GUNMEN opened fire on a bus carrying the Togo football team to the Africa Cup of Nations in Angola yesterday, wounding at least nine people, a Togolese football official said.

Gunmen have opened fire on a bus carrying the Togo football team to the Africa Cup of Nations in Angola, wounding at least six people, a Togolese football official said.

Nigerian newspaper, ThisDay, has claimed the 23-year-old charged with trying to destroy a Detroit-bound airliner, began to show increasingly radical views on Islam during his high school days.

Chelsea’s Ivorian striker Didier Drogba has asked not to be considered for the African Player of the Year award in future years after claiming he was beaten to the 2007 trophy because he was unable to attend the ceremony.