Category: Science & Technology

Winners have emerged in the Nigerian edition of the 2019 World Summit Awards (WSA) presented by Mr. Amos Emmanuel, WSA Eminent National Expert for Nigeria.

The WSA Eminent National Expert for Nigeria Mr. Emmanuel Amos, President, Programos Foundation shared results with the press, expressing that some applicants and their products have emerged winners in their respective innovation categories having evoked state-of-the-art changes in their communities by producing best local content innovations impacting our society positively after Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs and deserving global and local recognitions.

United Nations World Summit Awards Local Chapter in Nigeria on a yearly basis provides a unique global selection of how digital applications provide solutions to solve local issues.

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The Advisory Board of the Nigeria Prize for Science has announced the works by Professor Meihong Wang and Dr. Mathew Aneke on Carbon Capture, Carbon Utilization, and Biomass Gasification and Energy Storage for Power Generation as the winning works for the 2019 NLNG Nigeria Prize for Science worth $100,000.

In its 15 years history, this is the first time a non-Nigerian has been awarded the Prize, which is sponsored by Nigeria LNG Limited (NLNG). This is also the third joint winners’ award since inception in 2004.

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Hackivia SAGE Team and Coded SAGE Team from Nigeria have won gold medals at the 2019 Students for the Advancement of Global Entrepreneurship (SAGE) World Cup held at the University of Berkeley California in the USA on August 8–12, 2019.

Hackivia SAGE Team represent Martis College Yangoji in Abuja and the Coded SAGE Team from the Hillside School Gwarimpa also located in Abuja.

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Team Nigeria with four female students from Princeton College, Lagos emerge winners of the 2019 African regional Technovation Contest, which held in Lagos.

The students developed an application called “Frostbits” to help curb obstructive parking in Lagos and across other states in Nigeria. Frostbits will leverage the use of location sensors, database and app inventor’s interface. User will be able to park their cars without worrying about interference from other drivers through the use of the app.

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Alao-Akala Tabitha, Nimatallahi Abdulkadri and Lawal Balikis have won the third place in the International Projects category at the 34th Edition of China Adolescents Science and Technology Innovation Contest (CASTIC) in Macao, China.

Alao-Akala Tabitha, Nimatallahi Abdulkadri and Lawal Balikis, students of Doregos Private Academy, Ipaja, Lagos, represented Nigeria with their innovative submissions.

The contest (CASTIC), which had 52 countries participating and over 150 students in attendance, lasted for seven days.

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Nigerian all-girls team Brain Squad have won the People’s Choice award after making it to the final round of the 2019 Technovation Challenge.

After winning the State, Regional & National Level, Brain Squad with their impressive fundraising app called ‘Handsout’ unfortunately lost to junior division teams from India and Cambodia in Asia.

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Premium Tier III certified collocation data centre services provider, Rack Centre, has won the 2019 Datacloud Awards in Monaco, for the second year running.

Rack Centre won the Excellence in Regional Data Centre Award – Middle East and Africa for its outstanding ecosystem of robust and direct connectivity with over 35 carriers and five undersea cables. Other contributions include its ability to scale its operations through its modular nature and its low proven Power Utilisation Effectiveness despite a challenging climatic and infrastructural environment.

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