Team Credital has been declared the winner of the Redeem Christian Church of God’s Kingdom Hack. The Credital team which competed with 9 others won 1 million naira prize money. LinkUp and team Wagro were second and third respectively.

Team Credital developed a peer-peer lending platform aimed at exploring the lending marketplace in Nigeria with a bid to help accelerate the growth of small and medium scale enterprises and in turn, create a chain reaction of wealth redistribution and fight poverty in the process.

Speaking at the event, Bayo Adekanmbi, Chief Transformation Officer, MTN Nigeria, spoke about the dangers posed by poverty and its effect on national productivity as he challenged participants to position themselves as the game changers in driving the change of narrative.

Pastor Precious Akingbade, The National Young Adults and Youth Pastor of RCCG, spoke about the strength of the Youths and Young Adults as a major tool that can create wealth and reduce poverty if properly harnessed as the Redeemed Christian Church of God is currently doing.

Busola Oyefeso, CEO Tailorbricks, Kayode Adeyinka, Co-MD Jumia Ghana and  Babajide Asegbeloyin, Techspace Ecosystem Business FCMB deployed their expertise and experience to determine the winners of the event.

 

Musa Suleiman
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