Sergio Aguero was on target as Manchester City restored their one-point lead at the top of the English Premier League with a nervous and scrappy 1-0 win over Burnley at Turf Moor on Sunday. Pep Guardiola’s side now need to win their final games at home to Leicester City and away to Brighton and Hove […]
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Cristiano Ronaldo has scored the 600th goal of his storied club career. The Juventus star struck the equaliser in a 1-1 draw away to Inter in Serie A on Saturday. Ronaldo, 34, has netted 27 times for Juve in his first season since arriving from Real Madrid in a €112million deal. The Portugal international is […]
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Lionel Messi clinched an eighth La Liga title for Barcelona in 11 seasons on Saturday as he scored the only goal in a 1-0 win at home to Levante. The Argentine star struck his league-leading 34th goal of the campaign after coming off the bench for the second half to help Barca wrap up the […]
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Rennes have beaten Paris Saint Germain in penalty shoot-out to win the French Cup, and denying the French giants a chance to clinch the cup for the fifth time. It was Dani Alves who shot PSG ahead in the match at Stade de France in the 13th minute and returnee Neymar doubled the advantage eight […]
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Borussia Dortmund suffered a severe setback in the Bundesliga title race as their shock 2-4 home loss to lowly Schalke 04 in the Ruhr Valley derby on Saturday left them a point behind leaders Bayern Munich. Dortmund, who had two players sent off, are on 69 points, with three games left to play, with Bayern, […]
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The Commonwealth Secretary-General, Patricia Scotland, has expressed her profound sadness at the devastation caused by Cyclone Kenneth which has ravaged Mozambique today. She said: “Our thoughts and prayers are with all those affected by Cyclone Kenneth in Mozambique, the strongest cyclone yet to have hit the country. “Its occurrence so soon after Cyclone Idai last […]
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Talented Paris Saint-Germain forward, Neymar Jr, has been banned for three games by UEFA, for insulting a referee on social media, following his club’s Champions League ouster by Manchester United in March. The ban will see the Brazilian miss half of PSG’s group games in next year’s Champions League. The former Barcelona forward wrote ‘Go […]
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The Nigerian army has appointed S. Ibrahim from Nigerian army university Biu, as the director-general of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), in a new posting released on Friday. A statement releasing the redeployment and signed by Sagir Musa, the army spokesman, said Ibrahim takes over from S.Z. Kazaure. Musa said Kazaure had been deployed […]
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Suspected killers of four police officers, including a pregnant woman at the Afuze police station in Owan East local government area of Edo State, were Wednesday paraded by the police in Benin. The suspects, numbering six, were alleged to have killed the officers, set the station ablaze and set free their colleagues who were arrested for […]
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