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How your country of origin affects your chances for asylum in Germany

If you come from some countries, your chances of success are very high while for some other nationalities, you have to have a very special case to be considered at all. This is how the situation is: Countries with a high rate of protection At the moment, if you come from Syria, you have a good chance of being granted …

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Nigeria’s Sunday Oliseh appointed coach of Dutch club, Fortuna Sittard

Former Super Eagles of Nigeria coach Sunday Oliseh has been appointed as the new head coach of Dutch second division side Fortuna Sittard. The 42-year-old former Nigeria captain signed a two-and-a-half year deal at the club. Oliseh who quit the Nigerian national team job in March is expected to resume duties as coach on 2 January 2017. “It’s a new …

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Dr Adebisi Laja, who has lived in Germany since 1958, passes on at 84

Dr Adebisi Laja, one of the oldest members of the Nigerian community in Germany, has passed on. According to his associates, the retired medical doctor died peacefully at home in the western German town of Lindenfels on 12 December at the age of 84. Laja arrived in Europe in June 1954 to study in Glasgow. He moved to Germany in …

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