Category: Science & Technology

11-year-old Ifeoluwa Olusanya has emerged winner of the 2020 Next Robotics Legend Competition organised by Union Bank in partnership with Awarri.

Ifeoluwa Olusanya designed a robot called Tropical Robotic Farming Solution (TRFS) to solve key problems he identified within the agricultural sector. These problems include the inability to detect soil diseases promptly and the lack of ‘intelligent’ agricultural equipment to control the rate of plant nutrients and fertilisers needed for crops to grow maximally.

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Team Nigeria have won the grand first place position in the Cloud and Network examination at the 2020 Huawei Global ICT Competition.

Team Nigeria, comprising of some Nigerian students from the University of Ibadan (UI), Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, and University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT), won out of over 150,000 other students from 82 countries and regions who participated in the competition.

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Nigerian Communications Satellite Limited (NIGCOMSAT) have awarded Team Astromania, a team of five young Nigerians, as the winner of the 2020 ActinSpace Innovation Challenge.

Team Astromania receives a cash prize of ₦750,000, laptops, ICT internship programme and an all-expense-paid trip to represent Nigeria in France.

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