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Italian striker Mario Balotelli is rarely out of the headlines, and this weekend was no exception. Balotelli scored the opening goal of the Ligue 1 match against Saint-Etienne with a spectacular overhead kick, but his celebration eclipsed the strike immediately. The much-maligned Olympic Marseille striker took celebrating with the fans to a new level by using his phone to post ...

Manchester City have agreed the second biggest kit deal in Premier League history – only behind neighbours Manchester United – after announcing a new long-term deal with Puma covering the Premier League champions and four of its sister clubs. Although the details of the deal have been kept secret, sources told ESPN FC that they have agreed a 10-year deal ...

The United States is offering a reward of up to $1m (£750,000) for information about one of the sons of the late al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden. Hamza Bin Laden is emerging as a leader of the Islamist militant group, officials say. He is thought to be based near the Afghan-Pakistani border. In recent years, he has released audio and ...

MANCHESTER UNITED want to snap up Ivan Rakitic, Kalidou Koulibaly AND Aaron Wan-Bissaka as they seek to bolster their squad this summer, it has been reported. United are currently riding the crest of the wave generated by Ole Gunnar Solskjaer replacing the sacked Jose Mourinho at the helm. And they will be desperate to maintain their impressive form under the ...

American RnB singer and Grammy award nominee Raheem Devaughn has dispelled reports that he had done a collaboration with controversial superstar R Kelly in a remix of one of his hit song “customer.” He explained that the embattled RnB maestro R Kelly was a fan, and so did a cover of his [Raheem] song, and it was not an official ...

The declaration of President Muhammadu Buhari as winner of Nigeria’s presidential election has attracted mixed reactions among Nigerians in Ghana. While a section of the Nigerians the Daily Graphic spoke to in Accra yesterday said the victory was well deserved because the President was working hard to turn the country’s economy around, others said the election was rigged and that ...

American comedian Kevin Hart reacted to an art work by a young Nigerian artist. Opting to buy Eli Waduba Yusuf’s hyperrealism pencil art. The artist, based in the north central Nigeria’s Kaduna State, tweeted two photos – one of him working on Hart’s portrait and the finished piece. In the February 25 tweet, he asked for retweets till Kevin Hart ...

The governments of South Africa and Zimbabwe have been compelled to react to the story of a pastor in South Africa who claimed to have performed a resurrection miracle on Sunday. The video of the man being ‘raised from the dead’ upon the laying of hands by Pastor Lukau has since gone viral, attracting ridicule on social media and an ...

President Felix Tshisekedi arrived in Namibia on Tuesday for an official visit. The president held a press briefing with his host, Hage Geingob, addressing a plethora of issues from corruption, human rights, peace and security back home. According to Tshisekedi who has been in office a little over a month: “For me, it’s an honour to be in Namibia,” stressing ...

Mount Kenya Trust, MKT, has launched an appeal for funds to help arrest spreading fires on the slopes of the famed Mount Kenya. The trust, an organization dedicated to helping preserve and protect Mount Kenya on Wednesday started a fund raiser within Kenya seeking help douse the raging fires. The fires, it said, had been raging for the past five days ...