Freeman Osonuga, a 30 year old Nigerian has been short-listed along with 37 others 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 invited both One Young World Ambassador and outstanding members of the public aged between 18-35, to nominate themselves to take on the trip of a lifetime.
The programme not only offers an opportunity for the lucky nominee of the 38 to fly to space but also offers a three year management contract for the lucky winner. Osonuga is the only Nigerian in this programme hopeful to fly to space.
He is a 2015 WIRED Innovation Fellow. He will be speaking at the WIRED 2015 conference in October, London.
In 2014, at the Peak of the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, Osonuga worked as a volunteer and worked with the African Union team of Ebola responders for six months in Sierra Leone. The flight to space is billed next year (2016).
