THISDAY NIGERIA NEWSPAPER REPORTS:

The young man, who yesterday night attempted to ignite an explosive device aboard a Delta Airlines flight from Amsterdam to Detroit, Michigan in the United States has been identified as Abdul Farouk Umar Abdulmutallab, a 23-year-old son of Alhaji Umaru Mutallab, former First Bank chairman. Mutallab, a former minister and prominent banker recently retired from the Bank’s board.

The older Mutallab, as at the time of filing this report, had just left his Katsina hometown for Abuja to speak with security agencies, family sources say. According to the family members, Mutallab has been uncomfortable with the boy’s extreme religious views and had six months ago reported his activities to United States’ Embassy, Abuja and Nigerian security agencies. Read the full story

To each person who sees that ordinary individuals have the potential to transform a village, city, country or continent, we invite you to be part of what we’ve loosely called the Solving Africa movement. Our goal is to showcase, inspire and mobilize young Africans and their friends involved in: thinking up, launching, and executing fantastic projects in their villages, cities, and countries.

We are a smattering of entrepreneurs, development professionals and skilled idealists from around the world interested in creating a new African dream. We think it’s possible that if one thousand people, say Cameroonians, decided to start hospitals that adhered to international standards and treated the diseases most common to their people, these 1000 individuals would have essentially transformed the healthcare sector of their country. Yes, there are many variables and unknowns but that’s how a country is changed – one daring individual effort after the other.

What is your Solving Africa initiative and how can our growing network of entrepreneurs, development professionals and eager-to-work idealists help?

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