Nigerian legend Oliseh to conduct clinic in Kenya

                                   

 Several football academies based in Nairobi are set to benefit from the knowledge and expertise of former Nigerian midfielder Sunday Oliseh who will conduct a coaching clinic at the Ligi Ndogo grounds on December 21.

The former national team coach and captain who led the Super Eagles to the Olympic gold medal in 1996 in Atlanta will be in Kenya for a three-day tour to help promote the German Bundesliga courtesy of broadcast partners Startimes.

“This initiative is largely driven towards promoting Bundesliga whereas looking at opportunities whereby we can be able to leverage on the success of these European leagues towards developing our home grown talent,” StarTimes Public relations manager Alex Mwaura said while announcing the legend’s visit.

Oliseh’s experience in the German Bundesliga is not doubted having won the league title with Borussia Dortmund in the 2001/2002 season and also played for FC Koln and VfL Bochum.

Russia Seeks Jail Term For Student Who Fell in Love With ISIS Fighter

                               

A 21-year-old Russian student has defended herself against charges of attempting to join the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) in Syria, saying she fell in love online with one of the group’s jihadis and wanted to find him in the conflict zone.

Prosecutors are seeking a five-year jail term for Varvara Karaulova on charges of preparing to participate in a terrorist organization, to which she has pleaded not guilty. They say she represented a public danger as she could have become trained in the workings of ISIS.

Karaulova’s mother has said that her daughter is now “psychologically dependent” on her ISIS recruiter, named as Airat Samatov.

The student ran away from her family home in Moscow on May 27, 2015 and went to Istanbul, where Turkish authorities detained her for traveling without identification as she traveled toward the Syrian border. She returned to Russia in June of that year, where she was held in Moscow’s Lefortovo Prison.

Baptized in a Russian Orthodox church, Karaulova became deeply connected to Samatov online, and began to wear long skirts to Moscow State University, where she was studying philosophy, and covering her head to adhere to the Islamic faith.

Her case demonstrates the strong pull of ISIS to foreign fighters and the effectiveness of jihadi recruiting through online mediums and communications. Several high-profile cases, such as the three British schoolgirls who fled to Syria via Turkey in February 2015, have seen female jihadis travel to the conflict zone to become brides of ISIS fighters or to live in the group’s self-styled caliphate.

Russia is waging a military campaign against opponents of President Bashar al-Assad in Syria, including ISIS.