Virginia Tech Nigerian Bowen Equatorial Aeronomy Radar (VT-NigerBEAR) inaugurated at Bowen University has become the world’s first equatorial-low-latitude SuperDARN.
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Touch And Pay Wins 2022 Ecobank Fintech Challenge
Touch and Pay, a Nigeria-based fintech, has won the 2022 Ecobank Fintech Challenge announced at the bank’s headquarters in Lomé, Togo.
Touch and Pay receives the $50,000 cash grand prize.
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ShapShap Wins 2022 GITEX Award In Supernova Challenge Pitch Competition (Mobility And Logistics Innovation Category)
ShapShap has emerged winner in the Supernova Challenge Pitch Competition of the 2022 GITEX Award (Mobility and Logistics Innovation category).
Professor Olatunde Samuel Dahunsi Emerges First Nigerian Scientist To Win Harvard Radcliffe Fellowship (Sciences)
Professor Olatunde Samuel Dahunsi has emerged as the first Nigerian Scientist to win the Harvard Radcliffe Fellowship in the 2022/2023 cohort of 50 fellows.
Professor Dahunsi, a Professor of Environmental Microbiology at Bowen University is one of the three Africans selected as Fellows in the 2022/2023 cohort.
He becomes the first Nigerian scientist who broke the jinx and became the first ever Harvard Radcliffe Fellow in the Sciences, coming after Chimamanda Adichie who won the Fellowship in 2011/2012 on Fiction and Poetry, Ifeoma Fafunwa who won the Fellowship in 2017/2018 in Performing Arts and Chidi Ugwu the winner in 2020/2021 on Anthropology.
Igbobi College, Lagos Emerge Regional Winners Of 2022 Sahara Foundation Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts And Mathematics (STEAM) Programme
Students from Igbobi College, Lagos, Nigeria, have emerged as regional winners of the Sahara Foundation Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM) programme aimed at giving young African inventors a platform to develop their creativity.
The Sahara Foundation STEAMers’ regional competition featured the top three teams that emerged from the national Demo Day competitions that held in Nigeria, Kenya, and Uganda.
Muhydideen Oyekunle, Shehu Garki Ado, Sesan Peter Ayodeji & Emmanuel Olatunji Olatomilola Win 2022 NLNG Nigeria Prize For Science
Muhydideen Oyekunle, Shehu Garki Ado, Sesan Peter Ayodeji and Emmanuel Olatunji Olatomilola have emerged winners of the 2022 NLNG Nigeria Prize for Science.
They emerge winners of the $100,000 prize money.
Team ATBU Wins FSI 2022 Financial Inclusion For All Hackathon Competition
Team ATBU has emerged winner of the 2022 Financial Inclusion for All Hackathon competition held during the Nigeria Association of Computing Students (NACOS) national conference at Chrisland University, Abeokuta, Ogun State from August 16-18, 2022.
The Hackathon challenge was organized by Financial Services Innovators (FSI), a non-profit organisation committed to discovering tech talents in tertiary institutions, and enabling start-ups within the technology and financial services space; partnered by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), NIBSS, GDG Lagos, Flourish, AXA Mansard, and Yellow Cowries.
Team ATBU defeated eight other contestants to emerge winner and received ₦1 million, while the 1st runner-up, Team Sauki Health received ₦750,000, and the 2nd runner-up, Team BetaLife received ₦500,000.
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