The world’s fastest land animal, the cheetah, is sprinting towards extinction, a new study has warned and called for urgent conservation actions to save the big cats.

Apparently disappointed by the Federal Government’s inability to accord a befitting reception to the Paralympians for winning laurels at the Rio 2016 Paralympics, gold medallist, Lauretta Onye, may quit sport.

A ferry sank during the height of Typhoon Nock-Ten killing one person and leaving 18 other crew members missing, the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) said Tuesday.

The Vice-Chancellor of the Lagos State University, Prof. Olanrewaju Fagbohun, on Tuesday said that teamwork and absence of crisis contributed much to the success of the university in 2016.

The National Orientation Agency (NOA), on Tuesday, said commitment to nation building and greater loyalty to the Nigerian nation would help to curb the insurgency bedevilling the country.

A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos, Mr Olusola Sokunle on Tuesday commended President Muhammadu Buhari and the military over the successful capture of Boko Haram enclave in Sambisa forest.

The flight data recorder of the Russian military airliner which crashed in the Black Sea on Sunday has been recovered and brought to Moscow.

The Kano state government has suspended a Director in the ministry of Finance and 9 staff of the Ministry of Local government over alleged diversion of millions of Naira meant for payment of salaries.

An Economist, Prof. Sheriffadeen Tella, on Tuesday said that the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) must pursue monetary or quantitative easing approach in 2017 to revitalise the economy and solve the country’s lingering foreign exchange crisis.

A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos, Mr Olusola Sokunle on Tuesday commended President Muhammadu Buhari and the military over the successful capture of Boko Haram enclave in Sambisa forest.