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In the never-ending debate surrounding Cristiano Ronaldoand Lionel Messi, the former has support from arguably football’s greatest-ever player. Brazillegend Pele has added his opinion about who is the current world’s best between Ronaldo and Messi – with the three-time World Cup winner plumping for Ronaldo. Ronaldo and Messi have been regarded as the world’s leading duo for more than a decade – sharing 11 Ballon d’Orawards between them. But despite Messi edging that battle (six titles to five), Pele would rather have Ronaldo in his team. ‘Today the best player in the world is Cristiano Ronaldo,’ he told YouTube channel…

Nigerian striker Obafemi Martins is on the verge of a return to Shanghai Shenhua, Chinese media have reported, increasing the likelihood Odion Ighalo will make his stay at Manchester United a permanent one this summer. Ighalo has made an impressive start to life at United, scoring four times in eight games since signing on loan until 31 Mayfrom the Chinese Super League club. Martins, who was previously contracted to Shenhua from 2016 until the end of the 2018 season, was reported by Titan Sports to have arrived in China on Tuesday and was being lined up to replace Ighalo ahead…

Nigeria born British world heavyweight boxing champion, Anthony Joshuaremains ‘fit and healthy’ despite coming into contact with Prince Charlesonly a couple of weeks before the heir to the throne tested positive for coronavirus. The champion is following government guidelines around self-isolation but has shown no symptoms of the deadly disease, which threatens to derail his upcoming fight with Kubrat Pulev. Yesterday, Prince Charles became the most high-profile member of the British establishment to contract coronavirus, with Clarence House announcing that the 71-year-old had been showing mild symptoms ‘but otherwise remains in good health’. It remains unclear when he caught the…

Today’s global world is a space dominated by the ideological energy of the neoliberal capitalism. Francis Fukuyama proclaimed the end of history and heralded the ideological dominance of the neoliberal capitalist mode. And almost everywhere, from the bastion of capitalism itself—the United States of America—to Europe and even the third world. The dominant economic story that mediates the reign of the market is the Washington Consensus. And its mantra is simple: liberalize, privatize! Unfortunately, however, the neoliberal complacence is already bursting at the seam. One immediate and tragic response has been the brutality of political Islam and its fundamentalist outcry…

Prince Charles, the eldest son and heir to Queen Elizabeth II, has tested positive for the new coronavirus, his office said on Wednesday. The 71-year-old is displaying mild symptoms of COVID-19 “but otherwise remains in good health”, Clarence House said in a statement. [GuardianNG]

Manchester United now plan on signing Odion Ighalo on a permanent basis as they’re unsure if the striker would be able to play for the club again under the current circumstances of his loan deal due to the coronavirus outbreak, reports metro.co.uk. The former Watford striker was a shock signing on deadline day in January and he was only intended to be a stop-gap before Ole Gunnar Solskjaer was handed significant funds to sign a striker in the summer. However, the 30-year-old was in a rich vein of form before the Premier League season was postponed, scoring four goals in…

Organisers of the 2020 Olympic Games scheduled to begin on 24 July in Tokyo, Japan, have agreed to a one-year postponement of the event because of the global Covid-19 pandemic. Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Japan’s Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, said the International Olympic Committee (IOC) had agreed to the delay. “I proposed to postpone for about a year and (IOC) President, Thomas Bach, responded with 100% agreement,” Abe announced. Before yesterday’s postponement, Canada and Australia had stepped down their participation in Tokyo 2020 due to the widespread of the virus globally. Several qualifiers not concluded yet were either cancelled…

The Olympics rings are up and the cute wide-eyed mascots are plastered across billboards and commuter trains, but people in Tokyo are increasingly convinced the Games won’t happen this summer. After weeks of pressure from athletes and sports associations, the International Olympic Committee this weekend acknowledged postponement is a possibility, and on Monday Japan’s prime minister said a decision to delay over the coronavirus may now be “inevitable”. For many in Tokyo, that hardly feels like news, after a steady drumbeat about the pandemic that has now infected more than 325,000 people and killed over 14,400 worldwide. “There is no…

Canada pulled out of the Tokyo Olympics over coronavirus fears as Japan’s prime minister Monday admitted a delay may be “inevitable” and the International Olympic Committee said a decision should come within weeks. Australia also told its athletes to prepare for a Tokyo Olympics in 2021 as expectations grew that the Games — scheduled to start on July 24 — would be postponed as the virus crisis convulses the globe. Japanese and Olympic officials had stuck resolutely to the line that the Summer Games will go ahead on time, but criticism from athletes and sports bodies has swelled to a…

The Nigeria government has confirmed 10 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number in the country to 22. Stating this through its Twitter handle, @NCDCgov, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) said of the 10, three were from the Federal Capital Territory, while seven were in Lagos. It said: “Nine of the 10 cases have travel history outside Nigeria in the last one week. The 10th case is a close contact of a confirmed case. “All new cases have mild to moderate symptoms, and are being managed at the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital and Infectious Disease Hospital,…