Jurgen Klopp will return to the touchline again when he takes charge of Borussia Dortmund for Lukasz Piszczek and Jakub Blaszczykowski’s testimonial match. Klopp stepped down as Liverpool manager in May after nine years with the Premier League. The German has been enjoying his time off ever since. However, Klopp will now manage his first match when he returns to the touchline at the Signal Iduna Park on Saturday. Both Piszczek and Blaszczykowski played for Dortmund between 2008 and 2015, while Klopp managed the Bundesliga club. Under Klopp, they were a part of Dortmund’s 2011 and 2012 Bundesliga-winning squads. Klopp…
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The Naira appreciated significantly against the dollar at the official foreign exchange market to end the week on a positive note. FMDQ data showed that the Naira strengthened to N1593.32 per dollar at the close of work on Friday from N1625.88 exchanged on Thursday. This represents a significant 32.56 gain against the dollar compared to the N1625.88 exchange rate the previous day. Meanwhile, the black market continued its depreciation to close at N1,665 per dollar on Friday from N1660 on Thursday. This means that the Naira closed with a mis-sentiment on Friday, that is it strengthened at the official market…
The National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS has described the allegations against the association by Deji Adeyanju as baseless. The association condemned the recent comments made by Adeyanju, an activist and lawyer, where he said the student body was dead. DAILY POST gathered that Adeyanju had a few hours ago condemned NANS for threatening to embark on protests over the increment in the price of Premium Motor Spirit also known as Petroleum. Adeyanju in his post on X noted that NANS is dead but the NANS Senate President, Afeez Babatunde Akinteye in his reaction described Adeyanju’s statement as baseless. Akinteye…
Moses Simon has won the Nantes’ Player of the Month award for August, DAILY POST reports. Simon scored twice in three league appearances for the Canaries in the club. The Nigeria international won 43% of the votes. The 28-year-old beat Alban Lafont, Matthis Abline and Nathan Zézé to the award. He will receive his award before Nantes’ league clash with Stade de Reims and is currently on international duty with Nigeria. Ligue 1: Simon wins Nantes’ Player of the Month award
Former England striker, Darren Bent, has hit out at organizers of the Ballon d’Or over Chelsea star Cole Palmer’s nomination for this year’s award. Bent suggested that since Palmer neither won a trophy with Chelsea nor started for England, the 22-year-old should not have made the shortlist. Palmer recently made the shortlist of the top 30 players in the world for the 2024 Ballon d’Or award alongside the likes of Rodri, Vinicius Junior, Jude Bellingham, Kylian Mbappe and Erling Haaland. The former Manchester City star scored 27 goals and provided 15 assists in 48 games last season but failed to…
Four people have lost their lives in a tragic boat accident in Lafia East Local Government Area of Nasarawa State on Thursday. The victims, including one man and three women, were part of a group of farmers travelling from Alogani village to the Ashangwa market when the boat they were on sank. Eyewitness Abdul Hamid Sale, who was present at the scene, expressed grief over the loss, describing it as avoidable. He explained that the farmers were forced to use the boat due to a lack of road networks connecting the local communities. According to Sale, the boat was overloaded…
Some Northerners under the aegis of the North West Agenda for Peace, NOWAP on Friday said the decision by President Bola Tinubu to relocate the Minister of State for Defence, Bello Matawalle, and some service chiefs including the Chief of Defence Staff, Christopher Musa to the region was a welcome development. DAILY POST reports that Tinubu had last week, directed Matawalle and the military chiefs to move to the North West in a bid to tackle the growing security crisis in the region. The Minister and the service chiefs arrived at Sokoto State on Tuesday where he reiterated the Federal…
The Deputy Governor of Delta State, Monday Onyeme, has said Nigerians fell prey to the razzmatazz of the All Progressives Congress, APCs “change” mantra. He made the claims on Friday, in Asaba when Non-Working Members Of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Delta State Executive Committee paid him a courtesy visit, saying Nigerians have learnt lessons the hard way by voting for the APC. He noted that when the PDP was leading the nation on a progressive trend with the fuel pump price at N87 per litre, Nigerians were enjoying democratic freedom. While urging Nigerians not to despair but to work…
After Kiekie’s new hustle led us in several directions and even caused us to speculate endlessly, it turns out it was Hollandia all along. You won’t believe what Hollandia just pulled off! It’s been quite the week with Kiekie announcing her new side hustle, and now, the big reveal has everyone talking. Everyone thought it was just Kiekie being Kiekie, trying something new and fun. But then, people started posting unboxing videos of these deliveries, and the speculation began. Was this just Kiekie’s new gig, or was something bigger at play? Turns out, it was Hollandia all along! This whole…
Respected Daily Telegraph’s football news correspondent, Matt Law has explained the reason behind Chelsea’s failure to meet the demands of Victor Osimhen during the summer transfer window. Speaking to London Is Blue Podcast via Football Transfers, Law said: “For me, they [Chelsea] can’t go out and pay him [ Osimhen] £ 300,000 a week because that is going to cause massive issues when you’ve just given Cole Palmer an uplift that is nowhere near that really,” Law explained. “It would have been risky. You could easily have had another Lukaku situation.” Chelsea was keen on bringing the Nigerian striker to…