L-R: Henry Lamba, Winner, Falling Walls Lab Ibadan 2026; Charlotte Meyn, chief organiser,Falling Walls Ibadan, Lektoren program, DAAD
Henry Lamba, a 28-year old Masters student in Energy Engineering from Bayero University, Kano has emerged as a winner of the Falling Walls Lab Ibadan 2026 pitch competition, where he demonstrated a solar-powered potable water filtration device to solve water contamination.
He will be representing Nigeria at the finale in Berlin.
Innovative solution to safe drinking water
In his pitch titled, “Breaking the Wall of Microbial Water Contamination,” Lamba introduced the RienLIGHT Water Box, developed by his start-up, Schrödinger Technologie Ltd., which purifies 10 liters of water within just 90 seconds of operation, removing 99.9 percent of microorganisms from the water.
