Temidayo Adewoye of Perchstone & Graeyshas emerged the overall winner in the maiden edition of the Babalola’s Law Dictionary Quiz Competition for young lawyers with a ₦250,000 prize money courtesy of the firm of Olumide Babalola LP and Law Pavilion electronic report.
The Babalola’s Law Dictionary Quiz Competition for young lawyers had 10 finalists, which held at the Onikan Youth Centre, Lagos.
Prime Scholars Academy School, Karu, Abuja, has emerged winner of the fourth edition of Best Brain Concept Mathematical competition beating nine other schools who competed in the mathematics quiz.
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PositiveNaija Monthly Newsletter May 2018
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Notably, we have sought out to deduce the geographic locations (within Nigeria or abroad), which the positive/success news/updates recorded are being achieved. In other words, our aim is to be able to tell objectively, how conducive/enduring the environments are to what Nigeria/Nigerians are achieving. To do this, we determined the locations on the basis of where exactly the achievement, progress, success, etc. was done or achieved as well as will be done or achieved and not based on where an award/recognition was or is presented.
It is important to mention that most achievements by Nigeria/Nigerians achieved abroad should not be relegated as being ‘superior’ or achieved out of a ‘privileged comfortable environment’ as most of these achievements are usually first in recognition of what has been done or attained within Nigeria and as such requiring an international/global export.
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Mopileola Tomi Adewumi, graduates from the Oklahoma State University in the United States of America (USA) receiving the Winner School of Healthcare Administration, 2018 outstanding graduate student award.
In the words of Mopileola Tomi Adewumi:
“Not sure where to start all I gotta say is Thank you Lord!!!⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ ⠀
It’s been a long time coming… Today marks the end of a very long journey… very rough, humbling but exciting journey!!! I am nothing but grateful for this wonderful opportunity given to me!!! M.S. Biomedical Sciences &M.S. Healthcare Administration (2018, Outstanding Graduate Student Award Recipient). Oklahoma State University!!! One time.”
Winners have emerged at the 9th Beacon of ICT (BoICT) Awards during the 2018 Beacon of ICT Awards Distinguished Lecture series and awards ceremony, which held at Eko Hotel and Suites, Lagos.
The Beacon of ICT Awards Distinguished Lecture series and awards ceremony is organized yearly by Ken Nwogbo, the founder and Editor-in-Chief of NigeriaCommunicationsWeek, to appraise Nigeria’s information and communication technologies space, as well as reward outstanding contributions to the growth of the sector. The theme for this year’s awards was “Leveraging ICT Value for Building Institutions.”
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25-year-old Dr. Olamide Samuel has set a new record as the first African Ph.D holder in National Security Strategy. Dr. Olamide is based in the United Kingdom where he studied and graduated at University of Birmingham – Centre for Security and Intelligence Studies, UK.
“Viva passed! Officially Dr. Olamide Samuel, PhD, MA, BSc. I have a few typos to correct and I’m done!! First African PhD holder in National Security Strategy. I’m 25 so I got energy.”
Society for Family Physicians of Nigeria (SOFPON) and Sevenz Healthcare have launched KompleteCare – a mobile app aimed at reducing patient-waiting time in Nigerian hospitals. KompleteCare, can be accessed at the Google play store using a mobile phone.
Patients in public hospitals in the country spend an average of two hours before they are attended to by a doctor, according to a report.
KompleteCare app was unveiled to the public on May 18 at the University of Uyo Teaching Hospital (UUTH), Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, by the Commissioner for Health in the state, Dominic Ukpong, to mark SOFPON’s celebration of the 2018 World Family Doctor’s Day.
SOFPON said the app provides a meeting-point online between doctors and patients where consultation, examination, and drug prescription can take place, and thereby help to reduce the crowd of patients at public hospitals.
Doctors across different parts of the country are welcome to register and use the app and get paid for their services, the group said during its unveiling.
According to SOFPON:
“You’ll have to fill in your MDCN number, it will be confirmed first before you are allowed to log in as a doctor. There’s a place for doctors, and there’s a place also for the patient. The app will direct a patient on the doctor to meet – let’s say a cardiologist.
In the future, the biggest hospital will be on your mobile phone.”
Nene Andem, a consultant family physician at the Emmanuel Hospital, Eket, Akwa Ibom State, and the President of SOFPON, Uyo Zone, stated:
“Doctors sometimes do consultation on phone, and they don’t get paid for this.
With this app, doctors will now be paid for every single consultation they do. If we can get people to key into the app, it will reduce patient-waiting time in the hospitals.”
Also, a doctor at the Department of Family Medicine, UUTH, Daniel Okeke during the 2018 World Family Doctor’s Day celebration stated:
“The common challenge most patients would want to talk about if you ask them, is the waiting time; spending too much time in the hospital.
They say if you go to most of the government-owned hospital, from the time they arrive, to when they have to pay to get their cards, waiting to get their card, waiting to pay money, waiting to see to see a nurse to take their vital signs – blood pressure, weight, temperature and all that – and waiting to see the doctor. You think that ends there! After waiting to see the doctor, you still have to wait again to get some drugs from the pharmacy. And if some investigations were ordered, you have to wait at the place where the results would be collected.
The thing in the mind of most Nigerian patients is that once you are going to a public hospital, you’ll have to clear your schedule for that day. You know when you are going, but you don’t know when you are coming back.”