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NFF shortlist: Saintfiet, Salisu Yusuf, Le Guen for Super Eagles job

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 The Nigeria Football Federation has put former Ethiopian coach Tom Sainfiet, Nigeria caretaker coach Salisu Yusuf and Frenchman Paul Le Guen, who once handed Cameroon, on a shortlist of candidates for the position of Super Eagles’ Head Coach.

Missy Elliott, Queen Latifah, Lil’ Kim to be honored by VH1

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 Queen Latifah remembers being on set in 1997 for the music video for “Ladies Night (Not Tonight),” the female rap anthem starring Lil’ Kim, Missy Elliott and others. It featured a number of top female musicians performing the song and making cameos in the video, including Left Eye, Da Brat, Angie Martinez, Mary J. Blige, SWV, Total and Xscape.

Kate Hudson Pens Surprisingly Powerful Poem About Recent Tragedies

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Kate Hudson has lent her voice to the chorus of individuals demanding action in the wake of the senseless tragedies that have marked 2016. Following the fatal shootings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile and the attack on the Dallas police force Thursday night,

Was the Big Bang actually a 'Big Bounce'? New theory claims universe sprang into life

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Study says universe may have ‘sprung’ from a previous contracting state This would mean a less violent birth than Big Bang or Big Crunch scenario They say it may alternate from expansion to contraction without collapsing

The number of NBA players making at least $20 million per year has skyrocketed

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Cork Gaines/Business Insider With the NBA's salary cap soaring this year we knew there would be a lot of money being thrown around. Now that free agency has started to slow, we are getting a sense of just how much more money players are making.

Clinton tiptoes around email questions addressing FBI's findings

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 Hillary Clinton subtly changed her tune on the use of a private email server as secretary of state in her first comments on the FBI's findings that she'd been "extremely careless" with classified information.

Famine possible in parts of Boko Haram-hit Nigeria: experts

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Some parts of northeast Nigeria that have been devastated by seven years of violence from the Islamist Boko Haram insurgency could be suffering from famine, according to experts monitoring the situation. The US-based Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) said in a briefing note on its website Thursday that more than three million people in the region were in need of urgent assistance. Borno state, which has been the worst hit by the conflict since 2009, was singled out for particular concern after Nigeria's health ministry recently declared a "nutrition emergency".