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World heavyweight champion, Tyson Fury’s father, John Fury has insisted that his son will knock out fellow British fighter, Anthony Joshua in the first round when both boxers contest next year. John said this during an interview with BT Sport. DAILY POST recalls that  Fury and Joshua  had agreed on a two-fight deal in principle to fight twice in 2021 to crown the undisputed heavyweight world champion. “Anthony Joshua will think he’s fighting an eel in cold water, he won’t be able to touch Tyson, and he will hit him that hard his heart will go,” John said. “It will be a more relaxed night than Deontay Wilder. 'I will retake all bets; in the first round Tyson will come out jabbing, slipping and sliding and bang! Joshua will fall to pieces after the first right hand because he will know he can’t beat this man. “I’m not just saying that because he’s my son, I tell it as I see it; they’re all terrified of Tyson.”                    ...

Michael Owen has thrown his support behind Manchester United’s decision to extend Odion Ighalo’s loan deal and believes the striker has proven his doubters wrong at Old Trafford. Eyebrows were raised when United wrapped up a temporary agreement with Shanghai Greenland Shenhua for Ighalo in January but the 30-year-old seized his opportunity with both hands, racking up four goals and an assist in his opening eight appearances. The break-in football caused by the coronavirus crisis put Ighalo’s future in serious doubt as it meant the Nigerian’s contract came to an end with nine Premier League matches remaining of the season. But the Red Devils ended the uncertainty last week as Ighalo, a lifelong fan of the club, put pen to paper on a six-month extension. ‘I like him, I like him a lot,’ former United and England forward Owen said on Premier League Productions. ‘I know people turn their nose up at him because he’s come from Chinese football or because he’s on loan, he’s not a sexy £60m pla...

Lagos State High Court, Igbosere on Wednesday sentenced two men, Williams Umoh Udoh and Ubong Lazarus Isaiah, to death for armed robbery in Lagos. The court sentenced Ubong Isaiah to death for armed robbery while Williams Udoh was sentenced to a separate 21 years imprisonment for rape at the scene of the crime. The two robbers were earlier arraigned by the Lagos State Government on an amended five-count charge in June 2017. The defendants, who pleaded not guilty, robbed the residents of Ologun and Darashe, a street in Shepherd Estate, Ijegun on the 2nd of August 2015 while the 1st defendant William Udoh raped one of the victims on her matrimonial bed. They were arrested by the police and arraigned for conspiracy to commit robbery and armed robbery. The lead prosecutor, permanent secretary in Lagos State Ministry of Justice, Titilayo Shitta urged the court to sentence the defendants accordingly having found them guilty of the charges against them. She noted that the testimonies of six w...

They also renewed commitment to ensuring that offenders face the full weight of the law.    File photo The Nigeria Governors Forum has agreed to declare a state of emergency on s*xual and gender-based violence against women and children, The PUNCH reports. They also renewed commitment to ensuring that offenders face the full weight of the law. This was contained in a communique signed by the Chairman of the NGF, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, after the forum’s 10th COVID-19 Teleconference meeting held on Wednesday. The communique was issued in Abuja, on Thursday, The PUNCH reports. Governors agreed to,  “Declare a State of Emergency on Sexual and Gender-based Violence. Governors strongly condemned all forms of violence against women and children and committed to ensuring that offenders face the maximum weight of the law; “Call on State Governors that have not already domesticated relevant gender-based protection laws to domesticate the Violence Against Persons (Prohibition) Act, the ...

Uwa's death story has taken another toll.  Initially it was reported that she went to read in a Redeemed Christian Church of God in Edo State and was raped, assaulted. While in the hospital she gave up the ghost as a result of the intensity of the assaults.     Later, it was reported that on allegedly suspect of the gang, Mr. Chibuzor confessed to the DSS that it was the clergy in charge of the parish that gave them a sum of 1.5 million naira to kill Uwa. The journalist, Mr. Ayo Ademokoyo Now, Uwa death story had towed another line. This was made known by a journalist named Ayo Ademokoya, who took to Facebook to give the update. From our source, Ayo Ademokoyo, Uwa got pregnant for the pastor, he ordered her to about it but she refused. They arranged to meet and talk over things at their usual hangout spot which was the church premises. Since she couldn't report the matter to anybody she agreed to meet him.  The pastor did not show up rather she met the paid hood...

By Oludayo Tade TRIBAL rapists in the past two weeks have competed to out-perform one another in their sinister career of not only having unlawful carnal knowledge but also gruesomely eliminating two of their victims from mother earth and plunging their immediate families and national community into mourning mood and actively seeking justice. These organised criminals unleashed violence on promising teenagers and terminated their dreams of becoming successful while turning two decades of parental investments into losses of monumental proportion. Away from COVID-19 pandemic and its associated complexities, sadness envelopes the national space as promising young girls were eliminated unjustly by ‘familiar foes’. This has been our experience from May 27 in Edo State, where the life ambition of 22-year-old Uwaila Omozuwa was made unrealisable by a gang of rapists and murderers; to the Pacesetter state where Barakat Bello (18 years), suffered similar fate in her house on June 1, 2020; to Aj...

Former vice-President Atiku Abubakar Adamu Atiku Abubakar, son of the former vice president and presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in the last election , Atiku Abubakar  says his father will contest for president in 2023. Atiku had lost to President Muhammadu Buhari in the 2019 presidential election and has been contesting for the position since 1993. Adamu said this while presenting his scorecard as commissioner for works and energy in Adamawa state on Ahmadu Finitiri’s first anniversary as governor. PUNCH reports that the Adamu made it known that his father had remained a master politician and there is nothing wrong if he contests again. “Personally, I don’t see anything wrong with my father contesting for the presidency. In 2023, my father will be aspiring to the number one office in the land because he has been an astute, strategic, master politician for almost four decades,” he said. Speaking foe himself, he said, “I am basically here to serve my peopl...