He made history this month when he smashed a world chess marathon record by playing for 60 hours straight, but Tunde Onakoya’s story is even more extraordinary than people realise.
The 29-year-old Nigerian chess whizz has got tongues wagging in his home nation as well as around the world after he played the tactical board game for a whopping 60 hours in New York’s Times Square.
Fans and stars alike – including singers Davido and Adekunle Gold – turned out
As she poses jubilantly for a photograph at Everest Base Camp, Corinne Turnbull, 51, looks the picture of fitness.
Conquering the world’s highest mountain is a challenge few of us would contemplate. But in Corinne’s case, that smile of triumph was especially hard-won – as just over a decade earlier, shortly before her 40th birthday, she was diagnosed with the bone-thinning disease osteoporosis.
I recently wrote in this newspaper about my own shock at discovering I had the condition, which
