Arsenal got their Champions League campaign off to the ideal start on Wednesday as second-half goals by Theo Walcott and Aaron Ramsey secured a 2-1 win away to Marseille.

Lionel Messi moved into second place on the all-time list of Champions League goalscorers with his 27th career hat-trick as Barcelona beat Ajax 4-0 at the Nou Camp on Wednesday.

Jose Mourinho’s return to the Champions League with Chelsea started in dismal fashion as FC Basel came from behind to seal a stunning 2-1 win at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday.

Major rivals South Africa and Nigeria were drawn together on Wednesday in the first round of the 2014 African Nations Championship (CHAN).

Friends Africa on Tuesday unveiled the 2nd Edition of its World AIDS Day ‘Superstars Play for Life’ anti-stigma and discrimination campaign. This campaign designed to create awareness about HIV/AIDS will hold on Saturday, 30th November 2013 at the Campus Mini Stadium, Onikan, Lagos.

A couple who tried to sell their two-year-old daughter via Facebook has been arrested in the northeastern Brazilian city of Recife, police said Wednesday.

There was pandemonium at the palace of Emir of Kazaure on Monday as a building collapsed and trapped four labourers undertaking repairs in some section of the palace.

The Executive Director, Corporate Services, UAC Nigeria Plc, Mr. Joe Dada has vowed that the company will do her best to stem the falling education sector in Nigeria. Speaking at the round-off ceremony of the 2013 free holiday coaching organised by UAC under its Goodness League initiative for students of secondary schools in Lagos State, Dada noted that the quest by UAC to arrest the situation has been on since 2008.

THE Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria has opened talks with National Teachers Institute, NTI, with a view to establishing a distance learning centre in the university. A three-man delegation team led by the ABU Dean of Postgraduate School and the Acting Director of the university’s Distance Learning Centre, Prof Adebayo Joshua, met with the management of the NTI in Kaduna on Monday, to discuss the modalities for the centre.

First-time qualifiers Nigeria will play against host South Africa, Mali and Mozambique in Group A of the 2014 African Nations Championship.

The Coordinating Minister for the Economy and Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, said Wednesday, that she was not contemplating resignation and would concentrate on her job of managing the nation’s economy for the common good of Nigerians.

The Traditional ruler of Agulu, Igwe Innocent Obodoakor, has said that his community has sanctioned those who impersonated him at Labour Party, LP, political rally to flag-off the campaign of Dr. Ifeanyi Ubah in Onitsha last week.

A Nigerian woman tearfully prayed and recited Koranic verses as she won a beauty pageant exclusively for Muslim women in the Indonesian capital Wednesday, a riposte to the Miss World contest that has sparked hardline anger.

Authorities of the Nigeria Football Association (NFA) on Wednesday commended Gov. Babatunde Fashola of Lagos on the successful hosting of this year’s Federation Cup competition.

Suspected Islamist insurgents dressed in military uniforms set up checkpoints in an attack in Nigeria’s northeast, killing an unclear number of people and burning dozens of buildings, residents and authorities said Wednesday.