The Nigerian Maritime Management and Protection Company, NIMASA has introduced the removing of the age restriction for participation in its Nationwide Innovation Hackathon 2026, beneath the NIMASA Blue Economic system Accelerator Programme (NIMASA-BEAP), following standard call for from Nigerians looking for to take part within the initiative.
The company in a remark stated the NIMASA-BEAP software portal, which opened just lately is now to be had to all Nigerians elderly 18 years and above, irrespective of gender, ethnicity, faith or tutorial background.
“NIMASA is due to this fact urging Nigerian innovators, marketers, researchers, builders, engineers, artisans, graduates and scholars to profit from the chance and publish their packages at the portal without charge. The Nationwide Innovation Hackathon, scheduled for December 2026, is designed to spot leading edge answers to demanding situations and alternatives throughout Nigeria’s maritime and blue economic system.
“The Hackathon options 13 innovation tracks, masking spaces together with maritime generation and logistics; maritime protection, surveillance and safety; inexperienced transport and vessel decarbonisation; seafarer welfare; port digitisation; marine waste control; aquaculture and sustainable fisheries; coastal and artisanal fishing; ocean knowledge and analytics; nature-based coastal defence; marine tourism; marine biotechnology; and deep seabed mining applied sciences and analysis,” it stated.