Nathan Nwachuku (Founder & Chairman, TerraHaptix) has shared that his company just completed a second successful load test of its Duma ground drone, pulling a 2.1-ton car while carrying an 80kg human being – all fully powered by ArtemisOS, a TerraHaptix proprietary C2 software.Nathan wryly adds: Another engineer was kind enough to volunteer his car :)#technology #ai Nathan Nwachuku (Founder & Chairman, TerraHaptix) TerraHaptix – Africa’s largest drone manufacturer – is a robotics company building low-cost, unmanned systems for core industries. They refer to themselves as being on a mission to accelerate automation in emerging markets. The company recently opened a…
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Dr. Abiodun Adereni (Founder & CEO, HelpMum Africa) HelpMum Africa – promoters of maternal and infant healthcare in Africa – were recently announced as one of the winners of the Meta LIama Innovation grant award, during the Concordia Summit that took place in New York during the UN General Assembly (#UNGA79). The company’s win is tied to its developing an innovative chatbot service that delivers accurate and timely information on vaccination and immunisation. Leveraging Llama 3’s advanced language processing capabilities, HelpMum Africa created Vax-Llamamodel — an AI-driven, open-source model designed to provide reliable vaccination information. This open source model can be integrated into…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fatZF0JMlOg The Cece Yara Child Advocacy Centre – a non-profit organisation established in 2016 to prevent child sexual abuse and provide free access to care, information, protection and emergency intervention – recently celebrated the graduation of 30 professionals from the justice, child protection, and law enforcement sectors. The training program was designed to equip stakeholders in the criminal justice system with specialised skills for sensitive forensic interviews of children survivors of abuse. Tutoring of the graduands who completed their specialised course as Child Forensic Interviewers, was conducted by the Zero Abuse Project and sponsored by The Cece Yara Child Advocacy Centre,…
CAIRO, Egypt, September 30, 2024/ — The Africa’s Business Heroes (ABH) Prize Competition, Africa’s leading philanthropic initiative supported by the Jack Ma Foundation and Alibaba Philanthropy, is proud to announce the Top 10 finalists for the 2024 ABH Prize.These exceptional entrepreneurs were chosen after an intense round of semi-final business pitches and judging held on September 27-28 at Kamelizer Spaces, with community events until September 29, all in the historic city of Cairo, Egypt. This marks ABH’s first event in North Africa, highlighting Egypt’s growing role as a key hub of entrepreneurial innovation in Africa.The Top 10 finalists are (in…
Seated (L-R): Temitope Adeyemi (Co-Founder & CEO, Pay-U) in a recent meet-up with legendary Angel Investor, entrepreneur, philanthropist and adviser to tech companies Harry ‘Tomi Davies to brainstorm 📸TemitopeA Imagine that you drive a NGN50,000,000 car from Ikeja to Victoria Island within 1 hour and you get to pay a premium of just NGN1,141 – instead of worrying about paying NGN2,500,000 as upfront annual premium, especially when you can’t afford the upfront cost. Or Imagine… that you drive a car valued at NGN10,000,000 from Lekki Phase 1 to Ikoyi – which is about 30-minute journey – and you pay NGN80…
📸 @TonyOElumelu Congratulations go out to Dr. Awele V. Elumelu OFR on completing the 42.195km Berlin Marathon (2024)! It’s her 5th marathon in the bag, after having completed the New York, Manchester, Chicago and London marathons! Dr. Elumelu is Founding Director at Heirs Holdings, co-Founder of the Tony Elumelu Foundation, and Chairperson at Avon Healthcare Interesting Read Resource: Thriving in the Hustle: Holistic Wellness Strategies for Entrepreneurs [By Jerome Knyszewski via Medium.com]
Winstone K. Nnko is a an electrical engineer born and raised on the slopes of Mount Meru (Tanzania). Winstone is skilled in Renewable Energy, electrical engineering, interior design, and brand identity creation, with a strong commitment to sustainable development and the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. His humble beginnings inspired a passion for aiding the less fortunate. In this piece, he shares how Kenyan President, William Ruto’s introduction of Elon Musk’s Starlink into the telecommunications ecosystem has intensified competition within the sector, particularly impacting giants such as Safaricom! At the US-Kenya Business and Investment Roundtable in New York, held on the…
The ‘Dream 10’: Moniepoint Women -in-Tech interns 2024 In 2020, the Moniepoint Group kicked off its Women -in-Tech initiative whose objective was to ensure that young women gained access to building a career in technology, through an internship. Past cohorts had always consisted of five talented interns – brilliant women who have pressed on to make incredible strides – but 2024 has seen Moniepoint double the intakes to 10 females who will gain hands-on experience in building products across the company’s Cloud Engineering, Backend Engineering, Technical Product Management, Data Engineering, Systems Administration, Technical Support, and User Experience teams. 📸 @Moniepoint…
Dr. Maymunah Yusuf-Kadiri is the convener of “The Mental Health Conference” (and Founder/ Medical Director & Psychiatrist-In-Chief at Pinnacle Medical Services), and she is thrilled to invite you to the Mental Health Conference 2024, which she refers to as the biggest Health & Wellness gathering of the year. According to Dr. Yusuf-Kadiri: 💃💃💃If you thought last year’s edition was any good, this year will surpass everything great you’ve imagined. We will be exploring the theme “IDENTITY”, alongside notable event speakers, Captains of industry, and reputable guests from all over the world, at the Oriental Hotel Ballroom, Victoria Island, on Sunday…
Whether you’re launching a groundbreaking startup, growing an established SME, or leading a cooperative or social enterprise with a mission for good, Sterling Bank Nigeria is inviting you to apply to the Green Innovation Challenge (GIC) 2024 – to fuel your journey. GIC is dedicated to providing access to funding for startups, MSMEs, SMEs, cooperatives, and social enterprises that are driving innovation and positive environmental change. It is open to applicants in agriculture, clean tech and social enterprise, and is designed to connect them with the resources required to bring their ideas to life, scale operations, and make a lasting…