Top 5 Nigerian Women Inventors

2. Virtue Oboro

Invention & tech:

She developed Crib A’Glow, a solar-powered, LED-lit portable crib that treats neonatal jaundice (in newborns) by using special light therapy in low-resource settings.

Why “strange/unusual”:

A baby crib turned into a medical device for phototherapy is quite inventive; combining solar power, LEDs and neonatal care in one.

Why it matters:

In many rural/under-resourced hospitals in Nigeria, access to standard phototherapy units is limited; this innovation addresses that gap.

Details:

She is founder/co-founder of Tiny Hearts Technology and the device was patented in 2017.