The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps NSCDC has announced the rescue of a nine-year old boy who had been chained for several weeks at the Celestial Church of Christ (Key of Joy Parish), Ajiwo, Ogun state.

The re-run elections for Okigwe senatorial zone and state assembly seats for Isiala Mbano, Oru East and Owerri West, took off Saturday on a peaceful note.

The Minister of Youths and Sports, Barrister Solomon Dalung, has said that he regrets the embarrassment caused Nigeria by a letter which directed Nigerian athletes going to the Olympic Games in Rio to buy their own air tickets.

The Zimbabwe government on Saturday denounced as “treasonous” a statement by war veterans berating President Robert Mugabe and his regime for brutal attacks on his opponents.

The Minister of Transportation, Mr Rotimi Amaechi, says the Federal Government will continue to safeguard Nigeria’s marine environment to improve on revenue generation.

Cheirika ‘Coco’ Ukogu will be creating history at the Olympics this year, being the first rower to represent her country (Nigeria) at the Olympic Games.

A magistrates’ court sitting in Kano on Thursday denied bail to the two suspects who allegedly brutalised two-year-old Musa Murtala in the city on May 10.

The bodies of 26 migrants have been recovered off the Libyan coast, a local official said on Saturday.

Sunderland have appointed former Manchester United manager David Moyes to replace Sam Allardyce as boss at the Stadium of Light, the perennial Premier League strugglers said on Saturday.

German police said Saturday they had no evidence a teenage gunman who killed nine people in Munich had any links to the Islamic State group and described the attack as “a classic act by a deranged person.”