MEET THE TWO NIGERIAN BROTHERS WHO DESIGNED A MOBILE WEB BROWSER

Two brothers, 13-year-old Osine and 15-year-old Anesi Ikhianosime, both students of Greensprings School, Lagos, have developed their own browser known as Crocodile Browser Lite. The siblings built the mobile web browser after they got tired of using browsers like Google Chrome. 

The Crocodile Browser Lite is believed to be faster than more conventional browsers. It is very functional and can be supported on lower-end phones common across Africa. The browser is currently available on the Google Play Store and has so far received 40,000 downloads. .  

Anesi and Osine began their coding journey with the encouragement of both their parents who introduced them to computers as early as the age of three. Anesi and Osine taught themselves how to code when they were 12 and 14-years-old respectively using free online resources and reading books.

The brothers say their goal is to create IT and mobile solutions for social problems that affect people not just in Africa but in developing countries around the world.

WHAT'S YOUR SELLING POINT?

Whooops! Yes I have been missing in action for a while now and I know some of you have missed me. It has not been easy coping with my 9-5 schedule and all the other things life in Lagos throws at a young man like me. Ermmm...did I say I am a young man? Well I became a year older early this month and you don't want to know how old I am now. I don't usually get personal on this blog but I will make an exception on this post because I have not been very fair to quite a few of you who are ardent readers of my blog. My quest for daily bread has affected our relationship significantly but all I can do is try and try. And please you all should find it in your heart to forgive in advance because my job can be quite demanding.

THE HOPELESSNESS OF HOPE

"It's a hopeless write up. Have you been doing weed?" That was the reaction I got when I first told a friend about this post. He is someone I respect, so I wanted to gauge his opinion before I go public with a post that most would deem controversial. I have been thinking of a way around this for the last three months but I can't hold this anymore. So with my bulletproof jacket well fitted, ladies and gentlemen I present to you "The hopelessness of hope".

Now in case some of you are wondering, am I really high? Yes, a little. On weed? Absolutely not. So why would anyone think of writing a post trying to relate hope with hopelessness? Don't get me wrong, you cannot possibly deny the fact that hope is one of the most powerful attributes any man can possess. It is the most powerful human motivation I know.

THE LOVERHOLIC X-RAYS: FALLING IN AND OUT OF LOVE

It’s often astonishing how two people can fall in and out of love over and over again. One minute they are head over heels in love an the next minute they are tearing each other apart. So, I decided to x-ray the problem with the intention of finding a lasting solution.

Falling in love is a gradual process where you move from being attracted to someone to having a sense of fulfillment. To fall in love, a person must move from a position of independence to interdependence or sometimes dependence.

Interdependence is when you two people are emotionally, economically or morally responsible to each other. Dependence is however, when one party relies on the other to exist and can’t function properly without them. So why do people fall in and out of love? Okay, let me tell you the story behind today’s Loverholic X-rays before I forget.

NIGERIAN TEEN HAROLD EKEH ACCEPTED TO ALL EIGHT IVY LEAGUE SCHOOLS

17-year-old Nigerian, Harold Ekeh, recently got accepted to all eight Ivy League universities in the United States and got admission into all 13 schools he applied to, including MIT and Johns Hopkins.

According to Ekeh “I am very humbled by this. I see this as not an accomplishment for me, but as an accomplishment for my school, my community. I really see this as my mission to inspire the next generation. I am leaning toward Yale,” he told CNNMoney. “I competed at Yale for Model UN, and I like the passion people at Yale had.”

With a passion for science: He wants to major in neurobiology or chemistry in college and later become doctor and, ultimately, a neurosurgeon. He was named a 2015 Intel Science Talent Search semifinalist earlier this year for his research on how the acid DHA can slow Alzheimer’s. Elmont High School is 99 per cent minority. Ekeh is the second student in recent years to win a prestigious Intel Science award.

For Ekeh, the cause is personal. His grandmother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s when he was 11. One of his proudest moments was running home to tell his mother and aunts about the breakthroughs he was finding with DHA.

“When other kids would say, ‘I want to be a superhero or police officer,’ I would say, ‘I want to know what is on the inside of us,’” he said.

The key to success: Outside of the lab, Ekeh directs a youth choir at his church, plays the drums, is part of Key Club and Model UN and was elected to the Homecoming court. He speaks Igbo and Spanish and has a 100.5 per cent GPA. He’s proud of acing the AP History Exam despite his early struggles with the subject.
His parents moved from Nigeria to the United States with his family eight years ago and his mom works for a human resources agency, while his dad works for the New York City Police Department.

According to media reports, Ekeh credits his success in gaining admittance to all eight Ivy League schools and several other universities to his parents for moving from Nigeria to the United States when he was 8 years old, and his teachers for challenging him.

HOW NIGERIAN MUSIC KILLS YOU SOFTLY

What you allow to get into you will surely affect your thought process and eventually your mindset. When you listen to songs with foul lyrics or convey inappropriate messages, it will negatively affect your thinking and certainly corrupt your mind. When your mind becomes corrupt, it negatively transforms your  personality and slowly destroys you.

Everyday, Nigerian musicians reel out songs intended for the entertainment pleasure of their fans across the country. But unfortunately the quality of what they come up with is so poisonous that one day it will eventually kill us.

PROFESSOR MOHAMMED ATTAHIRU JEGA IS THE MAN OF THE YEAR

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has asked for special salary scale for its staff. The National Commissioner of INEC for South-West, Prof. Lai Olurode, disclosed this yesterday in Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital. He said the commission was seeking the special pay for its workers to motivate them so that they would not be engaged in electoral malpractice.

He said: “The commission is working to make sure that the staff begins to enjoy special salary scale.

What the commission is doing is a special assignment and we know that the workers are open to great temptations especially from politicians. “The work is very risky and the commission’s workers who do their work as expected at times risk being killed.

We hope that this would be granted before the 2015 election. We have started engaging the relevant authorities to make sure that this is done.” He noted that the INEC was doing everything to make sure that its workers were happy to get the best from them.

Olurode said almost a million persons applied for 1, 500 jobs, which INEC recently advertised. He said the commission had decided that no children of the national commissioners of the INEC would be employed.

According to him, the decision was taken to ensure that children of commissioners were not given undue advantages over other Nigerians who had nobody in the commission.

“No matter how brilliant their children may be, they will not be employed in this recruitment. We are advocating against corruption and we want charity to start at home. But there would be other opportunities when their children who are qualified could be employed.”