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Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has distanced himself from a website campaigning and mobilising support for his purported presidential ambition ahead of the 2023 election. Osinbajo on Monday said he is rather focused on addressing issues including concerns of insecurity among other challenges bedevilling the country. Distancing himself, the Vice President, through his Spokesman, Laolu Akande, in a statement said the campaign was an unnecessary enterprise. “The attention of the Office of the Vice President has been drawn to a website:supportosinbajo.ng that is calling on Nigerians to join a volunteer group mobilizing support for Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, ahead of the…

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer hopes Manchester United fans will ditch their protests against club owners, the Glazer family, and cheer on the team when supporters return to Old Trafford for the first time in more than a year on Tuesday. United’s last three home games have featured fans protesting against the Glazers after they signed up to the European Super League before the supporters furious reaction saw them withdraw hastily. United’s home game with Liverpool had to be postponed earlier this month when fans broke into the stadium and got onto the pitch. The re-scheduled game last Thursday also featured protests…

Brendan Rodgers says his Leicester players are ready to seize the opportunity of rounding off a wonderful season by qualifying for the Champions League to add to Saturday’s FA Cup triumph. The Foxes face an instant re-match with Chelsea after edging the Blues 1-0 at Wembley to give the club its first FA Cup victory after four previous losses in the final. Leicester are presently third in the table and victory over fourth-placed Chelsea at Stamford Bridge would secure their top four place — Tuesday’s opponents are two points worse off with two matches remaining. However, 2020 title winners Liverpool…

The Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party-Governors’ Forum (PDP-GF), Gov. Aminu Waziri Tambuwal of Sokoto state, has described the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) as one without the requisite national spread to represent the interest of the country. Governor Tambuwal stated this ahead of today’s enlarged meeting of the PDP-GF meeting in Ibadan, Oyo State, where the host governor, Oluseyi Makinde hosted five of his colleagues to a gala night in honor of the Forum. Other governors in attendance at the gala night were: Samuel Ortom of Benue, Ahmadu Fintiri of Adamawa, Diri Duoye of Bayelsa and Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of…

Some Nigerians have slammed the former vice president Atiku Abubakar over his position on restructuring and calls for a national conference. Atiku on Saturday urged the 17 Southern governors engaged in the ‘Asaba Declaration’ to convene a national conference should President Muhammadu Buhari refuse to heed to their demands. “What our present challenges, therefore, call for is not fragmentation but concentration,” Atiku tweeted. “We must concentrate and focus our national willpower and resolve towards fighting these unNigerian tendencies. “I call on Nigerian Governors to stop waiting on Abuja to make changes, and instead convene a National Unity Summit of all Nigerian Governors…

South Africa’s scandal-tainted ex-president Jacob Zuma arrived in court Monday for the expected start of a trial in a 20-year-old bribery case. Zuma is facing 16 charges of fraud, graft and racketeering relating to a 1999 purchase of fighter jets, patrol boats and military gear from five European arms firms for 30 billion rands — equal to almost $5.0 billion at the time. The 79-year-old Zuma, who was at the time serving as deputy president to Thabo Mbeki, is accused of accepting bribes amounting to four million rands from one of the firms, French defence giant Thales. Over the years,…

After Alisson Becker headed in a 94th-minute winner for Liverpool against West Brom on Sunday his manager Jurgen Klopp declared: “It’s the best goal I’ve ever seen scored by a goalkeeper!” Becker has some competition for that prize. Plenty of goalkeepers have scored with a spectacular punt from their own penalty area. Some, like Brazilian Rogerio Ceni, who scored more than 130 goals in his career, or Jose Luis Chilavert and Rene Higuita, were dead-ball specialists. For most goalkeepers, the chance only comes when the situation is dire and time running out and desperate coaches wave their goalies forward, as…

More than 80 percent of Japanese oppose hosting the virus-postponed Olympics this year, a new poll published Monday showed, less than 10 weeks before the Tokyo Games. The latest survey comes after Japan expanded a coronavirus state of emergency Friday as the nation battles a fourth wave of virus infections. The surge has put pressure on the country’s healthcare system, with medical professionals repeatedly warning about shortages and burnout. The weekend survey by the Asahi Shimbun daily found 43 percent of respondents want the 2020 Games cancelled, and 40 percent want a further postponement. Those figures are up from 35…

Carlo Ancelotti says Everton “are going to change next season”, beginning with turning around their dreadful home form having lost nine times at Goodison Park this term. Sunday’s 1-0 defeat by bottom-placed Sheffield United summed up their home woes which all but ended their hopes of qualifying for European competition next season. They probably need to win their remaining two matches to have a chance, one of which is away to champions Manchester City on the final day of the season. Everton are eighth, three points behind Tottenham Hotspur and West Ham with a vastly inferior goal difference. The Jekyll…

Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, on Sunday said Nigeria’s unity, stretched to a new frontier, should never go back to its original dimension. Abubakar, in a statement he issued in Abuja, said that Nigerians must grow in unity, glow in community and must blow away disunity. “We have no choice, considering the alternative, which is a calamity that we would not wish to return to. According to the former vice president, a true Nigerian is one who is committed to the idea of the indivisibility of Nigeria. He added that a true Nigerian is also a person who is always…