The family of the comic actor, John Okafor, aka Mr. Ibu, has addressed misconceptions surrounding Mr. Ibu’s health, stating that contrary to circulating reports on social media, the actor has undergone amputation on only one leg, not both. They added that the initial amputation proved insufficient to re...
The University of Cambridge has announced a Professor of Pharmaceutical Nanoscience, Ijeoma Uchegbu, as the seventh President of Wolfson College, one of its 31 colleges. This was made known in a statement titled, “Wolfson elects Professor Ijeoma Uchegbu as the College’s 7th President on the University’s...
The Lagos State Government on Friday said that the ‘2024 #Greater Lagos Fiesta’ would feature a three-day entertainment show across the five divisions of the state. Mrs Toke Benson-Awoyinka, the state’s Commissioner for Tourism, Arts and Culture, who disclosed this at a news conference in Lagos, said t...
Students across Nigerian tertiary institutions in partnership with Gender Mobile Initiative (GMI) have donated their pens to President Bola Tinubu in order for him to speedily assent to the Anti-sexual Harassment Bill before him. The pens, which were collected across different campuses, were presented t...
The Board of Regents of Landmark University, Omu-Aran has approved a 20 percent pay rise for its workers. The measure, it was gathered, is to mitigate the effects of current inflation in the country. The Board of Regents was said to have announced the approval in November this year. A source said that “...
A Nigerian woman, Dr. Olusimbo Ige has been appointed as Commissioner of the Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH), thus becoming first black female to occupy the position. Mayor Brandon Johnson officially announced the appointment. Dr. Ige received her Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery and her Mast...
