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Nigerian defender, Semi Ajayi will need to be at his best this afternoon when his club, West Bromwich Albion take on Odion Ighalo and his Manchester United teammates in two friendliest at Old Trafford. According to reports from Old Trafford, the aim of the friendly is to keep both teams ready for the restart of the Premier League and the Sky Bet Championship suspended since early March due to the Covid-19 pandemic. It is the first time both Nigerian players will be facing each other since Ighalo returned to the English topflight on loan in January. With the two games…

Dethroned emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi II, has filed notice of appeal challenging the Judgement of Federal high court on allegation of land racketeering running billions of naira. Justice Lewis Allagoa had on Monday dismissed the case filed by the emir on the enforcement of his fundamental right to fair hearing, a decision that eventually paves way for Kano Anti-corruption commission to investigate the former emir. Against the relieve of the plaintiff, Justice Allagoa affirmed the institutional powers vested on the anti-graft agency to invite the 14th emir of Kano to answer questions on the allegation charged against him. In…

Abimbola Adelakun Lately, a federal lawmaker from Borno State, Ahmed Jaha, walked back his comments that women who wanted to avoid being raped should learn to dress decently because  — and this is according to him — “men are not wood.” The comments were reportedly made during a plenary session while the House of Representatives members deliberated on the domestication of the Violence Against Persons and Prohibition Act. Like several people have pointed out to Jaha, rape is not so much about sex and seduction, as it is about the use and abuse of power. Rapists do not see clothes;…

Niran Adedokun There is something about Nigeria’s COVID-19 situation that makes one think that the miraculous is indeed taking place in the country. Could that be why managers of the country’s strategy for dealing with the pandemic are allowing worship houses open from next week? Is Nigeria really in that place yet? As the number of infections unravels daily like the steps of the man on a very long journey, you are tempted into drawing a comparison with what happens in other parts of the world and thank God that things indeed seem to be milder in Nigeria. Sometime last…

Former Nigeria skipper, John Obi Mikel, says that he does not rule out playing in Egypt and that he was not expecting what Mohamed Salah has reached, reports kingfut.com. The 33-year-old is known for his spell at English side Chelsea, where he spent 11 years (2006-2017) and 91 caps for his national team. Mikel met the Egyptian King at the London club when he joined them in 2014. However, Salah was not performing for the Blues and did not get a lot of playing time. He earned himself loan moves to Fiorentina and Roma before moving permanently to the Italian…

Premier League will return after a 100-day stoppage on June 17, cramming the remaining 92 games of the season into just five-and-a-half weeks. A deluge of football may be welcomed by fans starved of live action for three months. But it is expected to take a heavy toll on players hit by the combination of a long layoff, little contact training, fixture congestion and less hands-on treatment. “We are expecting more injuries at this time,” Newcastle club doctor Paul Catterson told the BBC. “We have had players asking if they can have ice baths after training and they can’t at…

The deposed Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi ii has appealed a judgment delivered at a Federal High Court against his fundamental human right allegedly infringed by Kano Public Complaints and anti -corruption Commission. The dethroned Emir, in a Motion on Notice through his Counsels Dikko and Mahmud said: On 8th June 2020, a Federal High Court sitting in Kano presided by Hon. Justice A. Lewis-Allagoa delivered a judgment dismissing a Suit No. FHC/KN/CS/54/2020 instituted by His Highness, Muhammad Sanusi, II, CON seeking for the enforcement of his fundamental right to a fair hearing. The law firm said:  “As counsel to…

By Habib Aruna It is very doubtful if the founding fathers of the United States, who sat for days in a hall in Philadelphia in 1776, trying to figure out how to build a country where office holders are elected and subjected to periodic elections, ever imagined that there would be a time that the occupant of the White House will be so erratic and unconventional to circumvent all known norms of decency and traditions that bound the country together for centuries. I don’t think they ever thought there will be a time that a duly elected president’s behavior and…

Defunding the police is just part of the structural reform needed to root out racism in the U.S., says Mehrsa Baradaran, a law professor at the University of California, Irvine, who studies the economic inequities between Black and white Americans. What’s truly needed is a big-picture rethink of U.S. policy at every level, she told HuffPost in an interview by phone and in follow-ups over email this week. In her 2017 book “The Color of Money,” Baradaran lays out how, over centuries, policymakers wrote Black Americans out of the economic system — and how policies blocking Black people from obtaining…

Premier League clubs made a combined loss of £600 million in the 2018/19 season, even before suffering the financial pain of the coronavirus pandemic, a report revealed on Tuesday. Analysis from football finance experts Vysyble shows the 20 clubs in the English top-flight combined to post the huge loss despite record revenues of £5.15 billion ($6.6 billion) The financial impact of COVID-19 is set to have a huge impact on the Premier League, even if plans to complete the current season behind closed doors go smoothly. Premier League sides face paying a reported £330 million to broadcasters in rebates as…