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Nigeria has qualified for the final of this year’s West Africa Football Union (WAFU) Cup, after defeating Benin Republic 1-0 on Thursday. Rabiu Ali scored the only goal of the encounter, as Salisu Yusuf’s men triumphed over the Beninoise, who finished the game with 10 men. The Super Eagles came in the match, on the back of a 2-0 victory over Ghana in their last group game and scored in the 11th minutes. Benin’s chances of fighting back, were dealt a massive blow in the 33rd minute, after Koukpo Marcellin was sent off for a second bookable offence. Nigeria will…

The Spanish Football League body, La Liga, paid tribute to Nigerian legend, Finidi George after Real Betis defeated Real Madrid 1-0 in a league encounter on Wednesday. Antonio Sanabria’s 94th minute header shocked Zinedine Zidane’s men to a disappointing home defeat as the Paraguay international joined the former Ajax star in the records book. Sanabria and George are the only two players to have led the Estadio Benito Villamarín outfit to victories at the Santiago Bernabeu in 1998 and 2017 respectively. Finidi notched 38 goals in 130 appearances for Real Betis, after a successful spell with Ajax where he won…

Three trophies and a return to the Champions League helped the Red Devils reduce the debt in Jose Mourinho’s first season with the first team. Manchester United has announced record revenues of £581.2 million for the 2016-17 financial year. United won the EFL Cup and the Europa League during the first season of Jose Mourinho and invested in such stars as Paul Pogba, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Henrikh Mkhitaryan that saw staff costs rose from £31.3m to £263.5m – an increase of 13.5 per cent. Nevertheless, United turned in a £39.2million pre-tax profit, with net debt reduced by £47.8m or 18.3…

The Cameroon football, legend, Samuel Eto’o has expressed his desire to return to the San Siro Stadium as manager where he spent three seasons. Antalyaspor’s forward, Eto’o has declared his aspiration to coach Inter Milan when he hangs his boot. The 36-year-old spent three seasons with the Nerazzurri and won the Serie A title, Coppa Italia, Super Coppa Italiana UEFA Champions League and the FIFA Club World Cup. A close adviser, George Gardi claimed that the former Barcelona star aims to end his career in the Major League Soccer and then take up a coaching role with the target of…

L’Oreal heiress, Liliane Bettencourt, the world’s richest woman, is dead. Aged 94, Bettencourt passed away in the early hours of Thursday after suffering from dementia at her old age. Francoise Bettencourt Meyersin, who shared the sad new, noted that the cosmetics giant’s principal shareholder died last night at the “Liliane Bettencourt, her home. “She would have been 95 on October 21. My mother left peacefully,” Mrs Bettencourt-Meyers said in a statement. According to Forbes magazine, Bettencourt was the 14th richest person in the world, with estimated net worth at $39.5 billion in March.

A 40-year-old man stabbed himself and then jumped into a well on Tuesday at Rijiyar Zaki Quarters of Ungogo Local Government Area, Kano, officials reported. Director of Kano State Fire Service, Mustafa Rilwan, told the News Agency of Nigeria that the man, Balarabe Adamu, was rescued from the well before he later died at Murtala Mohammed Specialist Hospital, Kano. He said a neighbour raised the alarm and informed the state fire service that Adamu had jumped into the well after stabbing himself.

A powerful earthquake has killed more than 200 people and brought down several buildings in Mexico’s capital city and surrounding states. The 7.1 magnitude quake occurred after many in Mexico City had taken part in an earthquake drill to mark the 32nd anniversary of the earthquake that killed up to10,000 in 1985. The residents were said to have possibly thought the earthquake alarms were part of the drills. Mexico’s President Enrique Peña Nieto said more than 20 children had died and 30 were missing after a school collapsed during the quake. Nieto lamented “We are facing a new national emergency.…

A total of 10,000 youths drawn from 19 states of the Federation are undergoing Federal Government’s training on pipeline surveillance as part of the efforts towards reducing crude oil theft and pipeline vandalism in the Niger Delta. The youths who were drawn from Edo, Delta, Rivers, Cross River, Bayelsa, Ondo, Ogun, Lagos, Kogi, Niger, Abia, Imo, Kaduna, Gombe, Akwa Ibom, Anambra, Osun, among others, are being trained on community policing of oil installations and how to nip the activities of pipeline vandals in the bud. Declaring the training held at the NYSC Permanent orientation camp in Issele-Uku, Aniocha North Local…

The 26-year-old was on target as the Light Blues steamrolled the White and Sky Blues and believes the Scudetto is more important to the Naples club. Napoli defender, Kalidou Koulibaly says he would prefer winning the Italian Serie A to playing in the final of the UEFA Champions League. The Senegal international scored the leveller as the Stadio San Paolo outfit brushed aside Simeone Inzaghi’s men to make it five wins in a row in the top flight of Italian football to keep them at par with Juventus Football Club. And the defender believes the honour of winning the Scudetto…

Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu has eulogised “a revolution in Israel’s standing among the nations,’’ underlining that, ‘’as prime minister, I visited six continents in the last year alone.’’ Netanyahu, who addressed the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, covered Israel’s relations with the rest of the world, noting that “So many countries around the world have finally woken up to what Israel can do for them.” In a report monitored from VOA, he spoke confidently depicting Israel as a global market leader in sectors from agriculture, water purification to counter-terrorism, pointing to the Jewish state’s growing presence in much of…