OPay, a leading fintech company in Nigeria, has announced the selection of the top 48 teams for the next stage of the OPay National Innovation Challenge, following an overwhelming response from students across Nigeria.
The National Innovation Challenge is one of the three flagship initiatives under the newly expanded OPay Scholars Programme, alongside the N1.2bn, 10-year scholarship initiative and OPay Futures. The programme reflects OPay’s long-term commitment to supporting education, innovation, digital skills development and youth empowerment across Nigeria.
In a bid to win a share of the N18m prize pool, receive career mentorship from industry leaders, and gain access to learning opportunities designed to help them build practical technology-driven solutions to real-world challenges, applications for the National Innovation Challenge opened on 25 May and closed on 3 July, attracting more than 2,200 team applications from over 11,000 undergraduate students representing tertiary institutions across the country.
Following a rigorous first-round
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