Category : National

Future Awards Africa announces community action nominees from across Africa

NigGalAugust 13, 2020

In commemoration of International Youth Day, The Future Awards Africa announces community action nominees from across Africa Now in its 15th year, Africa’s most prestigious...

National

Nigerian who became Sierra Leone Chief of Defence Staff

NigGalAugust 11, 2020August 12, 2020

In the history of Nigeria’s mission to Sierra Leone and Liberia one man who stood out as Nigeria’s foremost expeditionary commander of all time and...

Innovations

Stephen Odaibo’s Retina-AI Health, Inc. raises $5.2m for diabetes detection.

NigGalAugust 10, 2020August 11, 2020

RETINA-AI Health, a startup founded by Nigerian-born Dr. Stephen Odaibo has raised $5.2M in Series A funding for Artificial Intelligence screening of diabetic retinopathy. The capital was raised from private investors, 80%...

Innovations

Adefolami Agunbiade has made the Rockefeller Foundation Top 10 Finalists for the Food System Vision Prize.

NigGalAugust 10, 2020August 11, 2020

Agunbiade and nine others were picked from a pool of over 1, 300 applicants from 110 nations with plans of developing a plan of the...

Innovations

Ecobank Group announces the 2020 Fintech Challenge Finalists

NigGalAugust 10, 2020August 10, 2020

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...

Innovations

Nigeria’s First Plant-Based Company VeggieVictory Attracts Angel Investment

NigGalAugust 6, 2020August 6, 2020

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...

Innovations

Sanwo-Olu Inaugurates Indigenous Face Mask Manufacturing Factory.

NigGalJuly 31, 2020July 31, 2020

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...

National

Nigeria, Israel sign bilateral agreement on green energy

NigGalJuly 31, 2020July 31, 2020

The State of Israel and Nigeria on Wednesday signed a bilateral agreement in the field of green energy development. The agreement was the outcome of...

National

FG partner AITP for active participation in 4th Industrial Revolution- Pantami.

NigGalJuly 31, 2020July 31, 2020

The Honourable Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami FNCS, FBCS has stated that the Federal Government is willing to partner Academia in...

National

Lagos to setup E-commerce cub for Agric Producers to create export opportunities

NigGalJuly 29, 2020July 29, 2020

The Lagos State Government says it is planning to set up an e-commerce hub or platform for agriculture producers to sell farm produce for export purposes. The State Acting Commissioner for...

Innovations

Nigerian man builds soak away that can generate gas for cooking, electricity.

NigGalJuly 28, 2020July 28, 2020

A Nigerian man has gone viral for the right thing after building a soakaway pit for gas and electricity generation – Pictures of his creation...

Entrepreneurship Innovations

Nigerian blockchain-based land registry HouseAfrica secures key partnership for scale

NigGalJuly 27, 2020July 27, 2020

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...

Innovations

Nigeria installs first commercial undergrid minigrid power project in Makoloki.

NigGalJuly 23, 2020July 23, 2020

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...

National

Lagos to empower 2,743 Farmers in its Agricultural VCE Programme.

NigGalJuly 22, 2020July 22, 2020

No fewer than 2,743 farmers in Lagos State would next week Tuesday receive inputs and productive assets under the State Government 2020 Agricultural Value Chains...

Innovations

Tech Youtuber Fisayo Fosudo explains E-SIM technology with MTN Nigeria

NigGalJuly 21, 2020July 21, 2020

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,...

ICT National

Digital Economy – 75000 to Get NITDA Training in Kaduna.

NigGalJuly 20, 2020July 22, 2020

The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) and the Kaduna State government have begun the process of training 75,000 people from the state in various...

ICT Innovations

Otto Orondaam builds first African virtual classroom that can host 948 learners

NigGalJuly 15, 2020July 22, 2020

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...

Prizes & Awards

Premium Times publisher Olorunyomi, 3 others win Press Freedom Award.

NigGalJuly 14, 2020July 14, 2020

Publisher of Nigeria’s online newspaper Premium Times, Dapo Olorunyomi is among four journalists to be honoured in November with the 2020 International Press Freedom Awards....

National

World Bank rates Niger best in rural road rehabilitation

NigGalJuly 13, 2020July 13, 2020

The World Bank and the French Development Agency for Nigeria has commended Niger State for the rehabilitation and maintenance of rural road network across 120...

Innovations

Nigeria adopts 16 global electromedical standards.

NigGalJuly 13, 2020July 13, 2020

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...

National

FG officially hands over National Theatre to CBN, Bankers Committee

NigGalJuly 13, 2020July 13, 2020

The Minister for Culture and Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, on Sunday in Lagos handed over the National Theatre to the Central Bank of Nigeria and...

Innovations

Nigeria develops COVID-19 test kit.

NigGalJuly 10, 2020July 10, 2020

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...

Innovations

First full-time online school for children launches in Nigeria.

NigGalJuly 9, 2020July 9, 2020

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...

National

Nigerian govt grants 60% debt relief to broadcast stations.

NigGalJuly 7, 2020July 7, 2020

The federal government has approved 60 per cent debt forgiveness for broadcast stations owing it in Nigeria, to cushion the effects of COVID-19 on the industry. The...

National

Architecture competition seeks solution to Lagos flooding.

NigGalJuly 6, 2020July 6, 2020

The Eddy Eguavoen Foundation, organisers of Lagos: City of water, an architecture competition, has called for entries from recent graduates and students of architecture to...

National

Lagos distributes free phones to pupils to bridge digital divide.

NigGalJuly 6, 2020July 6, 2020

Like millions of other children in the sprawling Nigerian city of Lagos, 15-year-old Sharifa Umar switched from classroom learning to lessons over radio, TV and the...

Prizes & Awards

Access Bank celebrates Tracy Batta as Forbes Africa’s 30.

NigGalJuly 6, 2020July 6, 2020

Helping female businesses grow through discounted access to finance is one of the many unique value propositions under the Access Bank’s W Initiative. Tracy Batta,...

National

Buhari thanks honest Nigerian student in Japan, Ikenna Nweke

NigGalJuly 5, 2020July 6, 2020

President Muhammadu Buhari has commended a Nigerian doctorate student in University of Tsukuba, Japan, Mr Ikenna Nweke, who returned a missing wallet with huge sums...

Innovations

Lagos Donates 100 Units Of Handwashing Stations To Strategic Locations.

NigGalJuly 2, 2020July 2, 2020

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...

Innovations

NIMR launches Nigeria’s first locally produced COVID-19 extraction test kits

NigGalJuly 1, 2020July 1, 2020

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...

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