Category: Science & Technology

Team Nigeria has emerged 3^rd place winner in the final of the Unilever Future Leaders League held in London on April 13, 2019. This is the first-time Team Nigeria will be reaching the finals of the competition.

Out of 27 countries that participated in the finals which took place at the Hilton Towers, London, amongst the ten finalists were Team Nigeria, Team Bangladesh, Team Pakistan, Team Czech, Team Russia, Team Indonesia, Team Serbia, Team Brazil and Team Thailand.

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Comerico Cloud Computing Limited has been named the winner of Huawei EBG (Enterprise Business Group): Cloud Solutions Partner of the Year Award at the Huawei Nigeria Eco-Connect 2019 conference.

The CTO of Comercio Cloud, Aderemi Adejumo, said the coveted award further endorses Comercio Cloud’s success in delivering top-rated Cloud Solutions within the Nigerian local cloud ecosystem.

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Four Nigerian students from St. John’s Science and Technical College, Alor in Anambra have clinched bronze medal at the 2019 International Festival of Engineering, Science and Technology (I-FEST) competition in Tunisia.

The students between the ages of 15-24 are Meshac Ugwuisi, Anthony Chika-Umeora, Daniel Nwachukwu and Dominic Machi.

35 countries participated in the I-FEST competition, which held from March 21 to 29, 2019 while students from Belarus clinched the gold medal.

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Adebayo Alonge’s startup – RxAll has won the 2019 BNP Paribas Group Deep Tech Prize for co-developing a handheld nanoscanners that uses artificial intelligence to identify fake drugs and assess general drug quality on mobile phones.

The 2019 BNP Paribas Group DeepTech Prize comes with a €100,000 prize.

An emotional Adebayo Alonge while receiving the award, said:

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A team of Nigerian students have emerged joint winners of the Sub-Saharan regional finals of the 2019 Huawei ICT Competition alongside Team Tanzania and earned a spot at the global finals in May 2019 in China.

The Nigerian students: Abdulqadir Babagana Musa, Muhammad Mustafa Maihaja, Fahad Danladi, Shuaibu Abbas Usman, Kamaludeen Umar, Abdulqudus Adebayo Temidayo all from Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) first emerged winners of the Huawei ICT national competition, which involved a participation of 13,600 students from 30 universities across Nigeria before proceeding to represent Nigeria at the just-concluded Sub-Saharan regional finals held in Johannesburg, South Africa.

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AMPZ, an online sports community, has won the Lagos edition of the Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) Africa pitch competition.

The startup provides a platform for talents to curate their sports profile, showcase and connect to the right audience.

This win guarantees AMPZ automatic entry at the MEST’s 2nd pan-Africa Summit in Nairobi, Kenya this June [2019] and a chance to win $50,000 in equity investment.

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Adeola Ogunmola Sowemimo becomes the first Nigerian female pilot at Qatar Airways and the first Nigerian female pilot on the Boeing 787 Dreamliner Aircraft.

According to reports, she is also the first Nigerian female pilot to fly the Boeing 767 Aircraft across the Atlantic.

Adeola Ogunmola Sowemimo is now in the same league with Kenya’s Captain Irene Koki, Ethiopia’s Captain Amsale Gulau and a few other African women who fly the Boeing 787 Dreamliner.