The city of Napoli, Italy, this week celebrated a rare feat: winning the Italian soccer title. And no player has done more to make that possible that Nigeria’s Victor Osimhen.

Osimhen is being celebrated as the “striker with no limits.”

Back in 1990, Gli Azzurri’s top scorer was Diego Armando Maradona and he could only manage 16 goals in 28 Serie A appearances. That was good for third in the league that year.

Today Osimhen who plays his games in the stadium named after the highly revered Maradona shattered that record scoring 22 goals in 27 games including the strike that won the title for Napoli in a 1-1 tie with Udinese.

Osimhen currently leads all Serie A scorers, three ahead of his closest rival Lautaro Martinez of Inter Milan.

“Osimhen has really grown to be this leader that they need on the pitch,” Italian football journalist Mina Razouki told BBC Radio 5 live.

“He doesn’t give up. His performances have been ridiculous. Right now, the team are dependent on him.

“On a technical level, he’s always been brilliant. And we’re starting to see the consistency that he provides right now. Certainly, he’s got to be one of the top five strikers in the world.”

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Two French doctors are advocating for Africans to be used as guinea pigs by Western drug manufacturers looking for a way to test their coronavirus drugs.

The doctors said such COVID-19 drug tests should not be conducted on Europeans, instead should be done on Africans because “there’s poverty and other things over there, there are things we can experiment.”

Professors Camille Locht of Inserm, the French national medical research center, and Jean-Paul Mira of Cochin Hospital in Paris, were debating on French television last week when Jean-Paul Mira suggested that COVID-19 studies should be conducted on Africans, rather than Europeans.

Mira also compared testing potential coronavirus vaccines on African populations to AIDS studies being carried out on prostitutes who he said are typically more exposed to infections and diseases, and have less access to ‘treatment or intensive care’ than those in Europe and other Western countries.

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African football stars Samuel Eto’o, Didier Drogba, Demba Ba and Mohamed Sissoko immediately condemned the comments, saying that what the two physicians are suggesting amounted to outright racism.

Drogba said it is inconceivable that Africans continue to tolerate such racism.

“It is inconceivable that we continue to accept this. Africa is not a laboratory,” the 42-year-old said.

He called the pair, “sons of b——”

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Je dénonce vivement ces propos graves, racistes et méprisants!

— Didier Drogba (@didierdrogba) April 2, 2020

“I strongly denounce these serious, racist and contemptuous remarks!” said Eto’o.

“Help us save lives in Africa and stop the spread of this virus which is destabilizing the whole world, instead of considering ourselves as guinea pigs.

“It’s absurd! African leaders have a responsibility to protect people from these heinous plots ”

Sissoki, a former Liverpool defender called the comments “a scandal” and said actions should be taken against the professors.

“What the two doctors said is really a scandal,” ex-Mali international Sissoko said. “I can’t understand why they weren’t fired, and I can’t understand why there hasn’t been more commentary about the things they said.

“You really have to condemn this sort of discourse and take the necessary measures, because the remarks they made about African people are completely inadmissible.

“At this point, we must really be aware that this is not a joke,” he added. “When you make such statements against African people, or against any people, you must be measured and be aware of what you’re saying.”

“Africa hasn’t been touched [by Covid-19] compared to Europe, but clearly [the doctors] said ‘as there’s poverty and other things over there, there are things we can experiment’,” Sissoko continued, “but it shouldn’t happen like that.

“Close friends who I’ve spoken to about this are really wound up by what they said, and these kinds of comments are unacceptable, particularly in a country like France.”

Bassey Offiong was only a few days to graduating with a chemical engineering degree from Western Michigan University in Detriot, when he died this week.

Cause of death: Coronavirus (COVID-19) infection.

Offiong was 25 years old.

His family told the media Tuesday morning that he suspected he had COVID-19 and tried several times to get tested but was turned down in the Kalamazoo area of Detroit where he was living off-campus.

They said he told authorities he was running fever, was fatigued and had shortness of breadth, all known symptoms of COVID-19, but was refused the needed tests.

Asari Offiong was Bassey’s sister, and earlier today confirmed that her brother’s numerous requests for coronavirus tests were rejected several times.

“I told him to ask them to test him,” Asari Offiong said. “He said they refused to test him.”

One medical personnel told him all he had was bronchitis while another refused to even examine him.

Asari Offiong said her brother had no known prior medical issues. She declined to name the testing locations in Michigan that turned her brother down prior to his death.

She said her brother was hospitalized at Beaumont in Royal Oak and spent the last week on a ventilator in their intensive care unit.

She called her “baby brother” sweet and humble and a “gentle giant.”

She last saw him a week ago. “I know God has him in his presence,” Offiong said. “He loved God.”

Bassey Offiong’s dream was to start his own organic makeup line with Loreal that would enhance women’s beauty, his sister said. He was a graduate of Renaissance High School in Detroit.

“He’s just someone who thinks so big,” she said.

Western Michigan University President Edward Montgomery said Offiong had “enormous potential.”

“On behalf of the entire Bronco community, I want to extend my deepest condolences to his entire family, including his sister, Asari, who has been generous in communicating with us regularly,” Montgomery said.