DropQue, a Lagos-based startup that helps companies source staff at a lower cost through secure video interviews, has been selected as the winner of this year’s Seedstars Lagos pitch event.
Pharmaceutical ecommerce platform MyMedicines and crowd-sourcing startup Natterbase were placed second and third, respectively.
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Team Cash flow has emerged the winner of the maiden edition of the First Bank of Nigeria (FBN) Hackathon Competition, with cash prize of ₦3 million.
Also, Team Ace won the second position with ₦1.5 million, while Team CyberSmart, won third position with ₦750,000.
The participating teams are expected to develop some financial solutions to boost banking services, leveraging on Artificial Intelligence and Big Data.
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Kaywood Elijah Leizou wins the 2018 World Chemical Sciences (Metal Speciation in Sediment) Championship defeating 5,845 other nominations from 89 other countries.
The International Agency for Standards and Ratings (IASR) recognises Mr. Kaywood Leizou as the new world champion and among the world’s 500 most influential experts on earth in chemical sciences for the year 2018.
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Olajide Folarin, Sadiq Aderinto and Stanley Dukor have emerged joint winners of the Data Science Nigeria 2018 Inter-Campus Machine Learning Competition.
The three students (Olajide Folarin – Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife; Sadiq Aderinto and Stanley Dukor – University of Lagos, Akoka) emerged winners following an intensive five-day boot camp.
The competition was sponsored by Bluechip Technologies and organised by Data Science Nigeria.
Dr. Mahmoud Bukar Maina has won the 2018 Champions of Science Storytelling Challenge (Young African Scientists in Europe, YASE Edition) launched and organised by Johnson & Johnson Innovation.
Dr. Mahmoud Bukar Maina, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Biochemistry) at the University of Sussex, Sussex Neuroscience studying neurodegeneration, won the 2018 Champions of Science Storytelling Challenge (YASE Edition) submitting notes on his research, community work and resulting positive impact in Nigeria.
LifeBank and Coldhubs among other African-based startups and projects have been selected to join the 2018 MIT Solver class after scoring wins at MIT Solve Global Challenge finals.
In all, 33 Solver teams were selected at an event held in New York on the 23rd of September. Each of the members of the Solver class will benefit from $10,000 in funding as well as mentorship and support from the Solve community.
The class will over the next year collaborate with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)’s Solve initiative on their solutions.
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De-Rabacon Plastics wins the maiden Shell Outstanding Achievement Prize in the 2018 Shell LiveWIRE Top Ten Innovators Awards.
De-Rabacon Plastics emerged winner in a competition that also saw another Nigerian firm, Alternate Energy Limited, emerge as the second runner-up in the Energy Solutions category to win a $10,000 prize money.
The two Nigerian companies are among the Top Ten Innovators from among 21 entries in a contest, which attracted over 11,000 voters from 102 countries.