An eight-year-old boy was bitten by a deadly funnel web spider after he mistook the live creature for a fake plastic toy. Brayden Martz, from Saratoga on the Central Coast of New South Wales, was trying to scare his 11-year-old brother Ryan by picking up what he thought was a fake spider. But the

After 19 rounds in a Missouri county’s (USA) annual spelling bee over the weekend, only two of the 25 contestants who started the competition remained. Talk about being “at a loss for words!” Several hours and 47 rounds later, an 11-year-old and her 13-year-old adversary had used up all of the available words, forcing organizers

Scores of final year students of Lagos State University, (LASU), Ojo, on Monday resumed as directed by the institution’s management amid tight security. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the students were seen discussing in groups on the campus. The authorities had on January 23 closed down the institution following a violent student

  A 100-level medical student of the University of Ibadan (UI), Ogueze Chinyere, sustained serious burns on Monday after her cooking gas exploded. The incident happened at about 8:02pm at I Block of the Queen Elizabeth II female hostel. According to an eyewitness, Gbemisola Akinyo, Chinyere wanted to cook in the evening but her camping