The Story Teller Blog in an article which can be read here, wrote exclusively how some Nigerians living in Diaspora are painting Nigeria in a good light and excelling in their chosen careers.
Nigerians are breaking more grounds in the field of Technology, Media,and Medicine.
A Team of 5 Teenage Nigerians led by Uchenna Onwuamaegbu Ugwu defeated representatives of other technological giants including the USA, Spain, Turkey, Uzbekistan and China to clinch the gold medal at the just concluded World Technovation Challenge in the Silicon Valley in San Francisco, USA.
The event which saw participants from over 115 countries with only 12 teams making it to the finals, had Promise Nnalue, Jessica Osita, Nwabuaku Ossai, Adaeze Onuigbo and Vivian Okoye of the Regina Paies Secondary School, Onitsha, Anambra State, representing Nigeria and beating other Technologically advanced competitors to emerge champions.
Again, Nigeria has prov en to be the giant of Africa and the world at large.
The world champions who are reported to be attracting a lot of attention in the world's greatest technological hub won the Challenge with a mobile application called the FD-Detector which they developed to help tackle the Challenge of fake pharmaceutical products in Nigeria.
Under the tutelage of Uchenna Onwuamaegbu-Ugwu the CEO of Edufun Technik STEM, the Teenagers spent five months researching and developing FD-Detector which swept through over 2000 competing applications to get to the finals in San Francisco.
Technovation is a programme that offers girls around the world the opportunity to learn the programming skills they need to emerge as tech-entrepreneurs and leaders.
Every year, girls are invited to identify a problem in their communities, and then challenge them to solve them by developing Android applications that would address those problems.
The girls will also be attending Field trips, life-changing workshops including a networking session during their one week stay in USA.
The Governor of Anambra State, Chief Willie Obiano had personally sent them off to the US in a brief ceremony at the last Executive Council Meeting where he charged the girls to put Nigeria and Africa on the global technological map with their rare talent.
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