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AC Milan and Sweden forward, Zlatan Ibrahimovic recognizes Brazil’s Ronaldo as the best player in history and that “everyone” wanted to play like the World Cup winner at the height of his career Ibrahimovic expressed his admiration towards Ronaldo ahead of Milan’s Europa League clash with Red Star Belgrade on Thursday night, while putting him ahead of modern-day greats such as Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo in the all-time list of top players. Zlatan, 39 thinks Ronaldo Nazario, who inspired Brazil to World Cup glory in 2002, changed the game with his unique talents and still stands till this day.…

Kwara State Government has approved the use of hijab in all public schools in the state, barely a week after 10 schools were shut down over a hijab controversy. The state government had ordered the temporary closure of 10 grant-aided secondary schools in Ilorin; C&S College, ST. Anthony College, ECWA School, Surulere Baptist Secondary School, Bishop Smith Secondary School, CAC Secondary School, St. Barnabas Secondary School, St. John School, St. Williams Secondary School and St. James Secondary School, after a meeting between leaders of the Christian and Muslim communities ended in deadlock. While the Muslim leaders insisted their students should…

Gunmen suspected to be bandits have attacked the Government Girls Secondary School, Jangebe, Talata Mafara LGA area in Zamfara State and abducted ‘300’ of the school girls. According to several reports, the gunmen stormed the school premises in the early hours of today, Friday, February 26. The state police command or the state government is yet to comment on this development. This incident comes barely a week after bandits attacked the Government Science College in Kagara, Niger state and abducted 27 students and 15 others after they had shot a student dead.

Former heavyweight boxing champion Andy Ruiz Jr. has stated that Anthony Joshua will lose his eagerly-anticipated heavyweight title unification fight with Tyson Fury. Fury vs Joshua has been tagged the biggest fight in the history of British boxing, and is now set to take place in the summer, with all belts at stake. WBC king Fury, known for his skills and masterful body defence has been tipped by many to get the better of the powerful AJ, who once lost to Ruiz Jr in 2019. Ruiz has now opined that Joshua will lose to Fury. Ruiz told Little Giant Boxing:…

Kanye West reportedly tried to sell some of the jewellery he had bought for his estranged wife, Kim Kardashian, just days before she filed for divorce. According to the Sun, Kanye, 43, visited two jewellers to get quotes for the items he was considering selling. A source told The Sun: ‘In the last two weeks, Kanye was attempting to sell jewellery he had purchased for Kim to at least two top jewellers. ‘Kanye recently said, “I don’t want to be connected to the Kardashian brand anymore” but he was so torn because he still very much loves Kim. ‘Although he never…

A student was recorded in the process of dragging a lecturer’s shirt and fighting him for preventing her from taking an exam in Auchi Polytechnic, Edo state. The lecturer had reportedly given the student a malpractice form, meaning she would have to retake the exam. This angered the student and she attacked him after the exam. Video shared online shows her fighting her lecturer despite efforts by her coursemates to pry her away from the lecturer. See the video below.

Media personality, Shade Ladipo, took to her Instastories to ask a question hours after Toke Makinwa tweeted that women do not undergo cosmetic surgeries for men but for themselves. See her reaction below;

655 new cases of Coronavirus were recorded in Nigeria on Wednesday February 24, this was announced by Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) See the breakdown of the new cases across states below; Lagos-240, Ogun-88, Rivers-56, FCT-51, Kaduna-43, Kano-25, Plateau-21, Taraba-19, Edo-17, Abia15, Delta-13, Nasarawa-11, Akwa Ibom-10, Kwara-10, Oyo-10, Kebbi-9, Borno-5, Bayelsa-4, Gombe-4, Ekiti-2, Osun-2. There are now 153,842 confirmed cases of Coronavirus in Nigeria and 1,885 deaths have been recorded.  130,818 patients who recovered from the disease have also been discharged.

Abductors of the 27 students and three staff of Kagara’s Government Science College, Niger State, have threatened to starve them to death if the ransom they are demanding is not paid on time. It would be recall that on February 17, armed bandits dressed in military uniforms, stormed the school, shot a student dead, and went on to abduct 27 others. The bandits also abducted three members of staff as well as 12 family members of the abducted staff. In an audio recording released to a prominent Islamic cleric, Sheik Ahmad Gumi, one of the abductors who spoke in Hausa, rejected N2.7m offered…

Ferland Mendy scored his first Champions League goal for Real Madrid against Atalanta Ferland Mendy scored a stunning late winner as Real Madrid clinched a hard-working last-16 first-leg win against 10-man Atalanta. Zinedine Zidane’s side looked like being left frustrated by a well-organised home side until Mendy curled in with four minutes left. Atalanta’s Remo Freuler was sent off after just 17 minutes for denying Mendy a clear goalscoring opportunity. The depleted hosts did not have a single shot on target and now must score in the return leg on 16 March. Real were without a number of key first-team players through injury including captain Sergio Ramos, Karim Benzema, Eden Hazard…