A US teenager died of cardiac arrest after taking part in a social media challenge daring people to eat a single extremely hot tortilla chip, an autopsy revealed Thursday. Harris Wolobah, a 14-year-old from Massachusetts, died in September after taking part in the so-called “One Chip Challenge” — which...
The Women’s World Cup will take place in South America for the first time after Brazil was chosen to host the 2027 edition at a FIFA congress Friday marked by debate about the war in Gaza. After the success of Australia and New Zealand last year, FIFA members picked Brazil over a European bid in a push...
Grooming Endowment Trust in collaboration with the Association for Formidable Education, awarded a grant of N200,000 each to 12 teachers in underserved communities across Nigeria. A statement by the organisations said that over 500 applications across the six geo-political zones, applied for the grant w...
Afrobeats singer, Mayorkun, has finally addressed claims made by social media influencer, Nicki Dabarbie, who alleged that he and his colleague, Abbey Elias aka Skiibii attempted to use her for ritual. Mayorkun denied the allegations in a series of posts on X.com on Wednesday, stating that he had never...
The Federal Government, through the Nigerian Education Loan Fund, on Thursday, announced May 24, 2024, as the official date for “the opening of the portal for student loan applications.” The announcement was made in a statement by the media lead for the NELFund, Nasir Ayantogo. Ayantogo, in the stateme...
The Federal Government is working to reconstitute the governing councils of its universities across the country, the Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission (NUC), Chris Maiyaki, has said. He said the Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman, had constituted a panel to work on the l...
