Category: Education & Innovation

One hundred secondary school girls between the ages of 11 and 16 have been awarded a scholarship grant of 100,000 Naira each as part #MyFutureStartsToday initiative aimed at fostering leadership qualities in the girl child as well as developing their writing skills

Benjamin Marcus Kogi, an information technology graduate emerges as the overall best student with a perfect CGPA of 4.0 and also the best information technology student of Knutsford University College, Ghana.

Vericore Technologies Ltd, an indigenous Nigerian technology firm launches an e-learning platform called Wizitup that blends learning and fun for today’s students, and uses different methodologies to meet the need of all students, irrespective of their learning styles

Miss Ifeoluwa Toluwanimi Abiodun, a 14 year old student of Babington Macauley Junior Seminary, Ikorodu, Lagos State, has emerged the winner of the 2016 edition of the NSE Essay Competition for Senior Secondary Schools students in Nigeria

1. Best African App Award: Sliide Airtime (Nigeria)
2. Enterprise Solution Award: Flutterwave (Nigeria)
3. News & Entertainment Award: Battabox (Nigeria)

1. In the Most Innovative Idea category, Tobilola Ajibola won the Naira 2 million prize money for her idea, “Dresses by Aloli”, which was adjudged the most outstanding.
2. The Most Innovative Product and Services category award was won by a team of three men comprising Ojeniyi James, Adegoke Olubusi and Oluwole Gbenga whose entry called “OneMedical”, came out tops to win the Naira 5 million coveted prize.

Etisalat Prize for Innovation was created in 2012 and has discovered and empowered a number of young creative Nigerian entrepreneurs by giving them the opportunity to showcase innovative products, services and ideas that address specific problems in the society and contribute to the nation’s socio-economic growth.

The Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU), Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State, has been adjudged the best state university in Nigeria for the year 2016 by the Institute for Governance Research, Leadership and Technology