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How Football Transfer Deals Work: Inner Details

How Football Transfer Deals Work: Inner Details

We are in summer, the transfer period in most countries. However, not a few football fans have no wealth of information about how footballers are transferred from one club to the other, sometimes across geographical borders. Player transfer is an entirely technical aspect of club operations and very vital to any club's season success or failure. Get the transfer right and you could move several notches up in the success ladder; get it wrong and you may remain mired in the marshes of your corporate melancholy. Therefore, a lot of strategic planning and clinical execution go into this aspect of…
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Udoh, Ag Director FCTA’s DOAS, Bows Out Of Service Meritoriously

Udoh, Ag Director FCTA’s DOAS, Bows Out Of Service Meritoriously

Acting Director, Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA)'s Department of Outdoor Advertisement and Signage ( DOAS), Tpl. Akanimo Udoh, today retired from the civil service after attaining the mandatory retirement age of 60. A statement issued to newsmen and signed by DOAS' Head of Information/Public Relations Officer, Ngozi Ufomba, this evening, said: "Today marks not just the close of a remarkable chapter in his civil service life. but the beginning of a well-deserved new session for rest, reflection and fulfillment for the energetic, ideas-filled former public servant. "In his distinguished career, especially at the top, Tpl. Udoh was instrumental in shaping…
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In Accra, Obasanjo Canvasses $100 Flight Levy For Proposed African Health Fund

In Accra, Obasanjo Canvasses $100 Flight Levy For Proposed African Health Fund

By Mohammed Ali Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has proposed a $100 (about N152,297) levy on all international flights into and out of Africa to support the creation of a continental health fund. He made the proposal at the Africa Health Sovereignty Summit held in Accra, Ghana , today, August 5, 2025. The initiative, he said, would help reduce Africa’s reliance on external donors and promote long-term financing for health systems across the continent. Obasanjo said the proposal was inspired by Ghana’s 'Ghana Beyond Aid' agenda and could serve as a starting point for what he called an 'Africa Health Without…
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Amid Serious Issues, OpenAI Stops ChatGPT From Telling People To Break Up With Partners

Amid Serious Issues, OpenAI Stops ChatGPT From Telling People To Break Up With Partners

ChatGPT will not tell people to break up with their partner and will encourage users to take breaks from long chatbot sessions, under new changes to the artificial intelligence (AI) tool. OpenAI, ChatGPT’s developer, said the chatbot would stop giving definitive answers to personal challenges and would instead help people to mull over problems such as potential breakups. “When you ask something like: ‘Should I break up with my boyfriend?’ ChatGPT shouldn’t give you an answer. It should help you think it through – asking questions, weighing pros and cons,” said OpenAI. The U.S company said new ChatGPT behaviour for…
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JUST IN! Ademola Lookman Goes On Strike At Atalanta

JUST IN! Ademola Lookman Goes On Strike At Atalanta

Ademola Lookman has gone on strike as he attempts to force through a move to Inter, but Atalanta have insisted he will not be sold to another Italian club. The Nigeria forward did not attend pre-season training for the second day in a row after handing in a transfer request last weekend, when Lookman also published a statement in which he accused Atalanta of “broken promises”. An improved Inter bid worth up to €45m (£32.1m) including add-ons was rejected last week after a €40m offer for the 27-year-old was turned down. Inter are expected to return with a bid that…
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JUST IN! Ex-Arsenal Thomas Partey Docked For Rape, Sexual Assault, Bailed

JUST IN! Ex-Arsenal Thomas Partey Docked For Rape, Sexual Assault, Bailed

Former Arsenal footballer Thomas Partey has appeared in court charged with six sexual offences. The 32-year-old was bailed to appear at the Old Bailey for trial later this year over allegations of rape and sexual assault. During today's brief hearing at Westminster magistrates court, he stood in the dock dressed all in black with his arms behind his back. Partey has been charged with five counts of rape against two women and a charge of sexual assault against a third woman. The alleged offences are said to have taken place in 2021 and 2022 when he was an Arsenal player.…
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Journalist Goes Missing In Norway Wilderness

Journalist Goes Missing In Norway Wilderness

Rescuers in Norway have resumed the search for an award-winning environmental journalist who has gone missing in bad weather during a solo hike in the remote Folgefonna national park, home to one of the country’s biggest glaciers. Alec Luhn, a U.S-born reporter who has worked for the New York Times and The Atlantic and was a regular Russia correspondent for the UK Guardian from 2013 to 2017, was reported missing on Monday after he failed to catch a flight from Bergen. The Norwegian broadcaster NRK said Luhn, 38, was holidaying with his family and had set out on his hike…
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I Met Wanted Terrorist Bello Turji -Islamic Cleric Narrates Details

I Met Wanted Terrorist Bello Turji -Islamic Cleric Narrates Details

*Surrenders Arms *Frees 32 Abductees *'Why We Didn't Demand Total Surrender Of Arms' *'Farming Has Resumed In Some Parts Of Zamfara Following Our Peace Deal' By our reporter Perhaps, just perhaps, a flicker of the light of peace is bring lit in the troubled North-West following reports that wanted terrorist, Bello Turji, has agreed to cease,on a limited scale, his campaign of serial murders, abductions for ransom, sacking of local communities,maimings, and sundry horrific acts in the zone. In a seeming unprecedented move, facilitated by a group of Islamic clerics based in Zamfara State in the zone, Turji is said…
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Benue e-Emergency Platforms Click On

Benue e-Emergency Platforms Click On

By Sam Tyav, Makurdi Benue State Emergency Management Agency (BSEMA) has officially launched the Benue Electronic Management System (Benue E- Emergency Platforms) at BSEMA headquarters in Makurdi,the state capital. Performing the ceremony at BSEMA headquarters, State Governor Hyacinth Iormem Alia disclosed that the platforms would help in monitoring security situations as the State Government was determined to end insecurity in the state. Represented by Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Barrister Deborah Serumun Aber, Gov. Alia lamented that a lot of people were suffering in the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps, adding that the State Government was concerned about saving…
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David Luiz Returns

David Luiz Returns

Brazilian defender David Luiz will continue his professional career until June 2028 with Pafos FC in Cyprus, the club confirmed in an official statement on social media. Rather than hang up his boots, he returns to European football with a team currently competing in the UEFA Champions League qualifiers, aiming for a spot in the tournament's group stage. At 38 years old, the veteran center-back heads back to Europe after spending last season with Fortaleza in Brazil, following a four-year stint at Flamengo after leaving Arsenal. “From Brazil to Europe, from Champions League glory to the Copa Libertadores: now writing…
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