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Bayern Munich head coach Hansi Flick says he trusts their high line defence and will resist making changes in order to contain fleet-footed Paris Saint Germain forwards Neymar and Kylian Mbappe in Sunday’s Champions League final. “In our games over the last 10 months, we’ve always tried to impose our style on the opposition,” Flick said Saturday with treble-chasing Bayern on a 20-match winning run. “We’ve always played with a high line and ultimately we’ve got results doing that so we won’t change too much. “We don’t want to give too much space to the opposition. “What’s important is we…

Condemns rising rape cases, banditry, killings The Diocese of Evo, Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion) has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to freeze all the accounts of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) because of monumental corruption going on there. The church made the call in a in a communique issued yesterday at the end of the second session of the fourth Synod of the Diocese which held at St. Matthias Anglican Church, Atali in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State with theme: Stronger and Better Together The church also called on Buhari to immediately intervene to bring sanity to…

Says displaced persons are returning home Pays homage to Obasanjo in Abeokuta Sokoto State Governor, Alhaji Aminu Tambuwal yesterday disclosed that the problem of banditry and kidnapping had largely been tackled in the state, putting an end to a vicious cycle of insecurity that engulfed the state for months. Tambuwal, Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party Governors’ Forum, added that internally displaced persons (IDPs) had started returning home now that insecurity had ended and peace restored in the eastern part of the state. He gave this update yesterday when he paid an unscheduled visit to former President Olusegun Obasanjo at…

Sokoto state governor, Hon. Aminu Tambuwal, has described former President Olusegun Obasanjo as a statesman, who is still relevant for consultations on issues of governance and challenges of the country. The governor, who paid an unscheduled visit at the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library (OOPL) Pent House residence of the former President, said Nigerians will continue to learn from him. Separate statements issued by the Special Assistant Media to the former President, Kehinde Akinyemi, and Special Adviser to the governor, Mohammed Bello, on Saturday, saud the governor met with Obasanjo behind closed-doors. After about an hour meeting behind closed-doors with Obasanjo,…

The corporate world is a community where dogs are known to eat dogs. Within this community, the Chinese anecdote that “the mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind,” is one trend that is as usual as the sun in the sky. So it is with former MD of United Bank for Africa (UBA), Tony Elumelu and Senator Ayo Akinyeleru of the Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petition. Reputation and integrity are coins that are carefully spent in business because they are precious. Thus, Senator Akinyeleru inadvertently accusing Tony Elumelu of fencing 41 billion away from NITEL…

Leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Saturday decried the decision of the All Progressives Congress (APC) leadership in the House of Representatives to shut down the sitting of various committees investigating the executive and described it as a deliberate design to cover up the stench of corruption oozing out of the APC administration. The party, however, charged the Speaker, House of Representative, Femi Gbajabiamila, to stop circumventing the statutory duties of the House and placing wedges in the way of the fight against corruption by the legislature. In a statement by the National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, the PDP…

How Salami panel established grounds for his removal Buhari yet to get report, likely this week New facts emerging from the Justice Ayo Salami panel, which investigated the suspended chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, have contemplated the possibility of further investigations, which might lead to a criminal prosecution of the suspended EFCC boss. Some of the new facts have also revealed how the Salami panel might have established enough evidentiary grounds for Magu’s eventual removal in their report, investigation of which started mid July with several witnesses, who assisted in the investigation. The panel,…

Insists Nigerians must bear arms to contain insecurity As communities in Southern Kaduna sign peace agreement Benue State Governor Samuel Ortom has said unless Nigerians collectively wake up to the menace of the killer herdsmen, everyone stands the risk of being consumed. Ortom spoke in Abuja at the weekend. The governor justified his recent call on the federal government to allow Nigerians bear arms, saying it would serve as self-defence in the face of the growing insecurity in the country. This was as the warring Atyap, Hausa and Fulani communities in Zangon Kataf Local Area of Southern Kaduna agreed to…

Ronald Koeman has some big plans at Barcelona this summer! Today’s Barcelona Transfer News Roundup mainly features Luis Suarez. Barcelona are planning a squad revamp but today’s rumours are all about Luis Suarez. The striker is reportedly not in Ronald Koeman’s plans, and we have tried to cover all the rumours in today’s papers: Koeman wants 3 first-team players sold Ronald Koeman has reportedly decided that he does not want Luis Suarez, Jordi Alba and Sergio Busquets. The new Barcelona manager has made the big decision as per Cadena SER [via BarcaBlaugrana]. Suarez has been linked with a move to Ajax as he has only…

Roberto Firmino, Naby Keita and Rhian Brewster scored for Jurgen Klopp’s champions as the newly-promoted Bundesliga side looked no match for Liverpool, Klopp made 11 changes at half-time, with new signing Kostas Tsimikas making his first appearance in a Liverpool shirt Premier League champions Liverpool won their first pre-season friendly 3-0 against German side VfB Stuttgart on a rainy evening in Austria. Roberto Firmino, Naby Keita and Rhian Brewster scored for Jurgen Klopp’s champions as the newly-promoted Bundesliga side looked no match for Liverpool, who looked as sharp as the circumstances allowed them to be. https://twitter.com/LFC/status/1297229385364275203 Firmino put the Reds in front, after brilliant work…