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Chelsea conceded four goals in the first 36 minutes as Barcelona blew them away to win their first Women’s Champions League title in Gothenburg. Chelsea trailed 33 seconds in when an attempted clearance hit Melanie Leupolz and went in for an own goal, and Alexia Putellas’ penalty made it 2-0. Aitiana Bonmati finished an intricate move and Caroline Graham Hansen tapped in to put a rampant Barca out of sight. Despite a spirited second-half display there was no way back for the Blues. Emma Hayes’ side had hoped to add a European crown to their Women’s Super League and League…

Tyson Fury says his world heavyweight title showdown with Anthony Joshua will take place in Saudi Arabia on 14 August. “massive announcement” FURY VS JOSHUA IS ON AUGUST 14 in The kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The worlds biggest sporting event all eyes on us. @SCEEKSA @gsaksa_en @trboxing @mtkglobal @frankwarren_tv @marbella @wowhydrate #LETTHEGAMESBEGIN #saudiarabia #TYSONOFARABIA pic.twitter.com/ZKIAXLictV — TYSON FURY (@Tyson_Fury) May 16, 2021 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js https://twitter.com/Tyson_Fury/status/1393985791903387648?s=20 The all-British bout has been billed as one of the biggest in heavyweight boxing for decades and the winner will become undisputed champion. Joshua, 31, holds the WBA, WBO and IBF belts, while Fury, 32, is…

President Muhammadu Buhari, on Sunday afternoon, departed Abuja on a four-day official visit to the French capital, Paris. The President is expected to attend the African Finance Summit as well as hold critical bilateral talks with the President of France, Emmanuel Macron, on a range of issues, including security. The President departed Abuja around 3:14pm. Announcing the President’s departure on his verified Twitter handle, @BashirAhmaad on Sunday, Personal Assistant to the President on New Media, Bashir Ahmad, stated some of the President’s itinerary in France for the four-day official visit. “President Muhammadu Buhari has departed Abuja for Paris, France ahead…

Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia on Saturday reiterated the state’s commitment to enforce the ban on open grazing of cattle in Abia. Ikpeazu said this during a zoom meeting with newsmen of Abia extraction under the aegis of Abia Media Forum. The governor said that a bill was already in place to enforce the ban and to check the activities of criminal elements disguising as nomads. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that Nigerian governors from the Southern part of the country recently resolved to ban open grazing of cattle in their states. This was part of the 12…

Governor Umar Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State has urged Fulani herders displaced from the South to return to the State. The Governor, who said this while receiving Emir of Kano, Aminu Ado Bayero, on a traditional Sallah Hawan Nasarawa at the Government House on Saturday, agreed that, “it is true that the oldest mode of cattle movement from one end to another rather breads poverty and is not tenable. “However, the way and manner Fulani herders are being subjected to untold maltreatment and agony in the Southern part of this country is not acceptable and this should change because they…

Goalkeeper Alisson scored an incredible injury-time winner as Liverpool claimed a significant victory in their quest to achieve a Premier League top-four finish by coming from behind to beat West Brom. With three points a must and just seconds left of a game in which the visitors had been frustrated by an obstinate and disciplined Baggies, the Brazilian keeper came up for a corner. It was surely the Reds’ final chance to snatch the win and so it proved as Alisson rose to glance Trent Alexander-Arnold’s delivery into the far corner of the net to send the away side into…

Tottenham boosted their hopes of qualifying for the Europa League with a comfortable Premier League win over Wolves. Spurs are now five points adrift of a top-four place and leapfrog West Ham into sixth on goal difference, with Everton, who play later on Sunday, three points further back. It was a deserved victory for the hosts, who hit the woodwork three times after creating a number of excellent chances. Harry Kane saw an early effort cannon off the left-hand post before setting Spurs on their way, calmly slotting in the opener from Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg’s superb pass on the stroke of…

The National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) says a total of 1,794,552 Nigerians have so far been inoculated with the first dose of Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine. The NPHCDA disclosed this on its official Twitter handle on Saturday. It stated that Lagos, the FCT and Kano have so far vaccinated the highest number of people – 279,372, 118,895 and 92,583 respectively. The immunisation agency said that three states reached 100 per cent of their target population. They are Kwara with 104 per cent; Ekiti with 100 per cent and Cross River with 100 per cent. According to the agency, this…

The foreign ministers of Egypt and Saudi Arabia yesterday demanded immediate ceasefire in the fighting between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. The state-run Saudi Press Agency said Saudi Foreign Minister, Prince Faisal bin Farhan, had spoken to Egyptian Foreign Minister, Sameh Shoukry, and both agreed that an immediate cease-fire was imperative. Egypt has been trying to negotiate an end to the fighting since it began last month. The Saudi statement also said that the two diplomats called on “the international community to confront the aggressive Israeli practices against the brotherly Palestinian people.” President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime…

An Israeli air strike Saturday flattened a 13-floor building housing Qatar-based Al Jazeera television and the US news agency the Associated Press in the Gaza Strip. Israel “destroyed Jala Tower in the Gaza Strip, which contains the Al Jazeera and other international press offices,” Al Jazeera said in a tweet, with an AP journalist saying the army had warned the tower’s owner ahead of the strike. AFP journalists, whose Gaza offices are in a different place, watched the building collapse to the ground after the Israeli air strike, sending up a huge mushroom cloud of dust and debris. Israeli defence…