A soldier belonging to Brazil’s elite National Force who was assigned to security duty for the Rio Olympic Games...

  Following the Nigeria U23 team’s 0-2 loss to Colombia in their final Group B game at the Men’s Olympics...

  Turkey has detained 35,022 people, of whom 17,740 have been formally arrested under court orders, since the attempted coup...

  Italy's 2008 Olympics 50km walk champion Alex Schwazer has been banned for eight years and will miss Rio 2016...

  Donald Trump insisted in a CNBC phone interview on Thursday that President Barack Obama "absolutely" founded ISIS, and that...

  South Africa is once again the biggest economy on the African continent, a position it reclaims from Nigeria, thanks...

  Newly built segregated bus park to ease the flow of traffic at Berger Bus Stop, Iyana Oworo by the...

  If medal counts determine what or who constitutes a nation, Michael Phelps would probably be invited to the G8...

  The Lithuanians were pushed by the African side in a high-scoring, exciting affair at the Olympics. Lithuania remained undefeated...

Nigeria’s Aruna Quadri has reached the end of his road in table tennis games at the 2016 Rio Olympics after...

  Turkish police, on Wednesday, detained 112 businessmen in several provinces, accusing them all of having links to a U.S.-based...

  Aruna Quadri has sensationally sent out shock waves in Rio to also shoot himself into history in the Olympics...

  Nigeria’s Chierika Ukogu has qualified for the semi-finals of the women’s single scull rowing event in Rio. The Stanford...

  A pay strike that could well have seen Nigeria boycott Wednesday night’s Rio Olympics game against Colombia has been...

  Team Nigeria’s medal hopeful, Blessing Okagbare, has joined the rest of Team Nigeria’s athletes as her presence alone has...

  Football legend Pele was widely expected to play a part in last Friday’s opening ceremony at the Maracana Stadium...

  Maurice Greene knows the terrain of the Olympics as much as any aspiring athlete in the world of track...

  Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, SAN (left); Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed...

  At least, three of the many Nigerian athletes in the ongoing Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games created records of...