Nigeria international, Simy Nwankwo, who plays for Crotone in the Serie B in Italy, has opened up on how scary life has been since the outbreak of the coronavirus in the country, adding that people have been living in fear…
Why I snubbed Eagles – Ogbonna (Punch)
West Ham defender, Angelo Ogbonna, has explained that he opted to play for Italy rather than Nigeria because it was the right thing to do for him. Ogbonna an Italian of Nigerian descent has been capped 13 times by the…
Nigeria/Russia Relations: The missing link – Hussaini Monguno
On November 15, 1884, 14 mainly European countries gathered in Berlin for a meeting which lasted to February 26, 1885. The aim of that conference was to split the continent of Africa and share it to the Europeans who were…
60-year-old man dies while watching porn in adult toy shop (Punch)
A 60-year-old British man has died while watching porn at a sex shop in Italy. According to Dailymail, the man was suspected to have suffered a heart attack while watching a pornographic film in the private booth in a sex top shop Marghera near Venice.…
Italian boar hunt ends in son shooting his own father (BBC)
Italian police have charged a man with culpable homicide after he shot and killed his father during a boar hunt. The pair were moving through thick bushes near the town of Postiglione in the southern province of Salerno on Sunday,…
Nigerian “Maphites” Cult Crushed in Italy
A two-year probe — aided significantly by a man on the inside who fed details to investigators — “has allowed us to destroy much of what, within the Nigerian community, is known as the ‘Maphite’ cult,” Italian police said in…
Girelli’s hat trick lifts Italy into next round of WC (Nation)
Cristiana Girelli scored a hat trick to put Italy into the second round of the Women’s World Cup with a 5-0 victory over Jamaica on Friday. It was Italy’s second hat trick at the World Cup, as Girelli joined Carolina…
Stolen Bruegel masterpiece was switched with fake in police sting (BBC)
Police in Italy are unconcerned about the daring theft of a Flemish master’s painting – because they had replaced it with a fake a month ago. The painting by Pieter Bruegel the Younger, worth millions, apparently vanished from a church…
France angered by Italy’s Africa remarks (BBC)
France has summoned Italy’s ambassador after the Italian deputy prime minister accused the French of exploiting Africa and fuelling migration. On Sunday, Luigi di Maio called on the European Union to impose sanctions on France for its policies in Africa.…
Bernardo Bertolucci, Italian film director, dies at 77 (BBC)
Bernardo Bertolucci, Italian director of Last Tango in Paris and The Last Emperor, has died in Rome, aged 77. Born in Parma in 1941, his other films included The Conformist, The Dreamers, 1900 and The Sheltering Sky. Winner of two…
