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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,...

Nigeria Ranked 107th Globally In Mobile Internet Speed, 10th in Africa

Nigeria ranked 107th in mobile Internet download speed as of February 2019, down two places from its 105th position in January, the latest data from the Ookla's Speedtest Global Index showed. The country's ranking for fixed broadband speed also dropped...

Rwanda Set to Launch Its First Satellite This Year

Rwanda is on course to launch its first satellite this year, joining the list of few countries in Africa that have placed the devices into orbit. The initiative is in collaboration with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and the...

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...
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Margaret Douglass: The White Woman Imprisoned in Virginia for Teaching Black Children to Read

Margaret Crittendon Douglass was a white woman and former slaveholder, who was convicted and jailed in Norfolk, Virginia, for...
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