•Goodluck Akinlawon receiving his prize A student of the University of Ibadan, Goodluck Akinlawon, has emerged the winner of the 2025 Amnesty International Nigeria Inter-Varsity Debate. Akinlawon triumphed over participants from 15 other universities across Nigeria in a highly competitive finale, reports Saturday PUNCH. A statement yesterday b...
•Late Jimmy Carter Late US President Jimmy Carter yesterday won a posthumous Grammy Award — his fourth — for best audiobook, narration and storytelling recording for a collection of his final Sunday school lessons in Georgia. On “Last Sundays in Plains: A Centennial Celebration,” Carter — who died at the age of 100 on December […]...
•Surrogacy The Delhi High Court has granted an Indian couple the right to use the frozen sperm of their late son, Preet Inder Singh, for surrogacy. Surrogacy is an arrangement in which a woman agrees to carry and deliver a child for another person or couple, who will become the child’s parent(s) after birth, reports […]
•Okpebholo Monday Okpebholo, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has emerged victorious in the Edo State governorship election held yesterday. According to the results from 18 local government areas (LGAs) announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) today, Okpebholo secured a total of 291,667 votes, repo...
•PDP loyalists Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Asue Ighodalo, has emerged victorious at the polling unit in Idumuoka Primary Health Centre of Igueben Local Government Area of Edo State. According to the result declared at the polling unit, Ighodalo polled 104 votes to defeat Monday Okpebholo of the All Progressives Congress (A...
•Ighodalo The Labour Party (LP) candidate in the Edo Governorship Election, Olumide Akpata, has lost his polling unit to candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Asue Ighodalo. According to the result announced at Polling Unit 11, Ward 06, Oredo Local Government Area, Ighodalo polled 41 votes while Akpata trailed with 32 votes, reports...
•The Yam History was made in the Obeledu community in Aniaocha Local Government Area of Anambra State, when an indigene, Kenneth Ifeakandu, from Okofia village won the sum of N500,000.00 for harvesting the heaviest yam during the community’s New Yam festival. The yam weighed 95kg, reports The PUNCH. It was gathered that the “Yam competition” [...
•Esther Nworgu after receiving her silver medal in Para powerlifting Team Nigeria’s para powerlifter Esther Nworgu has won silver in Para powerlifting up to 41kg with a lift of 118kg. She broke the Paralympics record twice, reports Channels TV. Nworgu set two new Paralympic Records with her last two attempts, lifting 112kg and 118kg respective...
•Mariam Eniola Bolaji Mariam Eniola Bolaji has won Team Nigeria’s 1st medal of Paris 2024 Paralympic Games in the Para badminton Women’s singles SL3 event. She beat Kozyna Oksana of Ukraine 21-9, 21-9 in the bronze medal match this morning. … developing story
•Yemisi Ogunleye celebrates after winning at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games yesterday Germany’s Yemisi Ogunleye grabbed the gold medal in the women’s shot put at the Paris Olympics yesterday throwing her winning 20.00m with her final attempt. Ogunleye’s effort took her past New Zealand’s Maddison-Lee Wesche, who threw 19.86, her personal best wi...

