Bulgaria

By PA News Agency

• Derek Chisora vows to knock out Kubrat Pulev in their July heavyweight bout 
• Chisora has lost his three previous fights, Pulev has lost only twice in 31 fights
• Both huddled with Eddie Hearn and put pride on the line by making a secret bet 

LONDON: Derek Chisora has promised to entertain when he takes on Kubrat Pulev at the O2 next month after he insisted the hunger to continue boxing remains there.

St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) was elected to serve on the World Heritage Committee of UNESCO at the 42nd session of that Organisation’s General Conference on November 25.

Two Bulgarian nationals are in custody in neighbouring Martinique after a drug bust at sea involving 310 kilos of cocaine, local reports say. The French Navy vessel Germinal seized the cocaine East of the Lesser Antilles, despite an attempt by the two traffickers to set the boat carrying the dugs on fire, according to Martinique.FranceAntilles. […]

A former Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service, Abdullahi Dikko, is dead.

He died on Thursday at the age of 61 years.

His younger brother and district head of Musawa in Katsina State, Sagir Inde, confirmed the development to PREMIUM TIMES.

He said Mr Dikko died while receiving treatment at a hospital in Abuja.

As of Thursday, February 25, 139 men and eight women will compete; Inmates of eight different nationalities, aged between 20 and 73, have registered.

SANTO DOMINGO.- Pedro, 73, and Antonio, 20, share a love for chess and both are imprisoned in different Correction and Rehabilitation Centers (CCR), where they are serving sentences for various crimes.

As businessman Paul Ndung’u is shown his way out of the boardroom of troubled gaming firm SportPesa, the shareholders’ woes are set to deepen further as Kenya Revenue Authority moves in to demand Sh95 billion in tax arrears and penalties.

For months, the troubled betting firm, linked to Bulgarian buccaneers, has been under the taxman’s scrutiny with a team carefully picked to look at the company’s ledgers, agreements, financial statements and invoices.

LONDON – Tyson Fury played down the chances of a heavyweight boxing unification showdown against Anthony Joshua this year, claiming no progress has been made in fixing the fight.

Joshua beat Bulgarian Kubrat Pulev in December to retain his IBF, WBO and WBA titles and set up the prospect of a mouth-watering clash with fellow Briton Fury, the WBC belt holder.

Yet despite Joshua’s manager Eddie Hearn saying in January that a deal was almost done, Fury says the fight was no closer to being arranged than it was a year ago.