Nigeria is hosting the Under-17 World Cup. That the host team’s captain may actually be 25 years old (!) has dominated news about the tournament. But that’s the least of the host’s problems:
Call to armed robbers: stop your crimes. Please. For a little while at least. Please.
Lawmakers in the Nigerian state of Ogun begged the thieves for a crime hiatus during the junior soccer World Cup hosted by the country, reported the Web site of Next, a publication of Timbuktu Media Group.
Criminal operations would sully the country’s name, said members of the state’s assembly. One lawmaker raised an alarm that the Isheri bridge, which links Ogun with the state of Lagos, had become a den of bandits.
“I want to appeal to the men of the underworld to suspend their actions and operations in the interim because of our foreign visitors currently in the state,” the lawmaker, Edward Ayo Odugbesan, said. “Then they can resume thereafter, because there is nowhere in the world where robbers and robberies could be stopped from their work.”
