Top 5 Nigerian Women Inventors

3. Omowunmi Sadik

Invention & tech: She developed microelectrode biosensors capable of detecting drugs and explosives, and works in nanotechnology and environmental sensing.

Why “strange/unusual”: Biosensors for detecting explosives is not something you commonly associate with Nigerian inventors; the technology is very advanced, niche, and unusual in context.

Why it matters: This kind of detection tech has implications for security, environmental clean-up (metal-ion recycling), diagnostics.

Details: She is a Nigerian-American professor and inventor, with numerous patents.