An incident in the game against nigeria, when the lioness is defeated the super falcons on penalties, you can see it happening here, this is when laurenjames, who has been a key player, got a red card against nigeria. She was shown a straight red for what was seen as stamping. You can see pictures of it here. It means you will not be able to play on the quarter final match on saturday. England will be playing colombia. We understand now that she has just apologised. She colombia. We understand now that she hasjust apologised. She is most distressed about what happened and hasissued distressed about what happened and has issued an apology. It does mean that you will not be playing in the quarterfinals. She scored the winner against denmark in the grip came and against denmark in the grip came and a couple of goals when they defeated china 6 0. So, laurenjames out of the quarterfinals. More now on our main story. Diplomatic efforts to resolve the crisis in niger have stepped up a gear. S
i think what happened and what continues to happen in niger was not instigated by russia or by wagner but to the extent that they try to take advantage of it and we see a repeat of what has happened in other countries where they ve brought nothing but bad things in their wake, that wouldn t be good. afoelobby ikiyojee is a researcher from the centre for democracy and development. he s in abuja. can you put into context who has influence in niche air at the moment? we are hearing concerns about russia and the magna group being there. there are the neighbouring countries as well who also have the military and control. who has the most sway? this is a unique situation. you have many powers in the share that are driving
Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) has raised the alarm that the current nature of campaigns by political parties and candidates across the federation calls for serious concern.