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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Radsystems Limited has become the first company to develop a Rapid Application Development (RAD) software in sub-Saharan Africa.
Radsystems Software Limited announced the official release of its software- Radsystems studio on November 22, 2021.
Radsystems Studio will be used by programmers to develop application faster and seamlessly.
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14-year-old Famidah Yussuf has emerged as the overall winner of the Union Bank Of Nigeria The Next Robotics Legend 2.0 for designing a robotic solution to tackle the shortage of medical personnel and reduce direct contact between medical personnel and patients, especially in cases of transmissible diseases.
Two runners-up, Munachiso Okeoma and Oluwatimilehin Oke, designed a multifunctional smart health robot for conducting medical scans as well as performing surgical operations; and an agricultural robotic solution for weed identification and removal, monitoring soil conditions, and controlling the spread of diseases, respectively.