Seven start-ups get $21,000 to curb COVID-19 spread

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The challenge was organised by Ventures Platform and supported by MTN, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) and Lagos State Science and Research Innovation Council (LASRIC). StartUps COVID19 NCDC LASRIC MTN

spread of the pandemic in Nigeria have received $3,000 each from the #COVID-19 Innovation Challenge Virtual Demo Day.

A statement by Ventures Platform Communication Lead, Joy Mabia, yesterday, revealed that the seven start-ups received $3,000 equity-free grant each from Ventures Platform and its partners – Loftyinc Allied Partners, Silverchip Fox Consulting, Bluechip Technologies, AGS Tribe, ACIOE, Lakunle Runsewe, Manasseh Egedegbe, Venture Garden Group, Nigeria Economic Summit Group , Sterling Bank and LASRIC, though $1,000 was initially announced at the call for application.

Also speaking on the collaboration, the NCDC Director-General, Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu, expressed gratitude to Ventures Platform, MTN, and LASRIC for supporting in mobilising innovative tech solutions to strengthen the national response to COVID-19, adding that a whole-of-society approach is required to flatten the curve and enable gradual re-opening of the economy.

ActionAid Communications Coordinator, Lola Ayanda, stated in Abuja yesterday that the enforcement had been taken over by some unpatriotic security agents to perpetrate human rights abuses.

 

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