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A California teen has attracted the attention of tech giants Google for her potentially revolutionary invention which charges a phone in 20 seconds flat. The super-fast charging device has been dubbed a supercapacitor by 18-year-old Esha Khare, of Saratoga – as she took home $50,000 from the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, which took place in Phoenix this week. The device will make waiting hours for a phone to charge a thing of the past and the gizmo packs more energy into a smaller space than traditional phone batteries and holds the charge for longer. Eesha Khare, 18, of Saratoga, Calif., received the Intel Foundation Young Scientist Award of $50,000 for the invention of a tiny energy-storage device With great power: The supercapacitor is flexible and tiny, and is able

A new revolutionary post-paid product tagged Infinitiser launched by Globacom on Tuesday has offered subscribers a rare opportunity to make free 24-hour calls to the 26 million subscribers on the company’s network. Additionally, subscribers will enjoy 1 free gigabyte of data per month Kamaldeen Shonibare, Globacom’s Head of Corporate Sales, while speaking at the launch of the product in Lagos, said all the benefits would be activated once a subscriber to the product pays the N5,000 monthly charge. He described it as the biggest post-paid product offering ever in Nigeria. He said the “Infinitiser gives a golden opportunity to achieve more, enables you to talk endlessly with loved ones and business associates, helps you to close your deals and get fulfillment. It eliminates the difference

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is to visit Akwa Ibom in next month, the Niger Delta Young Professionals, a non governmental group, has said. The Chairman of the Niger Delta Young Professional, Mr Moses Siasia, made the announcement when he paid a courtesy visit on Gov. Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom on Friday. Siasia said that Zuckerberg had been invited as one of the guest speakers during his groups youth economic summit, scheduled to hold in Uyo from May 28 to May 29. The chairman said that young professionals from the Niger Delta were coming together to promote entrepreneurship, looking at economic challenges in the area. Siasia commended Akpabio for transforming the state through infrastructure such as good roads, healthcare and education. Responding, Akpabio told the group to put in

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It’s Twitter’s seventh birthday, and the social network has two reasons to celebrate: It’s also reached its 200 million active user milestone. Twitter has come a long way since Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s co-founder, published the first tweet “just setting up my Twitter” back in 2006. It started out as a microblogging site by Dorsey and co-founders, Florian Webb, Noah Glass, Evan Williams, and Biz Stone who could never have imagined the cultural, business, and societal impact that Twitter would have on Internet users today. There are some details surrounding the founding of Twitter (then Twttr) that are hotly contested. Some of its co-founders aren’t even recognized for their role with building out the foundation of Twitter,  back when it was just a side project at once doomed and

On the 10 March 2013, 500 volunteers that included Jumia staff, Gbemi(Beat FM), Dami(Beat FM), Djinee, Weird MC, Shawlz (Classic FM), Lilian Unachukwu, Jeffery Daniel, Tosin Bucknor, Phyno, Ice Prince, Dammy Krane, Eminic, Joseph Benjamin, Toke Makinwa, Tillaman, Godwin& Sabina(Naija FM), Ill Bliss, Koch, Shadow d Don and many more celebrities converged in Ebute Metta for ‘Jumia feeds Lagos’ , an event put together by Nigeria’s online retailer to hand a new lease of life to the destitute and less privileged in the society. The day saw volunteers converge early in the day, with all hands on deck as they cooked up a storm for the less privileged. There was also lots of fun, music, games and more on hand to spice up the day. Highlight of the day was the volunteers interacting one on

Thirteen-year-old Kenyan Richard Turere faced a serious problem: Hungry lions were attacking his family’s precious herd of cattle. So the enterprising boy came up with an ingenious, low-tech solution to keep them away. Lions are a constant threat to farmers around Nairobi National Park in Kenya. Cattle were their preferred late-night snack. Turere, 11 years old at the time, was charged with protecting his family’s cows, sheep and goats. He noticed that the lions stayed away when he moved around at night with a flashlight, CNN’s Teo Kermeliotis reported. A few weeks later Turere came up with a low-cost solution that came to be known as “Lion Lights.” He attached LEDs to poles around the animals’ area and faced them outward. Turere programmed the lights to flicker intermittently,

Jason Njoku discusses failure, success and business opportunities in Africa, at TEDx Euston 20 February 2013. London. Jason Njoku, CEO of iROKO Partners, the world’s largest online distributor of African content, was invited to speak at TEDx Euston in December 2012. In his talk, the self-confessed “Certified Failure”  broached the often taboo subject of ‘embracing failure’. He documents his path to success and the many failures he had to overcome in order to get to where he is today: head of an international company with a staff of 100+ in offices in Lagos, London, New York and Johannesburg. “I wasn’t restricted to being just a poor kid from South East London” The lively discussion left the audience engrossed – it included laughs,

Majority of Nigerians are using facebook, twitter and other social media more for entertainment than for tasking the government on good governance efforts towards national development. This is the position of stakeholders at a three-day social media retreat in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State theme “Using Social Media for Improved Democratic Governance and Citizen Participation” organised by the Democratic Governance for Development (DGD ll) Project, the European Union, the Department for International Development (DFID), the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Youth Action Initiative Africa (YAIA). Executive Director of the West African NGO Network (WNAGOnet), Tunji Lardner, speaking on ‘An overview of the Social Media Landscape