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Two Nigerian girls have placed the nation on the global technology map after emerging winners of the 2025 Technovation Global Summit (Beginner Division) with an artificial intelligence (AI) app designed to tackle drowsy and distracted driving.

The prodigies, 10-year-old Akachukwu Blessed Nwachukwu and Ifunanya Gabriella Okoye, both from Port Harcourt, Rivers State, developed Stay Woke, an AI-powered mobile app that uses facial recognition and voice interaction to detect driver fatigue in real time and issue alerts to prevent accidents.

Competing as Team Appsolute, the duo outshone strong contenders from Japan, Spain, Canada, and Peru to clinch the world title at the competition’s grand finale.

Technovation—the world’s largest tech entrepreneurship program for girls aged 8–18—recorded over 33,000 participants from 117 countries this year, with 11,000 completing the program and more than 3,200 tech-based solutions developed.

Their mentor, Somkenechukwu Mamah, founder of Code Ambassadors Academy, described the win as a breakthrough for African innovation. “This victory proves that innovation knows no age or boundary. Akachukwu and Ifunanya have shown resilience, creativity, and courage, demonstrating that young people in Nigeria and across Africa can compete and win on the global stage,” he said.

The young innovators, trained through Code Ambassadors Academy—a STEM-accredited platform that has equipped over 7,000 Nigerian children with coding, robotics, AI, and design skills—credited their success to their mentor’s guidance and their parents’ support.

For Team Appsolute, the win is not just for Nigeria but for every girl who dreams of transforming the world through technology.

Source: https://thenationonlineng.net/nigerian-girls-beat-japan-canada-spain-to-win-global-tech-grand-prize/#google_vignette

I know even open the topic before i know say they will iGBOS.

BLESSED PEOPLE!

Igbo Amaka

IGBOS are Excelling in everything they do


Before you spew Trash
I am not even IGBO

JSYK

Allow Igbos to rule Nigeria for just 4 years and see how "Japan" and "China" will emerge out of Nigeria. I am not joking, give PO the opportunity and taste good life for once.

Why is this not on front page?!

Nlfpmod kindly do the needful

obiekunie01:
I know even open the topic before i know say they will iGBOS.

BLESSED PEOPLE!

. They are Benin Edo state people please

Igirigimercenar:
. They are Benin Edo state people please

oh! so there are Igbos from Benin in Edo state??

Na waoo! you don buy market sha!

Validated:
Allow Igbos to rule Nigeria for just 4 years and see how "Japan" and "China" will emerge out of Nigeria. I am not joking, give PO the opportunity and taste good life for once.

igbos from rivers state…see people wey wan rule,simple details they can’t pay attention

obiekunie01:
I know even open the topic before i know say they will iGBOS.

BLESSED PEOPLE!

this one jumped into conclusion break for leg.as a no come be Igbo now na marginalization abi

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Allow Igbos to rule Nigeria for just 4 years and see how "Japan" and "China" will emerge out of Nigeria. I am not joking, give PO the opportunity and taste good life for once.

Why must you rule Nigeria before you can be brilliant? What happened to your states?

What did Obi do as governor apart from brewery?

Kemetian:
Why must you rule Nigeria before you can be brilliant? What happened to your states?

What did Obi do as governor apart from brewery?

Rossik you have become something else. You have fully entered the prism of tribalism despite the deceit of claiming pan Africa.

You delve into history proclaiming the richness of Africans but while as a Nigerian you live, dine with division and play tribal politics.

Why don't you congratulate the kids and be proud of what Blacks have achieved in this competition against Asian, Europeans and others by winning the competition

Because they are our neigbours from the East ?

Very shameful

One of the reasons why they will sacrifice even their parents and children to ensure that Igbos Biafra does not materialise. Una wan dominate the entire Africa through Biafra bah?

How others for Nigeria go take qualify for any international competition ahead of Biafra if igbos are given Biafra?

DatNiggaDaz:


Rossik you have become something else. You have fully entered the prism of tribalism despite the deceit of claiming pan Africa.

You delve into history proclaiming the richness of Africans but while as a Nigerian you live, dine with division and play tribal politics.

Why don't you congratulate the kids and be proud of what Blacks have achieved in this competition against Asian, Europeans and others by winning the competition

Because they are our neigbours from the East ?

Very shameful

There is a difference between rossik and kemetian.

obiekunie01:
I know even open the topic before i know say they will iGBOS.

BLESSED PEOPLE!

are you igbo?

Complaints to or against moderators must be sent privately.

Sirmwill:
Igbo Amaka

IGBOS are Excelling in everything they do


Before you spew Trash
I am not even IGBO

JSYK

"in everything they do"?

does that mean that all igbos are successful?

It's always them very good

Seun please find the attached documents

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Allow Igbos to rule Nigeria for just 4 years and see how "Japan" and "China" will emerge out of Nigeria. I am not joking, give PO the opportunity and taste good life for once.

Allowing Igbos or even people from my village or any other tribe wey no rule Nigeria...nothing go change.

It takes time to be an industrial economy. LIke a generation. And unless you want a dictator like Park OF korea, Deng of China, even LKY of Singapore, or consistency over the decades, you won't get there.

Has any Igbo governor, or for that matter any other Nigerian governor turned his state into China and Japan? Dem go do am for Nigeria, where most people, Igbos included, want daily bread now. Is it a country where people love palliatives, and laugh at leaders who bring long term plans...that go become like china and japan in one term?

Such a country ends up with leaders like tinubu. Simple and short. Even Obi...how many industries that can export consumer goods to the world did he site in Anambra? Same thing for tinubu, and even buhari and gej, and many of our past leaders self?

Do you even know how long it took China and Japan to get to where they are?Decades. Decades.

Did you say tech?
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Hope they receive their 100k dollars...no be only sports suppose deserve am

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Wow this is amazing for representing the country and putting Nigeria 🇳🇬 on the global map in terms of good things, as for those of you who are quickly to input tribe in everything, remember one fact. In diaspora nobody care about your tribe what they know you for is your nationality which is Nigerian.

Great100000:
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Lolz
See how the state was mentioned.
Until it become drug related issues or crime and the state will be totally ignored so as to use it to bash our other neighbours cos they bear similar names.
nairaland u can do better.

I expect the biased mods to remove this my comment and suspend me again as usual

Nigerians are talented, na corrupt politicians dey drag us backward.





Congratulations to the girls.

Congratulations to them we hope they do better next time we are winning Nigeria is winning

nairalanda1:


Allowing Igbos or even people from my village or any other tribe wey no rule Nigeria...nothing go change.

It takes time to be an industrial economy. LIke a generation. And unless you want a dictator like Park OF korea, Deng of China, even LKY of Singapore, or consistency over the decades, you won't get there.

Has any Igbo governor, or for that matter any other Nigerian governor turned his state into China and Japan? Dem go do am for Nigeria, where most people, Igbos included, want daily bread now. Is it a country where people love palliatives, and laugh at leaders who bring long term plans...that go become like china and japan in one term?

Such a country ends up with leaders like tinubu. Simple and short. Even Obi...how many industries that can export consumer goods to the world did he site in Anambra? Same thing for tinubu, and even buhari and gej, and many of our past leaders self?

Do you even know how long it took China and Japan to get to where they are?Decades. Decades.

Nobody is against long term plan.
Let us see the template and see you follow it.
Not u spending half of ur 4years in france or london, buying new private jet and spending billions wastefully and then u are telling us long term plan.
Nigerians want you as our leader to also follow the long term plan and then we will key into it.
Not all these suffer small while you and your gang waste billion upon billions

obiekunie01:
I know even open the topic before i know say they will iGBOS.

BLESSED PEOPLE!

Ikwere actually.

Forty character needed
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OredoPikin:
Nobody is against long term plan.
Let us see the template and see you follow it.
Not u spending half of years in france or london, buying new private jet and spending billions wasteful and then u are telling us abeg long term plan.
Nigerians want to you as leader also following the long term plan and then we key into it.
Not all these suffer small while you and your gang waste billion upon billions

The guy I quoted said 4 years...not possible.

Look, I know Nigerians, Igbos included. Most of you want daily bread, not long term development plans.

Plus, industrialization takes decades.

I don't support tinubu, never voted for him,and we should remove him, but I am tired of leaders that do nothing about our oil dependency, and yes, that includes both tinubu and obi.

Igbos always excel and shine where merit is observed. 👍💪

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Allow Igbos to rule Nigeria for just 4 years and see how "Japan" and "China" will emerge out of Nigeria. I am not joking, give PO the opportunity and taste good life for once.

I support this
We will wholeheartedly allow and support Umahi, Soludo or Mba (Enugu State governor) to rule Nigeria not just for 4 years but 8 years.