{"id":94619,"date":"2025-01-22T17:20:53","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T17:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/defender-clement-niyigena-going-nowhere-apr"},"modified":"2025-01-28T16:47:05","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T16:47:05","slug":"defender-clement-niyigena-going-nowhere-apr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/defender-clement-niyigena-going-nowhere-apr","title":{"rendered":"Defender Cl\u00e9ment Niyigena going nowhere &#8211; APR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Rwanda. <\/strong><\/span>As transfer activities continue during this January window and rumours are flying everywhere, Rwanda Premier League (RPL) defending champions APR have insisted that their central defender Cle\u0301ment Niyigena is still an APR player, refuting reports that he is set to leave the club for Tunisia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have been in close contact with our player on a daily basis, and he is still here. We have not received any request from Tunisia,&#8221; the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>Niyigena had been linked with a move to the Tunisian outfit Olympique de Be\u0301ja, but APR says they have not received an offer from the club.<\/p>\n<p>It has been seven months since Niyigena extended his two-year contract with the military side.<\/p>\n<p>APR says that there is no letter or any other action showing that the club wants him, other than what is being said in rumours.<\/p>\n<p>At the moment, Niyigena is one of the key players at APR FC after performing well defensively and scoring two goals this season. He has also been called up to the national team, Amavubi.<\/p>\n<p>Niyigena started his career at APR\u2019s academy in 2017 before joining Intare FC in 2018 and Marines in 2019-2020. He also played for Rayon Sports from 2020 to 2022.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Rwanda<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Rwanda. As transfer activities continue during this January window and rumours are flying everywhere, Rwanda Premier League (RPL) defending champions APR have insisted that their central defender Cle\u0301ment Niyigena is still an APR player, refuting reports that he is set to leave the club for Tunisia. &#8220;We have been in close contact with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":94618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,18],"tags":[758],"class_list":["post-94619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","tag-rwanda"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Defender Cl\u00e9ment Niyigena going nowhere - APR - Rwanda<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"As transfer activities continue during this January window and rumours are flying everywhere, Rwanda Premier League (RPL ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/defender-clement-niyigena-going-nowhere-apr\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Defender Cl\u00e9ment Niyigena going nowhere - APR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"As transfer activities continue during this January window and rumours are flying everywhere, Rwanda Premier League (RPL ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/defender-clement-niyigena-going-nowhere-apr\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Rwanda\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-01-22T17:20:53+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-01-28T16:47:05+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2025\/01\/sm_1737555037.28692.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1000\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"675\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/defender-clement-niyigena-going-nowhere-apr#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/defender-clement-niyigena-going-nowhere-apr\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Defender Cl\u00e9ment Niyigena going nowhere &#8211; 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