Janet Osemudiamen
Just over a week since being sacked by Tottenham, Jose Mourinho already has three jobs lined up.
According to Yahoo! news, the Portuguese was dismissed just 17 months into his Spurs spell, with the club out of Europe and their hopes of finishing in the top four all but over
The Portuguese was dismissed just 17 months into his Spurs spell, with the club out of Europe and their hopes of finishing in the top four all but over.
As Spurs look to end their season on a more positive note, Mourinho has been linked with the likes of Celtic for an immediate return to the dugout.
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The 10 year old Nigerian refugee in the United States Tani Adewumi, who secured the New York State chess championship in 2019, has now won yet another competition to officially become a national chess master.
Nicholas Kristof, a columnist for New York Times who was one of Adewumi’s early admirers, confirmed the latest feat on Sunday.
It was gathered that the game the 5th grader played to snag the national title was that of the Chess Club of Fairfield County (CCFC). It was earlier billed to hold on May 1, with Adewumi listed as one of the players to compete.
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On Saturday, six-time Ballon d’Or winner, Lionel Messi, reached an important milestone 200 million followers on Instagram, making him the second person to do so after football arch-rival, Cristiano Ronaldo, achieved the milestone last year’s January.
However, instead of celebrating it, the Argentine took the landmark as an opportunity to send a message against online abuse.
According to Tribuna, Lionel Messi writes on his instagram.
“I see that I have just reached the 200 million people who follow me on this network, however, because of what is happening today, I am not going to take it as a reason for celebration,” the FC Barcelona skipper announced.
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The Ministry of Youth and Sports Development has taken out the names of the President of the Nigeria Olympics Committee, NOC, Habu Gumel and secretary-general of the NOC Olabanji Oladapo from the list of caretaker committee members for the dissolved boards of the National Sports Federations.
The sports ministry, following the ending of boards of the federations,on friday appointed three-member caretaker committees to oversee the affairs of the federations, prior to the election of new boards in a yet to be disclosed date.
The ministry appointed Gumel into the Nigeria Volleyball Federation committee, while Oladapo was named as a member of the Nigeria Table Tennis Federation committee.
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The federal government says foreigners who recently visited Brazil, India and Turkey will not be allowed into Nigeria from Tuesday.
In a travel advisory issued on Saturday, Boss Mustapha, chairman of the presidential steering committee on COVID-19, said the decision was as a result of global surge in COVID-19 cases.
According to TheCable, Mustapha who is also the secretary to the government of the federation (SGF), stated that Nigerians who visited those countries will undergo one-week mandatory quarantine at arrival, while the passenger will bear the cost.
He also added that the federal government has reduced the validity period of pre-boarding COVID-19 PCR test for all Nigeria-bound passengers from 96 to 72 hours.