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Apply Now! MIT Solve is Seeking Tech Innovations for Slowing & Tracking Emerging Pandemics
How can communities around the world prepare for, detect, and respond to emerging pandemics and health security threats?…
Don’t miss YouTube’s online music Festival, Stay Home…#With Me this weekend
YouTube has announced the launch of the Stay Home #With Me. The campaign will kick off with a…
7 Nigerian startups selected to fight COVID-19
Ventures Platform and Lagos State Science and Research and Innovation Council (LASRIC) today announced that seven Nigerian startups…
Ghana’s Health Tech Startup Redbird Launches COVID-19 Daily Check-in App and Symptom Tracker
Redbird (formerly Redbird Health Tech), a medical diagnostics distributor providing access to healthcare in Ghana through community pharmacies, has…
Nokia C1: Best N18,000 Smartphone?
Do you remember the Nokia C1 of 2010? Well, Nokia just launched a refreshed version of the device…
Social Distancing in Lagos: The fate of the Lagos Commuter
Social Distancing, Self-Isolation and Quarantine, are some terminologies we’ve come to better understand this period, due to the…
COVID-19: House of Reps Passes Bill to Refund 50% of PAYE to Companies
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Nigeria’s House of representatives has passed an ’emergency economic stimulus bill’ requiring…
Application for Google’s Code Jam 2020 is Open!
Google’s longest running global coding competition, Code Jam, calls on programmers around the world to solve challenging, algorithmic…
Ventures Platform’s COVID-19 Innovation Challenge Application Closes Today!
Ventures Platform has launched the COVID-19 Innovation Challenge to support Nigeria’s tech community fighting the pandemic. The Africa-wide…
Track the spread of Coronavirus with this online dashboard
Coronavirus, which originated in China, has so far killed more than 15,000 people and infected over 300,000. Cases…