Unilag students wins Google Apps Developer Challenge

Three University of Lagos (UNILAG) students, have won the Google Apps Developer Challenge for the Enterprise/Small Business Solutions category in sub-Saharan Africa.

The students: Bolutife Ogunsola, Michael Adeyeri and Willie Aniebiet, created the Form+ application software; an interface that creates application forms by just dragging and dropping components.

The user can create forms - such as curriculum vitae (CV) or résumé submission forms for businesses and coursework submission page for lecturers.

Emeka Afigbo, Program Manager, Google, stated: "Our expectation is that this motivates more young Nigerian developers to develop apps that change the way we live in Nigeria and Africa at large."

The winners were rewarded with Chromebooks and $20,000.

They also won a grant worth $18,000 for their school's department.

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UNILAG student falls victim of Facebook violence

A 21-year-old student has been hospitalised, after she was allegedly pushed down from the third floor of a building in  Lagos, following a disagreement with a man she met on the social network, Facebook.

She allegedly met a 26-year-old man (name withheld) a week earlier and last Wednesday, he invited her to a night club in Apapa from where they ended up in his family home at 1004 Estate, Victoria Island, Lagos. 

Nkiruka said on getting to the house, the man tore her dress and tried to rape her. 

She noted that the young man had earlier talked about sex on the phone prior to the outing but she told him she was menstruating.

According to Nkiruka, the man thereafter pushed her down from the third floor of the building because she refused to have sex with him. 

When contacted, the man’s mother, who was at home on the night of the incident, however said she was not aware of what happened. 

She said she slept around 10pm, while the disagreement between the couple started much later.