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Marcos Rojo is set to complete his £16m move to Manchester United. Photograph: Pedro Ugarte/AFP/Getty Images Marcos Rojo is in Manchester to undergo a medical before completing his £16m move to Manchester United from Sporting Lisbon. The 24-year-old arrived late on Tuesday night, and the examination and the agreement of personal terms is expected to be a formality. Nani is joining Sporting on a season-long loan as part of the transfer. With Luke Shaw injured, Rojo may slot straight into Louis van Gaal’s team for Sunday’s trip to Sunderland, as he is a left-sided player who can play at left-back or as a central defender. Van Gaal’s injury crisis – he had nine players unavailable due to injury or a lack of match fitness for the 2-1 defeat to Swansea at Old Trafford – shows little sign of easing as Marouane Fellaini has a suspected foot injury. This throws doubt on ...

Cameroon has closed its borders with Nigeria and suspended all flights to and from Nigeria over fear of possible spread of Ebola Virus. Cameroon, according to the NIS, has a border boundary of over 2, 000 kilometres in Borno, Adamawa, Taraba and Cross Rivers states in the South-South sub-region of Nigeria. Speaking yesterday, August 17 on a special programme of the Hausa Service of British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) monitored in Maiduguri, the spokesman of Cameroon Foreign Affairs, Chiroumma Boukkari said the decision to close the borders with Nigeria has become inevitable, because of the fears of the ebola that spreads like wild fire in the West African sub-region. According to the Minister:  “The government has taken the decision to protect its population because it is much better to prevent than cure the Ebola virus”. “The border closure and suspension of all flights to and from Nigeria was to protect the lives of Cameroonian citizens living within ...

Diego Costa looks skywards after scoring his first Premier League goal against Burnley on Monday evening. Photograph: Laurence Griffiths/Getty Images All eras close yet even by the unsentimental standards of the Premier League the end of Petr Cech’s reign as Chelsea’s undisputed No1 served as a brutal act. Thank you and goodbye appeared the message from José Mourinho at Turf Moor to a foundation of the club’s success, though it was not the only arresting statement to come from Chelsea. Mourinho disputed the theory that starting Thibaut Courtois in the convincing 3-1 defeat of Burnley signalled the end of Cech’s decade of outstanding service between the posts for Chelsea. “I do not like the saying ‘for the rest of the season’,” he said of the Belgium international’s status at Stamford Bridge. “He was the first choice today and played well enough to be my first choic...

Over a month after the Liberian-American, Patrick Sawyer came to Nigeria with the deadly Ebola Virus, another Liberian has been reportedly diagnosed with the disease in Lagos. CKN NIGERIA reports that another Liberian has been confirmed with the deadly disease in Lagos. This was made known few minutes ago by a Senior Registrar with Igbobi Orthopaedic hospital ,Lagos Dr Akindele Akintayo while speaking at a Morning Television programme monitored  in Lagos. Dr. Akintayo revealed that the Liberian is in the Lagos Isolation center, although the doctor could not confirm if the newly Ebola virus carrier Liberian had contacts with late Patrick Sawyer or not. World Health Organization recent Ebola update made it known that there are now 2240 cases confirmed while it has recorded 1229 deaths since its outbreak in Africa. It will be recalled that the Minister of Health yesterday announced the death of Dr Ameyo Adadevoh ,one of the doctors that treated Late Mr Sawyer at...