Michel Platini, currently serving a four-year ban from all football, wants to “formally resign” as UEFA president at the organisation’s elective congress on September 14 when his successor will be named, the Frenchman said Wednesday.

The Federal Government says its target in 2016 is to make about 2,000 kilometres of road network motorable.

The UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Stephen O’Brien, has arrived in Nigeria on a two-day visit, to assess the humanitarian crisis created by Boko Haram insurgency. The Head, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA), Ms Kate Pond, disclosed this to newsmen on Wednesday in Abuja.

Malaysian Government has empowered its Immigration Department to bar any citizen who criticises or ridicules the government from traveling abroad. A report from government on Wednesday in Kuala Lumpur said the department could enforce a travel ban of up to three years on government critics at the request of an enforcement agency, including the police.

Confusion on Wednesday, trailed the real identity (name) of one of the Chibok girls rescued Tuesday night by the Civilian Joint Task Force, in Sambisa forest.

Ace Nigerian singer and instrumentalist, Flavour has been named Brand Ambassador of the popular energy drink, Bullet. The High life and Hip Hop musician said this in a statement made available to newsmen in Abuja on Wednesday.

Chelsea Football Club has announced that Club legend John Terry has signed a new one-year contract.

The Naira on Wednesday appreciated further against the dollar at the parallel market.

Jamaican sprint superstar Usain Bolt is undergoing treatment in Germany for what his coach described as an “aggravated hamstring injury” following his first race of the season, local radio reported Monday.

Liverpool midfielder Emre Can believes the Reds’ legendary battling qualities can help end their 11-year wait for a continental trophy against treble-chasing Sevilla in Wednesday’s Europa League final.

Organisation for Global Youth peace Empowerment and Development initiative (GYPEI) has called on the present administration to see empowerment of youths in Nigeria as a major priority.

The first schoolgirl abducted by Boko Haram in Chibok, northeast Nigeria, more than two years ago has been found, the military and activists said Wednesday, raising hopes for the release of 218 others still being held.

Following reports, Wednesday, that one of the 276 Chibok School girls abducted on April 14, 2014 by the Islamist group, Boko Haram has been found, controversy however emanated as to the real name of the girl. While the activist who found the girl gave her name as Amina Ali, the Nigerian army, in a confirmatory statement issued on Wednesday gave her name as Falmata Mbalala.

Nigeria’s army on Wednesday confirmed that a girl rescued in a Boko Haram enclave in the northeast is one of 219 abducted from their school in Chibok more than two years ago. “This is to confirm that one of the abducted Chibok schoolgirls… was among rescued persons by our troops,” army spokesman Colonel Sani Usman said in a statement.

THE Nigeria National Summit Group, NNSG, has criticised the announced increase in the price of petroleum pump price by the Federal Government from N86 per litre to N145. Rising from an emergency meeting in Lagos, the group called on the federal government to revert to the old price.