A 17-year-old Nigerian boy, Akor Kelechi Kingsley has broken the Guinness World Record for the most watermelon consumed in 30 seconds.
Akor had since received approval from GWR before embarking on the challenge on Thursday. July 20.
The Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board (JAMB) has issued a warning that some students may not receive their results for the 2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). The reason, according to JAMB, is that some of the results have been withheld. The examination body blamed the non-release of some 2022 UTME results on examination malpractices,…
Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, on Thursday, vowed to launch Radio Biafra in President Muhammadu Buhari’s hometown in Daura, Katsina State. The secessionist group’s leader insisted that its Radio station would be established in the president’s community within the next six weeks. The IPOB leader, who spoke through the group’s…
Fulani socio-cultural group, Miyetti Allah has asserted that the Anti-open grazing law enacted by the Southern Governors is Satanic, insisting that herders will continue grazing their cattles in the south peacefully. “How will they (herders) comply? Are they going to pack their animals into a shop? Or are they (the Southern governors) going to force…
A pastor of Christian Reformed Church -Nigeria, CRC-N, in Donga local government area of Taraba state, Emmanuel Bileya have been killed alongside his wife, Juliana by militiamen. The duo were said to have been working on their farms when they met their untimely death. Taraba state governor, Darius Ishaku who expressed shock over the recent…
Aminu Gwadabe, the President of the Association of Bureaux de Change Operators of Nigeria (ABCON), has stated that the Naira has appreciated by N660 against the US dollar since the recall of BDC operators into the Foreign Exchange Market by the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Olayemi Cardoso. Gwadabe disclosed this to…
The Academic Staff Union of Universities has said lecturers in seven federal universities have not received their February and March 2020 salaries, despite a directive by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to clear the withheld salaries. The ASUU President, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, stated this in an interview with our correspondent. He noted that…