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Winners Of 2020 ASME Innovation Showcase (ISHOW)

Winners have emerged from the 2020 ASME Innovation Showcase with three inventors from Nigeria and Nigeria emerging as regional winners.

The three winners are: MicroFuse Technologies [Nigeria] and Ecobora Company;  Inteco Kenya Ltd [Kenya].

The winners receive Ksh. 3 million ($30,000) in seed grants and receive technical support to help bring their design innovations to market.

The winners emerged after eight socially minded teams of inventors from Nigeria, Kenya, and Egypt presented their design prototypes in a virtual event held between May 19-21 [2020].

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Winners Of Standard Chartered Nigeria Inaugural Women In Technology Incubator Project

Standard Chartered Nigeria has announced the winners of the first edition of its Women in Technology Incubator.

The winners are: Obiageli Aladejebi (Store Harmony Ltd); Omozino Eguh (Yumidy Services Ltd); Opeoluwa Ashimi (Promane and Promode Limited); Salamat Rahaman (Easygas Energy Solutions Ltd); and Ore-Oluwa Solana (Ibeju-Lekki Connect).

Launched in June 2019, the SC Women in Tech Incubator was established to support and promote the economic and social development of women in Nigeria through innovation or technology led entrepreneurship.

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Innocent Chizaram Ilo Emerges Regional Winner For Africa Of The 2020 Commonwealth Short Story Prize

Innocent Chizaram Ilo has emerged the regional winner for Africa of the 2020 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for his story “When a Woman Renounces Motherhood.”

23-year-old Innocent Chizaram Ilo is the youngest writer to be awarded the Africa region prize since its establishment in 2012.

He joins an illustrious line of Nigerian literary figures like Jekwu Anyaegbun who won with the entry, ‘Morrison Okoli’ in 2012; Lesley Armah who won with ‘Light’ in 2016; Akwaeke Emezi who won with ‘Who is like God’ in 2017 and Efua Traoré, with ‘True Happiness’ in 2018.

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Zenith Bank Plc Wins Global Finance Magazine Best Bank In Nigeria Award At World’s Best Banks Awards 2020

Zenith Bank Plc has emerged as the Best Bank in Nigeria in the Global Finance Magazine World’s Best Banks Awards 2020.

The awards, published in the May 2020 edition of the Global Finance Magazine, was based on the performances of the banks in their respective regions and countries over the period from January 1 to December 31, 2019.

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Reddington Hospital Performs First Open Heart Surgery

Reddington Hospital has successfully performed its first open heart surgery on a 66-year-old Oluwatoyin Adebiyi with multiple cardiac problems.

Olatunde Lalude, the hospital’s group medical director, announced the feat conducted by a team of 19 Nigerian medical experts at a press conference held on the 18th of May 2020.

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Cobhams Asuquo Appointed UNICEF National Ambassador

Cobhams Asuquo has been appointed the National Ambassador of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).

UNICEF Nigeria Representative, Peter Hawkins, announced the appointment in a statement in Kaduna on the 27th of May 2020.

Mr. Hawkins said that the appointment made the award-winning Nigerian musician, producer and songwriter, UNICEF Nigeria’s first National Ambassador in the last 15 years.

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Henry Ukomadu, Moshood Lasisi & Gabriel Shogaolu Honoured With Dag Hammarskjöld Medal

The United Nations Organization honours Henry Ukomadu, Moshood Lasisi and Gabriel Shogaolu and eighty (80) other military, police and civilian peacekeepers, who lost their lives in the line of duty in 2019 with the Dag Hammarskjöld Medal.

The fallen heroes were posthumously awarded the Dag Hammarskjöld Medal during a virtual award ceremony on the 29th of May 2020 to mark the 2020 International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers.

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