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5. CYNTHIA MORGAN



Adding to the shortlist of Nigeria’s new school acts in the reggaeton/dancehall category is the pretty-faced Cynthia Morgan. Cynthia succeeded in clinching a record/management deal from Jude ‘Engees’ Okoye’s Northside Entertainment in 2013 after the success of her Kuchi Kuchi single which was released in 2012. Under this new platform she has released Don’t Break My Heart, Lead Me On and I’m Taken – songs that have not only created and secured her place in the newcomer category but have also enjoyed rotational play on radio and TV frequencies since they hit the media space. Cynthia also shows her versatility in freestyling when she jumps on beats. No doubt, she is talented and must be watched out for.

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4. TEKNO MILES



Triple MG’s starlet Tekno is now living the star dream. Since his official signing to Iyanya’s music management company, he’s used the platform to show himself in ways some of us thought impossible. He gathered plenty buzz with his song Holiday which featured O.B.O crooner, Davido and while we began paying him some attention, he raised the stakes with Dance, a track that showed how well he’s honed in the music and dance section. He further showed even more prospect in his features on the label’s compilation album, The Evolution. The budding act has refused to be boxed in or tailored to one art as he’s determined to keep pushing limits by striking a balance in his singer/rapper talent. That aside, he’s a song writer, a producer and a dancer.

3. RUNTOWN



Runtown’s career success is like a whoosh in time. With a self-titled debut in 2007 and a brief moment of exile, Runtown returned in 2010 with Party Like 1980. Still, no one really was giving him a fighter’s chance till we heard Gallardo in 2014. Gallardo featured HKN lead, Davido and those two hit the correct notes and pressed the right buttons on melodies that have kept him endeared to music lovers and fans. In a short time frame of what now seems like a 5-month comeback, Runtown has paced to the top with a velocity not common to newcomers. His other singles All Eyes On Me, Successful and Domot were received with critical acclaim. Runtown has collaborated with other industry acts like Phyno, CDQ, Timaya, Patoranking, Skales and more as well as a fine selection of producers including T-Spize, Masterkraft and Wizzypro.

2. SEYI SHAY



This London-born and raised singer has a record of international gigs that are worth her bragging right. Seyi Shay began her commercial career when she became part of a best-selling UK girl group in 2006, then in 2010, she toured with Beyonce in UK for her I Am… World Tour and later got her own MTV reality show with impressive screen ratings. After some location back and forths, she returned to Nigeria in 2011 following a personal conviction from Sound Sultan. Her debut Loving Your Way began her steady projectile course to the top. Since then, she has released singles that have been embraced with open arms by the music media and it’s fans. Irawo won her the hearts of more fans and while we were still reeling from her Ragga Ragga frenzy, she hit us in quick succession with Murda. Ms Shay will be here a very long long time.

1. PATORANKING

Nigerian reggae-dancehall sensation, Patoranking finally made a really big vocal statement the year 2013 with his hit single Alubarika. Since crossing over mainstream into the music industry with Alubarika while as a protege under Timaya’s Dem Mama Records, he got signed on officially to Foston Musik and has released well received singlaAes including the popular Girlie O whose remix featured Mavin firstlady, Tiwa Savage. His most sought-after status earned him features with prominent acts like Seyi Shay on her Murda track as well as a studio freestyle with street-hop act, Olamide titled Bora. Patoranking has also appeared in cameo roles for the videos of other music acts; there’s Shoki by Lil Kesh and Runtown’s Gallardo – all too popular songs with critical acclaim. Indeed, the sky is his starting point!

1) Apes


Maybe it’s unfair to group apes as one type of animal. The fact is, apes are the closest an animal can get to being human. Chimpanzees have used tools to better their lives. All apes can learn from their surroundings and communicate with one another. Apes construct their own homes. They can learn complex tasks, learn other languages (including human sign language), have used tools as weapons against other animals, and of course; ape DNA is extremely close to human DNA. Like humans, apes have an extremely active social life and display emotion. Our studies of apes have led to numerous insights in both their lives and ours.

2) Dolphins



Dolphins can do some pretty amazing things. They can recognize themselves in a mirror – but they also have exhibited the behavior of checking themselves out for the sake of just enjoying their bodies (sound familiar?) They express emotion, such as laughter. They can comprehend difficult tasks and can learn from their environment. They also have checked the “I don’t know” option on tests when they didn’t know the answer (no word on how the dolphin managed to use the #2 pencil.) Most impressive? When a dolphin sleeps only half its brain sleeps – the other half ensures the dolphin rises for air so it doesn’t drown and keeps aware for potential predators.

3) Dogs


The average dog has the intelligence of a two-year-old child. It can track by scent, understand human commands, find hidden objects by smell and be trained in a variety of roles from service animal to guard dog. Dogs are extremely social, can locate their home from great distances, and can possess an extremely high level of understanding. It’s no wonder we like dogs so much! Some scientists believe that dogs can pick up on human emotions and react accordingly. And the most amazing thing about canines? Their sense of smell. A dog’s brain can identify roughly a million different scents.

4)Elephants




Elephants have the largest brain of any land animal on earth – which shouldn’t come as much of a surprise considering their physical size. Such large cranial capacity has its benefits though. Like pigs, elephants have an active and rewarding social life. They can perform complex tasks and learn from their surroundings and experiences. Scientists believe they can recognize hundreds of different sounds and even mimic some of them. They have shown the ability to use tools and to display emotion at times of joy or pain – not only for themselves but for other elephants.

5) Pigs


Pigs have an extremely active social life. Mom pigs have been known to sing to their young to calm them. Pigs eat together, sleep together, and even walk together for no reason other than they like each other’s company. Pigs can communicate with each other via an impressive series of different vocal noises. Pigs are smart enough to defecate away from their homes (assuming they have the space), to steal food from other animals and each other, not get lost – even when far from home, and have even been known to create new places for plants to grow on purpose. Most importantly, pigs have exhibited the ability to learn from past mistakes and not make them again. They can be extremely sneaky when they want. Maybe now you will appreciate all that bacon you’re eating a bit more.

6) Otters




Otters are considered one of the smartest, if not the smartest, sea mammals in the world. Everyone has seen them at play and they exhibit creativity in this activity. Otters will dance and slide down embankments while at play. They also use tools like rocks to smash open oysters, crabs and crayfish – plus they use rocks to remove bones and other parts of fish they may not want to eat. It’s believed that sea otters are so smart they can use the vibrations in water to sense when a predator is close.

7) Crows


Crows are a lot smarter than you think. If you’ve ever driven over an acorn it could be because a crow purposefully laid it in the street so cars could break them open. That’s just one example of the intelligence level of these animals. Aside from a couple of parrots, crows have the largest brains among birds. They can recognize human faces, are smart enough to hide food and can use tools. In addition to planting nuts in the road for cars to run over, crows will often drop them from great heights in order to break them open. Let’s just hope they never form a collective intelligence and replicate an Alfred Hitchcock movie.

Squirrels


Squirrels are pretty damned creative. Don’t believe us? Try putting a bird feeder in your yard and stopping the squirrels from eating out of it. No matter what strategy you might use they will still find a way to raid the birdseed. They will scale a single line of rope down to a hanging feeder and clean it out. But that’s not all. Squirrels store food and remember with accuracy nearly everything they bury and where to find it – even in the middle of winter and trapped under snow. Not clever enough for you? Well, squirrels will also “fake” bury food in order to foil other scavengers that might steal their stuff. And you thought you were the onlyA one who hid your valuables from thieves.

Squirrels


Squirrels are pretty damned creative. Don’t believe us? Try putting a bird feeder in your yard and stopping the squirrels from eating out of it. No matter what strategy you might use they will still find a way to raid the birdseed. They will scale a single line of rope down to a hanging feeder and clean it out. But that’s not all. Squirrels store food and remember with accuracy nearly everything they bury and where to find it – even in the middle of winter and trapped under snow. Not clever enough for you? Well, squirrels will also “fake” bury food in order to foil other scavengers that might steal their stuff. And you thought you were the only one who hid your valuables from thieves.

9) Rats


There’s a reason rats are bred for scientific study – and it’s not because most people consider them vermin. Rats are highly intelligent, especially considering the size of their brains. Rats have routinely outfoxed scientists in lab experiments. They’ve often discovered loopholes and solved problems that the experimenters themselves have never noticed. Rats have not only survived in nearly every environment on earth – they’ve thrived because of their cunning and survival instincts. Rats also possess a feature common to humans called metacognition. They can detect dangerous things like bombs, and they express emotions.

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10) Octopus


These eight-armed invertebrates are pretty smart. They also have fairly large brains, and like humans, their brains are separated into folded lobes. Octopus’s use a specific part of their brain for visual recognition which is unusual for many animals. These cephalopods enjoy playing and problem solving, they will use tools, and they also try to avoid boredom if possible and exhibit a fairly impressive short term memory. Scientists have seen these creatures solve puzzles and mazes. Most amazingly, we still don’t know that much about them. Scientific research is constantly discovering new things about these amazing sea nerds.

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The University of Lagos (UNILAG) won global applause recently when 20 of her students designed, fabricated and assembled an electric power racing car that successfully passed technical competence test at an international competition in Netherlands, held recently.
The car was designed to use solar battery-electric, shaped like a teardrop to minimise drag and its body built with natural material from raffia plants.Campus Sun gathered that UNILAG was the only shining star out of the three Nigerian universities that were shortlisted for this year’s Shell Eco-Marathon event held May 15-18, involving 198 universities from 27 countries of the world. Although the team from the University of Benin (UNIBEN) made an appreciable progress by getting their locally made car technically certified, the car engine failed and couldn’t race on the track with others. Also, the team from the Ahmed Bello University (ABU), Zaria, suffered some setbacks and could not meet up with the competition.
The UNILAG electric car was the brainchild of students drawn from six departments of the school: Electrical, Mechanical, Chemical, Physics, Architecture and Creative Arts. Of course, Mass Communication Department also shared the glory for promoting the needed publicity, before, during and after the project.

The participating students, who were of the average age of 22, passed through the rough lane that eventually led them to Netherlands, venue of the Shell Eco-Marathon event. They slugged it out with other universities from Europe and other countries.

The teams competed in two categories. The first task was to design and build ultra-energy-efficient vehicles to see how far they can drive using the least amount of energy. There were two classes and seven fuel categories: the prototype class focuses on maximum efficiency; the UrbanConcept class encourages more practical designs.

Prototype vehicles are futuristic and streamlined, where the primary consideration was to reduce friction and maximise efficiency. UrbanConcept vehicles are more conventional, designed and built to roadworthy specifications suited to the needs of today’s drivers.

Teams also opted for one of six fuel types: petrol, diesel, battery electric, hydrogen and alternative fuels ethanol and GTL.

Participating in such global exhibition for the first time, probably as underdog, was a test of ability for UNILAG team. Intimidation and inferiority complex became an inevitable fever  as one of the participants, Olakanmi Olushola Victoria, a 400 level Physics student, confessed later.

“Yes, we felt intimidated on seeing other institutions’ classic works; it was our first time. But we remained focused and we succeeded”, she admitted.

According to Olakanmi, anxiety overwhelmed the team when the car suddenly failed to move at the time they were called to showcase their work. But thank God, they quickly spotted the fault within the car’s wheel and fixed it.

“We were determined to pass the 10 rigorous technical tests. We went through challenges even at the least time we ever expected but we still made it. What actually failed when we got there for the first time was the wheel. Just at a short distance, the wheel buckled and we felt so disappointed. But based on the team spirit, we never gave up.”

And, of course, never bothered about others’ impression of them!  “Being Nigerian students, when we got there, other contestants were surprised and might have been wondering what we were doing there,” she said. “We were the only black students I saw there. Sincerely, the other cars we saw at the event were classic. Actually, most of the universities have been participating for years. Some of them brought their sophisticated equipment but we did not allow that to weigh us down, and we made use of what we had. Thank God we passed the 10 tests.”

Other members of the team are Inomosen Abraham, Agba Obinna, Aliu Paula, Adeboye Abayomi, Adebayo Oluwasegun, Agbaje Folasade, Emokpere David, Agbamoro Joseph, Isiogu Chukwuemeka, Ojelonde Sheriff, Akande Ruben, Odumoso Abayomi, Akanbi Ibrahim, Dolapo Oladapo, Eniodunmi Omolola, Owolabi Oreoluwah, Salami Timade, Olowsilu Emmanuel and Odubanjo Rukayat.

Agbaje, a 400 level student of Mechanical Engineering was active in the mechanical sub-group, working on the steering and braking systems, as well as the vehicle aerodynamics. She was also the main driver of AUTONOV II. She is passionate about technology and design and her future plans focuses on breaking boundaries for women in engineering in Nigeria.

Another student, Obinna Agba, a  500 level student of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, worked with the team to develop and install the battery management system and electrical/electronic accessories. He is passionate about technology, especially new trends in mobile technology.

Also Segun Adebayo, a 400 level student of Mechanical Engineering, designed the steering and braking systems, and the vehicle’s aerodynamics. Aside his technical skills, he also led a UNILAG team to a national public speaking competition, where they emerged second runners-up.

The team Manager, Abraham Imohiosen, a year five student of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, was unanimously voted the leader by the team. Aliu Paula, a 500 level student of Computer Engineering, managed the battery management system of the car. She is proficient in seven different programming languages with a preference for desktop and mobile application development.

The team supervisor, Ike Mowete, a professor of engineering electromagnetic, specialises in antennas and propagation. He was a guest columnist with The Sun newspaper, where he wrote about science and technology. He told Campus Sun that the feat was a good omen for Nigerian education, explaining that it offered the students a rare opportunity to broaden their horizon.

He stated: “Apart from the routine practical in the laboratory, this was something that needed to be done properly because it was showcased across the globe. Both CNN and other international media houses covered it.”

He commended the students for displaying resilience throughout the project. Giving an abridged overview of the production process, Prof Mowete said: “From the beginning, we knew the skills and other resources we needed. We needed those who will design, build and integrate, and they have to be students. We asked the students who have any of the skills to see us. We interviewed, selected the team and they started work according to their areas of specialisation. For example, the student from Creative Arts constructed the car’s body himself. There were a lot of other things which the students manufactured themselves which we were initially buying from outside. I am very proud of them and you needed to have seen what they did in Netherlands. They were confident because they did the work themselves.”

He said several universities participated at the event, with only four from Africa, namely UNILAG, UNIBEN and two universities from Morocco. With UNILAG’s success, the university got a recent invitation for another exhibition in October, holding in South Africa.

According to him, from the already acquired experience, the school is set to build another car for the invitation while the AUTONOV11 will be kept in UNILAG’s museum.

The Vice Chancellor, Prof Rahamon Adisa Bello, told Campus Sun that the university produced AUTONOV 1 in the early 70s during the debate to change from left hand to the right hand drive. He said the local car, built by the late Prof Ayodele Oluwatuminu Awojobi (March 12, 1937 – September 23, 1984), also known by the nicknames “Dead Easy”, “The Akoka Giant”, and “Macbeth”, was produced to convince the government that right hand drive vehicles could be easily converted to the left hand drive.

Unlike the AUTONOV 1, Bello said the new AUTONOV 11 was designed to test students’ ability to produce vehicles that would use minimal energy. The focus of the project, according to him, was on energy consumption, a situation that led the students to work on an electric racing vehicle.

Although UNILAG students didn’t win the competition in Netherland, Prof Bello was satisfied that his students’ car was able to race on the track, even though they were participating in the competition for the first time. Above all, other vehicles produced by students from Europe couldn’t prove their worth on the track.

“Students from the University of Benin also got technically certified with their own car but unfortunately their engine failed before they went on the track, hence they couldn’t race on the track. Our own team also went on the track but after the first round, something happened and they could not continue. At least, they went on the track and raced along with other ones,” he said.

The VC said UNILAG was soaring in technical skills at the international level and boasted that the school was second to none.

“What we give is quality education and we can vouch for all our graduates, anywhere, anytime. This car was experimental and nobody knew we could get to this point. We understand that there were some universities in Europe who could not meet the requirement but UNILAG did, therefore, we are performing feat that some schools in developed world cannot do,” he bragged.

He expressed gratitude to Shell Petroleum Development Company for sponsoring the project, stressing that the talents would not have been discovered without the sponsor. He said: “This shows that Nigeria has the potentials. What the students did was use their basic knowledge to produce and assemble all the components in the vehicle. What that means is that they understand the principles by which the vehicle works.”

He said the car was dear to the university because the students proved that they were learning with both brain and hands for the country’s development.  His words: “The organisers will not agree to them buying components from the market. These students got the innate knowledge to be able to accomplish the task. It also shows that the knowledge of building modern racing car is neither alien nor beyond us. This is the beginning of technology hoping to be improved on.”

UNILAG’s Pro-Chancellor, Prof Jerry Gana, also showered encomiums on the young engineers, lecturers and management for making the university and the country proud. He charged other students in the university to explore new grounds that would promote the image of the school and the country, promising that the management would support them in its capacity.


http://sunnewsonline.com/new/?p=74539

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A 35-year-old man, Yinka Offehin, is battling for his life at a private hospital in Lagos State after his scrotum was cut by the children of his landlady.

The Edo State indigene, who resides on Popoola Street, off Abaranje Road in the Ikotun area of Lagos, was said to have been attacked while sleeping in his room with his family members.

His wife, Bisi, who was with him when the incident happened, identified the assailants as Solomon and Damilola, the children of the landlady.

She said, “On Thursday morning, around 3am, while we were sleeping, we heard loud bangs on our door. We initially thought they were armed robbers because the house beside ours had recently been robbed.

“When they entered, we saw they were children of our landlady. They began destroying our electronics and other property.

“There were two of them. One held a knife in his hand. They took N800, 000. They descended on my husband and he also fought back. In that confusion, my husband shouted and we saw that one of the attackers had cut Yinka’s scrotum. I can’t say what they used to cut off my husband’s scrotum.”

She added that her husband, though in pain, was able to hold on to one of his attackers till dawn, while the other fled the scene.

Bisi said her husband could not be admitted at a general hospital because of the ongoing doctors’ strike, but was eventually taken to a private hospital in the area.

When our correspondent visited the victim at the hospital, he told PUNCH Metro the genesis of his problem was when he had a misunderstanding with his landlady and was asked to vacate his apartment.

“I was asked to leave the house immediately, but after the intervention of the traditional ruler of the community, I was asked to leave by the end of August.

“But that decision did not go down well with the children of my landlady and they continued to make trouble with me.

“I was already planning to leave their house and had even contacted an agent when they attacked me without any provocation. I want the government to fight for me,” he said.

A doctor in the hospital, who pleaded anonymity, told our correspondent that his patient would need up to three months to recover.

He said, “We have stitched the area where the scrotum was torn. It may take up to three months before it will heal. He needs time to fully recover from the injury.”

A relative said the doctor told the family if the condition did not improve, a surgery may not be ruled out.

It was learnt that about N60, 000 had already been spent by the family.

The father of the suspects, a pastor, when contacted, declined comment.

He said, “I am sorry; I can’t speak with you on this matter. You know the matter is already with the police and those they accused of committing the offence are in the police cell. So, what do you want me to say? I was told they are taking the matter to court. Let’s leave everything to God.”

Our correspondent learnt that the case was reported at the Ikotun Police Division.

A source told our correspondent that a member of the suspects’ family had on the morning of the incident reported a case of armed attack on them by a tenant.

The wife of the victim, who met the relative at the station, reportedly expressed surprise, telling the officers the reverse was the case.

It was learnt that the relative was put behind the counter after the police saw the victim’s injuries.

The Police Public Relations Officer, Ngozi Braide, confirmed the incident.

She said, “It was around 3am, while the victim was sleeping in his room, that one Solomon Olowogbemi and Damilola Olayeye, the children of his landlady, came in and started fighting with him.

“In the process, they inflicted injury on him with an unknown object. The skin of his scrotum was partly cut off, thereby exposing one of his testicles. The two suspects have been arrested and detained and the victim taken to a hospital.”


http://www.punchng.com/news/landladys-children-cut-tenants-private-parts/

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