change the narrative of the collective desire of the region, which is that the Board…

“All those who purchase crude oil from Nigeria enter into contractual relationship with Nigeria not with the Niger Delta. The territory of Nigeria is indivisible inclusive of the resources found therein. No territory in Nigeria including the minerals found therein belongs to the area of location and this remains so until the federation is dissolved” Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday, told elder statesman and leader of Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF), Chief Edwin Clark, that oil, like the mineral resources in other parts of the country, belonged to all Nigerians. Obasanjo was responding to Clark, who recently asserted that…

President Muhammadu Buhari is to sign the 2022 Appropriation Bill on Friday. His Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, confirmed this to newsmen, in Abuja, yesterday. According to him, the 2022 document has been transmitted to his principal, and he will sign the bill into law by 10:00 a.m. This comes barely a week after both chambers of the National Assembly passed a budget of N17.126 trillion, increasing the benchmark price of crude from $57 to $62 per barrel and raising the total estimates from the proposed N16.391trillion to N17.126 trillion. The federal legislature formally transmitted the…

Niger Delta leader insists Jonathan stopped Islamisation of Nigeria Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday, replied the leader of Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF), Chief Edwin Clark, over allegations of his hatred for the oil-rich region. Obasanjo said Nigeria and Niger Delta demand in Clark, a statesman and not a tribesman, just as he warned the PANDEF chieftain and Chairman, Board of Trustees of the Ijaw National Congress (INC), against deploying “offensive and uncouth languages” to describe his personality. Clark had, last Wednesday, hit Obasanjo over what he termed “a disappointing display of hatred against the people of the oil-producing states…

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has denied claims that he hated people of Niger Delta origin. He said this in an open letter to respond to accusations by the Leader of the Pan Niger Delta Forum and Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Ijaw National Congress, Chief Edwin Clark. Clark had on Wednesday slammed Obasanjo over what he called a disappointing display of hatred against the people of the oil-producing states in Nigeria. The elder statesman reacted to a recent outburst by the former President in Abuja, where he attacked the National Secretary of the INC, Ebipamowei Wodu, at a peace and security…