What are some Nigeria inventions?

Answer 1

Mohammed Bah Abbah

His 2001 invention of a refrigerating device that doesn't use electricity using a simple law of physics, Heat of Evaporation. A small earthenware pot placed inside a large one. The space between the two is then filled with moist sand. Food items to be preserved are then put in the inner smaller pot i.e. fruits, soft drinks, vegetable and a wet cloth cover the whole setup. Then as the water in the moist sand evaporates through the larger pot, it carries heat away from the inner core of the whole contraption. A recipient of the Rolex Award for Enterprise, Abbah, 37 hails from a family of pot makers. He is using his $75,000 award to make the invention available throughout Nigeria. Philip Emeagwali

Nigerian born Dr. Philip Emeagwali first entered the limelight in 1989 when he won the prestigious Gordon Bell Prize for his work with massively parallel computers. He programmed the Connection Machine to compute a world record 3.1 billion calculations per second using 65,536 processors to simulate oil reservoirs. With over 41 inventions submitted to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Philip Emeagwali is making big waves in the supercomputer industry, amazing achievements only surpassed by an even more amazing life.