IBI (The Birth), Nimbe, Dear Bayo And Unseen Treasure Win 2019 UK Nollywood Film Festival (UKNFF) Awards

Nigerian movies: IBI (The Birth), Nimbe, Dear Bayo and Unseen Treasure, have been adjudged the best films in the United Kingdom (UK) at the 2019 UK Nollywood Film Festival (UKNFF), organized by the UK Nollywood Producers Guild.

A statement signed and issued on the 13th of October 2019 by Mr. Malcolm Benson, President, UK Nollywood Producers Guild, stated that IBI (The Birth) was adjudged the Best Indigenous (Native language) Feature Film, it also emerged Best Feature Film 2019.

Dear Bayo, won the Jury’s award, as the Unseen Treasure, emerged the best in Best Short film category, while Diced was declared the best script.

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Call For Entries: Hult Prize UNIPORT On Campus Challenge 2020

The University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT) is pleased to announce its hosting of the Hult Prize On Campus Program 2020 and calls for inspiring, innovative and bold ideas from the students of the University of Port Harcourt towards building sustainable and positively impactful business startups.

The Hult Prize is a global student competition, which annually issues a big bold challenge aligned with a large market opportunity inspiring students from over 100 countries to solve critical problems.

The theme of the 2020 Hult Prize Challenge is “Building Startups That Have A Positive Impact On Our Planet With Every Dollar Earned” with the overall team winner receiving a seed fund of $1 million (USD) to fund their idea.

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The Hult Prize On Campus is therefore a preliminary and key program of the Hult Prize Challenge, which gives students an opportunity to host local Hult Prize programs on their university campus, including an on Campus final round afterwards, the Regional Finals rounds of the competition, etc.

The UNIPORT Hult Prize On Campus Program seeks teams consisting of 3-4 current students from the university including all undergraduate, graduate, Ph.D programs and departments.

The benefits of participating in the program includes: mentorship of competitors by professionals; special workshop training for all competitiors; etc. as well as a chance to win the $1 million (USD) grand prize to implement your idea.

Register Now for the UNIPORT On Campus Program 2020

Online Registration: 25 September 2019 – 15 October 2019 (now extended to 18 October 2019)

Registration link: http://bit.ly/HPUP20Application

 

For more information on the 2020 Hult Prize Challenge and the UNIPORT Hult Prize On Campus Program, kindly see the following brochures as follows.

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Augustina Armstrong-Ogbonna Wins 2019 Anna Politkovskaya Media Award

Augustina Armstrong-Ogbonna has won the 2019 Anna Politkovskaya media award for several of her publications on environmental issues.

Nigerian journalist, Augustina Armstrong-Ogbonna, has earned a spot as one of the most courageous women whose passion has led her to report stories that impact and demand change as it affects the lower class people of the society.

Augustina was on October 4 [2019] recognised for her courage and passion in Italy as she was awarded the prestigious Anna Politkovskaya award in recognition of her great work.

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Chiniki Guard Wins Best AI Startup Award At 2019 GITEX Future Stars Competition

Chiniki Guard, a Nigerian Information Communication Technology (ICT) start-up application, has won the best prize of $10,000 in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) category competition at the Gulf Information Technology Exhibition (GITEX), which held in Dubai.

Chiniki Guard is an artificial intelligence security solution for retail stores and supermarkets, designed to monitor, detect and alert shop owners about shoplifting and suspicious behaviour in real time.

Chiniki Guard was among the 34 start-ups in the category of the Supanova finalists at the GITEX Future stars competition.

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Winners Of 2019 PwC Media Excellence Awards

Winners have emerged at the 2019 PwC Media Excellence Awards.

The PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Media Excellence Awards celebrates and rewards excellence in business reporting in Nigeria. The competition is open to professional journalists on a full time employment or freelancers, working in Nigeria, who have produced a story that falls within the categories covered by the award and that is available on a platform whose primary audience is Nigeria.

The journalists selected in each category by the panel of judges are named the Journalist of the year in that category and receive a cash prize of 500,000 Naira.

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Team Nigeria Wins Inaugural Middle East Africa Rugby League

Nigeria’s national rugby league team have won the inaugural Middle East Africa Rugby League by beating Morocco 38 to 16 in the final of the championship played at TBS Cricket Ground, Lagos.

The championship, the first of its kind in Africa, featured four countries, including Ghana, Cameroun, Morocco and host Nigeria.

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Grace Garba Emerges First NAF Female Air Warrant Officer

Sadique Abubakar, the Chief of the Air Staff (CAS), has approved the promotion of Grace Garba, a Master Warrant Officer (MWO), to the rank of Air Warrant Officer (AWO) in the Nigerian Air Force (NAF).

Ibikunle Daramola, an air commodore and director of public relations for the Nigerian Air Force, announced this in a statement on October 1, 2019 in Abuja.

He said with the promotion, MWO Garba becomes the first female senior non-commissioned officer (SNCO) to be promoted to the highest rank in the non-commissioned officers’ cadre in the Armed Forces of Nigeria.

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