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Liverpool overcame a young Aston Villa side in their last game to progress in the FA Cup. Let’s take a look at the latest transfer news featuring Liverpool from 10 January 2021: Liverpool to face competition for Sven Botman As per Duncan Castles (via the Transfer Window Podcast), Tottenham Hotspur are expected to challenge Liverpool for Lille defender Sven Botman. The centre-back has been linked with a move to Liverpool as they are without three senior centre-backs at the moment. While Virgil van Dijk and Joe Gomez are not expected to feature this season, Joel Matip has picked numerous niggling injuries. That has forced…

Manchester City put in an impressive display to beat Birmingham City in the FA Cup, and will look to maintain their winning run in the coming weeks. Let’s take a look at the latest transfer news featuring Manchester City from 10 January 2021: Manchester City’s Fernandinho has offers on his table Fernandinho’s Manchester City contract will run out next summer. The Brazilian has a decision to make as the club have not been able to agree a new deal with his representatives. As per reports, Fernandinho has no shortage of suitors, as clubs in Europe and his native Brazil are looking to…

Former Arsenal defender Martin Keown has blasted Mesut Ozil, accusing the German of lacking determination and ‘not giving everything for the shirt’ in recent years. Ozil is reportedly set to exit the Emirates Stadium this month or in the summer, bringing an end to a rollercoaster seven-year spell with Arsenal. The 32-year-old was once a cult hero for Arsenal and showed flashes of his brilliance since swapping Real Madrid for north London. However, he has since divided opinion amongst the Gunners faithful. While many supporters have criticized Ozil’s nonchalance and lack of urgency on the pitch, others have lashed out over his hefty £350,000-per-week wages. Former Arsenal defender Martin Keown believes Mesut Ozil’s…

Despite the doom and gloom that characterised 2020, including the crash in crude oil prices and the COVID-19 pandemic, which brought the socio-economic and political structures of Nigeria to their knees, the Nigerian government still made several efforts to beat the odds. Amidst various criticisms and antagonism, the President Muhammadu Buhari-led federal government took several steps to ensure the wellbeing of the country and its citizens. DEMONSTRATING RESILIENCE AND RESOURCEFULNESS, THE GOVERNMENT TOOK CRITICAL DECISIONS, AND IMPLEMENTED DARING POLICIES DESPITE THE UNCERTAIN CLOUDS OCCASIONED BY THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC AND A SECOND RECESSION IN ROW. THISDAY, HOWEVER, CONSIDERS SOME OF THE…

*Pays tribute to fallen heroes at armed forces remembrance day Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has emphasised the need for Nigeria to remain an indivisible entity despite the differences in religion, ethnicity, political affiliations, or other diversities among the citizenry. The Vice President, according to a release by his media aide, Laolu Akande, spoke on Sunday at an inter denominational church service to mark this year’s Armed Forces Remembrance Day Celebration. He urged Nigerians both home and in diaspora to be committed to ensuring Nigeria’s unity, saying the nation is stronger together than being apart. Osinbajo, who was represented at the…

The Philippines has secured 30 million doses of a Covid-19 vaccine developed by US drug maker Novavax, officials said Sunday, as the country braces for a surge in infections after a huge religious event. This is only the second vaccine deal signed by the national government, which has faced growing criticism for its slowness in procuring jabs for the archipelago where nearly half a million infections have been recorded. It hopes to secure 148 million doses this year from seven companies — enough for around 70 percent of its population. But the government has warned it will depend on global…

Immediate past governor of Bauchi State, Mohammed Abubakar, believes his loss in the 2019 governorship poll to Governor Bala Mohammed remains inexplicable, especially given that his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), won a majority of the House of Assembly seats. Also, out of the three senates and nine House of Representatives seats, APC cornered all except the Bagoro/Dass Federal Constituency that former Speaker Yakubu Dogara, won on the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) platform. In an interview with The Guardian, the former governor said he was a victim of an elite conspiracy, noting that after a repeat election in some…

By pontificating, as he did recently, that Nigeria’s elite are responsible for what their country is and what it can become, President Muhammadu Buhari was only suggesting the obvious. The elite can claim to be part of the country’s success, but they are definitely an inherent part of its problems. And they can do a lot better than they do at present to lift the country from its low ebb into a more befitting status. Speaking at the graduation of the 78 participants of the Senior Executive Course 42 of the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), Kuru,…

SIMONKOLAWOLELIVE ! BY SIMON KOLAWOLE Hooligans invading the Capitol Hill, disrupting the certification of presidential election result and desecrating the symbol of American democracy? That would be art imitating life. That would be the Machiavellian and eccentric President Frank Underwood doing his thing in the House of Cards on Netflix. But, no, this is life imitating art. This is US President Donald Trump unleashing his mobsters on the Congress in a last, desperate and violent attempt at enthroning anarchy — after urinating on American democracy persistently since his definitive defeat in the November 3, 2020 election. Trump and his political…

•Warns against negotiating with bandits, says you can’t appease evil •Cautions against Amotekun becoming another SARS Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, Saturday, called for the use of “soldiers of fortunes”, also known as mercenaries, to tackle the growing insecurity in the country. Soyinka, who appeared on a one-on-one interview session on Arise News Television Network, however, warned government against negotiating with bandits, saying it is impossible to appease evil. The literary icon cautioned governors of his native South-west to consciously guard against a possible transmutation of the regional security outfit, Amotekun, into a security menace, like the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery…