Nigeria’s 15-Year-Old Tomisin Ogunnubi Created A Genius App To Find Lost Children

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A 15-year-old Nigerian girl’s coding skills are changing the technology sector in her country.

Tomisin Ogunnubi is the creator of My Locator, an app that helps locate missing children. She created the app in 2016 and it has been downloaded over 1000 times since it hit Google Play, according to BBC.

My Locator uses Google Maps to track users as they move from location to the next. Users can add numbers to the app that will receive the user’s location in the event of an emergency.

“It also has a functionality where when you click on an alert button. It sends a text message and makes a phone call, that’s if you’ve enabled it in your settings, to a particular number that you’ve designated to it,” said Ogunnubi.

“It could be an emergency number or it could be a family member’s number. It’s basically your choice. So in case of an emergency, when you need an urgent response, it sends your current address to that number so somebody can easily locate where you are.”

The teen learned how to code when she was 12 and wanted to create something useful.

“But it was me then as my 12-year-old self thinking, ‘Oh I’ve just learned how to create applications. How …

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