Category: Science & Technology

Team AI Squad from Hillside School, Abuja has emerged winner of the FIRST Lego League (FLL) Nigeria National Championship [2019] hosted by Baze University, Abuja.

The competition, which hosted 600 pupils of ages nine to 16, had team Federal Government College (FGC), Odogbolu, Ogun State, emerge second place winner, while Team Glistobots, from Glisten International Academy, Abuja, won the third place.

The top three teams will represent Nigeria at international tournaments including the World robotic festival at Houston, Texas and International Open Championships in Turkey, Lebanon, Australia and Uruguay.

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Estate Intel, an online platform that provides data, news and research for commercial real estate investors, has emerged the top startup at Pitch Storm 2019, thus winning $10,000 in equity-free prize money.

Pitch Storm is an annual startup competition and a core segment of Techpoint Build, an annual startup and SME event hosted by Techpoint Africa.

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Track Your Build has been selected among 10 African tech startups that will take part in the latest Airbus Bizlab Africa4Future Accelerator Programme.

Track Your Build provides aerial and resource data for construction and engineering projects. It identifies African tech entrepreneurs using innovative aerospace-based solutions to tackle the continent’s most pressing challenges such as transportation, agriculture and healthcare.

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LawyerApp and GreenAge Technologies have both emerged overall winners of the GenesysIGNITE 2.0 Tech Pitch held in Enugu.

LawyerApp is an online community for legal practices and GreenAge Technologies, a solar inverter company. Both winners receive $15,000 as seed fund for their businesses.

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Winners have emerged at the Oracle Academy Students Hackathon 2.0 held at Grange School, Ikeja, Lagos, with about 100 competing primary and secondary school students.

According to Dele Tejuoso, founder of WifiCombat Academy, a co-organiser of the event, this second edition was held to gauge the technology competencies of the students, as well as increase awareness on societal issues, whilst helping to re-shape the students’ perceptions about themselves.

Three winning groups emerged and were rewarded with various gifts from Oracle Academy and MTN.

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The Times Higher Education ranking institution, which accesses universities on 13 carefully selected and calibrated indicators under 5 pillars; Teaching (30%), Research (30%), Citation (30%), Industry Income (2.5%), Internationalisation (7.5%) has now ranked Covenant University (CU) as the first Nigerian university to ever feature in the top 1000 engineering and technology ranking.

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DropQue, a Lagos-based startup that helps companies source staff at a lower cost through secure video interviews, has been selected as the winner of this year’s Seedstars Lagos pitch event.

Pharmaceutical ecommerce platform MyMedicines and crowd-sourcing startup Natterbase were placed second and third, respectively.

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