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Ajax beat Tottenham 1-0 in the Champions League semi-final first leg on Tuesday. Here AFP Sport looks at three things we learned from the clash at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium: Pochettino comes back down to earth Speaking ahead of the first leg, Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino challenged his players to "set your dreams to infinity and beyond" as he looked to lead the club to their first European Cup final. But Pochettino's amusing decision to reference the catchphrase of Toy Story character Buzz Lightyear wasn't the most significant of his pre-match comments. Complaining about Tottenham having to play West Ham on Saturday while Ajax benefitted from having their domestic match postponed, Pochettino admitted his players looked "stressed and fatigued" during the 1-0 defeat against West Ham. It was the same again against Ajax as the Dutch youngsters looked far more energetic and composed, while Tottenham were largely a damp squib in their fi

Barcelona is just 90 minutes away from its first UEFA Champions League final in four years after beating plucky Liverpool 3-0 Wednesday in the opening match of its two-leg, total-goals semifinal series on two goals by Lionel Messi — including the 600th of the Argentine’s otherworldly career — and another from former Reds striker Luis Suarez. Barca, which won the last of its five European titles in 2015, rode Suarez’s 26th minute strike, which held up as the winner. But Liverpool was the better team most of the night, out-shooting and out-possessing mighty Barca in their own stadium. They just couldn’t find the goal they needed after falling behind, however. And Messi punished them severely for it. Suarez, who scored 69 times in 110 Premier League games for Liverpool between 2011 and 2014, put the hosts ahead after running onto a seeing-eye through-pass from Jordi Alba. A sliding Suarez, who had timed his run perfectly, needed only the slightest touch to to direct the ball past v

Former Manchester United star, Rio Ferdinand has slammed Liverpool defender, Virgil van Dijk’s “static” defending that led to Barcelona taking the lead against the Reds. Luis Suarez opened the scoring for the Catalan giants in the first leg of their Champions League semi-final on Wednesday. Suarez found space in front of Van Dijk to fire home the opener, and Ferdinand thinks Van Dijk should have done better. “Virgil van Dijk here, he is at fault,” said Ferdinand on BT Sport. “He can see Suarez there, he is pointing where he wants it. It’s not rocket science. It’s right in front of him. “That’s your man, the number nine on the back of his shirt, static. Virgil van Dijk there, static. And that’s criminal in that position. “He has got to be Matip’s eyes and ears. Move Matip to where you want to maybe stop the ball in the first instance but if not, you have to go with your man there. “And he will be disappointed with that I am sure.”

Picture of the released Nigerian student, Ms Zainab Aliyu, who was detained in Saudi Arabia for alleged drug trafficking, has stormed the social media. See photo below: Zainab Aliyu  is a Nigerian-American designer and artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Her transdisciplinary practice leverages critical pedagogy, contextual inquiry, and the human side of technology to interrogate societal, historical and institutional forces against individual and collective identity. Recently, she graduated from Carnegie Mellon University after studying Communication Design and Human-Computer Interaction. This photo was taken after her released. source:https://samueljackson12.blogspot.com/2019/04/photo-moment-zainab-aliyu-regained.html

The issuance of the Nigeria Passport with 10-year validity has begun, The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) started issuing it on Monday. The 64-page passport is produced with enhanced polycarbonate. It is also embedded with the National Identity Number. The new passport costs N70,000. Recall that President Muhammadu Buhari launched the new passport on January 15, 2019. The new document is part of the passport reform approved by the Federal Government to improve the quality and security of the travel document as well as reduce the incidence of damage, counterfeit, and forgery. According to the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), it is compulsory for passport applicants to have the Nigeria Identification Number (NIN). To achieve that, the management of NIS  had set up a desk at the passport office where individuals could register for NIN. According to the NIS Public Relations Officer, DCI Sunday James, “The National Identity Number is compulsory for all applicants of th

In a bid to recover a debt of N63.9million, Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) has filed an application before a Federal high court in Lagos south west Nigeria, to attach funds in the accounts of King Sunny Ade’s wife,Risikat Adeniyi -Adegeye. In an affidavit sworn to by AMCON credit officer Patience Obute , and filed before the court by a Lagos lawyer, Barrister Olatokunbo Fatai, it was alleged that flowing from the banker /customer relationship between Risikat -Adeniyi -Adegeye and sterling bank Plc, the bank by an offer letter dated 2nd July, 2017, granted a facility to the defendant in the sum of N23 million for purposes of part financing the purchase of a 4- bedroom semi detached Duplex at Central Business District, Opposite MKO Gardens Alausa, Ikeja using the property lying at Plot A2,House3,Adonai Tekts Estate, Central Business District Alausa Ikeja as security for the loan. The said mortgage facility became non-performing as a result of default in repayment

Some nurses in Calabar have reportedly beaten up a woman who was in labour because the woman could not afford N20,000 bill. A woman in the throes of labour was allegedly beaten by a team of nurses on duty for her inability to settle her N20,000 bill when she entered the hospital for prompt medical recourse, SaharaReporters reports.   The incident happened on April 12 at the Primary Healthcare Centre, Ekpo Abasi in Calabar, Cross-Rivers State.   The woman said the nurses thought her to be a mentally deranged person and they started beating her with sticks.   She said not until they saw the baby 'coming' out of her did they stop the beating and delivered her of the baby.   "They thought I was a mad woman and they started beating me, telling me to leave the hospital premises," she said.   "I had no option but to find a means to save myself and the baby. And it was when they saw the baby coming out of me that they exclaimed 'oh the