The UBORA Design Competition 2018 has been launched. It seeks innovative biomedical engineering solutions from students (individuals or teams) addressing healthcare problems faced by the ageing society. According to WHO, the pace of population ageing today is faster than ever before. Between 2015 and 2050, the proportion of the world’s population older than 60 years will nearly double from 12% to 22% (from 900 million to 2 billion). In 2050, 80% of older people will be living in low- and middle-income countries. Numerous underlying physiological changes occur with increasing age and for older people the risks of developing chronic disease…
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Embed from Getty Imageswindow.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:’Pd09RKSdSsB5lV_cl-UKbA’,sig:’GHAsbCG4hlUPnhxoWVTxhAupemu2-SOZ8NLd6BDJ-zc=’,w:’594px’,h:’395px’,items:’1061260990′,caption: true ,tld:’com’,is360: false })}); The 60th annual Grammy Awards were on Sunday and there were some big winners and some remarkable performances. Below are some highlights: South African group, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, won their second Grammy in the Best World Music Album category for “Shaka Zulu Revisited: 30th Anniversary Celebration” Ethiopian-Canadian, The Weeknd, won his 3rd Grammy in the Best Urban Contemporary Album category for “Starboy” Bruno Mars swept the top categories, winning album, record, and song of the year. #TimesUp and #MeToo were acknowledged in a powerful intro by Janelle and performance by Kesha of “Praying”…
Essence Ventures, a holding company founded by Liberian SheaMoisture CEO Richelieu Dennis just bought ESSENCE–both the magazine and its parent lifestyle brand– from Time,Inc. ESSENCE currently reaches a global audience of more than 16 million across its various platforms encompassing its signature print magazine; digital, video and social platforms; television specials, including the Black Women in Hollywood Awards on OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network; books; and live events, including the Street Style Block Party during New York Fashion Week and the annual ESSENCE Festival, a cultural celebration that debuted in 1995 and is now one of the country’s largest annual events, attracting more than 450,000 attendees. ALSO…
Farmcrowdy, Nigeria’s first and leading digital agriculture platform. It allows Nigerians to venture in and sponsor agriculture. Today announced that it had closed on seed funding of $1 million from international and local investors. Launched just over 12 months ago, Farmcrowdy, the only African startup from Techstars Atlanta’s 2017 cohort, connects small scale farmers with sponsors. They are the ones who invest in farm cycles. A farm cycle can be anything from poultry [3-5 months] to cassava [9 months]. The farmers receive on-the-ground advice from the firm’s Technical Field Specialists. They are the ones who also give training in better…
FOR A SELF-MADE billionaire, Elon Musk doesn’t seem to know much about making money—at least not for himself. The Tesla CEO’s new compensation package, announced Tuesday, hinges on Musk’s ability to transform the budding automaker into one of the world’s most valuable companies by producing long-term increases in market value, and revenue, and profits. Elon Musk will be paid in stock options, which will vest over ten years in a series of 12 tranches. To secure each, Musk must reach a pair of milestones, one related to Tesla’s market value, the other to its revenue and profitability. With every tranche, the target market value…
TAKE OUR POLL [totalpoll id=”319112″] Which of these 8 famous African Artists has the sexiest abs? With your input we will find out soon enough. Each of the 8 celebrities has one photo showcasing their chiseled abs along with a recent music video. Check it out and let us know which of them gets your vote. The Abs Under Review 1 – Alikiba https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7g8SNtaVVE 2 – D’Banj https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgx4UHLW4Is 3 – Diamond Platinumz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc1GryBs-4g 4 – D’Prince https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IL1OkrOxbFk 5 – Flavour Nabania https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB9U_-Uskeg 6 – Harrysong https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_M7k7YHnT8 7 – Iyanya https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJg_PGdKZaw 8 – Mr. P (Peter Square-PSquare) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oI45rF_GXYM
Alain Nteff is one stand-up young entrepreneur. He saw a problem and he did something about it. The 25-year-old Cameroonian entrepreneur is the co-founder of Gifted Mom. It is a mobile health platform that uses low-cost technology. This is to help mothers and pregnant women access medical advice in out-of-the-way, rural communities. “The message I am trying to send out with my team is that the problem of maternal and infant death is not a woman issue. It’s a humanitarian issue,” Alain Nteff said in an interview with CNN. “Everybody should take [it] seriously. We all have mothers, we all…
As a footballer, George Weah won accolades few could hope for. He became the first non-European player to pick up the Ballon d’Or and seizing African Footballer of the Year on multiple occasions, alongside a raft of team honors. The 51-year-old entered politics after his retirement and had been serving as a senator in Liberia’s parliament. He led the first-round vote in October but didn’t receive enough ballots to win outright over the 73-year-old Joseph Boakai. Mr. Boakai has been vice president for 12 years to current President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. President Sirleaf didn’t publicly support either candidate. ALSO READ: Spotlight…
Shannon-Ogbani Abeda will soon don a ski suit hued with the vibrant colors of the Eritrean flag as the country makes its Winter Olympic debut this February. Shannon-Ogbani Abeda was born and raised in Alberta by immigrant parents from the East African nation. The 21-year-old has spent most of his life in the Rocky Mountains. He grew up barreling down its powder-white slopes. Although oceans away from the native land his father and mother fled in the early 1980s when they came to Canada as refugees, the computer science student says he wears both national identities with pride. ALSO READ: There Are…
The ninth edition of the annual Measuring the Information Society Report (MIS) has been released. This is to show how countries are doing. The report is created by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) – the United Nations Specialized agency for information and communication technology (ICT). MIS is an ITU flagship publication. It is widely recognized as the repository of the world’s most reliable and impartial global data and analysis on the state of global ICT development. It is extensively relied upon by governments, international organizations, development banks, and private sector analysts, and investors worldwide. Africa’s Information and Communication Technology Ranking The ITU…