Plans To Reduce Chelsea’s ‘Massive Squad’

is a massive squad, players not be involved and then it’s going to create a mess in the squad. Maybe less is more and more is less, it is not mathema c. That is why I need to make clear we don’t need a big squad.

“We need 22, 23, 24 players with some younger and that’s it. I am so sorry because maybe the deci- sion will be tough but we need to build a good and a balanced team who want to compete for things.”

Osun-Born Basketball Player, Olawuyi Makes D’Tigress List To Afrobasket Championship

OSUN born Female Basketball Player, Adenike Olawuyi, has made D’Trigress final cut to the 2023 FIBA Afrobasket tournament holding in Kigali, Rwanda later this week.

The Nigeria Basketball Federa on (NBBF) on Tuesday officially released the names of 13 players who will be making the trip to Kigali for the 2023 Women’s Afrobasket tournament.

Olawuyi, who plays for Ratgeber Basketball Academy in Hungary, started off her basketball dreams as a kid in the city of Osogbo.

It’s indeed a dream come true for the 19-year old, who was discovered, trained and nurtured by

Osun State Basketball Head Coach, Taiwo Ajibola Eleniyan, who played a significant role in her development and has now grown to become one of the most sought a er teenage sensaons in the world of Basketball.

The young budding talent is in the league of her own and taking huge strides in the brown-ball game.

With immense passion, interest and love for the

Woman Dies Inside Church During Transition

lifeless body was dropped at her husband’s house around 1pm by the “Iyajo of the church” on Wednesday.

game of Basketball, Adenike has worked extremely hard to reach where she is today and with a clear objec ve of crea ng a niche for herself in the Basketball arena.

“It’s been God all through. One of my dreams has finally come to past. Now it’s me to make my fatherland proud.” She said on her social media handle.

Basketball is one of the most popular sports around the globe, any young player, who plays basket today dreams of playing for the na onal team and for young Adenike, she is indeed living her dream.

MANCHESTER United’s Coach, Erik ten Hag, said the club need a new striker a er its 2:0 defeat at the hand of Real Madrid in a pre-season game on Thursday.

a ons. Garnacho, a oneon-one situa on. From the situa ons, you have to score.”

Amiddle-aged woman iden fied as Hannah Ige, has reportedly died in a Cherubim and Seraphim church at Okesa in Ilesa, Osun State.

Ige, a mother of seven children, was said to have died while in transi on at the church late Tuesday.

A woman who claimed to be the deceased’s younger sister said Ige’s

THE nominee from Osun State was not announced in the first batch of the Ministerial list read by Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, on Thursday.

Akpabio, who read the list of 28 names sent by President Bola Tinubu at the plenary, said a supplementary list will follow.

Tinubu is cons tu onally mandated to appoint a min-

The woman who was weeping and refused to men on her name during a conversa on with OSUN DEFENDER said: “My sister has died. We were told she died this (Wednesday) morning inside the church. She was on transi on when she died. She was a member of the church.

“We were not informed of her death by the church ister each from the 36 states and the FCT, and an addi onal six represen ng the geo-political zones of the country. people. It was the Iyajo of the church that came to drop her lifeless body at home. She packed the body in a long sack. And we observed that the body wasn’t that of a fresh corpse.”

Top on the list handed over to Akpabio by the Chief of Staff to the President, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, are former Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, his counterpart from Kaduna, Nasir El-Rufai, former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Chief Bayo Adelabu, and 25 others.

A former Chairman of Commi ee for the Defence of Human Rights (CDHR) in Osun State, Comr. Wahab Akinrinade, said a rela ve of the deceased came to report the case to him.

Akinrinade said the said Iyajo has been arrested by the police.

A media prac oner who was aware of the incident told OSUN DEFENDER that the deceased died on the seventh day of her transi on.

“The woman should be around 50 years. She regularly embarked on transion; she was part of those people who would go on transi on without ea ng on drinking for days.

“I learnt that woman was on the seventh day of transi on without ea ng or drinking when she died.”

Nigeria’s D’Tigress are the compe on’s defending champions a er winning the tle back-to-back in 2019 in Dakar, Senegal, and in 2021 in Yaounde, Cameroon.

Nigeria will kickstart the defence of their tle against DR Congo in the opening game of the championship today.

The team arrived Kigali, on Wednesday and are settled ahead of their opener against DR Congo today.

According to the coach, United’s inability to take their chances against Real Madrid “absolutely” emphasised their need for a new striker.

United had chances of their own but failed to score with any of their 14 a empts - an all too familiar tale given their problems taking opportuni es last season.

Erik ten Hag, while speaking with journalists a er the match, confirms bringing in a new striker is a priority and says his side must become more clinical in front of goal.

Asked if the a acking display in Texas emphasised why they are looking to sign a new striker, Ten Hag said: “Absolutely.

“There were two things - the pressing can be be er from the start, and scoring goals.

“I think we need more players who are capable to be in the one-on-ones and we had the situaons of one-on-ones.

“It was (Marcus) Rashford, it was, I thought, Sco McTominay in one-on-one situ-

United are pushing to sign Atalanta striker Rasmus Hojlund, with talks over a deal underway and other poten al a acking irons in the fire as they look to bring in a frontman.

The Old Trafford side have already brought in Chelsea midfielder, Mason Mount, and Inter Milan goalkeeper, Andre Onana this summer, with the la er making his bow in Houston.

Speaking on the debut of Cameroonian goalkeeper, Andre Onana, Ten Hag said: “Two very good saves. He was there in the moment the team needed him, so he did his job. I think he integrated well into our team.

“This is the first game and detail, we have a lot of work to do between him and the defending part (of the team).

“You could see with the second goal where we are not close at the back post. It can’t be that and goals will come there.

“There are things that are rules we have to follow, and they’ll come quick, that we integrate that into our way of play.”