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Chelsea manager, Enzo Maresca, has confirmed that Noni Madueke took the decision to leave the club. Madueke is close to joining Arsenal this summer, after the two Premier League rivals agreed a fee around £52million. Maresca has now insisted that the England winger was not forced out of Stamford Bridge. “If a player wants to leave, then in the end it is difficult for the club and manager. And yes, Noni decided to leave,” Maresca said. “No one said to Noni he has to leave. It was his own decision. If he is happy, we are happy.” Madueke has already…

Former Real Madrid winger, Gareth Bale, has picked Paris Saint-Germain’s Ousmane Dembele to win the 2025 Ballon d’Or award. Bale believes the France winger is the favourite for the individual accolade “by some way”. Dembele will have to battle for the votes with Lamine Yamal (Barcelona) and compatriot Kylian Mbappe (Real Madrid). He has scored 35 goals and provided 16 assists, as PSG won the Ligue 1 and two domestic trophies. PSG also thrashed Inter Milan 5-0 to lift the Champions League for the first time in their history. Les Parisiens also have the chance of winning the Club World…

Two goalkeepers have left Chelsea on Friday. Djordje Petrović have completed a move to Bournemouth on Friday and Blues have proceeded with Mike Penders loan to Strasbourg. Pender’s loan move to Strasbourg will be completed after the FIFA Club World Cup. The deal is said to be concrete and most advanced solution with BlueCo side seen as ideal solution. Chelsea consider Penders as a future top goalkeeper. Meanwhile, Bournemouth made official bid of £25m for Petrovic earlier in the week which Chelsea accepted . According to football transfer expert, David Ornstein, Petrović will undergo medical in the next days. Bournemouth…

UEFA’s Club Financial Control Body, CFCB, have removed Crystal Palace from the Europa League. They will now be replaced by Nottingham Forest, who had qualified for the playoff round of the Conference League. Palace have now been demoted to play in the Conference League, after CFCB ruled they were too closely linked to Lyon. The Eagles will now appeal at the Court of Arbitration for Sport, CAS. Olivier Glasner’s men qualified for the Europa League by defeating Manchester City 1-0 in the FA Cup final. However, Paris Saint-Germain’s victory in the Coupe de France final, saw Lyon promoted to play…

Tension was high in Sheshi Dama, a community in Bida Local Government Area of Niger State, after two brothers were brutally attacked in the early hours of Thursday, July 10, leaving one of them with a severed hand. Zagazola Makama reports that the victims, identified as Baba Gozan and Wada Gozan from Fulani Camp in Etsugaie Village, were reportedly ambushed while visiting a female acquaintance in the area. According to their father, Mohammed Umar, the attacker, alongside four young men from another Fulani camp in Kafa Villag, launched the assault using machetes and sticks. The assailants have been named as…

Security operatives under Operation Safe Haven, currently executing Operation Lafiyan Jama’a, have arrested a man suspected to be a kidnapper along the Wamba–Jos highway in Kaduna State. Major Samson Zhakom, the military spokesperson, said in a statement shared with journalists that the suspect was caught in possession of a staggering ₦13,742,000 in cash and a small arsenal of weapons. “On Wednesday, 9th July 2025, troops of the operation mounted snap checkpoints along Wamba–Jos Road at Agameti, in Sanga Local Government Area of Kaduna State.” The team, while on routine patrol, flagged down a Volkswagen vehicle with registration number JJN 336…

The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited said the state-owned oil firm would continue to supply crude oil to Dangote Refinery on a commercially willing buyer and willing seller basis. Group Chief Executive Officer of NNPCL, Bayo Ojulari, disclosed this in a recent interview with Bloomberg. When asked by Bloomberg about domestic crude oil supply to Africa’s largest refinery, he said the plant has the flexibility, as a commercial entity, to import crude for its survival. According to him, the Nigerian government is poised to move away from dominance in the private oil and gas sector. He, however, vowed to improve…

The naira returned to depreciation against the dollar at the official foreign exchange market on Friday to end the week on a negative note. According to the Central Bank of Nigeria’s exchange data, the naira weakened to N1,530.26 per dollar on Friday from N1,525.98 on Thursday. This means that the naira declined by N4.28 per dollar when compared to the N1,525.98 exchanged on Thursday. Meanwhile, at the black market, the naira has remained stable at N1,550 per dollar, the same rate recorded since Tuesday this week. At the official foreign market, the naira dropped slightly against the dollar on a…

The Group Chief Executive Officer of Nigerian National Petroleum Company, Bayo Ojulari, has said the technologies brought in to rehabilitate Port Harcourt, Warri, and Kaduna refineries did not work as expected. According to him, the old nature of the state-owned oil refinery has made its rehabilitation complicated. Ojuari made these comments in an interview with Bloomberg published on Thursday at the sideline of the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries’ recent seminar. He said the NNPCL is considering selling the Port Harcourt, Warri, and Kaduna refineries depending on the outcome of its ongoing review planned to be released by the…

The people of Ajame Amaeze autonomous community in Nkanu East Local Government Area of Enugu State have condemned in strong terms the delayed inauguration of their President General. DAILY POST reports that they are blaming the Ministry of Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs for putting roadblock towards the peaceful completion of the process. This comes as they gathered again in their numbers on Thursday for the purpose of electing the President-General. It was the seventh time they would converge for the same purpose. As they gathered yesterday, they could not hide their anger against the failure of the Commissioner, Hon.…