Tobi Amusan reacts to clearance by Disciplinary Tribunal Nigerian sprinter, Tobi Amusan has reacted to the news of her being cleared of doping allegations by the Disciplinary Tribunal to participate in the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary. The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) provisionally suspended Amusan for failing three out-of-competition tests in a 12-month period. The 26-year-old was accused of violating...
The eight ministers in President Tinubu’s cabinet and their portfolios President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday allocated portfolios to his ministerial appointees. The list was made known by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale. Only eight women made the cut on the 45-man list. However, one name missing conspicuously was Stella Okotete. Recall that she...
Kenyan chef Maliha Mohammed has set a new record for the longest home kitchen cookathon by an individual. Chef Mohammed, who started her cook-a-thon on August 11, unofficially set a new record on Tuesday after cooking for 90 hours, surpassing the previous Guinness World record held by American chef Rickey Lumpkin of California, who achieved a home cooking time of...
Uriel has revealed that she regrets voting for Laycon, the winner of the Big Brother Naija Lockdown Season. She said this while speaking with Lagos Talks FM as she lamented her shocking eviction from the BBNaija All Stars show. Recall that Uriel became the second female housemate to be evicted from the ‘BBNaija All Stars’ reality show after two of...
Nigerian students, Mmesoma Okonkwo and Bukolami Adeyemi make headlines as they receive British Council Cambridge Learner’s Awards Two Nigerian students, Mmesoma Okonkwo and Oluwabukolami Adeyemi have put Nigeria on the world map following their outstanding performance in the 2022 Cambridge IGCSE and Cambridge AS Level Examinations as they received the British Council Outstanding Cambridge Learner’s Awards. 17-year-old Okonkwo received the...
The National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) has unveiled an online top-up programme for Higher National Diploma holders to convert their certification to Bachelor’s Degree through online top-up for one year, with foreign accredited universities. The board disclosed this in a statement made available to newsmen in Abuja on Monday by its Head of Media Unit, Mrs Fatima Abubakar. Abubakar...
Nigerians have called for the stop of the use of the Jury system of eviction The shocking eviction of Uriel from the BBNaija All Stars show has sparked reactions online. Uriel and Seyi were the bottom two housemates with the least number of votes upon which the jury would save one and eject the other from the show. However, Uriel,...
The World Athletics has reacted to reports that Tobi Amusan has been cleared to participate in the forthcoming World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary, Punch reports. Tobi, whose name was previously barred by the Athletics Federation of Nigeria from competing in the forthcoming competition, set to take place from August 19 to August 27, 2023, as a consequence of a...
Miss Amaechina Chimbusonma Nwadiuto, a student of Regina Pacis Girls’ Secondary School, Garki, Abuja has scored A1 in all the nine subjects she sat for this year’s West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examination, WASSCE, conducted by the West African Examinations Council, WAEC. With this remarkable feat, she is in contention for the National Merit Award as the overall best candidate....
To mark 2023 Breastfeeding Week, UNICEF advocates for exclusive breastfeeding. Exclusively breastfed babies are 14 times more likely to survive in the first six months of life than non-breastfed babies, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has said. It further revealed that breastfeeding, aside from being the first vaccine that a child receives to prevent infections, also gives the child at least...