The 10 most memorable Nigerian tech moments of 2019

As the year comes to an end, we look at the most memorable moments in Nigeria’s technology space in 2019; a hard thing to do when the year blessed us with so many.

In no particular order, here are the 10 most memorable moments in Nigerian tech for 2019.

You can watch a video version of the list; additional details follow below

VR360’s ‘Daughters of Chibok’ wins best Virtual Reality story at the Venice Film Festival

Daughters of Chibok, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival, the oldest and one of the biggest film festivals in the world, tells the story of Yana Galang, one of the girls kidnapped in 2014 from their school in Chibok, Borno state.

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Representing Nigeria and Africa at the event alongside 12 other VR films, the documentary became the first African VR production to win at Venice.

Considering that the nascent industry may not be getting the expected attention from local investors and the government, the award appears to be very important to the industry as much…