Cancer researchers are constantly advancing the technology that doctors use to screen for, detect, and treat all kinds of cancers, and the survivability prospects have greatly improved over the past few decades. Now, AI is giving scientists another tool in…
On Thursday, Facebook announced it had removed more than 800 political pages and accounts for “coordinated inauthentic behavior” and spamming. This week, the people behind the pages Facebook purged for being inauthentic are angry. They feel they’ve been unfairly targeted…
Before last year, Richard Ochieng’, 26, could not recall experiencing racism firsthand. Not while growing up as an orphan in his village near Lake Victoria where everybody was, like him, black. Not while studying at a university in another part…
A man in Queensland, Australia shockingly won the lotto twice in one day after he bought two identical entries by “accident.” The man, who asked to remain anonymous, had two of the four winning lotto tickets in Australia’s Saturday Gold…
Heineken has been announced as headline sponsor for the 2018 edition of the Lagos Fashion Week. The announcement was made at a press cocktail held on October 11th, 2018 in Lagos. According to Senior Brand Manager Heineken, Obabiyi Fagade, who…
Iyinoluwa Aboyeji has resigned his position as chief executive officer of Flutterwave the payments infrastructure company he co-founded in May of 2016. He stepped down from the company connecting Africa to the global economy with digital payments infrastructure that helps…
A busy week in the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers has seen some of the continent’s heavyweights rack up impressive victories, including the likes of South Africa, Nigeria, Ivory Coast and Egypt, but a 21-match Tuesday could yet see…
Writer and journalist Joe Agbro loves Lagos he says because it is the only Nigerian city that is alive. Arguable as his assertion may be, there are definitely those who will hold a contrary view. But he should know, he…
What we set out to do: In October 2017, the Take Back Nigeria (TBN) announced the engagement with the 2019 general elections in a process which we branded the TBN 2019 Initiative. We were not only clear about our mission…
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Vice Presidential Candidate for the 2019 elections, Mr. Peter Obi, is not on Twitter, his Special Adviser, Mr. Valentine Obienyem, said on Monday. He was reacting to a statement published in some newspapers purportedly extracted from…
