Category: Science & Technology

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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Team Cash flow has emerged the winner of the maiden edition of the First Bank of Nigeria (FBN) Hackathon Competition, with cash prize of ₦3 million.

Also, Team Ace won the second position with ₦1.5 million, while Team CyberSmart, won third position with ₦750,000.

The participating teams are expected to develop some financial solutions to boost banking services, leveraging on Artificial Intelligence and Big Data.

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Kaywood Elijah Leizou wins the 2018 World Chemical Sciences (Metal Speciation in Sediment) Championship defeating 5,845 other nominations from 89 other countries.

The International Agency for Standards and Ratings (IASR) recognises Mr. Kaywood Leizou as the new world champion and among the world’s 500 most influential experts on earth in chemical sciences for the year 2018.

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Olajide Folarin, Sadiq Aderinto and Stanley Dukor have emerged joint winners of the Data Science Nigeria 2018 Inter-Campus Machine Learning Competition.

The three students (Olajide Folarin – Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife; Sadiq Aderinto and Stanley Dukor – University of Lagos, Akoka) emerged winners following an intensive five-day boot camp.

The competition was sponsored by Bluechip Technologies and organised by Data Science Nigeria.

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Dr. Mahmoud Bukar Maina has won the 2018 Champions of Science Storytelling Challenge (Young African Scientists in Europe, YASE Edition) launched and organised by Johnson & Johnson Innovation.

Dr. Mahmoud Bukar Maina, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Biochemistry) at the University of Sussex, Sussex Neuroscience studying neurodegeneration, won the 2018 Champions of Science Storytelling Challenge (YASE Edition) submitting notes on his research, community work and resulting positive impact in Nigeria.

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