Tite has revealed that FC Barcelona asked Brazil to be careful with Raphinha after losing four players to injury during the international break. Jules Kounde, Ronald Araujo, Frenkie De Jong and Memphis Depay have sustained injuries while they have been away playing for their countries. Raphinha played 80 minutes of Brazil’s 3-0 friendly win over Ghana on Friday and could face Tunisia on Tuesday. Selecao head coach Tite says Barca requested that the winger’s workload is managed. He said: “In order for there to be maximum transparency, I tell you that today the FC Barcelona coaching staff spoke to our physical…
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Health Minister Jean-Jacques Mbanda on Tuesday said Democratic Republic of Congo has declared the end of its latest Ebola virus outbreak in the eastern province of North Kivu. The 15th outbreak in the Central African Country (CAN) emerged when a new case of the deadly virus was confirmed in the eastern city of Beni on Aug. 22. Testing showed the case was genetically linked to the 2018-2020 outbreaks in North Kivu and Ituri provinces, which killed nearly 2,300 people. Another flare-up from that outbreak killed six people in 2021. Mbanda said “after 42 days of reinforced surveillance without a new…
Germany’s Angelique Kerber is looking to return to competitive tennis as soon as possible after having a baby and plans to compete at the next Olympics 2024 in Paris. “I’ll try to get fit again and return to the tour, but without rushing things. And then I’ll be wanting to go all out. If I do something, then I do it properly,” Kerber said on Tuesday. The three-time grand slam winner and former world number one announced last month that she was pregnant and expected to give birth in spring. She said her main goal in the planned return is…
The Benue State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) says no fewer than 23 persons have died as a result of flooding in the state since the beginning of the rainy season. The Executive Secretary, Dr Emmanuel Shior, announced this while kick-starting the distribution of relief materials to flood victims on Tuesday in Makurdi. He said that 116,084 persons had also been displaced as a result of the flooding in some parts of the state. Shior said that the 116,084 displaced persons cut across 12,856 households in 11 local government areas. “74 persons are having different degrees of injuries. 14 out of the 23…
Team captain Manuel Neuer and midfielder Leon Goretzka trained with Bayern Munich on Tuesday after recovering from coronavirus infections. The duo tested positive last week while with the German national team. They returned home to quarantine and missed the UEFA Nations League games against Hungary and England. Both Neuer and Goretzka should be available for Bayern Munich game against Bayer Leverkusen on Friday. The Bavarians are going through a bad moment in the league, with three draws and one defeat in the last four games. Bayern Munich are fifth in the Bundesliga, five points behind leaders Union Berlin. (dpa/NAN)
A 29-year-old man, Ayodeji Abegunde, who allegedly forged and defrauded his employer of N1.7 million, appeared before an Ogudu Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday in Lagos. Abegunde, who resides at Fajobi Street, Opic in Lagos, is being tried for alleged charges of stealing and obtaining money under false pretence. The Prosecutor, Insp. Sunday Bassey, told the court that the defendant sometime in July at Magodo Phase 1, Isheri, allegedly stole N1.7 million of his employer, Mr Tosin Felixon, the complainant. “The defendant obtained the said amount from the complainant on the pretext he wanted to buy a new engine and power…
Mr Friday Anumba, Director of Special Duties, Nigerian Tourism Development Corporation (NTDC), says ‘Tour Nigeria’ will boost domestic tourism and Nigeria’s economy if properly utilised. Anumba said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Abuja. NAN reports that ‘Tour Nigeria’ is the name of a tourism brand created by the NTDC to promote domestic tourism in Nigeria and inaugurated by Folorunsho Coker, the present Director-General of the NTDC in 2017. According to him, the present leadership of NTDC led by Coker is not resting. It is striving so hard to ensure that domestic…
An Ikeja High Court on Tuesday sentenced a dethroned ‘Baale’ (Chief) in Shangisha in Magodo area of Lagos State, Mutiu Ogundare and his brother, Opeyemi Mohammed to 15 years imprisonment each for faking his own kidnap. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the court had on June 15 discharged and acquitted the third defendant, Ogundare’s wife, Abolanle. Justice Hakeem Oshodi had on June 15 convicted Ogundare and Mohammed on three counts of bordering on conspiracy and fake abduction. “I have considered the allocutus of the defence counsel. However, it is in the view of this court that the…
The International Basketball Federation (FIBA) launched an investigation on Tuesday after two Mali players were filmed fighting with each other after their team were eliminated from the Women’s World Cup. The incident took place after Mali lost 68-81 to Serbia in their Group B clash in Sydney on Monday —- their fourth straight defeat at the tournament. The fight between Salimatou Kourouma and Kamite Elisabeth Dabou broke out as Serbia’s Sasa Cado was being interviewed in the mixed zone. Kourouma was seen throwing punches at Dabou before other Mali players ran in to break the pair apart in front of…
European countries on Tuesday scrambled to investigate unexplained leaks in two Russian gas pipelines. The pipelines are running under the Baltic Sea near Sweden and Denmark infrastructure at the heart of an energy crisis since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Sweden’s Maritime Authority issued a warning about two leaks in the Nord Stream 1 pipeline, shortly after a leak on the nearby Nord Stream 2 pipeline was discovered that had prompted Denmark to restrict shipping within a five-nautical mile radius. Both pipelines have been flashpoints in an escalating energy war between Europe and Moscow that has pummeled major Western economies and…