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Liverpool set the tone before the transfer market had even officially begun when they splashed out a world record fee for a defender, paying £75 million for Southampton's Virgil van Dijk With the January transfer window opening on New Year's Day, the Premier League's superpowers are ready to flex their financial muscles in a frenzy of spending. With the January transfer window opening on New Year's Day, the Premier League's superpowers are ready to flex their financial muscles in a frenzy of spending. Liverpool set the tone before the market had even officially begun when they splashed out a world record fee for a defender, paying £75 million ($100 million) for Southampton's Virgil van Dijk. Manchester City might be running away with the Premier League title race, but the leaders can afford to add a piece or two from a position of strength, while Manchester United, Chelsea and Tottenham prepare to spend, spend, spend in a bid to catch their rivals...

Kevin Durant has locked in on defense this year, leading the league in blocked shots and making the Golden State Warriors all the scarier. Kevin Durant is getting Defensive Player of the Year buzz for leading the league in blocked shots on the Golden State Warriors' league-best defense. Durant has said the lightened load on offense with the Warriors' bevy of shooters and scorers has allowed him to focus more on defense. As if the Warriors weren't daunting enough, a locked-in 7-footer protecting the perimeter and rim makes scoring on Golden State even tougher.  When Kevin Durant joined the Golden State Warriors in 2016, the NBA world envisioned the terrifying potential of the league's most lethal natural scorer teaming up with its two greatest shooters to form an impossible-to-cover unit. Secondary in those visions was how Durant's length and athleticism would also benefit an already long, switchy defense that ranked among the NBA's best in the past two...

Britain's Prince Harry is seen interviewing former U.S. President Barack Obama, in Canada, in a 'Today Programme' exclusive Former President Barack Obama told Britain's Prince Harry in an interview that the irresponsible use of social media could be dangerous, saying that it can allow some people to live in "different realities" and preserve their biases. Obama told Harry in an interview on BBC Radio 4's Today program that social media can lead to people being exposed to material that only reinforces their own views and does not challenge them. "One of the dangers of the internet is that people can have entirely different realities. They can be cocooned in information that reinforces their current biases," the former president said. "The question has to do with how do we harness this technology in a way that allows a multiplicity of voices, allows a diversity of views, but doesn't lead to a Balkanization of society and allows ...

  Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) will be at the mercy of an alien-like monster in an upcoming episode of "Supernatural." In the episode "Wayward Sisters," the   promo reveals what happened to the Winchester brothers when they were transported to a different dimension due to Kaia Nieves' (Yadira Guevara-Prip) mistake. Last episode, Jack (Alexander Calvert) proposed that they could bring back Mary (Samantha Smith) to the world of the living through the help of a dreamwalker. Kaia has a dark history, but the nephilim decided to trust to her succeed in saving Sam and Dean's mother. Instead of transporting Mary to safety, Kaia's powers sent Jack in the realm the other woman was in, trapping them both. As for Sam and Dean, there found themselves in an entirely different world. The promo shows exactly what kind of dimension they are in. In the clip, Sam and Dean wake up tied to a tree. Everything is dark and there is a stench of danger in...

Sandra Obiago; Henry Bassey; Dr. Charlotte Langhorst; Prof. Ebun Clark; Femi Akinsanya and moderator, Papa Omotayo At the peak of Lagos art season last month, the atmosphere was spicied with the most crucial, and perhaps, the essence of making art – collecting. It was a gathering, which had as theme ‘The Art of Collecting: The Intersection Between Design, Architecture and Art.’ Organised by Wheatbaker Hotel, Ikoyi, Lagos, in partnership with African Culture and Design Festival (ACDF), the event provided a window through which art appreciation in Nigeria could be analysed. It indeed confirmed that Wheabaker’s branding, as a boutique hotel with art events as its poster-face, had been well articulated. This much was echoed when Director of Wheatbaker, Mosun Ogunbanjo, in her opening speech, boasted that “we have always seen art as an integral part of our corporate DNA,” a strategy she revealed allows guests “to find solace and inspiration from what is displayed on our walls.” The...

Pally Iriase  We Can’t Lie About A Non-performing Budget Honourable PALLY IRIASE is the Deputy Chief Whip and member representing Owan Federal Constituency. He spoke to Alemma-Ozioruva Aliu in his Otuo country home. Disagreements even from APC lawmakers over 2018 budget It might look as if it is something that is not good for my party. But if you look closely at the root cause of the challenges bedeviling the budget, it was a carryover of the mismanagement of resources in this country. Because the moment the price of oil plummeted, this nation could not find its balance any more. The reason for that is that during the bumper harvest when oil was at all times not less than one hundred dollars per barrel, the administration then did not save anything. You hear stories about pensions not being paid; it just permeated every level of government at that time. Now budget 2017 is suffering from lack of funds. A situation whereby the capital portion of that budget was to be funded t...

The Group Managing Director of NNPC, Maikanti Baru The Group Managing Director (GMD) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Maikanti Baru, yesterday said the corporation was subsidising fuel because government was not favourably disposed to having the pump price exceed the N145 per litre.  Fielding questions from State House Correspondents after a Juma’at prayer session at the Aso Villa Mosque, Baru said President Muhammadu Buhari has directed that all parameters be maintained to ensure that the pump price does not go beyond the approved N145 per litre.  On the controversial issue of payment of subsidy, Baru retorted: “Do you want me to remove subsidy? What I am saying is that the landing cost, as should be sold in the pump without under-recovery, should be N171.40. “However, Mr. President has directed that we should maintain all the parameters to ensure that it is sold at N145 per litre. And that is why we are selling at depot at N133.28.” He ex...