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Ex-Super Eagles defender urges footballers not to live a ‘fake life’
Former Super Eagles and West Brom defender Ifeanyi Udeze has again called on Nigerian footballers to always live within their means. The ex-PAOK skipper reasserted the posit to Brila FM while speaking on football finances. Udeze opined that the flamboyant lifestyles of soccer stars make them easily distracted, stating that some accrue wealth and spend it incessantly without remembering they’ll ret...
White House organizes harassment of Twitter employee over fact-checking of Donald Trump’s tweets
The White House has set its sights on a single Twitter employee after the company attached a fact-checking link to two of the president’s tweets containing lies and misinformation related to voter fraud. The charge was led on Fox News Wednesday morning, with Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway targeting Twitter’s head of site integrity, Yoel Roth, after digging up some tweets that were critical of Trum...
Arsenal sanction sensational Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang swap deal
Arsenal have been linked with a sensational swap deal involving Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, while Mikel Arteta is intent on signing Philippe Coutinho, all in the Euro papers. Spanish outlet Mundo Deportivo report that Arsenal will let Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang to Barcelona in a swap deal for Ousmane Dembele. Barca are willing to cut their losses on Dembele this summer and sell the forward for €50m,...
Ademola Lookman concedes penalty as Hertha Berlin hold Leipzig
RB Leipzig missed the chance to secure second position in the Bundesliga after they were held to a 2-2 draw at home by Hertha Berlin. Marko Grujic put Hertha ahead in the ninth minute of the thrilling encounter. The hosts rallied back and got the equaliser in the 24th minute through Lukas Klostermann. Leipzig defender Marcel Halstenberg was sent off for two bookable offences midway through the sec...
Celtic prepared to sign Fraser Forster from Southampton if he agrees to one condition: report
Celtic are prepared to sign goalkeeper Fraser Forster on a permanent basis from Southampton, provided he accepts a significant reduction on his salary, Football Insider reports. The England international rejoined the Hoops on a season-long loan from the Saints last summer and he has been their undisputed first-choice goalkeeper with 39 appearances in all competitions. The recently-crowned Scottish...
Lacklustre Leipzig Held to a Draw by Hertha
RB Leipzig welcomed Hertha Berlin to the Red Bull Arena, knowing that a win would help them leapfrog Borussia Dortmund in the Bundesliga table, to go up to second place. RB Leipzig’s zonal marking cost them early on as Grujić was able to get a free tap-in from Plattenhardt’s corner. But it was another corner which brought Leipzig the equaliser, as Klostermann headed it to the far post. The second ...
Tottenham Hotspur planning lucrative offer to sign 26-year-old Premier League star: report
Tottenham Hotspur are planning to make a lucrative contract offer to Bournemouth’s Ryan Fraser as they seek to secure his services on a free transfer this summer, Football Insider claims. The 26-year-old has only five weeks remaining on his current Cherries contract but the south Coast outfit are likely to negotiate a short-term extension to keep him for the rest of the season, which has been dela...
Arsenal could lose key player on a free transfer, yet to decide on an extension: report
Arsenal could see David Luiz leave the club at the end of the season, having yet to trigger the one-year extension available in the defender’s contract, Football.London’s James Benge has revealed. The Brazil international made the switch to the Gunners from league rivals Chelsea last summer and it was suggested that he had signed a two-year deal with the north London side. However, it appears that...
Instagram’s Colourful Patchwork Fashion Trend Is a Cool Alternative to Ubiquitous Tie-Dye
Tie-dye is one of the first big fashion trends of summer 2020. And while we love the bold, colourful Links”>DIY style, it’s become so ubiquitous that people social distancing have added tie-dyeing to the at-home activity list — right up there with bread baking, Dalgona coffees, and impossible-to-solve puzzles. If you fancy taking this colourful summer fashion trend in a more alterna...
Billie Eilish Shares New Short Film On Body-Image Double Standards
Though she’s since had to postpone the remainder of the dates on her Where Do We Go? World Tour, Billie Eilish‘s massive global trek kicked off earlier this year with a powerful statement. Back in March, at a show in Miami, Eilish unveiled a short film meant to combat body-shaming as a preface to her song “All the Good Girls Go to Hell.” Now, she’s shared that film — ...
Ariana Grande’s Mom Is Doing The Most To Support ‘Rain On Me’
Ever since Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande dropped their shimmering, dance-floor single “Rain on Me” on Friday (May 22), the praises have rushed in like a torrential downpour, both from fans and from the pop icons themselves. The collaboration, which served as the second single off Gaga’s forthcoming album Chromatica releasing on Friday (May 29), has been met with over...
Cashless and Contactless Payments Beyond COVID-19
The emergence of COVID-19 has made the need for digitising payments more critical than ever before and for this to be a success, electronic payments need to offer similar benefits to those afforded by cash. Globally, economies are in various stages of development having either started developing, replaced or are busy replacing daily batch payment systems with real-time systems that execute payment...
