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A boy on a camel with NASA's space station, Kano, Nigeria at the Background. 2 NASA stations were built in Africa (1 in Zanzibar) to support Apollo 11 mission which made history in 1969 when it landed on the moon. Kano space station built in 1961 & closed in December 1966.
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Dr Robert Sola Okojie 🇳🇬🇺🇸 has been inducted into the NASA Inventors hall of fame. He is recognised worldwide as the leading expert on silicon carbide-based microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) for use in extreme environments. He has worked with NASA for 20yrs & has 21 patents.
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When we talk about continuation in Nigerian businesses, we keep ignoring the fact that Alabukun business was founded in 1918 & has been passed down 3 generations: the founder, Jacob Odulate (1884 - 1962) his son, W. O. Odulate (1933 – 2007), and his...
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Nigeria helped develop one of the world’s foremost anti-sickle-cell disease medication – Niprisan™ which was an important development due to the fact that there was only one drug for treating sickle cell disease, until Niprisan came to being.
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Meet Temilola Fatoyinbo-Agueh, a NASA research physical scientist who co-led a NASA research team that made land cover maps of the entire country of Liberia using images from the joint NASA and United States Geological Survey’s Landsat mission.
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#DidYouKnow
this weed that usually grow around your home is used for treating infections, fever, malaria, asthma, headache, diarrhoea, skin diseases, dysentery, gonorrhoea, rheumatism, eye cataracts, snakebite, nervous & urinary diseases, and blood, bile and liver disorders?
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"Meet the only eight Nigerian medical doctors in the nineteenth century (1800s) – SciTech Africa"
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"How Africans Performed Brain Surgery with Simple Tools and Herbs Long Before Colonization | SciTech Africa"
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A
#thread
of Nigerian inventers:
Mojisola Adeyeye
She co-invented an Anti-retroviral Drug Formulations for Treatment of Children Exposed to HIV/AIDS.
She is a pharmacist, professor & . DG of NAFDAC
(4 Patents)
#Nigerianinventors
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Why the election in Congo is important to Tesla, Europe and China.
The estimates of Congo’s mineral wealth run to $24 trillion. It sits on nearly half of the world’s reserves of cobalt and vast quantities of high-grade copper ore.
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The Netflix movie, "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind" direct by Chiwetel Ejiofor is not a fiction. It is a true life story of African innovation & ingenuity that should be celebrated & replicated by young Africans. William Kamkwamba gained fame in 2006 when this picture went viral.
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The description from Van Nyendael’s letter written in 1702 and those of others who wrote about the kingdom gave an insight into their level of industrialization, commerce, tax system, business structure and business practices of the people.
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Meet Kunle Olukotun, a British-born Nigerian professor in Stanford University's Dep. of Elect Eng. In 2000 he founded Afara Websystems, a coy that designed & manufactured low power server systems with chip multiprocessor technology. Afara was bought by Sun Microsystems in 2002.
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There 've been little or no improvements in most of the methods Africans use to process & package their foods, as such mass production is difficult.
Africans must take it upon themselves to improve these methods to improve lifes.
Corn 🌽 roasting can be easier & faster.
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...grandson, koyejo Odulate (56yrs) who took over the Group in 2006.
Presently, Alabukun powder is produced and marketed by Copac (Nigeria) Ltd. a subsidiary of Kuramo Group, a mother company founded by W. O. Odulate.
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Despite these amazing qualities & importance, traditional African cereals aren't well researched & many people don’t know them. These traditional African cereals are called “Orphan Crops”, or “Lost Crops” because there is little attention given to them.
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Meet the scientist Charles Rotimi, who with his colleague Daniel Shriner in 2018 traced the genetic history of sickle-cell disease and its mutation back for 7,300 years and found it started with just one child. The genetic mutation gave the child a heightened immunity to malaria.
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The number of patents applied for and registered is one way to measure innovation and development in an organisation or a country, as patents are rights protecting the...
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The Zobo industry is at the infant stage and it is a growth industry. According to FIIRO, it is estimated that the national demand for Zobo drink is in excess of 150 million liters per annum.
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"Tsetse Fly: How African Science contained it and European invasion Escalated it – SciTech Africa"
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What is a rice-fish system?
A rice-fish system, which is common in Asia, is an integrated rice field/pond complex, where fish are grown concurrently or alternately with rice. We should try this in Africa as it provide cheap protein for peasant farmers.
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Benin Bronze: the long struggle for restitution and the preservation culture of the Edo people
A thread ⬇️
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Westerners mostly call Cooking Banana Plantain but in Botany only African Plantain is Plantain. The name Banana which origiinated from Sierra Leone replaced Platana, it's initial portuguese name. Plantain is English for Platana. Banana is African for Platana but went global.
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Sida Acuta, that common weed growing around your house (known locally as sepotu, nsukerra, Amwunkhor, tsadar lamarud, nsi inyinya, isinama, taaiman, budi dohot, jagio, djolo gbassa-gbassa, fankumduma) can cure more than 10 ailments. Read more here:
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"The Nigerian Pharmacist Who Invented Alabukun Drug over 100 Years Ago | SciTech Africa"
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"How Africans Performed Brain Surgery with Simple Tools and Herbs Long Before Colonization | SciTech Africa"
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"How Africa Led the World in Science and Technology | SciTech Africa"
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This 13,000 yrs old human skull (2nd) was found in the Iwo Eleru cave near Akure, Nigeria in 1965. Archeologists say it's that of the ancestors of early humans as it doesn't look like a modern human (1st). It's longer & flatter, with a strong brow ridge as seen in a replica (3rd)
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Presidential candidates of the
@OfficialPDPNig
,
@atiku
and that
@acpnhope
,
@obyezeks
ve proposed radical policy plans on tertiary education in
#Nigeria
, what is your take? Whose policy will solve the problems e.g
#ASUUstrike
?
RETWEET & Let's debate it.
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Meet the only eight Nigerian medical doctors in the nineteenth century (1800s)
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This article is about some of the innovations and technologies developed or used by the Edo people of the Benin kingdom.
"Innovations of an Ancient African Kingdom"
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"The Engineering Feat of Defunct Biafran Research and Production Group (RAP) – SciTech Africa"
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10 African Car Makers
Birkin Cars (South Africa)
Kantanka Cars (Ghana)
Innoson Motors (Nigeria)
Kiira Motors (Uganda)
Laraki (Morocco)
Mobius Motors (Kenya)
Wallyscar (Tunisia)
Bailey Edwards Cars (South Africa)
Nord Automobiles (Nigeria)
Advanced Automotive Design (South Africa)
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Ogbunigwe was based on the physics of the “Monroe effect“. It killed and maimed by wave effect percussion and dispersal of shrapnel.
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Gaymary George Bakari of Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania has developed natural products using Commiphora swynnertonii resin (myrrh) to treat fungal infections & tropical ulcers.
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Founded around 1180 C.E, the people of Benin Kingdom built an advanced society and city so advanced that European historians compared it to the city of Amsterdam.
"A Rare 16th Century Description of the Advanced Economy of Ancient Benin"
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The new vaccine candidate was developed by
@christian_happi
, a molecular biologist & genomicist at the African Center of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Diseases (
@acegid
) in Nigeria. ACEGID is a WHO & AfricaCDC Reference Lab for genomic research.
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"Meet the Nigerian Scientist Giving Drones the Ability to Smell Bombs from Afar | SciTech Africa"
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"Why there is Lack of Scientific Curiosity in Africa – SciTech Africa"
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How Western Countries Steal From Africa by Patenting Her Natural Resources
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Pax Herbal Clinic and Research Laboratories founded by Rev Father Adodo Anselm in 1996 at Ewu Benedictine Monastery in Edo State, manufactures 33 alternative medicine products (NAFDAC approved) that are being distributed to 26 states in Nigeria, some African countries, UK & US.
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In many parts of Africa, traditional bonesetters are renowned for their efficacy in the treatment of bone injuries. Bone setting was well advanced in Africa before the colonial era. However, there is antagonism towards the practice in the orthodox medical sector.
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A
#thread
about the US Military sponsored CLINICAL RESEARCH CENTRE (CRC) in Abuja, Nigeria.
The CRC was established in 2014 through a United States-Nigeria military-to-military partnership. The centre has approximately 20 staff,...
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Before the 1st known case of Sickle-cell anaemia in the advanced world in 1910, Nigerians were already battling with the disease. Archaeological research in Nigeria has unearthed 700 yrs old human bones showing evidence of sickle-cell infarcts.
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"Study Shows Yam was First Domesticated Between Eastern Ghana & Western Nigeria – SciTech Africa"
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"Meet the only eight Nigerian medical doctors in the nineteenth century (1800s) | SciTech Africa"
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"A Rare 16th Century Description of the Advanced Economy of Ancient Benin – SciTech Africa"
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#DoYouKnow
Bananas, pepper, kiwi, tomatoes, grapes, pomegranates, eggplants, cucumbers are berries but blackberries, raspberries & strawberries are not: True berries are simple fruits that stem from a single flower with a single ovary and typically have several seeds.
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@SheWritesWoman
, a
#mentalhealth
NGO in
#Nigeria
has been selected for the 2020
#FacebookAccelerator
. The organization founded in 2016 by
@hauwa_ojeifo
is a women-led movement that gives mental health a voice & provide support for people with mental health challenges.
#Congrats
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Strawberries, raspberries & blackberries are not berries. They stem from a single flower with more than one ovary & develop into fruitlets which makes them aggregate fruits. Pineapples are a bunch of berries. They develop from a bunch of several flowers to form multiple fruits.
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History books hardly mention the role the Europeans played in the rapid spread of the disease all over Africa or the inhumane approach applied to combat the disease.
"Tsetse Fly: How African Science contained it and European invasion Escalated it"
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Scientists in Nigeria successfully isolated a potential antibiotic-producing fungus from pharmaceutical waste sludge. The fungus, Geotrichum candidum OMON-1 was found to produce a novel compound that stops growth of & ultimately kills Staphylococcus aureus.
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The use of antibiotics was 1st discovered in the western world in 1928 with the discovery of penicillin & Tetracycline was 1st reported in a scientific journal in 1948. But studies has shown that Africans have been using antibiotics (tetracycline) for nearly 2,000 years.
Thread
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The Madagascar Covid drink used as covid19 treatment is made from Sweet Wormwood (Artemisia annua), a plant of Asian origin that gave rise to the Chinese drug, Artemisinin. Artemisinin is an important malaria drug but resistance to the drug has been reported recently in Asia.
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With No University Degree they Built the First African Company to get WHO Approval for Malaria Drug for Pregnant Women and Infants
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#knowyourhistory
:
"If you know where you coming from, you will know where you going to"
- Bob Marley
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"How Niger Delta Youths Use Indigenous Gin-Distilling Technology to Refine Crude Oil | SciTech Africa"
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"The Notable roles Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal, South Africa played in discovery of Yellow Fever vaccine in 1937 | SciTech Africa"
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"How Eight Nigerians Discovered the World Foremost Anti-sickle Cell Drug | SciTech Africa"
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#DidYouKnow
many countries and companies in Asia make millions of dollars from this common plant in Nigeria we call weed?
Read about the local names and the ailments it can treat.
Sida Acuta, that common weed growing around your house (known locally as sepotu, nsukerra, Amwunkhor, tsadar lamarud, nsi inyinya, isinama, taaiman, budi dohot, jagio, djolo gbassa-gbassa, fankumduma) can cure more than 10 ailments. Read more here:
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Trade with Europe was considerable. For instance, just one Dutch ship, the Olyphant, delivered 88,235 lbs of ivory and 1,337 lbs of pepper from the kingdom of Benin to the Netherlands in 1630.
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Flours and meals from grains of African origin (sorghum, finger millet (Tamba), pearl millet, fonio millet (acha), and African rice) have not been produced or consumed at commercial level despite being a staple food in homes in Nigeria.
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#covid19
testng in Nigeria using a cubicle. Millions of Naira is being saved with this cubicle as there is no need for masks, shields and protective clothings which are meant to be disposed after use. The cubicle was designed, produced and donated by
@NaijaFlyingDr
and her team.
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Africa's biggest carmakers are Morocco, South Africa & Egypt. Most of the cars made in these countries are made by European carmakers & are destined for European markets. African car manufacturing is dominated by Volkswagen, Toyota, BMW, Renault, Daimler, Hyundai, Isuzu & Ford.
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"The Notable roles Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal, South Africa played in discovery of Yellow Fever vaccine in 1937 | SciTech Africa"
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@EsohKevin
of
@DELGEME1
in Cape Town in a study discovered that ethnic-based approaches for data analysis in structured African populations may be the most effective approach to assess genetic variants that increase susceptibility to malaria.
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Fanta & VW Beatle are products of wartime R&D. The feat of the RAP Group during the Biafra war is a good e.g. of such creativity, innovation & productivity. The RAP group, till this day is most productive Nigerian R&D enterprise ever.
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HEPASOR is the trade name for a drug for the treatment of Hepatitis developed by the Cameroonian scientist by Dr Denis Ekotto-Mengata in 1986 from African yellow wood (Enatia Chlorantha), a plant used in traditionally in many parts of Africa for treating various ailments.
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Bioluminescence: Glow worm & firefly. Glow worms are not actually worms but insect larvae or adult larviform females while Fireflies are not actually flies but beetles.
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"Opportunities for Cattle Ranching Around Lagos and other Cities in Southern Nigeria | SciTech Africa"
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Mosquito is the World’s Deadliest Animal. Bites from this tiny insect results in the deaths of about one million people very year. Mosquito transmits over 19 diseases including:
malaria
dengue
chikungunya
yellow fever
filariasis
tularemia
dirofilariasis
Zika fever
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"Meet the only eight Nigerian medical doctors in the nineteenth century (1800s) | SciTech Africa"
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According to
@stearbusiness
, "over 4,000 PhD holders in Nigeria are looking for jobs but can’t find any"
This figure can be compared with the figures in an OECD report on countries with the most of PhD graduates in 2014 which only included one...
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ALABUKUN is 100 years old.
This popular drug is an invention of Jacob Sogboyega Odulate aka Blessed Jacob (1884-1962), a Nigerian pharmacist, inventor and entrepreneur in...
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These traditional African cereals have been called “Orphan Crops”, or “Lost Crops” because there is little attention given to them.
"The Five Super Cereals No One Told You About"
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"Meet the Nigerian who makes Drone for the U.S Army | SciTech Africa"
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9. Ifeanyi Charles Ume
He invented an Ultrasound System and Method for Measuring Weld Penetration Depth in Real Time and Off Line.
He is a Professor specialised in Mechatronics, automation & Manufacturing
(5 Patents)
#nigerianinventors
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There have been great discoveries of relics in Nigeria which includes the famous 2,500 years old Nok artifacts discovered in 1929, the 2,000 years old Igbo-Ukwu artifacts discovered in 1939 and the 8,500 years old Dafuna Canoe discovered in 1987.
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Calculus is not hard. Your teacher just doesn't understand it.
How a book written in 1910 could teach you calculus better than several books of today [Calculus Made Easy, 1910].
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Update: Mateon announced that its COVID-19 directed antiviral screening program discovered that Artemisinin is highly potent at inhibiting the ability of the COVID-19 causing virus (SARS-CoV-2) to multiply while also having an excellent safety index
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6. Emeka Nchekwube
He co-invented the Drug, Terfenadine oral powder, used for allergic disorders and several
He is Neurosurgeon.
(4 Patent)
#nigerianinventors
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In 1951 the British colonial government tested the feasibility of fish farming in Nigeria at a small experimental station in Onikan, Lagos & Panyam Catfish Farm, Plateau State. This was the beginning of catfish farming in Nigeria.
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The research & development team of Pax Herbal is lead by the seasoned Professor of Chemistry of the University of Ibadan, Joseph I. Okogun who is a specialist in African Medicinal Plant and Traditional Medicine.
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"Nigeria’ 8,500 Years Old Dufuna Canoe and Lack of Interest in Archaeology | SciTech Africa"
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How Nigeria became the world’s largest producer of African catfish
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It's called Sida acuta:
sepotu (Yoruba)
nsukerra (Efik)
tsadar lamarudu (Hausa)
nsi inyinya (Igbo) in Nigeria;
isinama in Zimbabwe
taaiman in S. Africa
budi dohot in Gambia
mfagia in Kenya
kamel bari in Ivory Coast
ka-tanta in Sierra Leone
#NowYouKnow
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While many books have been written especially by western authors about this disease, they hardly mention how Africans developed & accumulated the body of scientific knowledge that formed the basis for subsequent efforts to control or destroy the disease.
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"This Common Weed Growing Around your House can Cure more than Ten Ailments | SciTech Africa"
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Tech talent in Africa: Professional developers
South Africa: 120k
Egypt: 85k
Nigeria: 85k
Kenya: 60k
Morocco: 45k
Ethiopia: 20k
Ghana: 15k
Tanzania: 15k
Uganda: 10
Ivory Coast: 10
Rwanda: 5k
Rest of Africa: 220k
Source: Google/Accenture
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4. Ndubuisi Ekekwe
He invented a microchips used in minimally invasive surgical robots. He was part of the team that created XL sensor inside the iPhone and iPad.
He a professor & Entrepreneur
(1 Patent)
#nigerianinventors
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12. Philip Chidi Njemanze
He has invented several medical devices including Intelligent Transcranial Doppler Probe.
He is a Neuroscientist & Professor
(Over 11 Patents)
#nigerianinventors
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There have been great discoveries of relics in Nigeria which include the famous 2,500 years old Nok artifacts discovered in 1929, then 2,000 years old Igbo-Ukwu artifacts discovered in 1939 and the 8,500 years old Dufuna Canoe discovered in 1987.
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The 1st branded sorghum beer in the world was made in Nigeria. The 1st was Rex lager made by Nigerian Breweries in 1985 with 40% sorghum but it was Guinness Nigeria that made the 1st 100% sorghum beer called Merit lager in 1986. Beer in Africa is traditionally made from Sorghum.
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The Nigerian education system does not reflect a Nigerian ideology or philosophy. It doesn’t reflect the people’s culture. It doesn’t fit Nigeria’s economy or economic plan. The system is keeping Nigerians poor and unproductive.
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At age 12, Hope, a kid from Nigeria already understands Hydraulics, a branch of science concerned with the practical applications of liquid to transmit force applied at one point to another.
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Dr Babafemi Taiwo, a Professor of Medicine and the Chief of Infectious Diseases Medicine at Northwestern University, Chicago led part of the NIH study on remdesiver. He received his MBBS from Nigeria’s University of Ibadan College of Medicine, Nigeria.
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