Chelsea are in advanced talks to sign Brighton left-back Marc Cucurella and are willing to pay the £50m asking price for the Manchester City target.
The Spaniard handed in a transfer request on Friday in a bid to push through a move to City but the Premier League champions will not pay Brighton's asking price, with Chelsea now in pole position to sign the 24-year-old.
The Seagulls had previously rejected a £30m bid for the full-back from Pep Guardiola's side, who are looking for a replacement for Oleksandr Zinchenko after he joined Arsenal.
Cucurella enjoyed a hugely successful first Premier League season after joining from Getafe in a deal worth around £15m last summer and was named Brighton's player of the season.
Chelsea have now moved for Cucurella with doubts surrounding the future of left-back Marcos Alonso, with Barcelona reportedly wanting to sign the 31-year-old this summer. Blues captain Cesar Azpilicueta is also wanted by the Spanish giants with the defender having one year left on his deal.
Thomas Tuchel's side have made two signings this summer with the arrivals of Raheem Sterling for £47.5m from City and defender Khalidou koulibaly from Napoli in a £33m deal.
The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has warned the public to be cautious and steer clear of con artists posing as service recruiters.
This is stated in a statement made by Mr. Johannes Woju on Monday in Abuja.
“On repeated occasions, the FIRS has cautioned the general public to be vigilant and circumspect not to deal with scam artists who pose as recruitment agents for the Service and collect huge sums of money from unsuspecting victims with the promise to provide them employment.
“Again, the Management of the FIRS wishes to caution the public to be wary of these employment scam artists.
“The Service wishes to emphatically state that it is not conducting any recruitment at the moment, and importantly that it does not conduct recruitment exercises through back door channels.
“Should FIRS at any instance have need to expand its workforce and consequently seek to recruit competent hands to carry out the task of revenue mobilization for the nation, the public can be rest assured that the Service would follow appropriate channels and processes in doing so.
” This includes advertisements on public channels of communication, followed by rigorous screening, interviews and examination exercises.
“The FIRS also wishes to caution media practitioners not to allow their mediums to be used as platforms for publishing unauthorized fake application processes and recruitment portals that hoodwink the unsuspecting public,” the statement said.
It further stated that FIRS will pursue all appropriate legal remedies against any platform discovered to be running such dishonest advertisements.
Ne-Yo, an American singer-songwriter, and his wife Crystal Renay may be divorcing because she claims he cheated on her.
This was announced by Renay on Saturday, July 30, 2022 on her Instagram page.
Renay said the music singer accused her husband of cheating on her with "many" other women over the course of their almost ten-year relationship in what many have characterized as a passionate post.
"8 years of lies and deception. 8 years of unknowingly sharing my life and husband with numerous of women who sell their bodies to him unprotected… every last one of them!" she wrote.
, Crystal Renay, Ne-Yo’s Wife Accuses Him Of Cheating
“To say I’m heartbroken and disgusted is an understatement. To ask me to stay and accept it is absolutely insane. The mentality of a narcissist. I will no longer lie to the public or pretend that this is something it isn’t,” she continued.
“I choose me, I choose my happiness and health and my respect. I gained 3 beautiful children out of this but nothing else but wasted years and heartache.''
“If someone can’t love you the way you deserve then it’s up to you to love yourself. With no hate in my heart, I wish him nothing but the best.”
On Sunday, July 31, Neyo responded to his wife's post on Twitter.
"For the sake of our children, my family and I will work through our challenges behind closed doors,” he tweeted.
“Personal matters are not meant to be addressed and dissected in public forums. I simply ask that you please respect me and my family’s privacy at this time.”
"For the sake of our children, my family and I will work through our challenges behind closed doors. Personal matters are not meant to be addressed and dissected in public forums. I simply ask that you please respect me and my family’s privacy at this time.”
In 2015, Renay and Neyo began dating. That same year, Neyo made a proposal.
The pair had a brief separation in 2020 before getting back together in 2022. To commemorate their reconciliation, they had a spectacular wedding in Las Vegas.
With the Celtics, Bill Russell won the NBA Championship 11 times. He also won two championships while serving as a player-coach.
Bill Russell, who played for the Boston Celtics and won 11 NBA titles during his Hall of Fame career, passed away on Sunday at the age of 88.
The 12-time NBA All-Star died away with his wife by his side, according to a statement Russell issued on his Twitter account.
The statement read:
"It is with a heavy heart we would like to pass along to all of Bill's friends, fans and followers:
"Bill Russell, the most prolific winner in American sports history, passed away peacefully today aged 88, with his wife, Jeannine, by his side.
"Arrangements for his memorial will be announced soon.
"Bill's two state championships in high school offered a glimmer of the incomparable run of pure team accomplishment to come: twice an NCAA champion; captain of a gold-meal-winning US Olympic team; 11 times an NBA champion; and at the helm for two NBA championships as the first black head coach of any North American professional sports team.
"Along the way, Bill earned a string of individual awards that stands unprecedented as it went unmentioned by him.
"In 2009, the award for the NBA Finals most valuable player was renamed after two-time Hall of Famer as the 'Bill Russell NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award.
NBA Great Bill Russell Dies Aged 88
"But for all the winning, Bill's understanding of the struggle is what illuminated his life.
"From boycotting a 1961 exhibition game to unmask too-long-tolerates discrimination, to leading Mississippi's first integrated basketball camp in the combustible wake of Medgar Evans' assassination, to decades of activism ultimately recognised by his receipt of the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2010, Bill called out injustice with an unforgiving candor that he intended would disrupt the status quo, and with a powerful example that, though never his humble intention, will forever inspire teamwork selflessness and thoughtful change.
"Bill's wife, Jeannine, and his many friends and family thank you for keeping Bill in your prayers. Perhaps you'll relive one or two of the golden moments he gave us, or recall his trademark laugh as he delighted in explaining the real story behind how those moments unfolded.
"And we hope each of us can find a new way to act or speak up with Bill's uncompromising, dignified and always constructive commitment to principle.
"That would be one last, and lasting, win for our beloved #6."
Russell, widely regarded as the best defensive center in basketball history, transformed the Celtics into a force that won eight straight championships from 1959 through 1966.
Russell served as the cornerstone of a Boston Celtics dynasty that amassed 11 championships in 13 years, two of which he won as the first Black head coach in a major American sport.
He battled Wilt Chamberlain and is a member of the Hall of Fame. He was a five-time MVP and 12-time All-Star. Along with Martin Luther King Jr., Russell participated in civil rights marches and supported boxer Muhammad Ali when he objected to being drafted into the military.
