The Federal Governmnet is planning to roll out emergency polio vaccinations starting late August after reporting two new cases of the disease, UNICEF said Friday.

Pope Francis surprised 20 former prostitutes on Friday by knocking on their door in Rome and popping in for a chat.

The Rio Olympics is in full swing, with star athletes winning gold medals as fans bask in the celebration.

Magu started well. Ribadu had so much zeal, the public treated his penchant for flagrant transgression of rights with levity. Magu is a great improvement on Ribadu. Ribadu attended to widespread rot with uncommon but unchecked enthusiasm. And the public responded with uncritical goodwill and doting adoration. That honeymoon era is gone. After Ribadu, the EFCC lapsed into willful docility. Farida’s agency fell into the hands of its enemies. And they smothered it . Corruption then was treated with the sort of sympathy normally reserved for addictions.

Movie actor cum rapper, Adeniyi Akanni, popularly known as Neyoswaggz, is certainly living his dream. But it seems controversies are beginning to creep into that dream.

Table Tennis has a new Olympic Men’s Singles champion. He is Ma Long. The Chinese who obstructed our boy, Aruna Quadri from getting to the medal zone of the Table Tennis event of the Rio Olympics. Ma Long defeated the previous title holder Zhang Jike with a dominant 4-0 triumph, a repeat of the result he obtained against Quadri.

Notwithstanding the principle proclaimed in the Charter of the United Nations that recognizes the inherent dignity, worth and the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family as the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world, it is lamentable that a segment of the Nigerian society still live on the fringes as a result of disability.

Democratic White House candidate Hillary Clinton on Friday released her tax return for last year and criticized her Republican rival Donald Trump for bucking a long-standing tradition by failing to do the same.

Castigated in politics for playing fast and loose with the facts, if not lying, Donald Trump’s taste for exaggeration begins at home.

The weather in Rio, and indeed the whole of Brazil since the commencement of the Summer Olympics has been favourable. To Nigerians, it has been the same weather back home except that the night is colder.