Nigeria women’s U-17 football team, the Flamingos, have crashed out of the FIFA World Cup after losing to Colombia in the semifinal. The game, played at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Goa in India on Wednesday, saw both sides end goalless at full time before the South Americans won 6-5 in …
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Southampton sack Ralph Hasenhuttl after nearly four years in charge
Southampton have sacked their manager Ralph Hasenhuttl in the wake of Sunday’s 4-1 home defeat by Newcastle. Hasenhuttl, who was appointed in December 2018, departs with the club in the Premier League relegation zone with 12 points after 14 games. Southampton last won at Bournemouth on 19 October in what …
Read More »Tinubu, Shettima arrive Niger for town hall meeting
The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu and his running mate, Kashim Shettima, arrived in Minna, Niger State, on Monday to attend a town hall meeting with agro-allied and commodity groups. In a video posted on Twitter by the Senior Special Assistant to the Governor of Lagos …
Read More »Senegalese Journalist in police custody for information “harmful” to security
A journalist who runs a news website critical of the government in Senegal has been taken into police custody in Dakar, accusing him of disseminating “information likely to harm” security, his lawyer said. Pape Alé Niang, who runs the private news website Dakar Matin, is famous in Senegal for his …
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