Nigeria: Three Tech Savvy Kids Grab FG's N1 Million Largesse

27 May 2015

Three Tech savvy female secondary school students last week grabbed federal government's N1 million Application Innovation Awards price sum in Abuja for overcoming the fear of technology. The three lucky lasses emerged victorious in the contest out of over 89 other entries for developing website and software applications on Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), Child Adoption and Health.

The winners are: Zainab Aliyu Gebi of International Community Secondary School Abuja, Praise Sanni Adeniyi of International School University of Lagos and Omotayo Ogunnaike of Lagoon Secondary School Lagos, who developed the original website and apps to help the country solve some of its humanitarian problems in the areas of IDPs, child adoption and health.

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