Nigerian emerges world scrabble champion
Jighere Wellington of Nigeria on Sunday morning emerged the new Scrabble champion of the world after defeating Lewis Mackay 4-0 in a Best of Seven series in Perth Australia. The duel which was monitored online by the News Agency of Nigeria kicked off at 2 a.m. Nigerian time with the winner set to emerge after
How Much Do South African Universities Profit?
Police are clashing with South African university students protesting against proposed tuition hikes for 2016 that could raise fees by as much as 11.5 percent, Time reports. Demonstrations began at the University of the Witwatersrand last week, and quickly spread to other camouses including Stellenbosch, Rhodes and University of Cape Town, according to a report in BusinessTech. These
Ghana plans to remove English as a medium of instruction in schools
Ghana has announced a bold plan to eliminate English as the medium of instruction in its schools. The country’s Minister of Education, Prof. Jane Naana Opoku Agyemang, laid the blame mostly on the inability of the educated working class to develop the nation to the language used in teaching them in schools,GhanaWeb reported. Prof. Agyeman,
NIGERIAN STUDENT BUILDS FULLY FUNCTIONAL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ROBOT IN SRI LANKA
A twenty-four year old Nigerian, Bobai Ephraim Kato, has built a fully functional artificial intelligence robot for his final year project at the International College of Business and Technology (ICBT) in Sri Lanka. While he developed an interest in computing and technology early, initially he wanted to be a doctor. After his secondary school education in 2009,
FORMER NIGERIAN PRESIDENT, OLUSEGUN OBASANJO, WROTE A CHILDREN’S STORY BOOK ABOUT PEACE
Former Nigerian President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has recently been in the news for stirring a lot of political drama. However, in a move that defies description, the elder statesman has launched a children’s story book on peace to celebrate the 2015 International Day of Peace. Chief Obasanjo expressed that his decision to write the book
THESE NIGERIAN YOUNGSTERS ARE REVOLUTIONISING THE COUNTRY’S TECH SPACE
Decades ago, Africa barely comes to mind when thinking tech and innovation, but over time, the continent has gradually and steadily grown to be the home of some of the world’s best tech advancement and innovations with countries like Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda, and South Africa taking the lead. In Nigeria, the technology ecosystem has not
Group Of 100 Black Male Professionals Greet Students On First Day, Help Bust Stereotypes
Students going back to school had some awesome cheerleaders to usher them into the new year. A group of 100 black men gathered outside Martin Luther King Elementary School in Hartford, Connecticut, last week, forming a line to greet kids on their first day of school, A Plus reported. The welcome was organized by Pastor AJ Johnson and
The Queen’s Commonwealth Essay Competition 2015 RESULTS
The Queen’s Commonwealth Essay Competition 2015, based on the theme of ‘A Young Commonwealth’, met with a record response. The Royal Commonwealth Society received more than 13,000 entries from over 600 schools in 49 Commonwealth countries and territories. Both the Senior and the Junior judging panels were impressed by the quality of the entries. This
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School For African Tech Geniuses Pays Students To Learn
Andela is an African coding school startup that has essentially flipped higher education on its head, paying Africa’s best and brightest tech students to learn, then finding jobs for them — mostly at U.S. companies. Large companies like Microsoft could do in-house training but the process is time-consuming and drains the more skilled workers, hence