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Liverpool defender Virgil van Dijk is excited about the Reds’ future following their Champions League success in 2018-19. Jurgen Klopp’s men enjoyed a fine season last term, claiming a sixth European crown and finishing second to Manchester City in the Premier League. That does not quite tell the entire story of their domestic campaign, however, as they amassed a remarkable haul of 97 points, the most ever collected by a side who failed to win the title. City got 98. Klopp’s side were praised for their vibrant style of play and presence of youth, with Andy Robertson, Trent Alexander-Arnold and…

By Alex Otti “Extreme poverty anywhere is a threat to human security everywhere.” – Kofi Annan “Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.” – Aristotle Late Gen. Andrew Owoye Azazi (1952-2012) was my friend and brother. We had had dinner in a Lagos restaurant with Herbert Wigwe, then Deputy CEO of Access Bank, two days before the helicopter crash that took his life and that of another friend, Governor Patrick Yakowa of Kaduna State. We concluded the dinner with an agreement to fly to Port Harcourt together very early on Saturday, December 15, 2012. He was going further to Bayelsa…

By Praise Olowe Whether you are on the path you’ve always dreamed of professionally or are still finding your way towards it, these 12 good practices will pay in dividends down the line. 1. Maintain a digital professional address book: Doing this makes it super easy to find contact information when you need it (so you don’t have to go searching through old emails). The relationships you build during your career can be even more valuable than your title itself, so it’s essential to stay in touch. Get in the habit of adding business card information to your address book every…

After victories in 1980, 1994 and 2013, the Super Eagles of Nigeria will today begin their quest for a fourth Africa Cup of Nations title as they host Burundi in the opening Group B game at the Alexandria Stadium Since winning the 2013 edition of the AFCON, the Super Eagles have failed to qualify for the last two editions of the biennial competition, therefore Nigerian fans are expecting a good outing from the team especially after booking a place to the competition with a game to spare. However, the team was not impressive in its last two warm up matches…

BY DELE MOMODU  Fellow Nigerians, it is with so much pride and joy that I wish to choose my Man of the Year, midway to the end of 2019. God’s ways are indeed mysterious. I was a bit uncomfortable and perturbed when the ruling party, APC, was fighting tooth and nail to install Alhaji Ahmed Ibrahim Lawan as President of the Senate and Hakeem Femi Gbajabiamila as Speaker of the House of Representatives. The reason for my reservations and concern was not farfetched. I had imagined that the only reason was that, as has been typical of the highly touchy and…

While FIFA rejoice at global television viewing figures for the women’s World Cup, there have been too many empty seats inside stadiums and on the field VAR is stealing headlines. The latest came in the wake of the retaken penalty for Argentina that knocked out Scotland on Wednesday. That followed similar controversy in Nigeria’s loss to France, another retaken penalty preventing the Super Falcons from securing qualification for the knockout phase. – Law changes wreak havoc – If the use of Video Assistant Referees at the 2018 World Cup in Russia was ultimately deemed a success, recent modifications to the…

On the last day of group stage action at the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup in France, the Netherlands and defending champions USA confirmed their status as group winners, as both teams won their final games to finish top of Group E and Group F respectively. Late Beerensteyn winner sinks Canada Lineth Beerensteyn scored a 75th-minute winner as the Netherlands beat Canada in their final group game to top Group E. The Dutch dominated large spells of the game, and should’ve taken the lead before half-time, through their record goalscorer Vivianne Miedema. After receiving a cross from Shanice van de Sanden, Miedema…

Says no money missing from emirate’s account The Emir of Kano, Alhaji Muhammadu Sanusi II, has dismissed allegations by the Kano State Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission that under his watch, the Emirate Council misappropriated a total sum of N3.5 billion. Sanusi, in a rebuttal of the 13-point allegations levelled against him by the commission, which has also gone ahead to recommend his suspension to Kano State Governor, Dr. Abdullahi Ganduje, attributed the accusations to a misunderstanding of how the Emirate Council functions by the petitioners and the commission. The moves to suspend the monarch, however, got the support…

By Tony Afejuku Many of our compatriots will not query me if I say, without mincing words, and without water in my mouth, that Nigeria our country as it is currently is a country of pusillanimous people, whose pusillanimity is responsible for the afflictions they (or we) experience and suffer today. Indeed, ours is a country now (or the country now) of uncountable human aberrations inflicted on us by our so-called political leaders and masters since time immemorial. Things have only come to a head now in the regime, this regime, of those who deluded us (and are still deluding…

By Dan Agbese The blame game is as old as human history. Perhaps its first incidence was what happened in the Garden of Eden. There, in that paradise we now sorely miss, Adam and his helpmate, Eve, ate the forbidden fruit from the tree of life. When God came looking for Adam, the man found, to his horror, that he was buck naked. He could not stand the divine eyes roaming all over his naked body, so he hid himself. He forgot that the almighty was omniscient. God knew where Adam was and he knew that he had committed the…