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What’s the story? Inter Miami part-owner David Beckham has reportedly reached out to Barcelona skipper Lionel Messi to discuss a possible transfer to the club when the franchise will make their debut in Major League Soccer next season. In case you didn’t know… Beckham’s Inter Miami side, who are set to become the 25th franchise in the MLS when they start featuring in the league in March 2020, are currently looking to recruit big names in a bid to boost their reputation in the league. The former England skipper has been incredibly vocal about his desire to bring some of the world’s elite to his squad, telling…

Liverpool cruised to a 3-0 Premier League victory over Burnley before the international break, but it was not their free-flowing football that made the headlines. Instead, most of the post-match talk centred on Sadio Mane’s furious reaction, the forward seemingly livid with team-mate Mohamed Salah after being substituted at Turf Moor. The Senegal forward was apparently angry at Salah for taking a shot moments earlier rather than setting up his team-mate for a simple finish. It has led to some suggesting the Egypt international is greedy, with former Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger saying: “Salah is a bit obsessed with finishing himself.”…

Tosin Abdulsalam The recent xenophobic attacks on foreign African nationals in South Africa have been the top of the news on the continent’s media platforms and especially on social media. Loads of gory pictures and gut-wrenching videos had surfaced on the Internet and they seem to spread angst and fuel riots all over the continent as of today. But the question on everyone’s mind has been: what really happened? How did these all begin? Did these South Africans just stand up and start killing other African nationals? What level of hatred is in their mind? What is the South African…

Nigeria can be likened to a cat with nine lives as it emerged from a protracted civil war, bloody religious uprisings, and political troubles not dismembered. However, some countries, which are heterogeneous as Nigeria, had disintegrated. Eritrea pulled out of Ethiopia after fighting political battles; and Sudan split into two, with South Sudan emerging from it. But can Nigeria continue existing as one indivisible and united country for a long indefinite time? Nobody can correctly hazard a guess. However, the bloody happenings in Nigeria are auguries of impending apocalypse. Today, Nigeria is gripped by the jugular by Boko Haram insurgency…

By Charles Onunaiju That Nigeria, its government and supposedly enlighten public opinion are suffused and embroiled in the controversy of a London court judgment debt of a whopping 9.6 billion U.S dollars against Nigeria and in favour of an Irish company is curiously shocking, to say the least. The mood of national panic and even muscular debates about how to wriggle out, not only would embolden the affront to our national sovereignty but encourage future reckless adventures to try their hands in similar effrontery. How to respond to the well-orchestrated and syndicated attempt to swindle the country is to forthrightly denounce…

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has released frightening statistics on suicide rates worldwide, saying at least one person dies every 40 seconds from suicide. Each year, about 800,000 people die to suicide, WHO reports, with suicide being the second-leading cause of death among young people aged 15-29, after road injury. The frightening statistics were released yesterday as the world marked the World Suicide Prevention Day, held globally on September 10, organised by the International Association for Suicide Prevention. The main aim is to highlight the most essential ingredient for effective global suicide prevention and to encourage people to spread awareness…

Arsenal had a rather strange summer. Rumours of a transfer budget of only £45 million put an early dampener on any expectations fans had ahead of the new season. Fan frustration reached a boiling point when halfway through the summer no major signings had been made and none looked in the offing. The #WeCareDoYou campaign started with thousands of Arsenal fans signing a petition questioning the motives of the Arsenal owner less than 12 months after their complete takeover of the club. Josh Kroenke’s response did little to quell the concerns that had arisen among the Arsenal faithful. However, as the…

May look into payment of $39m to IPCO   Concern mounts over pattern of fraud The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has escalated its probe into how a firm promoted by an Irish, Mr. Michael Quinn, and registered in British Virgin Islands, Process and Industrial Developments Limited, secured an agreement with the federal government, an alleged breach of which has attracted an enforcement order, by a British commercial court, of a $9.6 billion arbitral award against Nigeria. THISDAY learnt yesterday that the anti-graft agency is expanding its focus of investigation following a report published on September 4 by Bloomberg BusinessWeek,…

Nigeria achieved one part of her mission at the on-going FIBA World Cup in China yesterday when they beat the hosts 86 to 73 to qualify for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. It was Nigeria’s last classification game of the 2019 FIBA Men World Cup and the D’Tigers needed a win to end as Africa’s highest performer at the World Cup, which reward was an Olympics ticket. That they did in style. China won the first quarter, 21-19 points, but the Alex Nwora-led team came back stronger in the second quarter to take the initiative and end the first half…

Eze Onyekpere The senseless killing and looting of properties of foreigners in South Africa dominated the news for the greater part of last week. For the first time in so many years, with the exception of football events, Nigerians were united in their view that the treatment meted to Nigerians and other black foreigners in South Africa was wrong. What happened in South Africa were grievous violations of human rights and fundamental freedom. This discourse draws the contours of state responsibility for the protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms, including the basic obligation of governments to maintain law and…