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  18-year-old, Rifath Shaarook is no typical teen. While most boys his age are busy on the internet ‘googling’ stuff like ‘how to get a girlfriend’ alongside some nasty things in their browser history. Shaarook is busy doing ‘adult’ stuff, and not the x-rated kind. He is busy doing genius stuff, and now, he has possibly broken the Guinness Book of Records for having developed the lightest satellite in history. The Indian teen has developed a satellite weighing just 64 grams (0.14 lb), and NASA is set to launch it into space come June this year. Shaarook became the winner in a youth design competition, and his satellite is set to go on a four-hour mission for a suborbital flight. During that flight, this lightweight satellite will operate for about 12 minutes within a microgravity environment in space. Shaarook says his primary goal was to demonstrate the performance and limits of 3D printed carbon fiber. “ We designed it completely from scratch. It will have ...

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Afrobeats star, Wizkid has signed a multi-album worldwide deal with RCA Records/Sony Music International. Wizkid made this known in a statement to the billboard. He said "It’s hard for me to describe what I do, since I work with rhythms from Afro-Beat, reggae, hip-hop, dance hall and others," "What’s important to me is for music to be real, authentic, raw and timeless. I don’t wanna be boxed in to any one genre." The RCA Records chairman and CEO Peter Edge who expressed his joy at the signing of the "Ojuelegba" crooner said "We are thrilled to welcome WizKid to the RCA Records family. He has become a superstar in the African music scene and will be a game-changer in bringing African music to the world. We are extremely excited to have him as a part of RCA and are eager for the journey ahead." Meanwhile, in a bid to celebrate his new deal, Wizkid shared his new song, "Sweet Love" Listen below

Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State on tuesday said it would convert the popular Mobil and Oando filling stations at Maryland Bus Stop on Ikorodu road to bus terminal as part of strategies to ease transportation challenges in the state. The governor, who also vowed to replace the yellow buses otherwise known as “Danfo” buses with Close Circuit Television Camera buses while the new air-conditioned buses will also have charging points for passengers who want to charge their phones and other devices. Speaking during a stakeholders’ meeting with transporters on Tafawa Balewa Square terminal, Ambode announced plan by his administration to construct bus terminals at Yaba, Maryland and Anthony bus stops. Ambode, who was represented by the Acting Commissioner for Transportation, Mr Anofiu Elegushi, said that the popular filling stations at Maryland would have to give way for the bus terminal. He said: “We are working on other terminal like Oyingbo, the drawing is almost r...

US immigration officials forced a Nigerian software engineer to complete a written test on binary search trees to prove his computer knowledge.  Customs and Border Protection officers, took Celestine Omin, 28, into a room for further checks after he arrived at New York’s JFK Airport last week, 24 hours after he set off.  He told them he worked for Andela, a tech start-up with offices in New York, Lagos, Nairobi and San Francisco, which claims to take "the most talented developers on the African continent" and link them with potential US employers.  The firm has offices in Kenya’s capital Nairobi, San Francisco, New York and the Nigerian city of Lagos, which was visited by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.  One of the  officers then presented him with  a piece of paper and a pen and told to answer these two questions to prove he is actually a software engineer: "Write a function to check if a Binary Search Tree is balanced." "What...

As Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari was beginning his latest visit to London more than a month ago, a new series of Big Brother Nigeria was getting under way. A former military ruler known for his no-nonsense style would appear to have little in common with a reality TV show where contestants engage in attention-seeking behaviour. But both subjects were soon generating headlines for the same reason - neither of them were in Nigeria. It turned out that Big Brother was actually being filmed in South Africa - a decision that led Nigeria's information minister to launch an investigation. While the howls of protests from outraged Big Brother fans soon died down, the clamour over Nigeria's leader's extended medical stay in London is not going away. President Buhari's absence comes as Africa's most populous nation is gripped by its worst economic crisis in decades, and faces the threat of famine in north-east Nigeria, which has been devastated by the Boko...

Below is how a Media Take Out reported the bizarre story; “A Bachelor took to Snapchat to show his followers the AFTERMATH from his drunken Bachelor Party. Apparently, they invited a bunch of strippers, a lot of TEQUILLA and some kind of MEXICAN CUISINE. “Needless to say – those three things DON’T MIX. “We’re told both the bachelor and his fiance both found the pic HILARIOUS.” See the photo below…(Warning – this photo is EXTREMELY GRAPHIC) This is what you get when enough is not ENOUGH.

A youthful couple in Lusaka, Zambia has welcomed a beautiful baby boy into their family.. Mr Fabio Phiri a Taxi Driver and his wife Priscilla Phiri a Maid at China Engineering and Construction limited have thanked God for blessing them with a beautiful baby boy . “I love my son , he is a blessing to me , because of him I have been forced to even work hard in life so that I can always provide for him , he is a big boy now and is 6 months old , I named him after myself because he looks exactly like I do especially when I was a baby like him , his name is Fabio Ji Wu Phiri, the Ji Wu is a name we gave to him after my wife’s former boss Mr Ji Wu Young a Chinese engineer who was working at China Engineering and Construction limited, he helped us a lot when my wife was pregnant and has been very supportive to our family and the baby, even after he left Zambia, he still sends money to help us with up keep so the only way we could appreciate him is by giving some of his names to our so...

Nigerian actress, Tonto Dikeh, isn’t done talking about her failed marriage. In a new Instagram post, the Nollywood star and mother of one, whose marriage to estranged hubby, Olakunle Churchill recently crashed due to allegations of infidelity and domestic violence, stated that there are better men to die or live for, when some fans wrote on her page that they hoped she wasn’t suicidal.