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More than 80 people were arrested as Paris Saint-Germain fans set cars ablaze and clashed with police on the Champs-Elysees after the Champions League final defeat to Bayern Munich. Around 5,000 supporters had gathered at Paris’s Parc des Princes to cheer on PSG, lighting flares and chanting as they watched the 1-0 defeat in Lisbon on a big screen. After scuffles at the ground, late-night clashes erupted on the Champs-Elysees, where vehicles were set on fire, windows broken and shops vandalised. Police said 83 people were arrested during the night. Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo had called for “mature celebrations” should…

The Mali junta has affirmed that it wants a three-year transition to review the foundations of the Malian state. This transition will be directed by a body led by a soldier, who will also be head of state,” a source in the ECOWAS delegation in capital Bamako told AFP. “The government will also be predominantly composed of soldiers” under the junta’s proposal, the source said on condition of anonymity. The source added that the junta has agreed to “free president Keita”, who has been detained along with other political leaders since the coup on Tuesday, and he “will be able…

•Dogara: My defection to APC is to rebuild party, not for presidential ambition Sokoto State Governor, Hon. Aminu Tambuwal, has begun consultations with some notable political leaders over his presidential aspiration on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). THISDAY gathered that the consultations started last Thursday when he met former Senate President, Senator David Mark, during which he discussed his ambition with him. Tambuwal was to continue the consultation on Saturday with visits to a former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, and a former Minister of Defence, Lt. Gen. Theophilus Danjuma (rtd). The governor had met behind closed doors…

The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, has tested positive for COVID-19. Announcing this Monday, the Commissioner for Information, Gbenga Omotoso said the professor became aware of his status following the required testing protocol of contact tracing procedures. He said: “Abayomi is doing well with no symptoms. Adhering to the protocol of the homebased strategy in Lagos State, he will be isolating in his home for the next 14 days but will continue to discharge his duties both as the deputy incident commander of the Incident Command System for COVID-19 and most especially, as the commissioner for health.”…

The federal government has said it plans to build a third refinery in Rivers State bringing the total in the state to three. This is as the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, insisted that the Niger Delta region is safe for companies to conduct their businesses and demanded that international oil companies (IOCs) relocate their headquarters to the state. The duo spoke Sunday when the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipri Sylva, and the management of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) paid a courtesy visit to Wike at the Government House, Port Harcourt. Sylva also said plans…

Kylian Mbappe is determined to make footballing history for France by leading Paris Saint-Germain to victory over Bayern Munich in Sunday’s Champions League final in Lisbon. “This is exactly why I came here. I always said that I wanted to go down in my country’s history. Tomorrow is another chance to do that,” Mbappe said on the eve of the game which is PSG’s first ever Champions League final appearance. Mbappe, now 21, emerged as a global superstar by helping France win the World Cup in Russia in 2018, becoming the youngest player since a teenage Pele to score in…

*Bayern Munich will face PSG in the final act of the pandemic-altered Champions League.* However the final ends, we will always remember the 2019/2020 Champions League season. It was special. The pandemic break, one-legged knockout stages and a fiercely ruthless Bayern Munich side. The final in Lisbon has the potential to be a fitting denouement to a season that threatened a cliffhanger. Petro-dollar backed PSG could finally get their first Champions League trophy bringing a crowning moment to billions of dollars in investment after years of heartache and disappointment. For Bayern, it will be a story of efficiency and ruthlessness…

After years of massive investments in team, Paris Saint-German (PSG) are one-match away from rewriting their own history when they face Bayern Munich in the final of the 2019/2020 UEFA Champions League on Sunday. PSG are “charged up” to win their first-ever Champions League trophy against Bayern Munich, who are in the run for their sixth Champions League title. Hans-Dieter Flick, whose Bayern Munich team has enjoyed a blistering run to the final are clear favourites for the final billed for Estádio Sport Lisboa e Benfica in Lisbon, Portugal but PSG are too dangerous to be written off. PSG’s Neymar,…

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, on Saturday declared that in Nigeria today, over 14 million children that should be in school were not in school, and thereby deprived of education. Obasanjo made this known in Lagos at the virtual 2020 Fellowship Graduation Ceremony of the second cohort of “Teach for Nigeria Fellows”. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that “Teach For Nigeria”, an NGO, graduated 161 fellows who have impacted approximately 9,660 students in 80 schools across Lagos, Ogun, and Kaduna States. NAN reports that “Teach For Nigeria” focuses on developing a movement of leaders across Nigeria who are committed…

The ECOWAS Commission has donated about 4,000 tonnes of food items to the Federal Government for distribution to vulnerable households, to mitigate the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Sangare Sekou, the ECOWAS Commissioner of Agriculture, Water Resources and Environment, disclosed this at the presentation of the items to the Federal Government on Saturday in Kano. Sekou said that the gesture was to demonstrate the region’s solidarity with the Government and People of Nigeria. He said: “This regional solidarity will be demonstrated through food donations of a total quantity of 3,999 tonnes of cereals comprising of millet and sorghum. “The first…