The Nigeria Floorball team has emerged African Champions of the First African Floorball Cup defeating Burkina Faso in Abidjan, Cote D’Ivoire to lift African trophy.
Led by the president of the Nigeria Floorball Association, Maduka Edith Chinenye, the Coach Freeman Ekundayo tutored the Nigerian team with only Seven players and three officials during the Championship.
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Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja, Nigeria has been chosen as “the best improved airport in safety” by Airports Council International, (ACI) Africa region.
Amba, an e-medical transport mobile app to reduce millions of avoidable deaths in Nigeria has been unveiled in Abuja by Doctors On Call Health Support Initiative.
Amba is an emergency response aggregator and alert system, which delivers real-time medical alerts to doctors-on-call with a view to shortening response time and providing patients with emergency care.
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De-Rabacon Plastics wins the maiden Shell Outstanding Achievement Prize in the 2018 Shell LiveWIRE Top Ten Innovators Awards.
De-Rabacon Plastics emerged winner in a competition that also saw another Nigerian firm, Alternate Energy Limited, emerge as the second runner-up in the Energy Solutions category to win a $10,000 prize money.
The two Nigerian companies are among the Top Ten Innovators from among 21 entries in a contest, which attracted over 11,000 voters from 102 countries.
Winners have emerged at The African Legal Awards 2018, which recognizes exceptional achievement from within Africa’s legal community.
The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) has been awarded the 2018 Africa Food Prize award for leadership and innovation in finding solutions to major concerns affecting Africa’s agriculture sector.
The award was given during the just concluded African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF) in Kigali. It consists of $100,000 cash prize and a trophy of recognition.
Nala, Virtual Identity and Wallet.ng have emerged winners of the 2018 Ecobank Fintech Challenge at a ceremony held in Lome, Togo.
Nala, based in Tanzania, a mobile money application that works offline, beat the ten other finalists to emerge as the winner of the competition. Virtual Identity from South Africa and Wallet.ng from Nigeria emerged first and second runners-up.
The three startups won cash prizes worth $10,0000, $7,000 and $5,000 respectively.
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