A Nigerian man Freeman Osonuga has been shortlisted as one of the lucky
human beings to travel to space!
Osonuga, a Medicine and Surgery graduate from Olabisi Onabanjo
University, was selected through the Rising Star programme, which
launched at the One Young World Summit 2014 in Dublin
The programme invites both One Young World Ambassadors and outstanding
members of the public aged 18-35, to nominate themselves to take on the
trip of a lifetime.
If selected for the programme
he
will not only embark on a once in a lifetime flight to space but will
also be offered a three year management contract. He will be the first
Nigerian and First black African to fly to space!
Osonuga is a 2015 WIRED Innovation Fellow. He will be speaking live on
stage at the WIRED 2015 conference in October, London. In late 2014, at
the Peak of the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, he worked as a volunteer
and worked with the African Union team of Ebola responders for 6 months
in Sierra Leone.
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