Technology

    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.

  The wreckage of a Soviet Second World War fighter plane nicknamed ‘The Flying Tank’ has been retrieved from the bottom of a lake in Murmansk, northern Russia. The Ilyushin Il-2 Sturmovik was shot down on August 22, 1943, during a Nazi German assault on an airbase near the Norwegian border. The pilot, Captain Alexander Ivanovich Kaličev, then 34, was ...

Apple has become the first publicly traded company in the world to be valued at $1 trillion. The tech company’s stock jumped 2.8 percent to as high as $207.05 around midday today, bringing its gain to about 9 percent since Tuesday when it reported June-quarter results above expectations and said it bought back $20 billion of its own shares, Daily Mail ...

A wing of the newly commissioned Stephen Keshi Stadium in Asaba collapsed damaging several vehicles yesterday, August 2nd. A water tank inside the newly renovated stadium, collapsed and fell on some vehicles.   This incident occured yesterday which is the second day of the African Senior Athletic Championship. See more photos below.  

Stargazers are in for a celestial treat with the occurrence of not one, but two astrological activities this week. First up is Mercury’s second retrograde of 2018, set to start tomorrow. To you and me, this means the smallest planet in our solar system will be spinning so fast that it appears to move backwards in the sky for about three weeks. ...

Air Peace all-female flight crew – Captain Sinmisola Ajibola (4th left), Senior First Officer Quincy Owen (2nd left), SEP Instructor Rosemary Uagbor (3rd right), Cabin Executive Chidimma Chimezie (2nd right), Cabin Executive Opakirite George (left) and B1 Engineer, Justina Etim (Right) with the carrier’s Chairman/CEO, Mr. Allen Onyema and Vice Chairman, Mrs. Alice Onyema at the General Aviation Terminal of the Murtala Muhammed ...