Southampton have signed Japan defender Yukinari Sugawara from Dutch club AZ Alkmaar. The 24-year-old has joined for an undisclosed fee reported to be in the region of £6m and signed a four-year contract at St Mary’s. Sugawara is Saints boss Russell Martin’s seventh signing of the summer and the club’s fifth defensive addition. Martin said…
English Premier League side Manchester United have agreed to sell their central defender Willy Kambwala to Villarreal. United will receive €5.5m (£4.63m) as an initial payment, with add-ons potentially taking the fee to €11.5m (£9.68m). In addition, United have a buy-back option and negotiated a sizeable share of any sell-on fee for the 19-year-old. Kambwala…
The ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, says it will take over Abia and Enugu states in the 2027 general elections. The party said it has made serious inroads in the South-East zone and will take over the states in the next general election. The national vice chairman of APC, Ijeoma Arodiogu, stated this in Abakaliki,…
Chima, has won the ninth season of the popular music reality show, Nigerian Idol. He emerged as the show’s season 9 winner on Sunday night after several weeks of rigorous training and intense performances. Chima defeated two other finalists— Lammy, and Chioma. During their last performance, each contestant performed to their heart’s content as they…
Candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have won all 25 local government chairmanship seats in the election conducted on Saturday, July 13th 2024. The Chairman of the Delta State Independent Electoral Commission, Jerry Agbaike, on Sunday, said one of PDP candidate was returned unopposed. PDP candidates contested against other parties and emerged winners in…
Former world number one and multiple grand slam winner Novak Djokovic says Sunday’s Wimbledon final loss to Carlos Alcaraz will certainly not be his final appearance at the All England Club but vowed to return to fight another day. For the second year in a row Djokovic suffered defeat in a Wimbledon final to 21-year-old…
Manchester United have signed Bologna and Netherlands striker Joshua Zirkzee in a deal worth £36.54m. The 23-year-old has signed a five-year contract at Old Trafford, with the option of a further 12 months. Zirkzee’s Bologna contract included a 40m euros (£33.6m) release clause, but United opted to agree a slightly increased price in order to…
England captain Harry Kane shared the Euro 2024 Golden Boot with five other players after finishing the tournament on three goals. Spain’s Dani Olmo, Georgia’s Georges Mikautadze, the Netherlands’ Cody Gakpo, Slovakia’s Ivan Schranz and Germany’s Jamal Musiala also won a share of the award. Neither Kane nor Olmo scored in the Euro 2024 final,…
A late goal by substitute Mikel Oyarzabal helped Spain Beat England 2-1 and win a record fourth European Championship title on Sunday With about four minutes of normal time left and the game at 1-1 Oyarzabal slid in to poke home Marc Cucurella’s cross, just when the game at Berlin’s Olympiastadion seemed destined for extra…
Spain’s Carlos Alcaraz powered to victory over an out-of-sorts Novak Djokovic to retain his men’s singles title at Wimbledon. Although the players on show made this a repeat of last year’s final, it failed to live up to the five-set thriller of 12 months ago as Djokovic appeared mostly helpless against the dominant Spaniard. Despite…
