Technology

Football fans in Nigeria are in for a big thrill as Samuel Eto’o Fils, one of Africa’s greatest football legends has arrived in Lagos for the launch of the 2020 edition of Castle Africa 5s, the continental leg of the Trophy 5-A-Side developmental football tournament. Eto arrived in Lagos yesterday. Castle Africa 5s is the continent’s biggest amateur 5-A-side football ...

China has opened its first coronavirus hospital after around 500 workers and volunteers spent just 48 hours converting an empty building. The medical building had been set to open in May, but following the deadly outbreak, it was all hands on deck to get it completed. It now boasts 1,000-beds and the first batch of coronavirus patients were transferred at ...

  These pictures might move you to tears! Working country! Nothing beats being able to handle situations as a country all by yourself and making it effective! The 25,000-square-metre Huoshenshan Hospital, one of two new hospitals being built, is scheduled to open today. On 24 January, diggers were speedily clearing the ground where the hospital will sit. The Chinese city ...

WhatsApp recently bade farewell to Windows Phone. The giant chatting app is now ready to do the same with some Android and iOS devices. This is not surprising as there have been talks about it for quite a while. Starting from February 1, 2020. WhatsApp will no longer work on phones running Android 2.3.7 or iOS 7 (and earlier). So, ...

In Malawi, 14 million people rely mainly on agriculture as a means of subsistence. In 2017, drought in the country affected more than half the population. Since 2016, Malawi has stood at the forefront of utilizing unmanned aircraft systems — also known as drones in Africa. This year, the country took a step further by opening the African Drone and ...

The world’s first soft robotic heart is in development which could clear NHS transplant waiting lists. The “hybrid heart” will be the first ever made of soft artificial muscles and sensors and then coated in human tissue grown in a lab. A pioneering Dutch surgeon is working in partnership with the British Heart Foundation to transplant it in to the ...

Internet users across more than a dozen sub-Saharan African nations experienced slow service after two undersea cables to the continent’s western coast were damaged this week. -The so-called WACS and SAT3/WASC cable systems are in the Atlantic Ocean and connect South Africa and many other African countries to Europe, according to Openserve, a unit of South Africa’s biggest fixed-line telecommunications ...

It’s the end of an internet era as Sergei Brin and Larry Page are stepping down as head of Alphabet, Google’s parent company, and ceding management control to Sundar Pichai who will take over as CEO.   Page and Sergey Brin, who co-founded Google more than two decades ago while graduate students at Stanford University, will continue as members of Alphabet’s ...

  An unidentified man is currently trending on twitter for creating a power generating transformer,   According to twiter user, @GospelJosiah who shared the photos, the young man built the transformer from scraps,  though he gave no further details about the transformer or the man that built it.   Sharing the pictures on his twitter page, he wrote: This young ...

Experts have warned that sex robots could ‘easily’ malfunction and attack users.   According to Brick Dollbanger, who works with Realbotix, he said a simple coding error could turn sexbots against their owners. He said: “It scares me to death, it’s a machine and it’s always going to be a machine. It’s not going to be something you can hit ...

The moon is covered in human poo left behind by astronauts and there’s a reason for that.   Astronauts left behind a number of things on the moon, including their poo. According to Metro UK, the Apollo astronauts had been tasked with bringing lots of moon rocks back to earth. But the weight of all these rocks had to be ...

  Today’s kids are three times more likely to aspire toward a career as a YouTuber rather than an astronaut, according to a new study. Toy production firm Lego surveyed 3,000 children between the ages of eight and 12 from the U.S., the U.K. and China, as well as 326 parents who had children aged between five and 12. Almost ...

Obviously, no aviator wishes to encounter with this heart-stopping moment. Fortunately, this plane avoids a fatal crash. Check the footage of this one-off incident here! The video was about a hair-raising moment in 2014 wherein a Boeing 767-300 of a Russian Airline, the UTAir from Moscow to Barcelona had to abort its landing when witnessing another aircraft getting into the ...

Jony Ive, the chief architect of groundbreaking and distinctive designs from the iMac to the iPhone, announced on Thursday that he is leaving Apple after nearly 30 years. Ive’s departure, which was announced in an exclusive interview with the Financial Times, is sure to set off shock waves in the tech and design worlds, but the 52-year-old Briton will remain involved with Apple. ...

  An odd-looking Israeli prototype aircraft has sparked curiosity at the Paris Air Show this week. But it is more than the plane’s modernist exterior that has drawn audiences’ attention: It is the fact that the Eviation Alice is entirely electrical. The Alice is a small prop plane operating entirely on battery power. According to the company, it is the ...

  A boy has gone viral on social media for the right reason. The yet to be identified boy was said to have built a football stadium with just woods and rubber from condemned tyre, as he can be seen proudly carrying the stadium.   A twitter user with the name, ‘Arydoul ‘, took to his handle to share the ...

    A scientist has revealed it is possible to clone Lionel Messi using existing technology and techniques. A clone of the Barcelona superstar would arrive as a baby with the same potential as one of the greatest players ever. Genetics expert Arcadi Navarro, head of the European Genome-Phenome Archive (EGA) made the claim during an interview on Spanish radio ...

  A young man identified as Yahya Usman Ahmad, has been hailed by fellow Nigerians after showing his talent by building an airplane model with locally sourced materials. The 20-year-old First Class Mathematics student from the College of Education in Yola, Adamawa state, constructed the plane model which took him some weeks – by using locally fabricated materials. After pictures ...

  “Twinkle, twinkle, little star.” Though it’s ostensibly just a quaint nursery rhyme, the Jane Taylor poem we all know by heart is so much more. Yes, it’s a lullaby. Yes, it’s an introductory language tool. But for many children, it’s also the first taste of space and science—and the idea that there might be more to life than meets the eye. ...

Google street view has a lot of positives, as it helps a lot of us finds places we need to go. Well, a man using the app caught his wife cheating.   A Peruvian man has divorced his wife after spotting her cheating with another man on Google Street View in Peru.   According to the man, he was trying to ...

A Nigerian undergraduate from the prestigious Ahmadu Bello University has built a drone and named it, ‘Hope for chibok girls.’   The brilliant physics student identified as Shettima Ali Kyari built the drone for his final year project. A twitter user by the name Ummie Shettima, took to twitter to share the brilliance in what this student had done. Ummie Shettima also ...

Social media giant, Facebook, is currently under cyber attack as a Taiwanese hacker named Chang Chi-yuan threatened to take down Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook page in a live broadcast before appearing to pull out of the plan.   Now, Facebook has issued an official statement on the attack saying, ‘on the afternoon of Tuesday, September 25, our engineering team discovered a security issue ...

When Daniel Adekunle was deployed as a Security man to Andela, he was trained to profile visitors, gather intelligence, guard lives and properties as well as ensure the security of the entire building. It didn’t take long for his sense of responsibility to be evident to his employers.   On the other hand, it took a while for him to ...

THE GOD IS NOT TO BLAME. When I went to South Korea for a short course in 2016, the deplorable condition of my country hit me hard in the face. We are teaching our children to worship God while these countries are teaching their children to be gods. We teach our children to pray for smart phones and cars, while ...

These photos of a tricycle popularly known as keke have been circulating online with the claim that it was made in Aba.