By Peter Oluka
Tomisin
Jasmin Ogunnubi, a 12-year old student of Vivian Fowler Memorial College for
Girls Oregun, Lagos, under the tutelage of an ICT partnership between Vivian
Fowler Memorial College for Girls School and New Horizons Computer Learning
Centre has developed an android mobile tracking application tagged “My
Locator.”
The app
helps a user to know his geographic location, view it on the map and get
appropriately directed.
One of the
other useful attributes of the app is that it is integrated with an alert
button which when pressed in a distressed situation, calls the Lagos State
emergency service number (767), and thereby gets the chance of being rescued
from such threatening emergencies or conditions.
The app is
already uploaded online and readily available for free download in Google
Store. The performance of the likes of Tomisin has confirmed that Nigeria is
blessed with sharp and focused youths who in future, will emerge as Nigeria’s
industry captains that will become tomorrow’s entrepreneurial giants like Bill
Gates, Mack Zuckerberg, Google Boys, etc.
While
presenting the app, the school executive director, Mrs. Olufunke Fowler-Amba
expressed her joy that Vivian Fowler Memorial College for Girls has been living
to its billing as a top quality and front row IT-driven school for many years
and that the achievement by Tomisin and many other students who have equally
developed other IT solutions at different times are glaring testaments to the
fact.
She
reiterated her delight at the productive strategic international ICT
partnership which her school established with New Horizons, a US-based, world
largest international IT skills and certification training organization that
has presence in 80 Countries of the world.
Mr. Bolaji
Olaoye, general manager educational services, congratulated the proprietress,
management and generality of the esteemed school for the impressive heights the
school has been taken in education and its 21st century IT-driven stance which
guarantees that all the students mandatorily undergo training in different
international IT skills acquisition under its partnership with New Horizons.
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| With proud Dad, Adeyinka |
Olaoye said
these sets of young entrepreneurs would have been convincingly positioned with
their skills to bail the country out of its total dependence on oil and become
an IT-driven country like India, China, Singapore, Malaysia, etc that are
dominating the world’s lucrative IT market which is expected to hit 4.4
trillion Euros by 2019.
Source: nigeriacommunicationsweek.com.ng
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