Chelsea will be hoping to continue thier wining ways when the English premier league resumes from International duties. After a convincing 4:0 in the last EPL game, a lot of Chelsea players were fully involved in International duties. Here is the Early morning news at Stanford Bridge.

After his first two appearances for Chelsea, Edward mendy was involved in International duty but the Senegalese International pickup an Injury in their early morning training programs.

The former Rennes goal keeper was confirmed of Tie Injury and reports have it that he fly back to London for proper attention after the Injury was confirmed. Chelsea have not confirm how serious the injury is as at now and Chelsea fans across the world will be hoping the injury is not much serious because of the jam-packed games in the month of October. The most prestigious Club tournament UEFA Champions league will start later this month.

The world cup winner had opened up on the summer transfer window for the first time since the transfer window ended. The French international was on International duty for France and scored two goals in their match against Ukraine. The Chelsea forward has taken his numbers of goals for France to 42 suppersing Michel Platini and second on the French top scorer with 9 goals behind Henry.

After several speculations that he will leave Chelsea this summer transfer,the WORLD CUP WINNER hinted that he had offers from Italy but it did not pull through. He later stressed that he will still play in Top leagues for 3-4 years before moving to USA or consider retiring from Football.

West Ham United have double the wages of Former Chelsea player and Chelsea's Potential target Declan Rice. The England International and West Ham Captain now earn 120 thousand dollars a week and which means it will be difficult for Chelsea to sign him in the next Transfer Window. The Englishman is valued around 50 million pounds but with the new deal, he will now cost nothing less than 80 million Pounds.

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He queried, Bisi Alimi about whether he lacked a boss or mentor that he revered to point of kneeling before him.

The Federal Government has approved the extension of the deadline for NIN-SIM data verification to July 26, 2021.  

The Director, Public Affairs Nigerian Communications Commission, Ikechukwu Adinde; and the Head, Corporate Communications, Nigeria Identity Management Commission, Kayode Adegoke, disclosed this in a joint statement on Monday titled ‘FG approves July 26 as NIN-SIM verification deadline as enrolment systems increase to 5,410 .’

According to the statement, the decision to further extend the deadline was made based on a request by stakeholders.

The statement read, “The Federal Government has approved the extension of the deadline for NIN-SIM data verification to the 26th of July, 2021. 

“The decision to extend the deadline was made after a request by stakeholders on the need to consolidate the enrolment and NIN-SIM verification process following the rapid increase in the number of enrolment systems across the country. 

“As at June 28, 2021, a total of 5,410 enrolment systems are now available across the country and this would significantly ease the NIN enrolment process and subsequent linkage of NIN to SIM.   It is worthy of note that there were only about 800 such enrolment systems as at December 2020.

“The Federal Government has approved the extension as part of its efforts to make it easier for its citizens and residents to obtain the NIN and it is important to take advantage of the extension.

“There are now a total of 57.3 million unique NIN enrolments, with average of 3 to 4 SIMs per NIN.  With the great number of enrolment centres across the country, every citizen and legal resident should be able to obtain their NINs.”

The statement quoted the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa  Pantami, as thanking Nigerians for their patience and compliance with the Federal Government’s directive on the NIN-SIM registration exercise. 

It also quoted the Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission, Prof Umar Dambatta; and the Director-General/CEO of NIMC, Aliyu Azeez, as urging citizens and legal residents to make sure they use the opportunity of the extension to complete the process of enrolment and verification.