English Premier League side Aston Villa are in advanced talks to sign midfielder Amadou Onana from Everton for a fee in the region of £50m. The 22-year-old featured for Belgium at Euro 2024 and would have the opportunity to play Champions League football next season. Onana joined from Lille for £33m in August 2022 and…
Czech Tennis star Barbora Krejcikova survived a fight back from Jasmine Paolini in a gripping final at Wimbledon to claim her second Grand Slam singles title. The 31st seed followed in the footsteps of 2023 champion Marketa Vondrousova to make it back-to-back wins for the Czech Republic in the women’s singles. Krejcikova, a French Open…
Controversial Nigerian singer, Portable has engaged in a fierce street fight with a motorcyclist in Lagos. In the trending footage on the internet, Portable obstructed the movement of cars as he aggressively fought the man in the middle of the street. Despite attempts by onlookers to intervene, Portable raged towards his challenger and pushed him…
Veteran singer and social activist, Charles Oputa, aka Charly Boy, says he will no longer accord respect to the Nobel Laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka. Charly Boy, a staunch critic of President Bola Tinubu made the assertion in a post on his official X handle on Friday while reacting to the renaming of the National Arts…
American hip-hop star, Eminem, has fired some shots at fellow rappers, Kanye West, Kendrick Lamar, and embattled music executive, Diddy, on his new album, ‘The Death of Slim Shady In a track titled ‘Anti-Christ,’ Eminem vowed to whoop his haters’ asses better than Diddy, who is currently facing several sexual harassment allegations, including gay sex…
Prince Bob Njemanze, says it is the turn of Okigwe Zone to produce the next governor of Imo state. In an interview he granted recently, Njemanze a son of the Njenanze Royal family observed that Okigwe, by the Charter Of Equity, has served one governorship term and should be supported for another one term so…
Lawmakers on the platform of Labour Party in the South-East, under the aegis of South-East Labour Party House of Assembly Caucus, have called for the release of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu. Kanu has been in detention since 2021, after he was arrested in Kenya by the Federal Government…
The Vice Chairmanship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the ongoing LG polls, in Warri South, Pastor Kingsley Omonigho Oshogbo, said the party has boycotted the election in Warri. Oshogbo spoke with newsmen in Warri. He said the election should be totally cancelled because officials of the Delta State Independent Electoral Commission, DSIEC,…
Workers in Anambra State judiciary have declared a strike action. A letter notifying the state government of their intention to commence the indefinite strike, which was made available to journalists on Saturday in Awka, said the action commences on Monday. The development is expected to cripple court activities and other judiciary matters in the state….
Spain and England will meet in the Euro 2024 final in Berlin on Sunday in what will be a rare encounter between the two countries at a major tournament. Here is a sneek peek into some notable past games involving the two countries The first competitive meeting of Spain and England came at the 1950…
