Acting President Yemi Osinbajo has congratulated the Nigerian team that won the 2018 Technovation World Pitch Challenge in California, United States of America (USA).
Osinbajo, in a congratulatory message he posted on Twitter, wrote, “Congratulations! We are very proud of you.”
These young ladies in Junior Secondary School, developed a mobile application called ‘FD Detector’ to tackle the problems of fake pharmaceutical products in Nigeria.
Yesterday, they won the 2018 Technovation World Pitch in California.
Congratulations! We are very proud of you. pic.twitter.com/SFFVvP88JB
— Prof Yemi Osinbajo (@ProfOsinbajo) August 10, 2018
The female team made up of five students of Regina Pacis College, Anambra State beat off competition from teams from the United States of America, Spain, Turkey, Uzbekistan and China to emerge winners.
The team, code-named Save-A-Soul, developed a mobile application called FD Detector to tackle the problem of fake pharmaceutical products in the country.
They had argued that Nigeria has the largest market for fake drugs, and they plan to partner with the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) using the app, to tackle the challenge.
The team in July had won the Africa regional competition in Abuja, after which their app was selected to represent Africa.
Technovation is a programme that invites girls to identify a problem in their communities and then challenge them to solve them by developing apps.
