TechOff, Nigeria’s leading platform for discovering, amplifying, and empowering hidden and emerging tech talent, has concluded with Maxwell Oba-Joshua emerging as the grand winner of the year 2025 competition.
The event brought together young innovators, industry leaders, mentors, and partners to spotlight practical and technology-driven solutions to real-world challenges.
Maxwell Oba-Joshua emerged as the overall winner with “Message Queue,” an innovation designed to help organisations and individuals better prioritise, organise, and manage information and tasks more efficiently.
The solution seeks to reduce the chaos and inefficiency that often come with information overload by helping users focus on what matters most. Speaking after his win, he expressed excitement and gratitude to TechOff for providing him with the platform to bring his idea to life.
“I am full of joy to emerge as the overall winner. More importantly, I am grateful to TechOff for discovering, sharpening my creativity and empowering me to build an innovation like Message Queue to add value to humanity,” he said.
Happiness Obochi Adah finished in second place with CortexDB, an AI-powered solution designed to help users interact with, organise, and retrieve information from databases more easily and intelligently. By simplifying how people access and make sense of data, the innovation seeks to improve productivity and decision-making, particularly for individuals and organisations without advanced technical expertise.
Princess Enuma came third with “Sorted Table,” a database solution designed to make data storage, organisation, and retrieval simpler and more accessible. The platform aims to help students, small businesses, and organisations manage information more efficiently through a more intuitive and user-friendly approach.
Speaking at the event, TechOff Founder, Sosanya Olumide Dickson reiterated the TechOff’s mission to transform hidden tech talent into visible innovators.
“TechOff exists to ensure that talented builders are not limited by geography, visibility, or access. Too often, brilliant innovators remain unseen simply because they are not in the right city, network, or room. We are building a platform that changes the game by providing emerging tech talents with the visibility, mentorship, and opportunities they need to thrive,” he said.
The 2025 edition further reinforces TechOff’s growing role as a platform for discovering and spotlighting unseen innovators across Nigeria.
Since its inception, TechOff has engaged over 800 participants and tech enthusiasts, mobilised more than 20 industry experts, and partnered with about 7 organisations. TechOff has also distributed more than ₦2 million in prizes and support for talents with the most exceptional creativity.
As TechOff prepares for its 2026 edition under the theme, “Everyone Can Build,” the platform aims to expand across multiple cities and empower an even broader community of AI-powered builders, creators, students, entrepreneurs, and innovators.
