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Deontay Wilder’s video message to Tyson Fury has given the go-ahead to part three of the saga between the two professional boxers. Tyson Fury knocked out Deontay Wilder in the seventh round to win the WBC Heavyweight championship title belt last weekend but it was the first time the American has been stopped in his 44-fight career. However, Wilder blamed his assistant trainer for throwing in the towel in last week’s rematch. He also blamed the heavy costume he wore for the ring walk and has decided to take up the 30-day clause to stage another rematch. In his video calling out Fury on Saturday, Wilder said: “‘Hello my people, my Bomb Squad army, my Bomb Squad nation, to all my loved ones around the world, I just want to let you know I am here. “Your king is here. And we ain’t going nowhere, for the war has just begun. I will rise again. I am strong. I am a king, you can’t take my pride. “I am a warrior. I am a king that will never give up. I’m a king that will fight

Arsene Wenger thinks Chelsea broke “rule number one” after a brutal lesson from Bayern Munich pushed them to the brink of Champions League elimination. Bundesliga champions Bayern took a giant step towards the quarter-finals of the competition with Tuesday’s resounding 3-0 success at Stamford Bridge. A second-half brace from Serge Gnabry, followed by Robert Lewandowski’s 39th goal of the season, did the damage as Chelsea were comprehensively outclassed in the first leg of the last-16 tie. “What has he [Lampard] learned… but he knew already, because you don’t lose five home games if your team is superior to every other team,” Wenger told beIN Sports. “But at that level, to give possession away you’re punished at some stage because they make you run too much, and you cannot survive for 90 minutes. “In the Champions League, if you lost the midfield you’re in trouble, it’s rule number one. “Because you play against good teams, if they can feed the strikers you, at some stag

Getfitng Technologies, a weight loss company, on Tuesday accepted the challenge by Eniola Badmus, popular Nigerian actress, to use her to prove its claim on weight loss pills. Badmus on Monday threw the challenge to the company. The Nollywood icon wrote on her official page @eniola_badmus “if truly your weight loss pills and food works, use Eniola Badmus as a project. “Work on me and let the world see the progress. Stop using people we know as slim people to advertise weight-loss food, pills and etc,’’ she said. Reacting to her challenge, Getfitng technologies said the company was ready to use her as `guinea pig’ for free, as long as she was ready to abide by the routine. Getfitng technologies made the statement through its official Instagram page @getfitng “challenge accepted @eniola_badmus, we accept to use you as a project for three months and melt your stubborn belly fat for free! “If you accept to follow our instructions consistently and share your progress pict

A 16-year-old boy, Adekunle Ayomikun, who allegedly hid in the toilet of a bank overnight and stole N340,000 was yesterday, remanded at Special Correctional Centre for boys in Oregun, by a Lagos magistrate’s court sitting in Igbosere. The defendant, who is facing a count charge of stealing preferred against him by the Police, was docked before Magistrate K. O. Doja-Ojo. However, the teenager pleaded guilty to the charge against him. When Magistrate Doja-Ojo asked him, how he got into the bank, Ayomikun told her that he entered the bank around 4 pm during banking hours and locked himself in the toilet. He said: “After closing hours at night I went to the bulk room of the bank where I saw money, and I took N340,000 and kept it in my pocket. “I had a lighter with me, so when I was trying to come out of the bank, the lighter attracted the security guards at the bank who saw me, then I ran back into the toilet and locked myself up, again.” Ayomikun also added that when he

​Social media has become an integral part of an athletes life in the current climate with almost a majority of them on one platform or the other and now a report from social media marketing firm, ​Opendorse claims that the world's most valuable Twitter posts from athlete endorsers comes from professional soccer players. There is no surprise as to who comes out on top when it comes to raking money among athletes from Twitter, with a tweet from the Portugal and ​Juventus superstar, Cristiano Ronaldo reportedly generates an equivalent advertising value of $868,604. Ronaldo who has nearly 82million followers on Twitter has a number of partnership deals with global brands, including Nike, streaming service DAZN and Herbalife. These partnerships along with his global appeal, help generate both publicity and income in high numbers. Former ​Barcelona icon, Andres Iniesta who now plays for Japanese club, Vissel Kobe is ranked second on Opendorse’s list with an estimated v

Governor Nyesom Wike has asked embattled National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Adams Oshiomhole to resign over his failure to stop swearing of Sen Douye Diri as Bayelsa state Governor. Wike, addressing the media Saturday in Port Harcourt, Rivers state, in furtherance of his reactions to the political watershed in Bayelsa, also vowed that Oshiomhole and the APC would never succeed in wrestling political power from PDP in Rivers. He said: “This is a country where you see people who do not have character. Today they sing a song, tomorrow they sing another. I think Oshiomhole as National Chairman of APC is not a character anybody should associate with. “First, I have never been violent, will never be. However, when you see an armed robber come to your house, will you plead with the robber and say I beg you, leave my house. People think armed robbers are only those who cart away people’s money. “The worst form of armed robbery is when you steal people’s mand

​Lionel Messi's run of not scoring in a grand total of three league games means that he has officially hit his worst goalscoring run in two years. The last time the Argentine magician went three games without troubling the scorers was back in February of 2018, ​according to AS. However, it is worth mentioning that despite not scoring in the games against Valencia, Levante and Real Betis, Messi has laid on 5 assists for his teammates in that time, including a hattrick of assists in the team's 3-2 win Betis this past weekend. Moreover, he has also attempted 22 shots in the 3 games, meaning that is it probably a matter of time before the net starts bulging for him once again. However, in comparison, arch rival Cristiano Ronaldo has been on an absolute goalscoring tear for​ Juventus, having scored in each one of his last 10 league games en route to breaking a club record. In fact, ​no striker in the top leagues in Europe has scored more since the begin

For the ninth year in a row, Aliko Dangote of Nigeria has been declared as the wealthiest person in Africa, with an estimated net worth of $10.1 billion. In the latest ranking of the world’s billionaires by Forbes, the American global media company focusing on business, investment, technology, entrepreneurship and leadership, Dangote’s present worth is down from his estimate of $10.3 billion, a year ago, a development attributed to possibly a slightly lower stock price for his Dangote Cement flagship company. Africa has 54 nations, but only eight countries have billionaires, according to Forbes, with South Africa and Egypt dominating not only the top 10 richest people in Africa list, but in the rankings overall with five billionaires each. Nigeria comes second with four billionaires. Nassef Sawiris of Egypt is the new number two richest, worth $8 billion, up from $6.3 billion last year. Sawiris’ most valuable asset is a stake in shoemaker Adidas worth a recent $4 billio

​​Cristiano Ronaldo, who turned 35 yesterday, gave an interview to Portugal's Channel 11 and discussed how his career has turned out so far and Juventus' Champions League hopes this season. He revealed that he didn't imagine in his wildest dreams that he would go on to have such a successful career and that he thought instead that he would be fishing somewhere in his hometown of Madeira when he was 35 years old. "When I was little I thought that at 35 I would be fishing in Madeira. But it was not [the fishing] cane which costs a lot, it was thread on the finger. It never crossed my mind [that I would get] to play where I played and win what I won," he said. He then continued, speaking about ​Juventus' chances in the Champions League this season. Should the team manage to go past the next three knockout rounds, it would also be the sixth Champions League final of Ronaldo's career. "Sixth​ Champions League final? It's possible

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday  unveiled new visa policy with 79 visa classifications. This comes amid news that five international airports with sufficient technology and devices that will make it impossible for persons with threats to pass through, have been approved as the only ports of entry where visa on arrival can be obtained. The four functional airports for now are – Aminu Kano International Airport, Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, Port Harcourt Airport and Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos. President Buhari said the Nigeria Visa Policy (NVP) 2020 is intended to attract innovation, specialized skills and knowledge from abroad to complement local capacity. The document is a revised version. The revised policy is a follow up to Buhari’s pronouncements in November 2019 that a new policy of visas on arrival would be granted to all African travellers starting from January 2020. President Buhari said the review of the visa policy is i

Atiku Abubakar, former Vice President, has begged US President Donald Trump to have a second look at the visa restriction he placed on Nigeria and five other countries. He begged Trump to punish only ‘those in government who have failed in their duties”. That is, the President, his ministers, special advisers and members of his kitchen cabinet. In the words of Atiku: “I call on President Trump to consider adopting measures that individually target those in government who have failed in their duties, rather than target the entire Nigerian population,” he said on Saturday. The former VP’s plea did not come out of a vacuum. It was as a result of the new regime of visa restrictions that the US President, out of security concerns, announced on 30 January. It will affect Nigerians seeking permanent stay in the United States. Atiku went further on his Facebook page: “While I understand the reasons given by the Trump administration (the failure of the Muhammadu Buhari led administ

​Argentina and Paris Saint-Germain superstar, Angel Di Maria has played with a number of great players throughout his storied career, but for the winger there is one player that stands above everyone else and that is his fellow countryman, Lionel Messi. Di Maria has played for ​Real Madrid and ​Manchester United in the past where he shared the dressing room with the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo and Wayne Rooney while at France he played alongside Zlatan Ibrahimovic and now Neymar. While admitting that it was a dream to put the shirt of such illustrious clubs, it is Messi who stands out despite the others too being world class in every respect. "It was a dream to have the possibility to play with [Wayne] Rooney, [Zlatan] Ibrahimovic, Cristiano [Ronaldo], Leo [Messi]... they were players that I used on the PlayStation and I would never have imagined I'd get to play with them,” Di Maria told TyC Sports. “I used to watch them and then to have the opportunity