Technology

Meet Fathia, 12-year-old Nigerian Programmer Who Created a Robot that Folds Clothes

Fathia Abdullahi, a 12-year-old Nigerian girl, has begun to gain global recognition after she created a laundry-folding robot that folds clothes in “three seconds” — barely a year after she started coding. According to Reuters, the young Nigerian programmer started...

Here’s What Your Social Media Updates Reveals About Your Personality

Updating pictures and several posts regularly on various social media platforms has become the latest trend for today’s generation of our society. They don’t have a life beyond that, For instance, they wake-up with a morning selfie and their...

Spending Too Much Time On Social Media Increases Depression and Loneliness, Study Finds

Spending too much time on “social media” sites like Facebook, Instagram etc is making people more than just miserable. It may also be making them depressed. The link between the two has been talked about for years, but a causal...

The 15 Countries in Africa With The Fastest Internet Speeds

South Africa has the fastest mobile Internet download speed as of February 2019, the latest data from the Ookla's Speedtest Global Index showed. The Ookla's Speedtest index, which compares Internet speed data from around the world on a monthly basis,...

African Countries With Functional Satellites in Space

In space language, a satellite is an artificial object which has been intentionally placed into orbit. Such objects are sometimes called artificial satellites to distinguish them from natural satellites such as Earth's Moon In 1999 South Africa became the first...

African Countries that are Most and Least Prepared Against Cyber Attacks

Cyber security is a global problem, and very few countries have an even moderately clean record when it comes to avoiding data breaches and cyber attacks. However, the National Cyber Security Index, a cyber security consumer guide, has highlighted...

This 26-year-old Nigerian is the Highest Paid Robotics Engineer in the World

A 26-year-old Nigerian, credited for building the world’s first gaming robot, has just recently been named the highest paid in the field of Robotic engineering. Silas Adekunle achieved this feat after signing a new deal with the world’s reputable software...

Top 20 African Countries with the Slowest Internet Speeds

Cable has compiled new data which they extracted from 63 million broadband speeds around the world and it has some interesting insights. Somalia tops the list of the slowest internet speeds in Africa with a mean download speed of 0.60...

Top 20 African Countries With the Fastest Internet Speeds 2018

Internet use is part and parcel of our lives in the current age and it is kind of sad we all don’t have the same broadband speeds. You will find out that one country experiences a better broadband connection...

Top 10 Most Innovative Countries in Africa 2018

Africa’s quest to use innovations for sustainable development could suffer as only eight countries in Sub-Saharan Africa were ranked in the top 100 countries of the latest Global Innovation Index (GII). The GII, which was released last month measures components...
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How Lynching Became Public Events and Black Body Parts Were Turned into Trophies During America’s Jim Crow Era

Lynching was one of the most brutal tools of racial terror in the United States, serving as a public...
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