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  • Mikel quits Turkish club amid coronavirus outbreak

    Mikel quits Turkish club amid coronavirus outbreak

    Former Super Eagles captain John Obi Mikel has mutually terminated his contract with Turkish club Trabzonspor.

    Trabzonspor in an official statement on Tuesday confirmed they have indeed parted ways with Mikel, but no reason was adduced for the decision.

    Mikel joined the Turkish league leaders at the start of the season and played a vital role for the purple and blue, featuring in 19 games before opting to leave the club.

    The 32-year-old will forfeit the rest of his wages after leaving the club in what has shocked many fans in Turkey and Nigeria.

    The statement released on Tuesday by Trabzonspor reads: “The professional football player agreement between our company and John Obi Mikel on 30.06.2019 start date, 31.05.2021 has been mutually terminated. With a mutual termination agreement, the football player gave up all his forward-looking receivables”.

    Though the club did not reveal why his deal was terminated, it might have to do with Mikel’s vocal stance about playing when the coronavirus has reached a pandemic state in Europe.

    The former Chelsea player had last week criticised the Turkish league for allowing the league to continue despite the prevalence of the Covid-19 virus and called for it to be suspended.

    Trabzonspor are currently top of the Turkish Super League with 53 points from 26 matches.

    Turkey currently has 47 confirmed cases, most of which were contracted through foreign visits to the U.S., EU, or Saudi Arabia. To date, there have been no death

    The virus emerged in Wuhan, China last December, and has since spread to at least 150 countries and territories. The World Health Organization declared the outbreak a pandemic.

  • Why we killed Nigerian DJ in his Turkey apartment – Suspects

    Why we killed Nigerian DJ in his Turkey apartment – Suspects

    The suspected killers of Nigeria DJ, Emmanuel İfeanyi Okonyia aka EmmyJay, have revealed the motivation behind their action.

    Okonyia was recently found dead in his apartment in Mecidiyeköy, Turkey, with his hands and feet tied from behind and a knife was also found near his body.

    Two Brazilians have now been arrested in connection with the murder and they have confessed.
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    Sandro Marcello A. and Jonathan Carvalho D admitted that they did a $200, 000 drug deal with the deceased DJ and he refused to pay them.

    According to Sandro: “I went with my friend Carvalho and told him my wife is pregnant and that he should pay me my debt,” and after his refusal, they started to struggle with him.
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    The two Brazilians revealed that they killed the Nigerian DJ with a pig tie and tortured him. “I wanted my debt, when we refused, we tied him and tortured him,” he added. They have since been charged to court.

  • Tragic! Nigerian DJ murdered in his home

    Tragic! Nigerian DJ murdered in his home

    …Hands, legs tied

     

    Family and friends of Nigerian born, Turkey based DJ, Emmanuel İfeanyi Okonyia a.k.a EmmyJay have resorted to mourning over the sad demise of Emmyjay.

    The Turkish Police have begun investigations into the circumstances surrounding his death.

     

    EmmyJay was found dead in his apartment at Şişli Mecidiyeköy with his hands and feet tied from behind.

    According to police preliminary report, the deceased had a knife next to his body and was allegedly tortured before he was killed, last week, in Mecidiyeköy Mahallesi Ahu İstanbu.

  • Troubled Mikel may quit Trabzonspor

    Troubled Mikel may quit Trabzonspor

    Erstwhile Super Eagles captain John Mikel Obi could be forced to quit Turkish side Trabzonspor following alleged racism slur during his side 2-1 win over Fenerbahce at the weekend, reports AOIFootball.com

    A close source to the player stated that the player condemned the incident but revealed his family may now be at risk after his girlfriend received treats and abuse on her social media page.

    Mikel, who remains very passionate and dedicated to the Turkish club, could now be forced to consider his options in the summer especially with the situation with his family as he has always expressed his desires to stay closer to his twin daughters.

    “It’s unlikely he will remain at Trabzonspor next season because his family is very important to him especially his twin daughters and now they don’t feel safe with all the treats and messages to his girlfriend Instagram account,” the source disclosed.

    The former Chelsea midfielder has been in imperious form for the Turkish giants since completing a free transfer to the club last summer helping the club remain in two fronts as they target an unprecedented domestic double.

  • Weapons used by killer-herdsmen from Turkey, Libya, Ivory Coast – Report

    Weapons used by killer-herdsmen from Turkey, Libya, Ivory Coast – Report

    Weapons being used in inter-communal violence that has killed thousands of people in northern Nigeria have been trafficked from Ivory Coast, Libya and Turkey, according to a new report by the Conflict Armament Research group.

    Fighting between farmers and semi-nomadic herders over land has gone on for decades in Nigeria´s central belt and north. Attacks on civilians by armed groups aligned with the communities have killed more than 3,600 people and displaced 300,000 since 2014, according to the study.

    Armed groups involved in the fighting in Kaduna, Katsina and Zamfara states possessed “significant numbers of factory-produced small arms manufactured in Europe, East Asia, the Middle East and North America,” according to the three-year study.

    Some of the weapons were from Turkey and were linked to a major organized trafficking network, the group said.

    Assault rifles from Iraq and similar to ones used by Islamic extremist groups in Mali and Niger also were found. However, the organization said that while weapons may have come from the same illicit source, that did not demonstrate a connection between the conflict in Nigeria and Islamic extremist groups.

    “Nigerian authorities have made strides in gathering illicit weapons from these communities over the last three years,” said Conflict Armament Research’s head of regional operations in West Africa, Claudio Gramizzi. “Preventing their rapid replacement requires efforts by law enforcement across the Sahel, as well as targeted interdiction of new arms being trafficked from Europe and Western Asia.”

  • Ogenyi Onazi completes Denizlispor move

    Ogenyi Onazi completes Denizlispor move

    Denizlispor have signed Ogenyi Onazi on a one-and-a-half-year deal from Turkish Super Lig rivals Trabzonspor.

    The Roosters who sit 11th in the top-flight table, also hold the option to extend the contract by a year.

    Onazi has not played in the Turkish Super Lig this season, since his return from a ruptured Achilles tendon in September but he played in the Uefa Europa League against Basel and in the Turkish Cup against Altay last month.

    The Super Eagles midfielder faced stiff competition for playing time in Huseyin Cimsir’s team with compatriot John Obi Mikel and Senegal’s Badou Ndiaye among the available options in the middle of the park.

  • Italy asks UEFA to reconsider 2020 Champions League final in Turkey

    Italy’s Sports Minister Vincenzo Spadafora has urged European football governing body UEFA to reconsider the decision to play next year’s Champions League final in Istanbul after Turkey’s bloody offensive against the Kurds in northern Syria.

    Spadafora wrote to UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin asking “to consider whether it is appropriate to keep the Champions League final in Istanbul” after Turkey’s “very grave acts against the Kurdish civilian population.”

    In the letter, quoted by Italian news agency ANSA, Spadafora referred to the European Union’s condemnation of Turkish actions and called on European football “to take the most courageous choice and to show, once again, that football is an instrument of peace”.

    The Champions League final is scheduled for May 30, 2020.

  • UCL: Neymar suspended for PSG clash in Turkey

    UCL: Neymar suspended for PSG clash in Turkey

    Paris St-Germain forward Neymar serves the final game of his two-game European ban when his side face Galatasaray in the Champions League on Tuesday.

    Neymar, 27, was given a three-game suspension for insulting match officials after PSG’s loss to Manchester United in March, but the ban was later reduced to two matches.

    Forward Kylian Mbappe, 20, is available for the Ligue 1 leaders after he played for 30 minutes in their 1-0 win over Bordeaux on Saturday on his return from a thigh injury following a month out.

    Substitute Mbappe made an instant impact as he set up Neymar, who scored the winning goal at the weekend.

    PSG are top of Group A after beating Real Madrid 3-0 in their first match, while Galatasaray, seventh in the Turkish Super Lig, were involved in a goalless draw away at Belgian side Club Bruges in their Champions League opener.

  • Barca midfielder handed prison sentence

    Barcelona midfielder, Arda Turan, on loan with Turkish club Basaksehir, has been handed a suspended prison sentence, for firing a gun to cause fear and panic, illegal possession of weapons and intentional injury.

    The court sentenced Turan to two years and eight months in prison.

    But he will not serve that term, unless he commits a crime in the next five years.

    Turan was involved in a fight with Turkish singer, Berkay Sahin, in an Istanbul nightclub late last year, leaving the singer with a broken nose.

    The player later arrived at the hospital with a gun, which he fired at the ground, causing panic.

    Basaksehir said they had fined the 31-year-old 2.5 million Turkish lira over the incident.

  • Police rescue four kidnapped Turkish expatriates in Kwara

    The four Turkish expatriates who were kidnapped by gunmen in Gbale, Edu Local Government Area of Kwara, have been rescued by the police.
    The victims had spent six days with their abductors before a police team secured their release on Friday evening from the hide out of the kidnappers at Gbugbu community in the state.
    Addressing newsmen at the police headquarters in Ilorin, the state Commissioner of Police, Mr Kayode Egbetokun, said the police had been on the trail of the kidnappers since the incident was reported.
    He explained that a combined team of the IGP Tactical Squad, the anti-robbery team as well as members of the Miyyeti Allah and the vigilance group in the area had intensified their search for the expatriates.
    Egbetokun noted that the team had during the week arrested one of the kidnappers with one AK47 riffle at Gbugbu village.
    He said that within the period, three others, including the contact person who was making efforts to collect the N100million ransom demanded from the company of the expatriates, were also arrested.
    Egbetokun further said after intense pressure, the remaining kidnappers abandoned the expatriates and ran away.
    He said all the four kidnapped expatriates were rescued hale and hearty without paying any ransom.
    The commissioner also assured the residents of the state of the determination of the force to ensure adequate security of lives and property.
    Those rescued were Yasin Colak (33), Senerapal (40), Ergun Yurdakul (35) and Seyit Keklik (25).