A Nigerian lady known as , Joyce Ijeoma who set out to achieve a 72-hour body massage on individuals has collapsed. Ijeoma collapsed while on the attempt at the venue in the Lekki area of Lagos State. The masseur who had done a total of 50 hours collapsed during the wee hours of Tuesday As of the time of filing this report, Ijeoma was yet to return to the venue and had stopped the live coverage. The previous record was set in 2015 by Alastair Galpin in South Kalimantan, Indonesia. Galpin currently holds the record for the longest full-body…
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Facebook owner Meta set to launch Twitter-like app named ‘Threads app’. The app meant to compete with Twitter, was available for pre-order on mobile app stores on iPhone and Android operating systems on Monday. Listed as “Threads, an Instagram app,” the new program should be available in the coming days, and is described on Apple’s app store as “Instagram’s text-based conversation app.” “Threads is where communities come together to discuss everything from the topics you care about today to what’ll be trending tomorrow,” says the app’s description on the store. Thread’s launch comes after a period of uncertainty at…
Nigerian Bitcoin expert, Gaius Chibueze, has made a scholarship offer to Mmesoma Ejikeme, who is at the centre of a UTME result controversy. Ejikeme Mmesoma, student of Anglican Girls Secondary School, Nnewi, Anambra State, who was accused of inflating her Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) result. He indicated interest in sponsoring the 17-year-old student through his company, to study in any country of her choice between the United States, Canada or the United Kingdom. Meridian Spy reports that JAMB had claimed that the UTME result being paraded by Miss Ejikeme Mmesoma is ‘patently fake.’ In a statement by JAMB Acting…
Nigeria has caught up with Angola in the drilling of crude oil, as both nations are now the biggest crude oil drilling markets in Africa. The data from the June 2023 Offshore Rigs Tracker, released on Monday by Hawilti and the Caverton Offshore Support Group Plc, showed. Nigeria lost its position as top African oil producer several times on the back of repeated crude theft and pipeline vandalism, but is now showing signs of recovery, going by the recent monthly oil production figures released by the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries. “Nigeria has caught up with Angola to also take…
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board on Tuesday morning said that it stopped using the print-out currently being paraded by Anambra candidate, Mmesoma Ejikeme as her authentic result in 2021. The board also reiterated its position that the UTME result paraded by “Ejikeme Joy Mmesoma is patently fake.” In a statement made available to our correspondent on Tuesday morning by the Board’s spokesman, Fabian Benjamin, JAMB insisted that only Mmesoma paraded the“obsolete” notification slip out of all the candidates that sat the 2023 UTME. “Consequently, the Board would like to reassure Nigerians that its system was neither tampered with nor…
Steven Gerrard, a former England player, has been named manager of Saudi Pro League club Al Ettifaq. Gerrard was named manager of the Saudi Pro League club on Monday. The club announced the appointment on its official Twitter account, @Ettifaq_EN. The post reads: “Where legends are found, We’re thrilled to announce Steven Gerrard is our new head coach.” Another Twitter post by the club stated that Gerrard is no stranger to silverware, adding that he is a legend who “brings a glorious history and exciting future to Ettifaq.” The new manager was seen putting pen on paper with the club’s…
The Shell Global Upstream Director, Ms. Zoë Yujnovich, visited President Bola Tinubu. The meeting held on Momday at the State House in Abuja. Present at the meeting are former Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission, Timi Alaibe, former Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, Dr Dakuku Peterside, Chief of Staff to the President, Femi Gbajabiamila, amongst others
Wike, Oyetola Among Tinubu’s Cabinet, Included in Ministerial List The former governor of Rivers state and People Democratic Party (PDP) Chieftain, Nyesom Wike, has been listed among those to get ministerial post. According to a reliable source from the Presidency, both Wike name and the former governor of Osun state, Gboyega Oyetola will be appointed minister. Already, there had been rumour of Wike defecting to the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC). Wike played a vital role in ensuring APC wins Rivers state with a wide margin, after a disagreement with his party’s, PDP Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar. Details shortly ….
The National Data Protection Commission (NDPC) has declared unconstitutional the Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) mandate to banks to get their clients’ social media handles. Citing the Data Protection Act of 2023, the National Commissioner of NDPC, Dr Vincent Olatunji, stated that before such directives from the CBN can be carried out, banks and other financial institutions must obtain the consent of the data subject, which is the bank customers, and the owners of the social media handle. Olatunji who made this known during a virtual meeting yesterday with journalists said that directive of the CBN was inappropriate saying that…
The Labour Party (LP) leadership expressed dissatisfaction with the Federal Government for disparaging the European Union’s (EU) report on the 2023 General Elections. The globally respected agency stated in its final report on the Nigerian elections that faith in the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had been badly harmed, particularly as a result of the failure to electronically submit the presidential election results. But responding in a statement on Sunday, Dele Alake, Special Adviser to the President on Special Duties, Communications and Strategy, described the report as a product of a poorly done desk job that relied heavily on few…
Ex-Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed gets World Bank job Mrs. Zainab Ahmed, the former Minister of Finance, has been appointed as an Alternate Executive Director at the World Bank. Barring any complications, she will return to the bank’s headquarters in Washington on July 10. However, there appears to be pushback from some groups who claim that the former minister did not follow due process. However, there appears to be pushback from some interests who alleged that the former minister did not follow due process. An online medium, today, quoted Washington sources as saying that Mrs. Ahmed circumvented appointment procedures by…
Ondo State government, weekend, approved the setting up of military and para-military stations in the Northern Senatorial Districts of the state to curtail the influx of kidnappers from neighbouring states. The stations are situated at Imoru in the Ose council area of the state. According to the state Commander of Amotekun, Adetunji Adeleye, the efforts were to protect the people of the state. Adeleye said: “The move would curtail the activities of criminals as well as kidnappers who reside outside the state “The criminals usually come through rivers to perpetrate crime and run back, that is why the government had…