Grandmother with no GCSEs graduates aged 55
A north London grandmother who left school without a single GCSE has graduated with a degree in sports therapy at the age of 55. Angella Callam, from Edmonton in Enfield, collected her BSc from London Metropolitan University at a ceremony…
Nigerian woman dies of cardiac arrest during UK visit
Family members have launched a fundraising campaign to repatriate the remains of a Nigerian woman, Christiana Nwosu, who reportedly died of cardiac arrest while visiting the United Kingdom. PUNCH Metro learnt this on Monday from a GoFundMe appeal signed by…
Apple ends day as world’s most valuable company, passing Nvidia
Apple has regained its position as the world’s most valuable publicly traded company after ending the trading day with a market capitalisation of about $4.93 trillion, surpassing Nvidia, whose value fell to roughly $4.78 trillion following a sharp decline in…
Veteran Telugu Actor Pavala Syamala Dies At 75 After Cardiac Arrest
Veteran Telugu film actress Pavala Syamala has passed away at the age of 75 after reportedly suffering a cardiac arrest. The respected actress died on Tuesday, July 28, 2026, bringing to an end a career that spanned several decades in…
Taiwanese Actor Wang kai Found Dead At Home in Taipei At 43
Taiwanese actor Wang Kai has died at the age of 43 after he was found unresponsive at his home in Taipei, Taiwan. Authorities discovered the actor, whose real name was Wang Chien-lung, at his residence in Taipei’s Da’an District on…
South Africa’s biggest airline was stolen
Trevor Manuel, former Finance Minister and Chairperson of the National Planning Commission, said that South Africa’s biggest airline was stolen and destroyed. He made these comments during a review of South Africa’s post-1994 governance at the National Democratic Revolution Seminar…
Betye Saar, pioneering figure of Black arts movement, dies at 99
Artist Betye Saar, the pioneering figure of the Black arts movement, died on Sunday morning in her home town of Los Angeles. She was 99. Saar, a famous practitioner of assemblage, an artistic style that builds sculpture from everyday objects,…
306 bags first-class as Babcock University graduates 3,521
Babcock University, Ilisan-Remo, Ogun State, has produced 306 first-class graduates in its 2025/2026 convocation, with a total of 3,521 students awarded degrees across undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. The milestone, announced during the institution’s convocation ceremonies on Sunday, underscores the university’s…
Nigerian scholar wins Outstanding Graduate Student award in US
A Nigerian scholar, Abdulmalik Salman, has been recognised as the Most Outstanding Graduate in Secondary English Language Arts in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, College of Education, University of Alabama, United States. The honour was presented during the institution’s…
Xenophobia: Ghana to evacuate 1,000 more citizens from South Africa
One thousand more Ghanaian migrant workers would start returning on Sunday and Monday from South Africa, where there have been violent protests against migrants, the government said. Ghanaian authorities have already brought 926 people out of South Africa and have…