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West Ham United captain Mark Noble is to undergo surgery for a long-standing abdominal injury and will miss the last two Premier League games of the season, the club said on Thursday. Noble, who has made 35 appearances in all competitions this campaign, will miss Sunday's final home game against Liverpool and the trip to Burnley on the last day of the season.

Jose Mourinho will unapologetically seek to preserve the freshness of his Manchester United players over their final three Premier League games, he said after they reached the Europa League final. United will play Ajax in Stockholm on May 24 after a nervy 1-1 draw at home to Celta Vigo on Thursday, in which centre-back Eric Bailly was sent off, gave them a 2-1 aggregate semifinal win.

Everton will be ready to compete in the Europa League next season despite the demands placed on the club by additional fixtures after they sealed a seventh-placed Premier League finish, manager Ronald Koeman has said. Everton will play 41 games across three domestic competitions this season but can expect a much busier fixture list next year when the European ties are added to the schedule.

There is nothing Arsene Wenger relishes more than confounding his doubters and the Arsenal manager will know on Saturday whether he has a strong chance of doing so once again. Wenger's side travel to Stoke having boosted their chances of qualifying for the Champions League - a task that looked a lost cause just a few weeks ago - by winning 2-0 at Southampton on Wednesday. That left Arsenal in fifth place in the Premier League, three points behind Manchester City in the slot directly above.

Hull City's final two Premier League games are equivalent to Champions League finals as the club fight to avoid relegation, on-loan defender Andrea Ranocchia has said ahead of Sunday's encounter against Crystal Palace. Hull's 2-0 loss to Sunderland last week left them one point adrift of safety in 18th position and they travel to 16th-placed Palace, who are four points ahead, before hosting second-placed Tottenham Hotspur in their last game.

With a few games left of the 25th Premier League season, champions elect Chelsea just need one more win to confirm their title and round off an incredibly impressive start to the reign of manager Antonio Conte. After guiding Italy in an impressive Euro 2016 campaign, Conte came to Chelsea after a disastrous season where the Blues finished tenth – the worst ever finish for a Premier League defending champion.

Bayern Munich and RB Leipzig meet in a top-of-the-table clash, unrest rattles Borussia Dortmund while the battle avoid relegation rages on. Here are five things to look for the in the Bundesliga on Saturday: Score to settle with Bayern Ralph Hasenhuettl says his RB Leipzig have a score to settle at home to Bayern Munich.

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has said that the 14-point gap between his club and leaders Chelsea is not an accurate reflection of the difference in quality between the two Premier League sides. While Chelsea can seal the title with a win at West Brom later on Friday, Liverpool are clinging to a spot in the top four. They are third, a point and a place above Manchester City, having played a game more.

Harry Redknapp has signed a one-year deal to stay on at Championship side Birmingham City after helping them escape relegation, the club said on Friday. Redknapp, who at 70 is the oldest manager in English football, led Birmingham to two wins in their final two games to end the season in 19th position, two points clear of the relegation zone.

One is a female former teenage guerrilla fighter who became President Robert Mugabe’s closest ally, the other is a battle-hardened opposition leader often dismissed as a busted flush. But, despite their differences, Joice Mujuru and Morgan Tsvangirai are in talks to lead a united opposition alliance to try to unseat Mugabe in Zimbabwe’s much-anticipated election next year.

L agos— A 39-year-old  housewife, Yemisi Akinwunmi, who is a petty trader, pleaded with a customary court sitting in Agege, Lagos, to end her 20-year-old marriage and free her from the pangs of daily corporal punishment meted out to her by the husband. She said: “My husband constantly beats me and whenever he wants to do so, he tells me to kneel down and stretch my hands like a pupil before caning me.

D ESPITE all that may be taken as gains from the President Muhammadu Buhari administration’s anti-corruption war, there are good reasons to believe that the whole campaign might be a journey to nowhere. Uncharitable as this may  sound, the fact cannot be denied that to date there is no concrete and irreversible achievement to the campaign’s credit.

Behind the high fences of the repatriation centre at Ponte Galeria, just down the road from Rome’s Fiumicino airport, dozens of women sit outside, waiting for word on whether they will have to leave Italy. But as the government steps up its efforts to send more migrants home, many who pinned their hopes on asylum appeals are growing increasingly worried.

On the heels of the announcement of the successful sale of Keystone Bank Limited and the promise of the new investors to take active steps towards turning around its operations in order to become more competitive in the sector, the management of the Bank has proceeded on a drive to give a face-lift to its various branches across the country as part of the post- divestment repositioning.

New York – A Nigerian was, Thursday, appointed as the Acting President to preside over the 81st Plenary Meeting of UN General Assembly at the UN headquarters. The Nigeria’s Ambassador/Permanent Representative to the UN, Prof. Tijjani Bande, presided over the 193-member body.

Still basking in the euphoria of the huge success of his last single ‘Mad Over You’, Nigerian popstar, Runtown is back with his first official song of the year 2017. The new song is titled ‘For Life’ produced by Krizbeatz and it”s already been certified a monster hit by music industry critics and pundits who have listen to it.

IN the early 1980s, when I had just completed my National Service as a youth corper, Lagos was the destination for most young persons, and graduates. In those good old days, a corper was the love and admiration of all. We in the 1980 set, had free bus rides, free accommodation under Alhaji Lateef Jakande- One governor who ruled Lagos for over four years, without travelling overseas.

The Andrew J. Young Foundation has announced former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and popular singer, songwriter, rapper and producer Akon, as recipients of the 2017 International Leadership Awards. The Foundation, in a statement listed other recipients of the Awards as civil rights icon Van Jones and Women’s March Organisers as part of the 85th birthday celebration of its founder and Chair, Amb. Andrew Young.

Indian officials say a Jet Airways plane with 188 people on board, Friday, returned back to airport in Indian city of Mumbai, following a suspected tail strike. All the passengers, including eight crew members in the plane destined to Bangkok, immediately alighted. India’s semi-official news agency, Press Trust of India, said Friday’s incident of tail strike involving a Jet Airways plane is the third of its kind this year.