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Tottenham on Tuesday announced the appointment of former Chelsea and Inter Milan boss Antonio Conte as their new manager following the sacking of Nuno Espirito Santo. Spurs moved quickly to hire the Italian, who has signed an initial 18-month contract, after firing Nuno on Monday after just four months in charge. Conte, who won the Premier League with Chelsea in 2016/17, had been out of work since leaving Inter Milan at the end of last season, having just won the Serie A title. “We are delighted to announce the appointment of Antonio Conte as our head coach on a contract…

*Hails improved synergies among Nigerian Army,Air Force, Navy, others *To launch Troops Support Initiative for Army *Tasks Nigerians to rally support for troops to end insecurity The Global Peace and Life Rescue Initiative (GOPRI), a civil society group with a vested interest in peacebuilding in Nigeria, has commended the Chief of Defence Staff, General Lucky Irabor, for leading the policy and operational initiative in the counterterrorism warfare. The group also hailed the Chief of Army Staff, General Farouq Yahaya, for living up to expectations of Nigerians within the few months of his appointment by President Muhammadu Buhari. GOPRI,in a statement,…

Jurgen Klopp wants to say the right things when it comes to Atletico Madrid and Diego Simeone but there is always an itch he ends up scratching. Liverpool plays Atletico again in the Champions League on Wednesday in a game that this time carries more significance for the Spaniards than the Reds. Klopp’s team are already five points clear at the top of a group that looked awkward when the draw came out in August. Atletico are in a scrap, level on four points with Porto, whom they still have to play in Lisbon in the final round. In theory,…

Argentinian superstar Lionel Messi will miss Wednesday’s Champions League clash with RB Leipzig due to injury, Paris Saint Germain announced on Tuesday. The 34-year-old six-time Ballon d’Or winner has a left hamstring problem and a painful knee. Messi had gone off at half-time of PSG’s 2-1 Ligue 1 victory over Lille last Friday but coach Mauricio Pochettino had said he expected him to be fit for the Leizig match. However, he missed training on Monday and on Tuesday the club confirmed he would not after all be fit. PSG’s statement said the four-time Champions League winner was suffering from “a…

• Says action was an assassination attempt • SESSPN, Yoruba Ronu, Imo lawyers demand investigation River State Governor Nyesom Wike has given the Federal Government 48 hours to expose those that invaded Justice Mary Odili’s house on Friday. The governor gave the ultimatum in Abuja, yesterday, at a news conference jointly organised by the state government and leaders of thought in the state. On Friday evening, some security operatives invaded the home of Mary Odili. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has since denied its involvement in the invasion. Also, Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, denied insinuations…

• Politicking over, it’s time to rescue Nigeria, say Ayu, Arapaja • Akinwonmi-led NWC may resign for Ayu’s early inauguration • 25-year-old national youth leader-elect visits Saraki receives advice • After the fierce contest, Oyinlola concedes, congratulates Arapaja “We will move ahead to develop this country. We did it before. We are going to do it again. I want to thank the governors,” Mr Iyorcha Ayu, newly elected national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), said in his thank-you speech to draw the curtain on a highly anticipated but less keenly contested convention in Abuja yesterday. Ayu, who was the…

Zlatan Ibrahimovic used the platform of Halloween to tell French superstar striker Kylian Mbappe that he needs to “taste blood” if he is truly to become a football legend. Mbappe is already a World Cup winner and plays alongside Lionel Messi and Neymar at Paris Saint-Germain. However, Ibrahimovic, still playing at 40 with AC Milan, accused 22-year-old Mbappe of being in a “comfort zone” at the French club. “I love Mbappe, but what he is doing is not enough. He is too comfortable, he is in his ‘zone’,” the Swedish player told French TV programme, Telefoot, on Sunday. “He needs…

Born into relative obscurity even as apocryphal or doubtful sources claim he was raised or nurtured in sublime circumstances, Ashiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s early life is controversial or shrouded in convoluted mystery. Today, however, he may well qualify as the enfant terrible of Nigeria’s political landscape. His name and presence interchangeably provoke or invoke joy and grief, ecstasy and depression, intoxication and stupefaction. Even as very little is known about his growing up years, Tinubu’s avidly disputed birth circumstances are the delight of gossip circuits. Regarding the infinite possibilities of a life that defies theoretical or practical limitations to upwardly-mobile projections, Tinubu…

Anybody living in Nigeria in the last 50 years, or even from the time of her independence from the British colonial masters, would know that we are living and achieving less than 20% of our potentials in anything – of peace, concord, development, progress, happiness, the pursuit of the common good, etc! This would be even more acutely known and felt if most of these years are years of reasonable adolescence or adulthood; and if such a person is properly educated and reads or listens to objective public media. The reasons for this variously unwholesome, truly un-Godly, retrogressive, wicked or…

• ‘Suspension may be lifted this week’ • Only one out of 10 demands yet to be met • Twitter admits progress in discussions, awaits FG decision • Twitter global users increase, revenue jumps by 37% to $1.28b • SMEs, govt, economy bleed as losses hit N370b • Experts appeal to the government to consider the use of platform Uncertainty continues to trail Federal Government’s plan to lift the ban placed on the micro-blogging platform, Twitter, in Nigeria, 150 days after, and exactly a month since President Muhammadu Buhari promised to unban Twitter. However, sources monitoring development between the government and…