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  A Canadian man who broke his own world record for the fastest time to eat 50 of the world’s hottest chilli pepper went on to eat 85 more. On Tuesday, Guinness World Records announced that Mike Jack of Canada consumed 50 Carolina reapers, the world’s hottest pepper with 1.64m Scoville heat units, in 6 minutes and 49.2 seconds. For comparison, a jalapeño has between 2,500 and 8,000 SHUs. Video posted online by Guinness World Records showed Jack donning a red bandana and gloves as he scarfed down the peppers in front of a blowing fan, at times closing his eyes tightly and breathing heavily. Onlookers could be heard cheering him on and yelling, “Go, Mike!” https://x.com/GWR/status/1706615782761799881?s=20 Once Jack was done eating the 50 peppers – an average of one every eight seconds – he went on to eat 85 more. In total, Jack consumed 135 Carolina reapers. The stunt helped propel him to second place on the League of Fire’s reaper challenger leaderboard, which tracks the highest num...

A 200-level student of the Computer Science Department at the Federal University Dutsin-Ma (FUDMA), Katsina State simply identified as Abubakar has been confirmed dead following a clash between students over a relationship with a female student. The tragic incident involving eight students of the university was said to have taken place at Darawa quarters, Dutsinma LGA, Katsina State on Thursday around 1:20 pm. The spokesman for the state police command, ASP Abubakar Sadiq, in a statement on Saturday, said the incident was a result of a heated altercation between the students, which escalated, leading to the death of one of the students involved. According to the statement, the command is taking the matter seriously and is conducting a thorough investigation to determine the facts surrounding the incident. Six of the students in connection with the incident have been arrested, it added. The command also disclosed that it was working diligently to gather and analyse all available evidenc...

The University of Lagos says it has not started the allocation of bed spaces to students for the 2023/2024 academic session, contrary to reports in some sections of the media. This is contained in a statement by Adejoke Alaga-Ibraheem, head of the communication unit of the institution, issued to journalists Saturday in Lagos.U “Information making the rounds in some sections of the media is that the university has commenced allocating bed spaces to students in all the halls of residence for the 2023/2024 academic session. “We therefore hereby wish to bring to the attention of students, parents, and guardians that this is not true as we have yet to commence. “Kindly disregard any information suggesting otherwise. “Please note, for the avoidance of doubt, that allocation of bed spaces only comes up after students ballot for such spaces, and the balloting process has not commenced, nor has the date for the process been announced. “Therefore, contrary to rumours insinuating that payment for...

More than 56,000 Pakistan schools will shut for the rest of the week in a bid to curb a mass outbreak of a contagious eye virus, officials said on Wednesday. Millions of students will stay home from tomorrow after Punjab, Pakistan’s most populous province, announced blanket closures having recorded 357,000 conjunctivitis cases since the start of the year. The fast-spreading eye infection causes redness, itchiness and discharge from the eyes and contamination can spread through hand contact, as well as coughing and sneezing. “The closure has been announced as a proactive measure to give maximum protection to students against the infection,” Punjab education department spokesman Zulfiqar Ali told AFP There are 127,000,000 residents in eastern Punjab province and 56,000 state schools, as well as thousands of independent schools also subject to the shutdown. “We hope this will break the cycle of the infection in the province,” Ali said. Schools across Pakistan had already been due to shut ...

The National Universities Commission has approved two additional courses for the Centre for Continuous Education, Federal University, Oye Ekiti, Ekiti State, Orangesprings News Blog has learnt. The Director, FUOYE CCE , Omolade Adeleke, an associate professor, said that with the addition of Biochemistry and Microbiology, the centre would now offer 24 programmes in the six faculties. Adeleke, in a statement on Wednesday, titled, ‘FUOYE offers admission in 24 courses of its CCE,’ said, “The NUC has approved two additional new courses for the CCE’s Institute of Part-time Studies. The two courses are Microbiology and Biochemistry. “With this new approval, the total number of courses under the part-time programme is now 24 which cuts across six facilities of Agriculture, Arts, Science, Social science, Management and Education. “The application forms for the 2023/2024 academic session have just been made available and applicants are advised to take this opportunity as spaces for admission a...