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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