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Barca’s €100M plan for Haaland, Alaba, Garcia, and Depay (Barca Universal). FC Barcelona has a plan to acquire Bayern Munich’s David Alaba, Borussia Dortmund’s Erling Haaland, and Manchester City’s Eric Garcia…all for the cool price of €100 million

In the photo shows: Erling Haaland, David Alaba, Memphis Depay and Eric Garcia

Barcelona aims to sign three key pieces for next season’s squad with a total price of €100 million: Erling Haaland, David Alaba, and Eric Garcia. These signings would always depend on whether Leo Messi stays or not. Depending on the club’s financial situation this summer, the number of big signings will vary.

Regardless if Messi stays or not, the new President will pursue the 20-year-old Erling Haaland. Bearing in mind that the young striker’s deal with Borussia Dortmund has a clause that reduces his price to €75 million plus bonuses (around €100 million total), Barcelona will have to improve their financial situation to face such an operation.

Alaba and Garcia have an expiring deals and can be had for free, but Barca’s grand plan might also include one more player: Memphis Depay. The Olympique Lyon forward’s contract expires also expires in June.

So yeah, €100 million for Haaland and Alaba, Garcia, and Depay for free.

NYSC dismisses 34 employees over misconduct, others

NYSC DG, Brigadier General Shuaibu Ibrahim

• ICPC arrests 33 FRSC officials, for alleged extortion

The Director-General, National Youth Service Corps, Brigadier-General Ibrahim Shuaib, has said over 30 senior staff members of the NYSC have been dismissed for several offences, including misconduct and indiscipline.

Their dismissal was said to have been recommended in the report of a disciplinary committee and ratified by the national governing board of the NYSC on March 8, 2021.

Shuaib, who stated these in an interview with Saturday PUNCH on efforts being put in place to sustain discipline in the organisation, said every employee must abide by the ethics of the NYSC.

He said, “The NYSC is also part of society and in any society, we have the good, the bad and the ugly; and of course, the majority of our staff are good, committed, patriotic and disciplined. But of course within, we still have some bad eggs and such bad eggs are disciplined and some have even ended up with a dismissal and so on.

“We just had one on Monday, March 8, 2021, where the national governing board ratified the disciplinary committee’s report. It’s the report of the senior staff committee meeting made up of all the directors and a representative of the Head of Service by the ministry. About 34 workers were dismissed for different offences.

“So, we sit down and look at all the disciplinary cases that are forwarded to the headquarters from the states and the headquarters. A decision will be taken and then it would be sent to the national governing board for ratification.”

Meanwhile, the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission has arrested 33 Federal Road Safety Corps officials and a civilian for allegedly extorting money from motorists on highways across the country.

It was learnt that in a joint operation code-named, Operation Tranquility V, comprising officers of ICPC, Department of State Services and the FRSC, raids were carried out simultaneously in five locations nationwide.

According to a statement on Friday by the ICPC spokesperson, Azuka Ogugua, titled, ‘Again, ICPC leads arrest of 33 FRSC Officials, one other for alleged extortion on highways,’ five FRSC personnel and a civilian were arrested on the Onitsha head bridge while 11 officials on Awka-Onitsha road, in Anambra State.

It said eight officials were arrested on Calabar-Bakassi road, Cross River State; four at Hawan Kibo, Jos road, Plateau State; and five officials on Obollo Afor-Enugu road, Enugu State.

Burna Boy Gets Second Shot At Grammys

Burna Boy was nominated in the Grammys Best Global Music Album category for his 2020 album Twice as Tall, alongside four others including Malian band, “Tinariwen” and US band “Antibalas”.

Afrobeat superstar and this year a leading voice of the country’s youth protests, Burna Boy is now hoping to add a Grammy to his growing list of accomplishments.

Burna Boy has been nominated in the Best Global Music Album category at Sunday’s awards for his 2020 album “Twice as Tall”, alongside four others including Malian band Tinariwen and US band Antibalas.

It is the second Grammy nomination for the singer who has sold out London’s Wembley arena and broken a UK music chart and a Spotify streaming record with his Afrobeat and dancehall style.

He clinched his first nomination in 2019 in the same category, for his “African Giant” album, and while he did not win last year, music critics predict he may have a better chance now.

“This year’s nomination is very specific,” says UK-based Nigerian music critic Dami Ajayi. “There was a plan (by Burna Boy) to get another Grammy nomination.”

Ajayi said it was a deliberate choice to get US record executive Sean Combs as executive producer and to feature world music star Youssou N’dour.

But Burna Boy seems to have always been making deliberate choices.

– Taking the stairs –
Born Damini Ogulu in Nigeria’s Port Harcourt, an oil-rich region, Burna Boy completed his primary and secondary education in Nigeria before moving to the UK for university.

Two years after he left, the ambitious singer dropped out and returned to Nigeria and in 2013, he released his first studio album, “LIFE” — an acronym for “Leaving an Impact For Eternity.”

“Unlike a lot of other people, I’ve had to go through never-ending steps to get here, whereas other people have taken the elevator up,” he told GQ in an interview published in March 2020.

“I’ve always been too heavy for that kind of elevator, so I had to take the stairs. Now I know every floor and everything on every floor.”

Burna Boy followed the release of LIFE with two albums; “Redemption” in 2015 and “Outside” in 2018 that included Kanye West endorsed song, “Ye”.

In the video, which has over 129 million views on YouTube, the marijuana-toking Burna Boy puffs smoke into the camera while whipping his dreadlocked hair back and forth.

“Dada cover my face,” is a memorable line from the song. He is singing about himself and his locs (Dada is a local term for dreadlocks), bolstering the feel of a tune that is about owning oneself and shunning criticism.

“He seems to have solidified his style,” Ajayi says about the singer’s evolution. “It is so unique, so cutting, and so irresistible. You can say it is the finest fusion of contemporary African music we have at the moment.”

If songs like “Ye” opened international doors for Burna Boy, it was his 2019 “African Giant” album that proved he had arrived.

It got him his first Grammy Nomination, an MTV EMA, and an honourable mention from former US president Barack Obama as one of his favourite songs in 2019.

– African icon –
The album was largely centred on social commentary around governance and classism, bringing comparisons to iconic Nigerian singer Fela Kuti.

Kuti, a Nigerian and West African music icon, was as well-known for his funky, jazzy Afrofusion music as his political activism and social commentary.

“The guy is obsessed with Fela,” Ajayi said. “He samples Fela very closely.”

Burna Boy’s grandfather was once Fela Kuti’s manager, and his mother Bose Ogulu, who is now his manager, left her job as a translator to work with Kuti.

Like Fela, Burna Boy has refused to be silent.

When Coachella music festival listed his name in small letters in 2019, the artist who refers to himself as an “African Giant” asked for a bigger font, causing a stir on social media.

In the same year, at the height of the xenophobic attacks on Nigerians and others in South Africa, he threatened to never set foot in the country again unless the government took action.

During the #EndSARS protests about police brutality in Nigeria last October, he was very vocal on social media and addressed a rally in London.

He also sponsored several #EndSARS billboards in major locations across Nigeria, started a relief fund for victims, and released a song honouring casualties from the protests.

“We are the new generation, relentless and tireless,” he told the London rally after holding up a clenched fist. “No justice, no peace.”

Dr Dre’s estranged wife Nicole Young denied restraining order against the music mogul after he called her ‘greedy b*tch’ in new song

American rapper Dr Dre’s estranged wife, Nicole Young has been denied a restraining order after he called her a ‘greedy bitch’ in his new song.

According to documents obtained by TMZ, Young requested an emergency domestic violence restraining order, citing the song released last month, in which Dre calls her a “bitch and a perjurer.”

Young said that her estranged husband “has upped the ante and is now outright threatening me to keep my mouth shut or else.”

In the document, Young also said the latest threat justify an emergency restraining order, but the judge begged to differ and denied her request because of “insufficient evidence.”

In his response, Dre said he has not spoken to Young since June 2020 and she only visited him in the hospital when he had brain aneurysm.

The news of the celebrity couple’s divorce hit the Internet back in June.

Young filed the paperwork for their divorce on Monday, June 29, citing the usual irreconcilable differences as the reason for her split from the hip-hop mogul.

The couple got married in 1996 and are blessed with two adult children, Triuce and Truly.

Young was formerly married to NBA player, Sedale Threatt, and is a trained lawyer.

Movie: Raya and the Last Dragon.

Long ago, in the fantasy world of Kumandra, humans and dragons lived together in harmony. However, when sinister monsters known as the Druun threatened the land, the dragons sacrificed themselves to save humanity. Now, 500 years later, those same monsters have returned, and it’s up to a lone warrior to track down the last dragon and stop the Druun for good.

Characters: Namaari, Sisu, Virana, Raya, Dang Hu, Tong, Boun, Tuk Tuk, Chief Benja, Little Noi Trending

Release date: 5 March 2021 (Nigeria)
Directors: Carlos López Estrada, Don Hall
Production companies: Walt Disney Animation Studios, Walt Disney Pictures

CASTS:

Kelly Marie Tran (Raya), Gemma Chan (Namaari), Awkwafina (Sisu), Alan Tudyk (Tuk Tuk), Daniel Dae Kim (Chief benja), Sandra Oh (Virana), Benedict Wong (Tong), Lucille Soong (Dang Hu), Thalia Tran (little noi), Izaac Wang (Boun), Jona Xiao (Namaari).