Microsoft Corporation has launched its first Africa Development Centre (ADC) in Lagos, Nigeria on March 21st, 2022 with the project totaling about $100 million.
The aim of the centre is to facilitate the creation of tech solutions that will solve both African and global problems.
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Engineer Mustafa Balarabe Shehu has emerged the President Elect of the World Federation of Engineering Organizations (WFEO) in Costa Rica at the World Engineering Summit 2022.
He is the first Engineer from sub-Saharan Africa to hold the position.
The World Federation of Engineering Organizations (WFEO) is the international organization for the engineering profession. Founded in 1968, under the auspices of UNESCO, WFEO brings together national engineering institutions from some 100 nations and represents more than 30 million engineers.
Dovilearn an online learning and training provider has emerged winner of the 2022 Oasis Innovation Challenge held in Abuja on March 11, 2022.
Regxta, a financial inclusion service provider; and Gbale, a property management platform, emerged runners-up of Oasis Innovation Challenge.
The top three winners received one million Naira (Dovilearn), ₦500,000 and ₦250,000 respectively.
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Standard Chartered Nigeria has announced five (5) winners of the third edition of its Women in Technology Incubator programme (SC-WITI) in Nigeria.
Chief Executive Officer, Lamin Manjang announced the winners from the 3rd cohort of the program at the graduation ceremony in Lagos on February 4, 2022.
This year’s winners are: Oluwadamilola Soyombo (Founder of Skooqs); Bolarinwa Kemisola (Founder of Nextwear Technology); Adegbite Adenike ((Founder, The Trillionbucks Company); Zita Agwunobi (Founder/CEO of Iverify) and Wunmi Akinsola (Founder of Fashtracker’).
Winners have emerged at the Techpoint Awards 2021, which was held on January 23, 2022.
The Techpoint Editorial team also chose startups and VCs that had recorded impressive activities in the period under review.
Professor Peter James Kpolovie has emerged winner of the International Achievements Research Center (IARC) Scientist of the Year 2021 Award (Natural Sciences / Computer and Information Sciences category).
Peter James Kpolovie is a Professor at the Department of Psychology, and former Director of Academic Planning, Research, and Control at the University of Port Harcourt.
Professor Peter James Kpolovie was among the thirteen (13) winners of the global competition organised by the International Achievements Research Centre (IARC) located in Montreal, Canada.
IARC designed the event to foster the professional growth of talented scientists, engineers, and researchers from various regions of the world through showcasing the latest results of their work, their notable discoveries and breakthroughs that advance the frontiers of science and technology.
The African Centre of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Disease (ACEGID) has won the 2021 Nigerian Academy of Science (NAS) Gold Medal Prize for Life Sciences.
The Centre is a diverse team of talented scientists who have contributed hugely to new knowledge in the field of infectious disease genomics, through high quality and translational research, publications, and capacity building.
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