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A federal judge has rejected R Kelly’s second attempt at using the COVID-19 pandemic to get released from jail. US District Judge Ann Donnelly denied the singer’s request to be released from Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) Chicago, where he is being held in a report by TMZ. While she acknowledged that the disease had spread to the facility, Donnelly stressed that Kelly’s bond did not present enough evidence that the singer is uniquely at risk to contract the disease. The lawyer reassured the court that if released to a loft apartment in Chicago, where his girlfriend, Joycelyn Savage, lives, Kelly…

Jurgen Klopp believes there is still room for improvement from Liverpool despite their incredible Premier League campaign, which is on hold due to the coronavirus pandemic. The Reds were 25 points clear of second-placed Manchester City and on the verge of their first top-flight title since 1990 when football was halted last month. But Klopp said Liverpool, who won the Champions League last year and have only lost one Premier League match all season, could get even better. “We will not change, that’s the first thing, but whether we will be successful depends on what other clubs are doing as…

Jide Ojo The above question was posed to me on Monday, April 20, 2020 by the anchor of ‘Politics Today’ on Channels Television, Seun Okinbaloye. Well, I answered in the negative and I would advance my reasons for taking that position shortly. But before then, what really does a Chief of Staff to the President do? Information garnered from Wikipedia has it that “The White House chief of staff position is the successor to the earlier role of the President’s private secretary. The role was formalised as the assistant to the president in 1946 and acquired its current title in…

The 2021 African Cup of Nations, which was earlier postponed till January 2022, may not hold as rescheduled after all. According to a recent FIFA hypothesis, international matches will not hold this year again due to the Coronavirus, which means the qualifying series for the African Nations Cup will only start next year. The tournament was originally scheduled to hold in June and July 2021, but CAF announced on January 15, 2020 that due to unfavourable climatic conditions during this period, the tournament would take place between January 9 and February 6, 2021. But as FIFA is not inclined to…

Open conflict broke out between Tokyo Olympic organizers and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) yesterday over who will pay for the unprecedented year-long postponement, reports theglobeandmail.com. Tokyo spokesman Masa Takaya said the organizing committee asked the Switzerland-based IOC to remove a comment from its website suggesting that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe agreed that Japan would shoulder most of the postponement costs. Media reports in Japan estimate the year-long delay caused by the coronavirus pandemic will cost $2 billion to $6 billion. Neither side has given an official estimate, but Tokyo CEO Toshiro Muto has called the postponement costs “massive.” “It’s…

German football authorities are set to announce plans on Thursday for Bundesliga matches to restart on May 9 in empty stadiums, but the potential return in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic is meeting some opposition. Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government is slowly easing nationwide restrictions and the resumption of the Bundesliga, which was halted on March 13, would boost morale in football-mad Germany. It would also make the Bundesliga the first top-flight European league to begin playing again. Large public events are banned in Germany until August 31, yet football could resume without spectators — known as “ghost games” in…

The Chinese Football Association has proposed clubs slash wages of players and coaches by at least 30 percent to cut costs because of the coronavirus, state media said Tuesday. The People’s Daily said that the CFA is now awaiting feedback from teams in the top-tier Chinese Super League (CSL) and the two divisions below. The CSL season was supposed to begin on February 22 but was indefinitely postponed after coronavirus emerged in central China in December, before spreading worldwide. “After the opinions are collected and revised, the Chinese Football Association will report to FIFA and other relevant departments,” the state-run…

Talented Canadian teenager Alphonso Davies says it is a “dream come true” to extend his Bayern Munich contract until 2025, joining Thomas Mueller and coach Hansi Flick who have also prolonged their involvement with the German champions. Davies is the latest Bayern star offered an extension after Mueller and Flick both recently signed new contracts until 2023. Davies, 19, was originally signed until June 2023, but the versatile teenager has impressed this season, both on the left-wing and at left-back. “I’m very happy. Bayern Munich is one of the best clubs in the world, and for me, it’s a dream…

The boss of the Bundesliga says the German league must repay the trust shown by Angela Merkel’s government if football returns, as expected on May 9, despite the coronavirus pandemic. “It is our task to repay this trust,” said Christian Seifert, CEO of the German Football League (DFL). “It is the task of the clubs, but also of the players. “This has a lot to do with hygiene measures, it has a lot to do with behaviour in private life,” Seifert said, in a video message. “It’s a matter of being particularly disciplined” With the German government slowly easing restrictions,…

Eze Onyekpere Nigeria and virtually all countries in the world are experiencing economic slowdown arising from the coronavirus pandemic. Public and private establishments have been shut, individuals and families have been locked down in obedience to obey the stay-at-home and social distancing directives of various government agencies. Economic activities in the production, service delivery, formal and informal sectors have virtually come to a halt while supply chains have been disrupted. Even the production and supply of medical goods and commodities needed to fight the pandemic have been hampered by the halt of economic activities. For Nigeria, the price of crude…