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Chelsea legend, Glen Johnson has warned the club’s boss, Thomas Tuchel not to allow winger Hakim Ziyech, leave the club. This is despite reported interest from Laliga giants Barcelona. The former Ajax winger Ziyech has featured in eight games in the league under Thomas Tuchel this season, scoring his only …

A 36-year-old Nigerian, Afeez Adebara, has been jailed for romance scams and money laundering in the United States. The Nigerian, who leads a group of money launderers in an online romance scam, was sentenced on Friday to four years in jail by a court in the Northern District of Oklahoma. …

Dr. Uchechi Iweala, son of the Director-General of the World Trade Organisation, Ngozi Okonji-Iweala, has broken a medical record in Maryland, United States. On Thursday, the WTO boss announced that her son was one of the first spinal surgeons in Maryland to perform a successful navigated lumbar spinal fusion using …

US President Joe Biden has appointed Nigerian-born Enoh Titilayo Ebong to the post of Director, United States Trade and Development Agency. This was contained in a brief with names of nominees for different positions in the president’s cabinet sent to the US Congress. Ebong had served in different roles in …

Canada said on Sunday it has detected its first cases of the new Omicron strain of Covid in two people who had travelled recently to Nigeria. The government of Ontario confirmed that the two cases are in the capital, Ottawa. Federal and Ontario provincial officials said both patients are in …

As Xavi Hernandez confronts a huge job in front of him at Barcelona, Real Sociedad lead La Liga. Meanwhile, Jose Mourinho’s star seems to be dwindling further in Rome but there is a new French superstar emerging in the Bundesliga. AFP Sport looks at some talking points from around Europe …

Xavi Hernandez was unveiled as Barcelona’s new coach on Monday as thousands of fans welcomed the debt-ridden club’s legendary former midfielder back to Camp Nou. Xavi walked out to chants of “Xavi, Xavi” before signing his contract on the pitch, alongside his family and Barca president Joan Laporta. “I don’t …

OSBCOctober 14, 2021 An overnight fire tore through a building in the southern Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung on Thursday, killing 46 people and injuring dozens of others, officials said. The blaze broke out in the 13-storey, mixed-use building in the small hours of Thursday morning, according to officials, raging through …

OSBCOctober 14, 2021 Gunfire killed two people and wounded 12 at a Beirut rally organized by the Shiite Hezbollah and Amal movements Thursday to demand the dismissal of the Beirut blast lead investigator, a doctor said. One man died of a gun shot to the head and the other of …

OSBCOctober 14, 2021 Five people were killed and two wounded in an attack by a man using a bow and arrows in the southeastern town of Kongsberg in Norway on Wednesday, police said. Some Norwegian media outlets well as source close to the rescue services had earlier said that at …