TECH

Bill Gates To Become World’s First Trillionaire

According to a research firm, Oxfam International (An international network of organizations collectively working to alleviate global poverty), the world could get its first trillionaire in the next 25 years, when Bill Gates becomes 86 years old. At the moment, he is $915.6 billion away from attaining that title, but new research suggests he’s closer than you might think. Interestingly, we had 793 billionaires worldwide in 2009, by 2016, the richest 793 people maintained net worths of $5 trillion — an annual growth of 11%. (more…)

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nHub From Plateau State Hosts One Of Its StartUps At The 2016 West African Convergence Conference

Nigeria’s commercial capital, Lagos, this wednesday is playing host to some of the top names in the ICT ecosystem at the 2016 West Africa Convergence Conference taking place at the Sheraton Hotel and Towers in Ikeja. WACC 2016 theme appropriately captures the essence of where we are and what we should seek out of Convergence. Lets "Engage, Regulate, Leverage, Live Convergence!" Says Greg K. Gbadamosi.  (more…)

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Logical Address Represents Nigeria At The 2016 ITU Telecom World Bangkok, Thailand

Logical Address is now in Thailand and the Thai people can't stop smiling!  The address solving startup form NHUB, a tech community based in Plateau State, Nigeria is expanding their global presence one country at a time and Thailand is the current destination.  Logical Address is an addressing system that solves one of humans most fundamental problems, navigation your way to someone's location . (more…)

TECH

Update Live Blogging #HackJos2016 Final Day Hackers Talk With Mark Essien

Teams and their innovations.... NOX: Mechanox, an application that solve basic motor vehicle issues that may require the aid of a mechanic; or provide the user with basic information within a checklist of things. Team Uplift: Gas Leakage Detector Using Arduino and GSM Module, a system that detect irregular gas levels and triggers a real time SMS response. Team Kuce: TractUS, an SMS based tractor on demand service. (more…)