Ecobank Group announces the 2020 Fintech Challenge Finalists
Ecobank Group on Thursday announced the finalists from the 2020 Ecobank Fintech Challenge. The challenge, in its third edition, is designed to deepen collaboration between...
Category : Innovations
Nigeria’s First Plant-Based Company VeggieVictory Attracts Angel Investment
Nigeria’s first plant-based food tech VeggieVictory has attracted international investment from a number of veterans in the vegan industry. Now, the vegan company has set its sights...
Sanwo-Olu Inaugurates Indigenous Face Mask Manufacturing Factory.
Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Thursday inaugurated the first indigenous face mask manufacturing factory, O-Care Medical Face Mask Factory in Lagos. The factory which...
Nigerian man builds soak away that can generate gas for cooking, electricity.
A Nigerian man has gone viral for the right thing after building a soakaway pit for gas and electricity generation – Pictures of his creation...
Nigerian blockchain-based land registry HouseAfrica secures key partnership for scale
Nigerian startup HouseAfrica, which has developed Africa’s first blockchain-based land and property registry, has partnered the Nigeria Mortgage Refinance Company (NMRC) to help it scale...
Nigeria installs first commercial undergrid minigrid power project in Makoloki.
Nigeria’s first rural commercial undergrid minigrid has finally been installed in Mokoloki, a rural community in Ogun state. The project, an initiative of Rocky Mountain...
Tech Youtuber Fisayo Fosudo explains E-SIM technology with MTN Nigeria
On the 15th of July 2020, MTN Nigeria announced the commencement of the eSIM technology for the first time in West Africa.In the explainer video,...
Otto Orondaam builds first African virtual classroom that can host 948 learners
The founder of Slum2School, Otto Orondaam, has proffered a very big solution to the problem of learning in this period when children are forced out...
Nigeria adopts 16 global electromedical standards.
THE Nigerian National Mirror/Technical Committee on Electromedical Equipment has adopted 16 international standards on essential electro-medical equipment. The adoption was part of measures to tackle...
Nigeria develops COVID-19 test kit.
Dr Ogbonnaya Onu, the Federal Minister of Science and Technology has announced that Nigeria developed the RNA Swift, a test kit for the identification of...
First full-time online school for children launches in Nigeria.
As parents all over the world continue to embrace online schooling as the only learning option for their children since the lockdown, an international full-time...
Lagos Donates 100 Units Of Handwashing Stations To Strategic Locations.
Lagos State Government, on Wednesday, said that it has adopted internationally-accepted safety protocols in curbing the spread of the Coronavirus across the State, just as...
NIMR launches Nigeria’s first locally produced COVID-19 extraction test kits
The Nigerian Institute of Medical Research has launched the country’s first set of local Ribonucleic Acid extraction kits to help expand the nation’s capacity to...
U.S.-Based Nigerian Invents Equipment To Detect COVID-19 Infected Lungs
A Nigerian medical expert based in the United States (U.S.), Dr Samson Arigbamu, has invented a stethoscope equipped with components capable of immediately identifying adventitious...
LASU Emerges National Partner To FAO, Wins $95,000 Grant For Devpt. of Catfish Value Chain In Nigeria.
he Lagos State University has been selected by the Food And Agricultural Organization (FAO) as its National Partner Institute (NPI) in implementing the the FISH4ACP...
Nigerian startup launches WhatsApp-based bot to connect shoppers with retailers
Nigerian startup E Dey Shop has launched a WhatsApp-based bot that helps shoppers find products, services or institutions anywhere in the country. Launched in April, E...
Nigerian e-health startup First Medtrade launches online medical market
Nigerian e-health tech startup First Medtrade has launched its online medical market to supply essential medical consumables to hospitals and other health facilities across Nigeria. ...
Lagos to produce first forensic dentist in West Africa.
Lagos State Commissioner for Establishments, Training and Pensions, Mrs Ajibola Ponnle has disclosed that the Lagos State Public Service will be producing the first forensic...
NNPC digitalises operations, commences online sale, tracking of petroleum products.
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Wednesday, stated that it has commenced the online sales and tracking of petroleum products across the country, to ensure...
Nigerian startup Recyclan establishes pan-African presence by exporting waste globally
Nigeria’s Recyclan, a tech-enabled recycling company, has established operations across Africa as it collects waste and exports it to the rest of the world. Launched...
InterswitchSPAK: Building Africa’s future problem solvers
In the 1990s, American writer, futurist, and businessman, Alvin Toffler wrote: “The illiterates of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and...
3 Nigerian tech startups secure funding from Ventures Platform
Nigerian startups Tambua Health, Brass and FunnelJoy have secured investment from early-stage fund Ventures Platform to help them scale their solutions. Ventures Platform invests in early-stage...
Unilag produces Ambuvalent ventilator
In a bid to further tackle the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, a team of researchers in the University of Lagos (Unilag) has produced an Ambuvalent ventilator....
Babafemi Taiwo, the UI product leading US search for COVID-19 drug
Since the COVID-19 pandemic began over four months ago, about 3.6 million people have been infected while 250,000 have died from the disease globally. For what started...
Two Nigerian Undergraduates design Smart Wristband that prevents you from touching your face
Two students of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of the Federal University of Technology, Owerri (FUTO), Isaac Uchechukwu Edmund and Ebulue Ifeanyichukwu Henry...
Remita, Cellulant partner to improve Nigeria’s payment services
Remita and Cellulant have partnered to deepen financial inclusion by facilitating payments to the federal and state governments and a wide array of billers and...
Unilorin set to make COVID-19 vaccine research breakthrough
The University of Ilorin (Unilorin) says it will soon produce a vaccine for Coronavirus (COVID-19). The institution said this in a Bulletin issued on Monday...
Nigerian agri-tech startup Farmcrowdy moves into e-commerce with Foods platform
Nigerian agri-tech startup Farmcrowdy has ventured into the e-commerce space with the launch of Farmcrowdy Foods, a one-stop digital marketplace that allows consumers to conveniently...
Andela, Google, Pluralsight launch Africa wide program to benefit 30,000 software engineers
Andela, Google and Pluralsight recently launched the third edition of a developer skills program aimed at equipping participants for entry level and intermediate skills in Android,...
Nigerian fintech startup Okra raises $1m pre-seed funding from TLcom Capital
Nigerian fintech startup Okra has secured a US$1 million pre-seed funding round from TLcom Capital to strengthen its push to build the infrastructure for Africa’s...