Founder, [Tech4Dev] Joel Ogunsola is theFounder and Head of Partnerships and Sustainability, Technology for Social Change and Development Initiative [Tech4Dev], a non-profit organization creating opportunities for economic empowerment and financial freedom through access to digital skills-based training and opportunities. Tech4Dev…
Category: Nigeria’s Top 10 Covid-19 Innovators
M.S. Haruna – Nigeria’s Top 10 Covid-19 Innovators
Executive vice chairman, National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure [NASENI]. Professor M.S. Haruna is executive vice chairman, National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure [NASENI]. The Agency sets out on a mission to establish a dynamic science and engineering…
Wale Adeosun – Nigeria’s Top 10 Covid-19 Innovators
Co-founder, Wellvis Nigeria Dr. Wale Adeosun is co-founder, Wellvis Nigeria – a Lagos-based online health information and services platform, one of the few in Africa. The start-up responded quickly to the breakout of COVID-19 by providing an online tool for…
Cyprian Orakpo – Nigeria’s Top 10 Covid-19 Innovators
Managing Director, Transgreen Nigeria Limited Pastor Cyprian Orakpo, managing director, Transgreen Nigeria Limited, heads a company that has fast-tracked its contribution to the fight against Covid-19 in Nigeria with the speed of an emergency response. A serving pastor at Redeemed…
Alex Akpa – Nigeria’s Top 10 Covid-19 Innovators
Ag. Director-General, National Biotechnology Development Agency (NABDA) Prof. Alex Akpa is Ag. director-general, National Biotechnology Development Agency (NABDA), – an organisation that has looked inwards to bring out home grown approaches to tackling the Covid-19 pandemic. The agency is one…
Babs Ogundeyi – Nigeria’s Top 10 Covid-19 Innovators
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, Kuda Bank Mr. Babs Ogundeyi is co-founder and chief executive officer, Kuda Bank – a digital retail banking startup that has opened up a new chapter in the Nigerian banking space. The full-stack and mobile…
Victor Ezugwu – Nigeria’s Top 10 Covid-19 Innovators
Director General, Defence Industries Corporation of Nigeria [DICON] Maj. Gen. Victor Ezugwu is director general, Defence Industries Corporation of Nigeria [DICON] – the state-run defence corporation of Nigeria operated by the Nigerian Armed Forces. The organisation in charge of producing…
Temie Giwa Tubosun – Nigeria’s Top 10 Covid-19 Innovators
Founder and CEO, LifeBank Mrs. TemieGiwa-Tubosun is founder and CEO, LifeBank– a health technology and logistics startup that is responding to the fast-rising number of confirmed cases of coronavirus in Nigeria. In partnership with the Nigerian Institute of Medical Research…
Abasi Ene-Obong – Nigeria’s Top 10 Covid-19 Innovators
Founder, 54 Gene Dr. Abasi Ene-Obong is founder, 54 Gene, a biotech company that has increased Nigeria’s laboratory testing capacity for COVID-19 with a stationary lab in Lagos and a mobile one in Ogun State. They are reckoned to be…
Ola Orekunrin Brown – Nigeria’s Top 10 Covid-19 Innovators
Founder, Flying Doctors Healthcare Investment Group Dr. Ola Orekunrin Brown, founder, Flying Doctors Healthcare Investment Group, is a medical doctor, helicopter pilot and healthcare entrepreneur. She has positioned her one-of-a-kind organisation to fight coronavirus in remote communities across the country.…