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Dayo Olakulehin Designs Novel Ventilator [2016]

Dayo Olakulehin, the CEO of LigandCorp has developed a prototype of an innovative portable, battery-powered ventilator designed to assist unconscious patients breathe.

Manufactured in Canada, the innovation has been described by the Head of the Emergency Department at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, LUTH, as “a critical device that will significantly reduce infant and adult mortality rates and perhaps, the best thing to happen to resuscitation care in our environment.”

The novel medical device with the potential to save millions of lives all over the world, is the brainchild of Dayo Olakulehin, who in 2012, during his housemanship at the LUTH, had an idea for a medical device that could potentially save millions of lives worldwide. For four months, Dayo and his team worked relentlessly to develop the affordable device. Three years later, he founded LigandCorp, an organisation devoted to developing and promoting innovative medical devices that will create lasting health solutions in Africa and other developing nations.

LigandCorp’s innovation is expected to cost $300 apiece. Conventional ventilators cost $30,000 while low cost alternatives, which are still under development, are to sell for about $3,000.

The launch of the outstanding innovation takes place on Thursday January 15th, 2016 at The Incubator, City of David in Dideolu Estate, Victoria Island, Lagos.

Nigeria Wins Bid To Manage Belintersat-1 Satellite For 15 Years

Nigeria wins bid to manage Belarus’s satellite for 15 years providing In-Orbit test (IOT) and carrier Spectrum Monitoring (CSM) services for the Belintersat-1 Satellite.

The history making event in the global space technology market, makes Nigeria the first country in the Sub-Sahara Africa to manage a foreign satellite.

This followed the emergence of Nigerian Communications Satellite (NigComSat) limited, the operator of NigComSat-R, the Nigerian Communication Satellite as the winner of a bidding process to provide In-Orbit test (IOT) and carrier Spectrum Monitoring (CSM) services for Belintersat-1 Satellite.

This was announced by China Great Industries Corporation (CGWIC), a renowned satellite manufacturing company in China and a technical partner to NigComSat.

The Head Public Affairs, NigComSat, Adamu Idris, said the operation will commence on 16 January 2016, the official date for the launch of the Belintersat-1 in Belarus and will last for a period of 15 years. Adamu said the bid was a keenly contested exercise between Nigeria and other bidders with over 20 years of experience in satellite management.

According to the General manager satellite Operations, NigComsat, Danjuma Ndihgihdah, Nigeria won the bid due to the high capacity of her ground facility at NigComSat base in Abuja, her human capacity resource, and the confidence reposed in NigComSat by the Chinese giant (CGWIC). With this feat, Nigeria becomes the first African nation to compete at the international stage as a major player in space technology.

Idris said, the winning of the bid by Nigeria represents a milestone for the country and a clear manifestation that NigComSat and indeed Nigeria has developed the capacity to provide highly technical services in the satellite communication industry. On the benefits derivable from the leasing services, he said Nigeria would rake in revenue from the 15 years service provision to Belarus and build more capacity for Nigerian engineers, as well as open more frontiers for Nigeria as a global player in the space. In addition to the traditional services of transponder leasing, he stated that NigComSat would be providing broadband services, enterprise solutions, secured communications and solutions amongs others over Nigeria and other 35 African countries such as Gabon, Cote D’Ivore and Ghana. On security, he said that the agency has been offering the security agencies with communication services. Belintersat-1 is a communication satellite owned by the government of Belarus, manufactured and due for launch in January 2016 by CGWIC.

The NigComsat-1R was launched in November 2011, as a replacement to the NigComSat-1 shortly it was de-orbited by the agency at no cost following its technical failure. It was designed as a regional satellite with four bands to serve about 35 African countries.

Blessing Okagbare Records Most IAAF Diamond League Appearances [2015]

Blessing Okagbare, Nigerian sprinter, goes into the 2016 Guinness world records as the athlete with the most IAAF diamond league appearances.

Okagbare participated in 38 diamond league events higher than any other athlete in the world, according to the records.

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