NASENI Unveils InnovateNaija, A 250million Naira Innovation Challenge designed to Shape the Future of Nigeria’s Infrastructure

The aboriginal of Nigerian innovation is here, and it’s powered by its youth. The National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI) has officially launched the InnovateNaija Challenge, a nationwide question designed to observe and empower the country’s brightest minds.

With an impressive full prize excavation of N250 million, this contention is acceptable to go Nigeria’s largest showcase of homegrown products successful science, engineering, and manufacturing. The expansive prize victor volition beryllium awarded a whopping N100 cardinal assistance to crook their groundbreaking thought into a reality.The situation kicked disconnected connected September 4, 2025, astatine GITEX Nigeria connected the 10x Stage astatine the Landmark Event Center successful Lagos.

InnovateNaija is much than a competition; it’s a nationwide hunt for the adjacent procreation of manufacture leaders. Young Nigerians are invited to taxable their astir originative inventions and products via engaging video entries to vie for a spot successful this monumental event. Innovators tin use and find much accusation here.

The excitement volition unfold implicit 3 thrilling months, structured successful 2 dynamic phases:
Phase 1: Thirty-six innovators, 1 from each authorities and the FCT volition beryllium selected done a blend of nationalist voting and adept review. Each of these authorities winners volition unafraid a N2.5 cardinal assistance to assistance beforehand their innovations.

Phase 2: The apical 15 innovators volition gain their spot astatine the expansive finale: the NASENI Invention Fest successful Abuja successful February 2026. Here, they volition contiguous their products to a sheet of adept judges and cardinal stakeholders. The stakes are immense, arsenic the apical 3 nationalist winners volition beryllium chosen, with the eventual champion taking location the N100 cardinal assistance to standard their solution.

In parallel with the challenge, InnovateNaija marks the pre-launch of the NASENI Innovation Hub. This cutting-edge installation is designed to span the spread betwixt superb ideas and market-ready products. By providing captious infrastructure, mentorship, capableness building, and funding, the hub volition service arsenic the eventual launchpad, transforming innovators into entrepreneurs and sparking a caller epoch of collaboration and maturation successful Nigeria’s tech ecosystem.

We are committed to fostering an situation wherever these innovations tin thrive,” said Khalil Sulaiman Halilu, Executive Vice Chairman/CEO of NASENI. “The InnovateNaija Challenge is an unthinkable accidental to identify, empower, and enactment Nigeria’s astir promising young innovators. Our Innov...