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Calgary, Alberta / TheNewswire / March 6 , 2018 - NovaTeqni Corporation (" NovaTeqni " or the " Company ") (TSXV - NTQ: OTCQB - NVTQF) is pleased to anno unce that the Company has won a tender worth approximately US$2,300,000 for the supply of a cellular based mobile management system for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) to be used for digital census data collection in Burkina Faso.

NovaTeqni will soon be sending a team to Burkina Faso to co-ordinate logistics, support and skills transfer training.

The project is scheduled to complete within three and a half months.

Gerhard Mynhardt, CEO of NovaTeqni stated , "This tender is the first project with the UNFPA for NovaTeqni. NovaTeqni has worked with other branches of the United Nations and we see this as a very exciting move into new areas of business. The Company is confident that this will lead to other projects for it's mobile data collection solutions, including biometrics based solutions for accurate and convenient field data capture including remote capture of hand written forms.

About Novateqni

NovaTeqni is a technology based company that is focusing on biometrics and financial technologies. Using its management experience and developed intellectual property, NovaTeqni provides solutions and products for voter validation, voter registration, financial transactions and biometric solutions. Using its platform of products, NovaTeqni can provide clients with custom solutions for their particular industry. NovaTeqni has corporate offices in Calgary, Alberta, sales offices in Virginia Beach, Virginia, development offices in Johannesburg, South Africa and manufacturing in Hong Kong.

For further information, please contact Gerhard Mynhardt, Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation, by email at info@novateqni.com .

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