Mamelodi Sundowns of South Africa moved closer to a fairy-tale CAF Champions League title with a 3-0 home victory over Zamalek of Egypt Saturday in the first leg of the final.

Glory be to God! That we are alive today , we have every reason to thank God for His mercy. Take a few minutes to reflect on events in the last nine months of this year and you would see that many people with whom you started this year are no more. Not necessarily because you are more righteous, it is because God in his mercy has kept you alive. He has not kept you alive for nothing.

US Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, are to meet Saturday in Switzerland for a fresh round of diplomatic talks on Syria.

Novak Djokovic, defending champion and world number one has been knocked out of Shanghai Rolex Masters by Spaniard Roberto Bautista Agut.

U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Friday accused the New York Times and Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim for his travails and his lagging in the polls.

October may be a month in the last quarter of the year, but it certainly provides excellent opportunities for travel.

The UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-Moon has welcomed the release of 21 Chibok schoolgirls, following more than two years of captivity.

Eleven people were shot dead on Saturday in a camp for displaced people in Central African Republic, the UN’s MINUSCA mission said, days after 30 others were killed in fresh sectarian violence

Osun State House of Assembly under the leadership of Rt Hon.Najeem Salaam has advocated the preservation and full development of historical and cultural heritage of the Yorubas

Troops of Operation Lafiya Dole on Saturday intercepted a suspected male suicide bomber in Madagali, Adamawa.

Jamaica’s Olympic sprint champion Usain Bolt will run his last race on home soil at June’s Racers Grand Prix before retiring from competition two months later, he said on Friday.

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday declared that a new bank, Development Bank of Nigeria(DBN) would soon begin operations to strengthen the government’s economic diversification programme.

Following persistent down pour in some parts of Cross River State in the past three weeks, flood has swept away over one thousand houses and nine hundred farms across seven local government areas of the state.

Investors on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) on Friday traded 220.85 million shares worth N1.53 billion in 2,381 deals.

A stampede at a religious gathering in northern India killed at least 24 people Saturday as thousands of devotees of a controversial guru tried to cross a bridge at once, police said.