Nigeria now a fertile ground for Start Ups to thrive, says NITDA Boss
Nigeria is a fertile ground that Start-ups could explore to thrive and provide solutions that could solve mirage of problems bedeviling the nation. Director General,...
Category : Innovations
Nigeria’s 54gene secures $15m Series A funding round to scale operations
Nigeria-based African genomics research, services, and development startup 54gene has closed a Series A round of US$15 million to allow it to scale operations. Launched...
5 Nigerian Youths Develop Online Diagnostic And Tracking Kits To Fight COVID-19
A group of Nigerian Youths, involving Folarin Alabi who is the team lead, David Adeyemi (global award-winning innovator), Lanre Adetoro (outstanding student with ground breaking...
Onu to unveil first Nigerian-made ventilator today
The National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure has produced the first made in Nigeria ventilators. The development is aimed at combating the COVID-19 disease...
7 Nigerian startups selected for COVID-19 Innovation Challenge
Seven Nigerian startups have been selected to take part in the COVID-19 Innovation Challenge, aimed at developing solutions to mitigate the rapid spread of the...
Applications open for 10th Orange Prize for Social Entrepreneurship
Applications are now open for the tenth Orange Prize for Social Entrepreneurship in Africa and the Middle East, which recognises technological projects with a positive...
Nigerian scientists develop online predictive model for COVID-19
Device foresees rise in number of infections from 131 to 161Nigerian scientists from the Osun State University Osogbo (UNIOSUN) have developed an online forecast model...
Zinox Unrolls School-Out-Of School Solution To Ease Shut-Down
Zinox Technologies Limited, Sub-Saharan Africa’s foremost technology company, has unveiled a digital learning solution designed to aid schools and other educational institutions maintain the interaction...
Agri-tech startup, Pricepally debuts in Nigeria.
Nigerian startup, Pricepally has launched a group-buying platform that aggregates consumer food demand in urban cities and matches it with supplies directly from farmers and...
Stallion Motors to launch first ever Electric Car in Nigeria.
Stallion Motors, Nigeria’s representative for Honda, Hyundai, Nissan, Volkswagen, Porsche, Audi, Skoda, Changan, and Ashok Leyland has concluded plans to launch the first-ever electric vehicle...
Skool Media sets up Tech Centres in 75 Unity Schools
An education tech infrastructure company, Skool Media, in collaboration with the Federal Government has set up 75 Students Technology Experience Centers with over 452 projectors...
GIAS 2020: UAE, Others To Invest In Akwa Ibom Aviation Sector
The just-concluded 2020 Global Investment in Aviation Summit that took place in the United Arab Emirates has showcased Akwa Ibom State as the next big-thing...
25 yr old manufactures Nigeria’s first ‘Carbon Fibre’ sports car
At 25, Jerry Isaac Mallo has made a huge statement with the various machines he fabricated. His latest offering is what some have termed Nigeria’s...
Nigerian start-ups lead Africa, raise $237m
Nigerian technology start-ups have led the continent by raising the highest amount of funds (over $1m) to scale up their operations in 2019. Nigeria was...
Nigeria to assemble solar cars by 2020.
As Nigeria celebrates 59th Independence anniversary, an indigenous company says it is intensifying efforts to begin assembling of solar cars by 2020. Mr Moses Onaja,...
Holy Bible: Christ Embassy to launch pidgin version
The Christ Embassy church says it will soon launch its pidgin version of the Holy Bible to further propagate the words of God. Head of...
Meet Yusuf Sambo, The Nigerian Engineer Leading Scotland’s 5G Revolution.
Much of the global market in 2019 has been driven by the trade wars between the United States and The Peoples Republic of China. President Donald...
Tosin Adekeye Revolutionalizing Nigeria’s cyberspace With Estol Africa
Tosin Adekeye (cutekimani) is REVOLUTIONALIZING THE CYBERSPACE WITH ESTOL AFRICA Entrepreneur and Digital media strategist, Tosin Adekeye, popularly known as “Cute Kimani” is repositioning her...
2 Nigerians among finalists for $25,000 Anzisha Prize for young African entrepreneurs
Two Nigerians, Abdulwaheed Alayande and Emmanuel Okon made the cut among 20 finalists to contend for the $25,000 Anzisha Prize for young African Entrepreneurs. Over...
Two Nigerian Firms Penciled For Shell’s Innovative Prize
Two Nigerian entrepreneurs have been shortlisted among 21 finalists for the Shell LiveWIRE Top Ten Innovators Awards; a global competition which highlights and rewards businesses...
US doctors bring better way of treating cancer to Nigeria
RAD-AID Nigeria, a non-profit organization working to improve radiology healthcare is working closely with a team of medical experts from multiple institutions in the United...
Nigerian startup, EZFarming secures $150,000 investment from 500 Startups
Nigerian agritech startup, EZFarming, has received $150,000 from San Francisco-based accelerator, 500 Startups having participated in its four-month-long programme. Coming out of 500 Startups as...
Meet Mansurah Abdulazeez, the Nigerian scientist cancer developing an innovative cancer cure from plants
Cancer is one of the most dreaded diseases in the world right now. Statistics from the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) show that there are over...
Unijos develops first anti-snake venom vaccine
Vice Chancellor of the University of Jos, Prof. Seddi Maimako, has said the university through a researcher has developed the first ever anti-snake venom vaccine....
Meet mother of 4 selling roasted plantain ‘Boli’ with digital technology in PH (Video)
A Nigerian mother is now being celebrated for selling her roasted plantain, Boli with the use of Digital technology. Grace Osadebe is a mother of...
Apple buys a Nigerian-owned ICT firm for $1 billion.
UNITED States of America’s most celebrated brand, Apple, has bought Nigeria’s Chinedu Echeruo’s HopStop.com. According to The Wall Street Journal’s publication, AllThingsDigital, it informed that...
Unilag students invent flood level caution device.
Three University of Lagos students have invented a vehicular road advance electronic flood level caution device for detection of water levels on major roads. The...
5 Nigerian girls at 2019 Technovation World Pitch Summit need our votes!
Five young Nigerian girls have earned themselves a slot in the 2019 Technovation World Pitch Summit that is being held at Silicon Valley in California,...
Meet Basil Okpara Jr., A Nigerian programmer who built more than 30 mobile games
Seated in a stylish living room of a home in a suburb of Nigeria’s commercial center, Lagos, Basil Okpara Jr. is tapping away on his...
Unilorin PhD student develops new anti-TB drug
A PhD student in the Department of Chemistry, University of Ilorin, Misitura Arowona, has developed a drug that promises to be potent in the treatment...