The Appeal Court sitting in Akure, Ondo State capital has dismissed the appeal challenging the victory of Hon. Joseph Iranola Akinlaja representing Ondo East/West Federal Constituency.

The scale of doping corruption and money-laundering within athletics dwarfs the financial scandals engulfing FIFA, according to the author of a new wide-ranging report into track and field backed by the World Anti-Doping Agency.

Torch Oritsewenyimi Taire – his friends called him, TOT – was among many things, a man of great sensitivity: an aesthete – not in the mushy, pretentious way of the noveaux riche. A friend of poets and artists; a great lover of beautiful things. He had an eclectic mind. He was a truly renaissance man. I learnt from Torch Taire, more than a university could teach. He was a great repository of the lore of nation. He was friend to powerful men, and he was himself, without doubt, a powerful man. But you would never know it.

A chieftain of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Sunny Onuesoke, has described the rejection of the payment of N5, 000 to unemployed Nigerians by senators of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) as a slap and big disappointment to youths.

The Bayern Munich winger Franck Ribéry is suing CNN for $1.5m (£996,965) in damages after the American broadcaster used a picture of the former France international to illustrate a story on cryotherapy, his lawyer said on Friday.