Dorothy Hoffner, a 104-year-old woman, has died after attempting to set a Guinness World Record for the world’s oldest skydiver. Just a few days after potentially setting a new world record for the oldest person to skydive, a 104-year-old woman, Dorothy Hoffner, has passed on. “Age is just a number,” Dorothy Hoffner told the Chicago Tribune after leaping from a plane last Sunday. Hoffner...
Actress, Uche Ogbodo has welcomed her third child and first son, Ifeanyichukwu. The actress shared the news on Monday evening via her Instagram page. She wrote: My Son IfeanyiChukwu Xavier Ugwoegbu Is Here ! My Son Clothed in Rainbows 🌈, He is My Everything ❤️. Thank you my King Of Kings , You are Full of Wonders , your name...
Home delivery of passports will start in 2024, the Federal Government has said The Federal Government has said Nigerians will have their passports delivered to them at home, offices, and other places of choice beginning next year. Minister of Interior Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo said this on Monday in Lagos while speaking at the opening ceremony of the 2023 University of Lagos...
Simone Biles has set a record for the world’s most decorated gymnast with 37 medals. Simone Biles has stamped her name in the history books as she became the world’s most decorated gymnast of all time. The 26-year-old athlete set this new record during the 2023 World Gymnastics Championships which was held in Antwerp, Belgium where she was awarded her...
The Minister of Women Affairs, Uju Kennedy has vowed to seek justice for the late Greatness Olorunfemi, a one-chance victim in Abuja. The minister made this known while appearing on Monday’s edition of Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily expressing disapproval of the actions of the Abuja hospital as she also promised to pay the hospital a visit to “fight for” the...
The Lagos High Court Sitting at the Tafawa Balewa Square on Lagos Island, on Monday, sentenced the suspended Assistant Superintendent of Police, Drambi Vandi, who killed a Lagos-based lawyer, Bolanle Raheem, to death by hanging, Vanguard reports. Justice Ibironke Harrison sentenced the ASP after finding him guilty of the murder of the pregnant lawyer. Harrison held that the prosecution was...
Greatness Olorunfemi as her name implied was a woman with great dreams but today she is gone due to a failed system. Her journey to the great beyond began after she was reportedly stabbed and thrown out of a fast-moving vehicle by ‘one chance’ robbers on September 26, 2023, along the Maitama-Kubwa Highway in Abuja while on her way home from...
Six months after undergoing weight loss surgery, comedian Anita Asuoha aka Real Warri Pikin has shared her progress report. Sharing a post on Instagram today, October 6, she wrote: IT’S BEEN SIX MONTHS Six months of no breathlessness Six months of no knee pains Six months of no sleep apnea Six months without all the troubles that came with being...
Fellows of the MTN Media Innovation Programme (MIP) Cohort 2 recently visited South Africa as part of their six-month fellowship. The Fellows spent time engaging in academic, diplomatic, and business interactions at the University of Johannesburg, the Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) in Pretoria, the South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA), and MTN Group headquarters. The diverse...
Otobong Nkanga has won the prestigious Nasher Prize for Sculpture. Nigerian-born sculptor, Otobong Nkanga has emerged winner of the prestigious Nasher Prize for Sculpture, one of the world’s biggest art prizes. The prize comes with whooping cash of $100,000 (N76million) and as the winner, Belgium-based Nkanga will become a laureate at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, where curators will...