A 12-year-old pupil of Vivian Fowler
Memorial College for Girls, Lagos State, Tomisin Ogunnubi, on Tuesday
completed the development of an Android mobile tracking application
named: ‘My Locator’.
Generally the tracking app is used for the observing of persons
or objects on the move and supplying a timely ordered sequence of
respective location data to a model e.g. capable to serve for depicting
the motion on a display capability.
The Naijatechviral.com learnt that the app was immediately uploaded online and available for free download from the Google Store.
Ogunnubi’s invention confirms Facebook
Founder, Mark Zuckerberg’s statement two months ago that Nigeria was
blessed with focussed youths who in the future “will emerge as Nigeria’s
industry captains and will become tomorrow’s entrepreneurial giants
like Bill Gates and the Google boys, among others.”
Ogunnubi developed the app under the
tutelage of an Information and Communications Technology partnership
between the Vivian Fowler Memorial College for Girls and New Horizons
Computer Learning Centre.
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According to her, the app helps users to know their geographic location, view it on the map and be appropriately directed.
One of the other 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 one thereby gets the chance of being rescued from threatening
emergencies or conditions.”
The Executive Director, Vivian Fowler
Memorial College for Girls, Mrs. Olufunke Fowler-Amba, said the school
had been living to its billing as a top quality and front row
Information Technology-driven institution for many years.
“The achievements by Ogunnubi and many
other students, who had equally developed other IT solutions at
different times, are glaring testaments to the fact,” she said.
Fowler-Amba expressed delight at the
strategic ICT partnership that the school established with New Horizons,
a United States-based IT, skills, certification and training
organisation that has presence in 80 countries.
The General Manager, Educational
Services, New Horizons, Mr. Bolaji Olaoye, congratulated the school’s
management for the steps it had taken in education and its 21st century
IT-driven stance, “which guarantee that all the students mandatorily
undergo training in different international IT skills acquisition
schemes under its partnership with New Horizons.”
“In a matter of time, these set 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
€4.4tn by 2019.”
Source: PUNCH.NG
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