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Celtic signed Croatia defender Josip Juranovic from Legia Warsaw on Saturday in a deal worth a reported £2.5 million ($3.4 million). Juranovic agreed a five-year deal with the Scottish club and is now awaiting international clearance. The 26-year-old right-back is the eighth player to join Ange Postecoglou’s team since the end of last season. He follows Osaze Urhoghide, Liam Shaw, Liel Abada, Joe Hart, James McCarthy, Carl Starfelt and Kyogo Furuhashi to Glasgow. “We are absolutely delighted to be bringing Josip to the club and we are sure he will be a great addition to the squad,” Postecoglou told Celtic’s…

Liverpool celebrated the return of a full house to Anfield by extending their 100 percent start to the Premier League season as goals from Diogo Jota and Sadio Mane saw off Burnley 2-0 on Saturday. Jota’s header opened the scoring against the run of play after a bright Burnley start and Mane finally made Liverpool’s dominance after the break count 21 minutes from time to take Jurgen Klopp’s men top of the table with six points from two games. In front of a first capacity crowd since March 2020, an emotional pre-match tribute was paid to former players who passed…

Ogun Government says it has taken delivery of 187,426 doses of Moderna COVID-19 vaccines, as it intensifies efforts to combat the third wave of the pandemic. The Commissioner for Health, Dr Tomi Coker, in a statement on Saturday, said the vaccines arrived the state capital, Abeokuta, late on Thursday night. She explained that with the receipt of the vaccines, the state would begin the second phase of its COVID-19 vaccination exercise next week, targeting adults from 18 years and above. She added that people were to register to be vaccinated, by logging on to https:/www.vaccination.gov.ng. Coker further disclosed that the…

Wike’s group kicks as Secondus plans Oct national convention shift There were strong indications on Thursday that power blocs in the opposition Peoples Democratic Party had sidestepped some of the agreements reached at the party’s expanded National Executive Committee meeting held on Tuesday, August 10. It was gathered that though it was agreed at the meeting that the party’s national convention should hold in October, the Uche Secondus-led National Working Committee was advancing reasons why the date was no longer feasible. But sources in the party said the rival power bloc led by the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, dismissed…

Robert Lewandowski wants a new challenge away from Bayern Munich but the club has valued him at more than £100m. Sky Sports News reports that Lewandowski, who turns 33 on Saturday, is happy at Bayern but wants to secure a move to another top European club before the age of 35. The German champions’ valuation, designed to keep him until the end of his contract in 2023, is likely to price the FIFA and UEFA player of the year out of a departure. Bayern have not currently offered any extension beyond his current deal, when it could be more difficult to…

Juventus’ Cristiano Ronaldo and Barcelona’s Lionel Messi are missing as UEFA announced the names of the final nominees shortlisted for 2020/21 UEFA Men’s and Women’s Player of the Year Awards. The award winners will be announced at the 2021/22 UEFA Champions League group stage draw ceremony, which will take place on Thursday 26 August at the Haliç Congress Center in Istanbul, Turkey. On the same occasion, UEFA will also honour the coaches who have had the biggest impact over the previous season with the UEFA Men’s Coach of the Year and UEFA Women’s Coach of the Year Awards. UEFA Men’s Player of…

Slowly but surely, insecurity of lives and property is becoming the new normal of Nigerian social life. On top of the galloping inflation translating into the ever-increasing price of foodstuffs, Nigerians confront in their daily lives another source of suffering, uncertainty and tragedy, namely: insecurity. Like a plague that will not go away, the daily flow of news is not complete without heartbreaking information about the number of lives lost or wounded in the surging incidences of insecurity in the shape of banditry, insurgency, kidnappings for ransom, targeting of schools and universities, among others. One of the most recent occurrences…

I cannot tell for sure if there is anything called the Nigerian church in its strict sense. I know the Christian Association of Nigeria, and the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria are umbrella bodies for Christians of different persuasions in the country. However, the effectiveness of these institutions, given the cacophony of voices, unbridled competition, and overwhelming permissive environment where everyone does what they like without consequences, impugns on the relevance of these bodies.  I am willing to be corrected. Almost daily lately, some news about the Christian faith that causes some discomfort in adherents breaks. Some of these are plainly…

On Sunday, the Taliban retook Kabul, Afghanistan’s capital, almost 20 years after being chased out by the USA and NATO troops. It was a victory won from their sheer resilience than fighting tactics. For all its military might and its benevolent aspiration of training Afghans to be an independent nation, the USA finally got worn from fighting the most protracted armed conflict in its history. Even before President Joe Biden decided it was over, the emotional rush and optimistic spirit that propel people to choose war had given way to a disillusioned reality. An investigative analysis piece published by The Washington…

Naomi Osaka remained the picture of calm answering questions on Wednesday after staging a 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 comeback victory over Coco Gauff to reach the third round of the WTA Cincinnati Masters. The shy Japanese second seed’s anxiety over attending obligatory post-match media conferences was nowhere in evidence as she explained possible reasons for her emotional crisis, which erupted three months ago when she withdrew after playing one match at Roland Garros. She said that speaking with reporters was damaging her mental health. “With everything going on in Haiti (her father’s homeland) and Afghanistan, things are really crazy,” the four-time…