Professor Florence Obi Emerges First Female Vice-Chancellor Of University Of Calabar (UNICAL)

Professor Florence Obi has emerged the first female Vice-Chancellor of the University of Calabar (UNICAL) in its 45-year-old history.

Professor Florence Obi of the Faculty of Education is to succeed Professor Zana Akpagu, whose tenure would elapse on November 30 [2020].

The choice of Professor Florence Obi was announced on the 11th of September 2020 by the 12th Governing Council of the university as the 11th Vice Chancellor-elect at the UNICAL Hotel in Calabar after emerging winner out of 13 contestants.

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ColdHubs Emerges Sustainable And Healthy Food For All Winner At 2020 Mohammed Bin Rashid Initiative For Global Prosperity

ColdHubs Limited has emerged Sustainable and Healthy Food For All winner at the 2020 Mohammed Bin Rashid Initiative For Global Prosperity (Cohort 2).

Nnaemeka Ikegwuonu’s ColdHubs is among four companies to win a $1 million (Dh3.67 million) Global Maker Challenge innovation prize set up by Mohammed bin Rashid Initiative for Global Prosperity.

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ColdHubs Limited Wins 2020 Cooling As A Service (CaaS) Prize

ColdHubs Limited has been selected as the winner of the 2020 Cooling as a Service (CaaS) Prize for their exemplary CaaS model that saved 20,400 tons of food from spoilage in 2019 alone.

The runners-up were Energy Partners and Maxwell & Spark.

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Moses Inwang Wins ‘Best Director’ & ‘Best International’ At The 2020 The People’s Film Festival (TPFF)

Moses Inwang has won the ‘Best Director’ and ‘Best International’ awards at the 2020 The People’s Film Festival (TPFF) for his movie, ‘Cold Feet’.

Other winners include: ‘The Meeting That Shaped Amerikkka’ (Kristopher Adams, Joshua Austin) for Best Feature Film; ‘The Reading’ (Garrick Wade) for Best Short Film; ‘Ruth Maingi – Poker (Dancurf Brown of Kenya) for Best Actress.

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‘The New Normal’ Wins Best International Narrative At 24th American Black Film Festival (ABFF) Awards

‘The New Normal’ has emerged winner of the Best International Narrative Features category at the 24th American Black Film Festival (ABFF) awards.

The 24th American Black Film Festival (ABFF) Awards ceremony, which was held online, took place from August 21-30, 2020.

The international narrative features category is a competitive section for feature-length films directed by or written and produced by persons of African descent. The cash prize is $2,500.

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Union Systems Limited Launches ‘Optimus’ – The First Multibank International Trade Finance Portal In Nigeria

Union Systems Limited has announced the launch of its new product (Optimus), which is the first multibank international trade finance portal in Nigeria.

Optimus is a cloud-based application, which enables corporates to initiate, process, and manage all international trade transactions across their banks from a single portal.

It empowers corporates to have a consolidated view of all their trade transactions with different banks without having to visit the banking hall.

Corporates can collaborate and communicate with their teams, suppliers, bankers and other relevant stakeholders in the trade finance value-chain from anywhere in the world. It is available on both the web and mobile channels.

Optimus eliminates the hassle of corporates having to log in to many bank portals to initiate trade transactions with different banks as these transactions can now be made and monitored from a single Portal.

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Okwubi Godwin Adah Wins Poets In Nigeria (PIN) 2020 Nigerian Students Poetry Prize

Okwubi Godwin Adah has emerged the overall winner of the Poets in Nigeria (PIN) 2020 Nigerian Students Poetry Prize announced at an award ceremony at Virgin Rose Resorts, Victoria Island, Lagos.

Okwubi Godwin Adah, a 400-level student of Anatomy, University of Benin, won the first prize with his poem titled ‘The House That Built Me’.

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