More than 20 million people are at risk from famine in Yemen, Somalia, South Sudan and the northeast of Nigeria, the United Nations warned on Wednesday.

German police on Wednesday (August 9) discovered a group of migrants hiding on a freight train during searches near the Austrian border.

I am not a member of FIBA, neither am I a member of the NOC. I am just the Vice President of the Nigeria Basketball Federation. The NOC has been unequivocal about the elections since the day of the vote, so also has FIBA, based on the letter they sent to Nigerians and to all the affiliate federations.

In furtherance of efforts to curb insecurity across the country, the Nigeria Police has partnered with leading technology firms to develop and deploy an innovative mobile app, Hawk Eye.

A 12 year old sprinting sensation was discovered in Jamaica earlier this year.  Her name is Brianna Lyston. Predictions are that her future exploits may dwarf that of Usain Bolt. She should be dominating the Youth and Junior World Athletics Championships for the next four to six years. Thereafter, she and others in her age group at this year’s Jamaican Boys and Girls Championships (Champs) will benefit from expert coaching and take over elite sprinting in the world for the next ten years, barring any career terminating injuries. That is the way the Jamaican Athletics program is structured to operate. 

THE Family Entertainment Channel, wapTV, has acquired a brand new set of hundreds of popular Nigerian movies, by renowned production companies across the country, to keep its viewers fully entertained.

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has, for the umpteenth time, reiterated that it has not launched a recruitment campaign of any kind for now.

An Idi-Ogungun Customary Court sitting at Agodi in Ibadan on Wednesday dissolved a 10-year-old loveless marriage between a 30-year-old woman, Alimot, and her 73-year-old husband, Nafiu Azeez, citing accusation of adultery by the husband.

The calls for restructuring and resistance to same from different sides of the polity have lately agitated the polity.

Agitators for the restructuring of the polity have over time championed their cause using various channels albeit with limited success.

A mother of three, Nafisat Muhibudeen, on Wednesday pleaded with a Mapo Customary Court in Ibadan to dissolve her 13- year-old marriage to Salawu Muhibudeen, over constant battering of their 12-year-old son by his father.

Stanley Williams, the CEO and founder of Royalty Records is an established entrepreneur and generous philanthropist with a passion for timeless music who has just unveiled Royalty Records; a subsidiary of Monarch Empire – An International Entertainment company.

A middle-aged man who has been chained for 18 months in an apartment at 18 Damigoro street in Mushin area of Lagos , was Wednesday released by policemen attached to Area ‘ D’ command, Mushin.

 The United Kingdom says it support the warning by President Donald Trump to return “fire and fury” against North Korea if it continued to threaten the U.S. with nuclear attacks.

Students of Federal University – Dutsinma in Katsina state who graduates with first class honours degree at the end of their study are now to get automatic employment in the university.

THE Federal Government yesterday approved the 2018-2020 Medium Term Expenditure Framework, MTEF, and the Fiscal Strategic Paper, FSP with the commitment to achieving seven per cent growth rate by 2020 in accordance with the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan. ERGP