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Billionaire businessman and the Chairman of the United Bank for Africa (UBA) Group, Tony Elumelu, clocked 60 last week and celebrated the milestone with entrepreneurs making an impact in communities across Africa. As part of activities held to celebrate him, a symposium was held in the Tony Elumelu Amphitheatre, UBA House, Marina, Lagos. Dubbed ‘60 for 60’, the event had friends, family members as well as 60 beneficiaries of the Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Programme. The entrepreneurs acknowledged…

THIS WEEK: The other half of Marvel’s mighty mites takes center stage in the debut issue of Wasp. Note: the review below contains spoilers. If you want a quick, spoiler-free buy/pass recommendation on the comic in question, check out the bottom of the article for our final verdict. Wasp #1 Writer: Al EwingArtist: Kasia NieColorist: KJ DíazLetterer: VC’s Cory PetitCover: Tom Reilly Last year saw the release of the excellent Ant-Man miniseries from writer Al Ewing and artist Tom Reilly. The series, which marked the 60th…

SpaceX launched its 60th mission of the year on Wednesday, and it’s not done yet. The California-based commercial spaceflight company launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying 54 Starlink internet satellites from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral in Florida at 4:34 a.m. ET on Wednesday, December 28. As usual, SpaceX livestreamed the early stages of the mission. Here’s the Falcon 9 rocket lighting up Florida’s night sky as it leaves the launchpad: Several minutes later, the rocket jettisoned the…

Falcon 9 launching earlier today.Photo: SpaceXWith only a small handful of days left in the year, SpaceX achieved a major milestone by pulling off its 60th orbital launch of the year—a goal that CEO Elon Musk had been targeting for the space company. A Falcon 9 rocket launched during the early hours of Wednesday morning, lifting off at 4:34 a.m. ET from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The rocket carried 54 Starlink satellites, which may have been the first batch of SpaceX’s next generation satellites…

Screenshot: BBCWhen the BBC dropped our first big look at the Doctor Who 60th anniversary specials over Christmas, there were plenty of surprises—more looks at David Tennant’s new-old Doctor, teases for just how Donna Noble re-enters the Time Lord’s orbit, Neil Patrick Harris’ mysterious showman. But perhaps the biggest of all? Just how deep down the rabbit hole Russell T. Davies is going.That’s because the trailer gives us two glimpses at strange alien forces playing a role in the upcoming celebrations. At first glance,…

Screenshot: BBCCome 2023, the BBC’s sci-fi series Doctor Who will be a whopping 60 years old. The network has spent months playing coy about what awaits in the 60th anniversary special, but it decided some kind of present was in order, hence the special’s first trailer.Other than its big milestone, the big boast of the special is the first turn of David Tennant as the Fourteenth Doctor after his sudden return at the end of Jodie Whitaker’s final episode back in October. Looking as sprightly as ever and confused about the…

We still have more than 11 months until the Doctor Who 60th-anniversary special reintroduces David Tennant’s 10th Doctor to the world, but returning showrunner Russell T. Davies is treating fans to a first look tomorrow. In other news, Wednesday showrunners explain why the titular character had to be the show’s main protagonist, and Tobey Maguire recounts the time he impersonated Frodo Baggins—for a very honorable reason. This is your daily dose of fantasy news from around the internet. Doctor Who 60th anniversary…

Image: BBCFifty-nine years ago today, families across the UK sat down to tune into “An Unearthly Child,” the beginning of an adventure across space and time decades in the making for Doctor Who. We’ve come a long way since then, and gained double the Davids Tennant since we last celebrated, and the BBC really wants you to remember that.To mark the 59th anniversary of the series today, the BBC has largely celebrated by looking ahead to next year’s big 6-0. You want a new logo? You got it, Whovians, it’s basically the same…

Last night, the BBC announced the return of Doctor Who with a three-episode special starring none other than David Tennant! Sure, he was the Tenth Doctor, but he was beloved, and there’s got to be an interesting story behind this new regeneration following the death of Jodie Whittaker’s Thirteenth Doctor. The brief trailer aired after the climax of “The Power of The Doctor,” which saw Whittaker’s Doctor mysteriously regenerate into Tennant, teasing a short clip of the new/old Doctor, the return of Catherine Tate as former…

Jodie Whittaker’s time as The Doctor has officially come to a close. Now, the baton has passed on to the fourteenth Doctor, who will be played by none other than fan favourite, David Tennant. With Ncuti Gatwa also lined up to get the keys to the Tardis, many are wondering how this familiar face has returned. We have scoured the internet to find some clues about what is going on. If you want to know more about when Doctor Who is returning – and what it will be about – then keep on reading. When will the Doctor…