Chef Dammy debunks rumours of attempting ‘largest pot of beans’ record
Nigerian culinary talent, Damilola Adeparusi, popularly known as Chef Dammy, has debunked rumours suggesting that she is planning to cook the world’s largest pot of beans. The speculation gained momentum online following Guinness World Records’ recognition of celebrity chef Hilda Baci, who recently achieved a new milestone with the largest serving of jollof rice. Many […]
NECO releases 2025 SSCE results, records 60 per cent pass rate
The National Examinations Council (NECO) has released the results of the 2025 Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE), 54 days after the final paper was written. Announcing the results in Minna, Niger State, on Wednesday, NECO Registrar and Chief Executive Officer, Professor Ibrahim Dantani Wushishi, said a total of 1,358,339 candidates sat for the June/July examination. […]
Guinness has called us, my daughter has broken record twice —Hilda Baci’s mother on daughter’s Jollof rice feat
The mother of Nigeria’s celebrated chef, Hilda Effiong Bassey, popularly known as Hilda Baci, has revealed that Guinness World Records has called them regarding her daughter’s jollof rice feat last Friday, adding that her daughter has broken the Guinness record two times. With this revelation, Baci has once again etched her name into global culinary […]
Dangote says refinery ended 50-year fuel queue crisis, saves Nigeria $1bn annually
Aliko Dangote, President and Chief Executive of Dangote Petroleum Refinery, has declared that Nigeria’s five-decade struggle with fuel queues has ended one year after his $20 billion refinery began producing petrol. Speaking in Lagos at a conference to mark the first anniversary of the refinery’s operations, Dangote said Nigerians had endured petrol shortages since 1975 […]
Dangote Refinery rolls out CNG trucks, slashes petrol prices nationwide
The Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemicals has launched over 1,000 Compressed Natural Gas (CNG)-powered trucks for direct fuel distribution across Nigeria, marking the first phase of a nationwide programme aimed at reducing fuel logistics costs and lowering pump prices. The launch coincides with the refinery’s one-year anniversary of petrol production and is part of a […]
Court sends Nnamdi Kanu’s medical transfer motion to chief judge
Justice Musa Liman of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday, referred a motion filed by the detained leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, to the Chief Judge for reassignment. Kanu is asking the court to order his transfer to the National Hospital, Abuja, for urgent medical treatment. His counsel, […]
In Nigeria, feminists are sometimes referred to as ‘Chimamanda’s children’ —Gazelle Mba
Nigerian United Kingdom-based scholar, literary critic and writer, Gazelle Mba, has stated that in Nigeria, feminists are sometimes mockingly referred to as ‘Chimamanda’s children’. Mba stated this through her recent essay titled ‘Greased with Complaints’, published in Volume 47, Number 16 of the London Review of Books (LRB), which was a review of Chimamanda Ngozi […]
Nigeria needs new constitution, court last hope of common man if judicial independence is guaranteed
Best-graduating Nigerian Law School graduate, Oluwabusayo Ifonlaja, has stated that Nigeria needs a new constitution to correct many defects in the polity and that the court can truly be the last hope of the common man if independence is guaranteed for the judiciary. Ifonlaja stated this through an interview published on Saturday in the Saturday […]
Resident doctors suspend warning strike, give FG two-week ultimatum
The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has suspended its five-day nationwide warning strike, giving the Federal Government an additional two weeks to address its outstanding demands. The decision followed a virtual Extraordinary National Executive Council (E-NEC) meeting held on Saturday, where the association resolved that members should return to work from Sunday. In a […]
Lagos governor unblocks human rights lawyer on X after four-year dispute, lawsuit
The Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has unblocked Nigerian human rights lawyer, Festus Ogun, on X (formerly Twitter), marking the end of a four-year dispute that began in 2021 and culminated in a lawsuit at the Federal High Court in Lagos. The resolution followed a peace meeting at Lagos House, Marina, on Friday. The standoff […]