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Pep Guardiola said he expected more of Jurgen Klopp after the Liverpool boss suggested Manchester City had benefited from an enforced rest due to a coronavirus outbreak at the club in December. Premier League leaders City hold a seven-point advantage over fourth-placed Liverpool, with a game in hand, ahead of a clash between the sides at Anfield on Sunday. Klopp blamed a lack of physical and mental freshness for the Reds’ 1-0 defeat to Brighton on Wednesday, which stretched their winless run at home to four games. “We haven’t had a break,” Klopp said at his pre-match press conference on…

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has refuted report of maligning a leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, saying, he respects the former governor of Lagos State a lot. Wike’s special assistant on media, Kelvin Ebiri, said, “The attention of the Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, has been drawn to false assertions attributed to him in an article written in The Guardian by Emmanuel Ande on February 5, 2021, titled: ” Tinubu cannot see presidency gate in 2023, says Wike.” “We wish to affirm that it is true that Governor Wike was in Yola, the capital…

Two years ago last month Barcelona signed Frenkie de Jong for 75 million euros ($90 million), while six months earlier Real Madrid spent 100 million euros on Eden Hazard. When the transfer window closed on Monday, Madrid had finished a second consecutive window without signing anyone while Barca coach Ronald Koeman was told the club could not find even three million euros for a much-needed central defender. “What I want as a coach is not possible financially,” said Koeman in September. To ease the strain, key players could be sold, their wages shifted, and those that stay may have to…

Mauricio Pochettino takes Paris Saint-Germain to beleaguered rivals Marseille, while Mesut Ozil could make his home debut for Fenerbahce against Galatasaray and Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane returns to the dugout after missing two games following a positive Covid-19 test. AFP Sport selects some of the standout football action in Europe this weekend: Marseille in disarray ahead of Classique Marseille v Paris Saint-Germain, Sunday 2000 GMT A chaotic week at Marseille culminates with the visit of bitter enemies PSG, who are seeking to avenge an ill-tempered 1-0 loss in September’s reverse fixture in which Neymar was among five players sent…

Mr Ayatudeen Ahmed, a witness in an alleged N11.5 billion fraud suit against former Gov. Adebayo Alao-Akala of Oyo State and two others, on Friday, said there was no document indicating that one of the defendants, Olufemi Babalola, received kickbacks from contractors. Ahmed, who was part of the team that investigated the alleged fraud suit against the defendants, disclosed this on Friday while testifying before an Oyo State High Court, sitting in Ibadan. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Alao-Akala, Babalola, a businessman, and Hosea Agboola, a former Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Matters, are being prosecuted…

It was unwise, in the opinion of this columnist, for the Nigerian authorities to have so heatedly called out Transparency International, over its 2020 ranking of Nigeria in the 149th position out of 180 countries sampled. To put it jocularly, presidential spokesperson, Shehu Garba, almost came to blows with the organisation’s personnel, leaving its Nigerian head, Mr Auwal Rafsanjani, with little choice but to disdainfully reply him, asking the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), to caution him. It is impolitic and improper to do battle with international organisations for no other reason than that they gave us a lower…

Let me start by congratulating you for your actions against the oppressive security outfit – Special Ant-Robbery Squad (SARS) in 2020. With those protests, you dispelled the perception that you are all happy in your boredom. In those moments, you gave the world insight into your abilities, which the world now believes if properly harnessed, can be used to transform Nigeria for good. For the occupiers of power in Nigeria, you reminded them that, to quote from Amanda Gorman’s spellbinding poem at President Joe Biden’s inauguration – ‘’silence is not peaceful’’. Check the age of Amanda Gorman – a mere…

‘Nigeria under Buhari is a moving corpse’ Rivers State Governor Neysom Wike has urged National leader of ruling All Progressive Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, to channel his energy to other profitable ventures, stating that presidency would be out of reach of his party and himself come 2023 general elections. Wike, who gave Tinubu the advice, yesterday, in Yola, Adamawa State, while on an inspection tour of projects being executed by Governor Ahmadu Fintiri, said with the high performance of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governors and alleged failure APC government under President Muhammadu Buhari is recording on daily basis, it is…

Justice Okon Abang of Federal High Court, Abuja, yesterday, ordered forfeiture to Federal Government a property belonging to Sani Dan-Galadima, a member of House of Representatives, representing Kaura-Namoda Federal Constituency of Zamfara State, who stood surety to Faisal Maina. The property was used as a bail bond for Faisal, son of Abdulrasheed Maina, former Chairman, defunct Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT), who is being prosecuted for money laundering by Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The forfeiture followed the disappearance of Faisal, for the second time, in the course of his prosecution. At the resumed hearing of the case, prosecution…

Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu of the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court on Thursday declined to revoke the bail she earlier granted to the convener of the #RevolutionNow movement, Mr Omoyele Sowore. Sowore and another member of the movement, Mr Olawale Bakare, are being prosecuted by the federal government on charges bordering on alleged treason. They were said to have committed the alleged offences by staging “a revolution” campaign against the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari on August 5, 2019. The #RevolutionNow protest called by Sowore, according to the government, was aimed at removing the president from office by unconstitutional…