A Nigerian man David Odiabo has died in the United States a week after winning a contract worth $125m.
His brother, Stephen Odiabo who announced his death via his LinkedIn page revealed that his brother didn’t have covid but died of heart attack in his sleep.
The contract which he won from the Departmentog Homeland Security was from the Algorithm he wrote for detecting threats at airports.
He added that his brother had a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and obtained the post of Kaggle Grandmaster, the highest attainable skill in practical Machine Learning.
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Odiabo, in his final remarks, said he is comforted that his brother David is resting in the bossom of the Lord Jesus Christ.