Nigerian Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Ibrahim Abubakar, has been awarded the 2023 Roux Prize for his “dedication to improving health outcomes over the last three decades”.
The Roux Prize is awarded by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington’s School of Medicine.
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Nigeria has emerged as the overall champion of the 2023 ITTF African Para Championships which ended on September 23, 2023, in Giza, Egypt.
Nigeria won 12 gold medals to dethrone Egypt as the new para table tennis champion in Africa. The Nigerians dominated the singles event to pick up most of the tickets to the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games.
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26-year-old Igboanugo Somadila has emerged as the best graduating student at Rostov State Medical University in Russia with a perfect cumulative grade point average of 5.0 in Medicine and Surgery.
Mike Makinde has emerged winner of the 2023 Nigeria Golf Cup Trophy on the broad Ikoyi Course with a superlative 67-net score.
He whooped five-shots off the second placed Oluwaseun Faleye to emerge winner of the 26th edition of the of the annual Nigeria Cup.
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Otobong Nkanga has emerged winner of the 2023 Nasher Prize as she receives $100,000 award and becomes a laureate at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, where curators help devise public programming, an exhibition and a published monograph.
Obari Gomba, an Associate Dean of Humanities at the University of Port Harcourt, has won the NLNG 2023 Nigerian Prize for Literature.
Gomba, a poet and playwright, who teaches Literature and Creative Writing at University of Port Harcourt, won with his Drama book, Grit.
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Mrs. Felicia Ighoroje Memorial Celebration 2023 is a series of events, organised to recognise, honor and celebrate the life, work and legacy of Mrs. Felicia Ighoroje.
The events, which reflects the life of Mrs. Felicia Ighoroje include a Bible quiz, a story telling competition and a crossword challenge – all of which are available for online participation by anyone (excluding the sponsoring family of the event).
The general Bible quiz is aimed at promoting the knowledge and consciousness of the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ through the Holy Bible.
The story writing competition aims with the theme not revealed till the set time, is aimed at promoting/celebrating good life.
The crossword challenge, celebrates the importance of education (in Nigeria).
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