When Ayodele Bankole, 34, began selling handmade leather wallets from his dorm room in Ilorin, he never imagined he would one day be CEO of a multi-million-naira fashion tech startup, recently named Startup of the Year by the Nigeria Innovation Summit. Ayodele’s brand, CraftEdge, combines artisanal leather goods with smart technology think wallets with GPS […]
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In a field still battling global underrepresentation, Tofunmi Balogun, a 28-year-old software developer from Ibadan, Nigeria, has done what many only dream of winning the prestigious Global Code Hack Award for innovation in Artificial Intelligence. The competition, held annually in Berlin, attracted over 12,000 submissions from around the world. Tofunmi’s winning entry? A low-data, voice-activated […]
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At just 25 years old, Amaka Okoro is proving that age is no barrier to impact. As the founder and executive director of Hands of Hope Initiative, a Nigerian non-profit focused on healthcare outreach and vocational training, Amaka has directly impacted over 10,000 lives across underserved communities in Nigeria. What began as a campus volunteer […]
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