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Tammy Abraham has completed his £34million move to Roma after putting pen to paper on a five-year contract with the Italian club and taking their No 9 shirt. Abraham arrived in the Italian capital on Sunday August 15, to complete his medical, where he will now play under former Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho. His departure comes days after Romelu Lukaku sealed a sensational return to Chelsea in a £98million club transfer fee record, which pushed England forward down the pecking order at Stamford Bridge. 'You can sense when a club really wants you – and Roma made their interest clear immediately,' said Abraham. 'Roma is a club that deserves to be fighting for titles and trophies. I've had the experience of winning major trophies and I want to be in those competitions again – so I want to help this team to achieve that and get to the level where Roma should be.     'It's a massive honour to be the No. 9 at this club and I just can't wait to ge...

Yul Edochie has revealed that his daughter, Danielle, scored 241 in the JAMB examination she sat for. The actor congratulated his only daughter on Instagram and told the teenager that he and her mum are proud of her. He promised that if she does well in the WAEC exams, he will surprise her with a gift.  

Former US President Barack Obama has suspended comments on his Instagram page after it was overwhelmed with followers pleading with him to do something to help the Afghan people following the Taliban's takeover of their country.   'Afghanistan needs your help. Please please help Afghanistan,' one commenter wrote. 'The blood of the #Afghan people is on the hands of those who have remained silent in the face of oppression and have made friends with the Taliban,' wrote another. 'History will not forget your crime.' 'What did we accomplish in Afghanistan if we turn tail and run now?' asked another. 'They need us! That is not the American way! We do not surrender and run! We stay and fight and until the issues are resolved which is true independence!'     Those posting comments added hashtags #help_afghanistan and #afghanistanisbleeding, among others, but they were soon cut off. The followers who flooded Barack Obama's Instagram p...

The Minister of Finance, Zaina Ahmed, says the federal government has spent N2.02 trillion on debt servicing within the first six months of 2021 (January-June). The Cable reports that the Minister disclosed this when she spoke at the 2022- 2024 2022-2024 medium-term expenditure framework/ fiscal strategy paper (MTEF/FSP) committee interactive session in Abuja on Monday, August 16. Ahmed said the federal government’s retained revenue amounted to 67.3 percent of the target. Last year, out of total revenue of N3.42 trillion, the federal government spent N3.34 trillion on debt servicing – implying that for every N100 earned as revenue, N97 was spent on debt servicing. Given the breakdown, the minister said oil revenue was N492.44 billion, representing 49 percent performance, while the non-oil revenue totalled N778.18 trillion at 104.5 percent performance, according to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). She added that companies income tax(CIT) and val...

Olusegun Falola, one of the lawyers of Yoruba freedom fighter, Sunday Adeyemo popularly known as Igboho, has disclosed why the agitator was chained by the Benin Republic security agents. Falola disclosed to that Igboho was chained to prevent him from disappearing mysteriously. According to Falola, Beninese security agents were told that Igboho could turn into a cat and escape.   “When I arrived from Paris at the custody where Igboho was detained, he was first chained. They were scared that he could just disappear into the thin air because of his mystical powers. “The police told me that if Igboho’s chains were untied and he escapes mysteriously, he (police officer) will be stripped of his rank and also dismissed.   “The police officer said he was told that Igboho could disappear or turn into a cat, and many other things were said to the police officers which made them tie him,” he told the Nation. The lawyer, however, disclosed that his timely intervention led to t...

"Watch Me" rapper, Silento, has been indicted on four charges by a Georgia grand jury in connection with the shooting death of his cousin earlier this year. According to new legal documents, Silento, born Ricky Lamar Hawk, was charged with malice murder, felony murder, aggravated assault and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony. The Atlanta MC, 23, was arrested in February for the murder of his 34-year-old cousin, Frederick Rooks. On Jan. 21, police responded to a 3:30 a.m. call regarding shots fired and found Rooks dead at the scene with multiple gunshot wounds, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Silento was also arrested last August for assault with a deadly weapon after being accused of walking into an unlocked stranger’s home in the Valley Village area of Los Angeles and swinging a hatchet at the two people inside before one of them disarmed him. A day prior to that arrest, he was held on domestic violence charges at ...

Barcelona president, Joan Laporta has revealed that the cause of Lionel Messi leaving the club was a debt of £1.15billion which he blamed on his predecessor Josep Bartomeu. Laporta gave a two-hour press conference, where he explained the gravity of the financial situation at the Nou Camp and accused Bartomeu of telling lies. ‘As of March 21, 2021, the debt was €1.35bn,’ revealed Laporta. ‘Bartomeu was plugging holes in the short term and mortgaging the club in the long term. That leaves us a dramatic inheritance.’  Messi left on a free transfer for Paris Saint-Germain last week after the club, player and La Liga were unable to come to an agreement with the club explaining that "financial and structural obstacles" meant the deal could not be completed, meaning Messi left as a free agent. Laporta said: ‘Bartomeu’s letter is an effort to justify management that is unjustifiable. It is an exercise in desperation. I have read the letter carefully and it is full of lies...

A CNN reporter, Clarissa Ward, was forced to wear hijab while reporting for the news channel on Monday August 16, after the fall of Afghanistan's capital, Kabul, to the Taliban.  Photos of Clarissa before and after the capture of the city have gone viral as online users are shocked by the quick turn of events. See more photos of Clarissa below...    

A photo which shows inside a US military aircraft evacuating Afghans from Kabul to Qatar has viral online. Since Afghanistan collapsed to the Taliban, Kabul residents have been desperately looking for a way out of the capital either by road or by air.

Former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, has asked Nigerians who supported President Joe Biden during the US presidential elections to start praying that Boko Haram and ISWAP members don't come knocking on the gates of Abuja or take over Nigeria, just as the Taliban have taken over the reins of affair in Afghanistan. FFK said this while sharing his thoughts on the recent happenings in Afghanistan. In a post shared on his Instagram page, FFK opined that the US President should have opted for ''tactical withdrawal'' of US forces in Afghanistan instead of the "capitulation he embarked upon." He claimed that if former U.S. President, Donald Trump was still in power, such a thing would never have happened.   His post reads; ''There is a difference between a tactical withdrawal and capitulation. The way in which the Americans left Afghanistan was shameful. Joe Biden botched the whole thing up and the United States of America left in hum...