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Super Eagles Star, Samuel Chukwueze, will battle Manchester United for his first major club title in today when they meet in the Europa League final. The match will air exclusively, live and in HD on StarTimes World Football channel at 8.00 p.m. The match is one of the biggest games in European football until UEFA Euro 2020 begins in June live on StarTimes. Chukwueze handed Villarreal a massive boost ahead of the Europa League final when he returned to train last week after a short spell out due to injury. The former U-17 World Cup winner was stretchered off in…

Phil Foden already has eight major trophies to his name before his 21st birthday on Friday. The following day he may have the perfect present in Manchester City’s first Champions League crown. Born and raised in Stockport, just six miles (10 kilometres) from the club’s Etihad Stadium, Foden is the homegrown hero among a star-studded international squad bankrolled by the Abu Dhabi owners. The club that he first started training with as a six-year-old was very different. City had only recently returned to the Premier League after at one stage slipping down to English football’s third tier. “We had limited…

Lionel Messi’s friend and former Barcelona teammate Luis Suarez has urged the Argentinian not to leave the Catalan club, telling Cope radio on Tuesday he would be “delighted if Messi remains”. Messi, 33, joined Barcelona as a 13-year-old but is out of contract at the end of June. Negotiations are reported to be ongoing but there has inevitably been a wealth of speculation about his future, including a possible move to Manchester City to link up with former boss Pep Guardiola. Suarez, who just celebrated winning La Liga with Atletico Madrid after being axed by Barcelona coach Ronald Koeman last…

Mr Bawa Usman, Zonal Head of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), in Sokoto, has said that insider connections facilitate most financial frauds in the banking industry. Bawa, whose zone covers Sokoto, Kebbi and Zamfara States, stated this on Tuesday in Sokoto at a roundtable with Compliance Officers of various commercial banks. He said that the meeting was convened to strengthen relationship and collaborations between the EFCC and commercial banks as a way to sanitise the system against frauds. The Zonal Head said that the commission often encounter delay in getting responses to investigation letters forwarded to banks. “Such…

The Accountant General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris, on Tuesday, said the £4.2 million Ibori loot recently received from the United Kingdom government has been given to Delta State. Idris, said this when he appeared before the House of Representatives Ad-hoc Committee on Assessment and Status of All Recovered Loots Movable and Immovable Assets from 2002 to 2020. The committee is headed by Adejoro Adeogun. “I know there was a time recovery was made on behalf of Plateau State,” Idris said. “There was one for Bayelsa. There was one for different states, even Delta. Such recoveries go specifically to those…

Says PDP will be stronger in C’River without Ayade Former Cross River State Governor, Senator Liyel Imoke, has debunked claims within political circles in the state that he collected money to install Professor Ben Ayade as the state governor in 2015. Imoke stated this on Sunday night at a Peoples’ Democratic Party (PPD) stakeholders meeting at Transcorp Metropolitan Hotel in Calabar where he and some top members of the party declared that the PDP would even be stronger in the state without Ayade who defected on Thursday to the All Progressives Congress (APC). He said: “I thought I have retired…

The Ondo State Governor and Chairman of the Southern Governors Forum, Mr Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, has declared that “no inch of the space delineated and known, currently, as South West, and indeed the whole South, will be ceded to a band of invaders masquerading as herdsmen under any guise.” Akeredolu made the declaration in a statement signed by his Senior Special Assistant Special Duties and Strategies, Dr Doyin Odebowale. The declaration was sequel to a statement signed by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr Garba Shehu, on the position of President Muhammadu Buhari, on the…

US biotech firm Moderna said Tuesday that trials had shown its Covid-19 vaccine is “highly effective” in adolescents aged 12-17 and the company would seek regulators’ approval in June. “We are encouraged that mRNA-1273 was highly effective at preventing Covid-19 in adolescents,” CEO Stephane Bancel said in a statement. “We will submit these results to the US FDA and regulators globally in early June and request authorization.” If greenlit, as expected, it would be the second Covid vaccine authorized for use in US adolescents after Pfizer’s, which began rolling out this month for 12-to-15-year-olds. The Moderna study enrolled 3,732 adolescents…

The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Monday evening led some leaders of the party in the South West geo-political zone on a condolence visit to President Muhammadu Buhari over the recent air crash in Kaduna that claimed the lives of the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt General Ibrahim Attahiru, and 10 other military officers and men. The President received Tinubu and his entourage at about 9pm at his residence in the State House, Abuja. Those who accompanied the former Lagos state governor to commiserate with President Buhari include former Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Lt…

Snubbed Spain and Real Madrid captain, Sergio Ramos, has responded to his shock omission from his nation’s Euro 2020 squad, reflecting on a “f*cked up few months” that has seen him go trophyless for the first time since 2009/2010. Spanish head coach Luis Enrique’s 24-man list for the postponed tournament was released at midday in the Iberian country. And despite being allowed a total of 26 players, he opted to hand Ramos his first-ever snub from a major tournament since starting to represent the nation on the big stage at Euro 2004. Simultaneously, the development also marked the first time…