Robbie Jay Barratt – AMA/Getty Images Say what you want about Raul Sanllehi, but the Spaniard did do some good at Arsenal. The Gunners axed the former Barcelona chief as…
Continue ReadingPhoto by Erwin Spek/Soccrates/Getty Images Emmanuel Dennis’s star fell as rapidly as it rose. As the spring became the summer, an exciting young forward who shot to fame with two…
Continue ReadingBleary, barefoot, apparently numbed by a week of captivity, more than 300 Nigerian schoolboys, freed after being kidnapped in an attack on their school, were welcomed by the Governor of…
Continue ReadingPhoto by Erwin Spek/Soccrates/Getty Images Sheffield United are hoping to finally bring Emmanuel Dennis to the Premier League in January with Club Brugge willing to sell for just £7 million,…
Continue ReadingMore than 300 schoolboys have been reunited with their families, a week after they were kidnapped from their school in north-west Nigeria. The boys arrived in the state capital Katsina…
Continue ReadingSecurity forces on Thursday rescued nearly 350 schoolboys who had been kidnapped by suspected Islamist gunmen in northern Nigeria and taken into a vast forest, the governor of Katsina state…
Continue ReadingDozens of #kidnapped school #boys arrived back home on Friday a day after security forces rescued them in northwest #Nigeria. Gunmen raided the boys’ secondary school in Kankara town, Katsina…
Continue ReadingOn 18 February 1977 a thousand soldiers from the Nigerian army stormed a communal compound in Lagos that outlaw bandleader Fela Kuti had declared his own independent state: the Kalakuta…
Continue ReadingIN THE PRESS – Friday, 18.12.2020: We take a look at how the French press is covering Emmanuel Macron’s Covid-19 diagnosis. We also discuss the jubilation in Nigeria after the release of over…
Continue ReadingHundreds of schoolboys who were abducted last week in northwestern Nigeria have been freed, according to a state official. More than 300 schoolboys were missing for nearly a week, after…
Continue ReadingKATSINA, Nigeria (AP) — More than 300 schoolboys kidnapped last week in an attack on their school in northwest Nigeria have arrived in the capital of Katsina state to celebrate…
Continue ReadingDozens of #students who were freed in northwest #Nigeria after being #kidnapped by suspected Islamists were seen arriving in the city of Katsina. The governor of northwest Katsina state announced late Thursday that more…
Continue ReadingSecurity forces on Thursday rescued nearly 350 schoolboys who had been kidnapped by suspected Islamist gunmen in northern Nigeria and taken into a vast forest, the governor of Katsina state…
Continue ReadingKatsina state governor reveals rescue in televised interview, after abduction claimed by Boko Haram More than 300 schoolboys kidnapped in northern Nigeria have been rescued, the Katsina state governor has…
Continue ReadingNigeria’s military rescued 344 schoolboys who were kidnapped during an attack on a school in Katsina state last week. See source
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