Nigerian pharmacist beats 4,500 contestants across the world to win BNP Paribas’ award
Adebayo Alonge, a Nigerian pharmacist, CEO and founder of RxAll has emerged the winner of 2019 Hello Tomorrow Global Challenge, organised by BNP HB.
Alonge defeated 4,500 contenders from 119 nations across the globe to become the winner with his invention – nano-scanners that detect fake drugs. He is the first-ever African to win this contest.
A Nigerian pharmacist representing Africa in France, Adebayo Alonge has defeated 119 countries in tech startups to emerge winner of 2019 BNP Parisbas Tech Award. Adebayo won by inventing nano-scanners that detects fake drugs in real-time. First African to win the Hello Tomorrow.
Alonge’s motivation: Alonge founded his company, RxAll in 2017 based on an experience that almost took his life in the past. 15 years ago, he had taken a fake drug that almost killed him. Due to the high rate of influx of fake drugs in the market, he decided to develop a platform that can help with authenticating drugs.
Alonge won the €100K Prize for inventing the handheld nano-scanners that detect fake drugs in real-time. It’s called the RxScanner, the World’s First Drug Authenticator.
More about RxAll: RxAll is a digital platform that enables anyone to test the quality of their drugs using a proprietary IoT nano scanner and mobile app. The machine reads the scan from the IoT nano scanner, identifies the drug and assesses its level of quality. Afterwards, it records the test result and returns the quality report to the mobile app in 20 seconds.
Alonge’s background: Alonge had his secondary school education at King’s College Lagos before going on to study Pharmacy at the University of Ibadan. He also went on to bag a business degree from Yale, thereby making him a certified market development professional.
What you should know: Hello Tomorrow was created in 2013 by deepTech entrepreneurs, Xavier Duportet and Arnaud De La Tour. It is known as the world’s best deepTech conference for scientists, technologists and their enablers. Every year, scientists and entrepreneurs all over the globe come together to contest for equity-free prize money as well as other funding opportunities and global visibility.

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Xenophobia: South Africa speaks on ‘cutting’ bilateral ties with Nigeria



The South African Acting High Commissioner to Nigeria, Amb Bobby Moroe, on Sunday said his country will not cut bilateral ties with Nigeria.

He said his country remained committed to strengthening bilateral ties with Nigeria.

Moroe told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Abuja that the relationship between Nigeria and South Africa would remain strong and on course.

The envoy said President Muhammadu Buhari and his South African counterpart, Cyril Ramaphosa, were expected to meet in October to discuss modalities to address attacks on Nigerians living in that country.

Meanwhile, in a statement by Khusela Diko, spokesperson to the President, the South African Government said President Buhari’s state visit would reinforce the bond between both countries.

Diko stated that the visit, next month, would further strengthen their bond and jointly develop responses to challenges affecting people and businesses in South Africa and Nigeria.


According to him, President Cyril Ramaphosa held discussions, on Sept. 6, with Nigeria’s Special Envoy, Amb. Ahmed Abubakar, on violence in South Africa and developments in Nigeria around South African businesses.

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Adebayo Alonge

When it comes to drugs, of course, we know where names like this appear and where the other types of names are leading.

Thank you Adebayo Alonge for making Nigeria proud.

Alonge defeated 4,500 contenders from 119 nations across the globe to become the winner with his invention – nano-scanners that detect fake drugs. He is the first-ever African to win this contest.
A Nigerian pharmacist representing Africa in France, Adebayo Alonge has defeated 119 countries in tech startups to emerge winner of 2019 BNP Parisbas Tech Award. Adebayo won by inventing nano-scanners that detects fake drugs in real-time. First African to win the

This looks like that scam, we fell for a month ago o

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Tolexander:
This looks like that scam, we fell for a month ago o

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Of course it is a scam since Adebayo Alonge cannot by any stretch of the imagination come from that other side.

I was expecting him to be igbo considering the vast experience they have in International drug related experiments

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Simplyleo:
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Of course it is a scam since Adebayo Alonge cannot by any stretch of the imagination come from that other side. [/s]

hello young man.
You had better effed off my mention, if you don’t want the big time trouble this afternoon!