Gombe State Governor's Son Wins Academic Award

Ali Galadima 

Son of Gombe State Governor, Muhammed Dankwambo, alongside his teammates; Yunjing li, Sneha Sunkara, Fiza Hussain, Yat Hung and Qotrun Nada Haroen from the University of Warwick, Warwick Business School, London, has won the inaugural SWIFT Institute Challenge, a competition asking students to submit solutions to financial service industry challenges.

This was contained in a statement distributed to newsmen yesterday in Gombe by Chairman, Media and Publicity Committee for Dankwambo 2015, Re-election Campaign Organisation; Dahiru Hassan Kera.

The son of Gombe State Governor won the SWIFT Institute Challenge competition organised by the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) Forum, London.

He said the winning team, presented as ‘HADU’ emerged winners after they overwhelmingly beat six other groups, winning a GBP prize of £15,000 and a trip to Sibos SWIFT’s annual financial services event held in Geneva this September and another opportunity to pitch and showcase their developed solution at the upcoming conference in Switzerland.

Presenting the cheque, Harriett Baldwin, Economic Secretary to the Treasury, City Minister, had said, “Innovation in payments solves real-world problems and has the ability to change how we, as consumers, interact with our money. That’s why it’s so exciting to see the projects from today’s SWIFT competition teams looking at how we can make remittances easier, cheaper and more efficient for people in the UK and around the world.”

Source: http://www.leadership.ng/news/523520/gov-dankwambos-son-wins-academic-award