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The biggest supermassive black holes have been found at the cores of very large galaxies in regions loaded with other large galaxies. Los Angeles: Astronomers have uncovered a near-record breaking supermassive black hole, weighing 17 billion Suns, in the centre of a galaxy in a sparsely populated area of the universe, indicating that these monster objects may be more common than once thought. Until now, the biggest supermassive black holes - those with masses around 10 billion times that of our Sun - have been found at the cores of very large galaxies in regions loaded with other large galaxies.

As the last match on Day Two of the championship, the clash between Nigeria and Tunisia had all the suspense expected of such game being the deciding match to determine the two first teams to qualify for the World Juniors Despite its inability to feature in the 2015 edition of the ITTF African Junior and Cadet Championship in Mauritius, Nigeria returns to the world stage at junior level after joining Egypt’s male team to secure a place in the 2016 ITTF World Junior Championships holding in Pretoria, South Africa. Top seed Egypt continued their unbeaten run in the competition to seal their place at the World Juniors after beating Congo Brazzaville in the semifinal to make it to the final at the ITTF African Junior and Cadet Championship holding in Algiers.

  Twitter's great and all, but sometimes you don't want the world to see what you're chatting about with your mate. The micro-blogging service has your back though, unveiling a new Message button that makes privately sharing tweets a whole lot easier. Lining up as a fourth in-tweet option - alongside Reply, Retweet and Like - the new Message button lets your share the desired tweet as a direct message with a friend of your choice, opening up a new private conversation in the process.Introduced in response to the growing use of the service's DM options, the new Message button follows a 200% jump in privately shared tweets in late 2015.

Governors yesterday spoke on their efforts to ride through the economic turbulence Nigeria is going through. To Lagos State Governor Akinwunmi Ambode, the economy is at a critical threshold which requires leaders to think outside the box and come up with innovations that will trigger growth. He lamented that previous governments at the federal level failed to take advantage of the oil boom to grow other sectors of the economy, adding that the fall in oil price, coupled with many years of corruption, made the economy vulnerable.

She said the super agents who would recruit their agents were expected to carry banking services to the nooks and crannies of the country at affordable prices to the citizenry   Tokunbo Martins, the Director of Banking Supervision Department of the Central Bank of Nigeria, says the bank has approved two super agents to distribute banking services at cheaper prices. Martins, who made the disclosure at the 326th Bankers Committee meeting on Thursday in Lagos, said the approval was part of CBN’s agency banking policy. She said the super agents who would recruit their agents were expected to carry banking services to the nooks and crannies of the country at affordable prices to the citizenry.

Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike has urged his predecessor, Rotimi Amaechi, to accept the reality that his party lost the March 19 rerun and allow the government to focus on rebuilding the state. The governor said the task to revive the state was enormous, following the alleged failure of the last administration to develop the state with the N3 trillion it made. Wike spoke yesterday at the opening of a retreat on strengthening capacity, efficiency and service delivery for sustainable development organised for top government officials at Onne Multi-Purpose Centre.

The Court of Appeal sitting in Lagos has granted bail to a former beauty queen, Ibinabo Fiberesima, who was sentenced to five years imprisonment for manslaughter. The two million Naira bail was granted on Thursday, pending the determination of her appeal against the manslaughter sentence at the Supreme Court. The court’s verdict was split two-to-one in Ibinabo’s favour. Reading the lead judgment, Justice Samuel Oseji held that there was nothing to show that the former beauty queen would jump bail.

  There’s hardly any week that the Sports Minister, Solomon Dalung, does not have a thing or two to talk about football. If he is not orchestrating to settle dispute (even where there is none) he is attending one football event or receiving a delegation of the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF or their President, Amaju Pinnick. He occupies himself with things you may not link to football development. That is the state of our sports now. It is not only football. The other day, Solomon Dalung was battling to explain to Nigerians how the National Sports Commission, NSC, ceased to exist. He also made news reinstating foreign athletics coaches disengaged by former NSC Director General, Yakmut Alhassan. But he did not make news on the performance of the coaches.

The federal government, on Thursday, opened its case against embattled former Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godsday Orubebe, who is under trial for false asset declaration. Orubebe was brought before the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) over his failure to declare his property listed at Plot 2057, Asokoro District, Abuja. He had served as a minister under the Yar’adua and Jonathan administration between 2007 and 2011.