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The burial of the late football legend Pele has been set for Monday and Tuesday. The wake will be held on Monday and his body will be laid to rest on Tuesday at his Santos home, where he enchanted the world, according to his former club. “The wake for the greatest footballer of all time will be held in Urbano Caldeira Stadium, better known as the Vila Belmiro, where he enchanted the world,” Santos football club said in a Thursday statement, adding that Pele would then get a funeral procession through the city’s streets before a private burial ceremony. The…

The NBA suspended Detroit Pistons guard Killian Hayes for three games and Orlando Magic center Moritz Wagner for two games on Thursday, with nine other players handed one-match suspensions following a mass scuffle during a game a day earlier.Pistons guard Hamidou Diallo was given a one-game ban and eight Magic players will also serve suspensions of that duration.Guards Cole Anthony, R.J. Hampton, Gary Harris and Kevon Harris; forwards Admiral Schofield and Franz Wagner; and centers Mo Bamba and Wendell Carter Jr have each been suspended for one game.Wagner, Hayes and Diallo were all ejected after a shoving match that had…

Former President of the United States, Barack Obama has mourned Brazil football Legend, Pele, who died on Thursday at the age of 82. He died at the Albert Einstein Hospital in Sao Paulo. The football star had been treated for colon cancer, following surgery to remove a tumour in September 2021, and had required regular medical treatment. After being admitted back into the hospital at the end of November to re-evaluate his cancer treatment, he was diagnosed with a respiratory infection before subsequently being moved to palliative care when his body became unresponsive to chemotherapy. The news of his death…

Brazil has declared a three-day mourning period for the death of football icon Pele, who died aged 82.The Vila Belmiro Stadium, where he played at Santos, will host his funeral, spanning two days early next week.The club said that Pele’s body will leave the nearby hospital and be placed in the centre of the field, where mourners can visit from 10am that day until 10am the following day. The home of Pele’s mother, who is still alive at 100, will be part of the route where the casket is walked through the streets of the city – before a family-only…

…as IMC lists approved venues for 2023 NPFLSeven times champion of the Nigeria Professional Football League, Rangers International of Enugu, Lobi Stars of Makurdi, Nasarawa United, Kwara United and Niger Tornadoes will play their home games in the 2022/2023 NPFL season away from home, after their stadiums failed to meet up with the infrastructure requirements set by the Interim Management Committee of the league as part of club licensing.The five clubs will now seek alternative venues, based on the approval of the IMC before the kick off of the league by January 8 2023.Matchday one fixtures in both groups of…

Erling Haaland cannot stop scoring goals. The Manchester City has already scored 20 Premier League goals this season. The former Borussia Dortmund man scored his 20th goal in City’s 3:1 win over Leeds on Wednesday. With that in mind, it is fair to look at the stats. Erling Haaland only needs 12 goals to break Mohamed Salah’s 32 in a Premier League season. There’s still 23 games left to play. Haaland is 4 goals away from beating last season’s Premier League golden boot winning total. There are 23 games left. Erling Haaland has now scored more Premier League goals than…

According to the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH), anyone who assaults, beats up or otherwise threatens a hospital employee will be detained and prosecuted going forward. This was confirmed on Wednesday by Mrs Elizabeth Ajiboye, the Director of the Corporate Affairs Unit at UITH, in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ilorin.She said: “An extant case was that of a male patient admitted into the Accident and Emergency (A&E) Wing of the UITH on 27th December 2022.“The patient in question was one of such cases presented to the hospital late and with severe…

Brazil legend Pele has passed away aged 82 following a battle with cancer.Lauded by many as the greatest player to ever play football, Pele had been battling health issues in recent years. He was pictured in a wheelchair at the 2018 World Cup and was taken into hospital after collapsing due to exhaustion a month after the tournament. He had been receiving regular treatment from doctors ever since undergoing surgery to have a tumour on his colon removed in September 2021, but had been readmitted to hospital towards the end of 2022. His condition failed to improve, with Pele remaining…

Erling Haaland says that Manchester City are hunting Arsenal down in the Premier League title race after Wednesday night’s win at Leeds United. City recorded a 3-1 win at Elland Road in their first league game since the end of the World Cup, with Haaland bagging a second-half brace after Rodri had opened the scoring just before the break. The result means the Citizens have moved back to second in the table, five points off Arsenal, as they look to become the first club since Manchester United in 2009 to win three Premier League titles in a row. But the…

There’s a trending picture of a bleached N500 note that went to the washers and didn’t come back the same. Switch Nigeria learned that a Twitter user who goes by the username @Fluffy_Naz said her sister mistakenly washed it together with her clothes. Her tweet which was posted on Wednesday read, “my sis forgot the new currency in her pocket and washed it, this is what it turned out to! If rain drenches you and this money is your only hope, you’d be stranded! https://twitter.com/Fluffy_Naz/status/1608144822434697216?t=gED27mVo8lD4HAlvXd3pGA&s=19 While she defended her post to be true, others doubted her. https://twitter.com/KEMZY_05369/status/1608172140590923776?t=OXjPf_I_rgEuF0nHLm7fHQ&s=19 https://twitter.com/RareMitchel/status/1608442817118076931?t=fN4tVQsjgTIJhV4btf01fw&s=19 https://twitter.com/Rebecca37528995/status/1608185360705818625?t=87l2J2NEWcV7wa-j62Jl2Q&s=19 https://twitter.com/browniesisi/status/1608172757946191873?t=FxYOQAtknam15PNZ3Kgu6A&s=19…