Winners have emerged at the national 2017 Nestle/Milo Secondary School Basketball Championship, the 19th edition held on June 21 at the Indoor Sports Hall, National Stadium, Surulere, Lagos State.
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The 2017 PositiveNaija Annual Essay Competition aims to encourage Nigerian patriotism, nation building as well as a platform for excellence!
Title of Essay: HOW GREAT IS NIGERIA!
Objective: Inform the world through your essay, what genuinely makes Nigeria a great country today, which every Nigerian and Non-Nigerians should be proud of.
Eligibility
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Adeniyi Kolade launches his fourth game and first entrepreneurial board and card game, Entrump6 – designed to promote entrepreneurial attitude for both impact and profit at the Alexander Brown Hall, University College Hospital, Ibadan Oyo State.
According to Adeniyi Kolade:
“For the business entrepreneur, the primary goal is to make profit through pursuit of opportunity, while for the social entrepreneur; the primary goal is to make impact through problem solving and value creation.
Entrump6 is a board and a card game designed to promote entrepreneurial attitude for both impact and profit. It is logically crafted to demonstrate entrepreneurship realities with respect to attributes of, and challenges faced by entrepreneurs within the entrepreneurship ecosystem, and largely, traits exhibited by successful entrepreneurs.
Support for entrepreneurship is a crucial strategy for national transformation and economic development through problem solving and opportunity finding respectively. Entrump6 is an entrepreneurship-based game designed to project these realities.”
The MARKETING EDGE Brands and Advertising Excellence Award provides a unique platform for robust intellectual engagement as well as honours practitioners for their commitment to excellence in the field of branding and marketing.
Outstanding Young PR agency of the Year – Modion Communications
Financial Brand of the Decade – United Bank for Africa Plc (UBA)
Marketing Personality of the Decade – Bunmi Oke, Chief Operating Officer and Executive Director, 141Wordwide and Tunji Olugbodi, Executive Vice Chairman of Verdant Zeal Group
Lifetime Marketing Achievement – Ekwunife Okoli
Telecoms Brand Leadership Award- MTN
Outstanding Customer-Centric Telecoms Brand of the Year – Airtel
Innovative Telecom Brand of the Year- Etisalat
Outstanding Dairy Brand of the Year – Peak Milk
Outstanding Brand Re-Launch of the Year – Union Bank
Outstanding Cola Brand of the Decade – Coca-Cola
Media Advertising Personality of the Year – Emeka Okeke
16-year-old Adedipe Oluwatosin, an SSS III student from Shepherd International School, Ado-Ekiti has been crowned Young Scientist of the Year [2017], after winning the Young Nigerian Scientist Presidential Award at a ceremony held at Eagle’s Square, Abuja.
Adedipe Oluwatosin emerged best at a competition organised by the Federal Ministry of Science and Technology, out of a total of 774 candidates (drawn from all the local government areas in the country) who participated both at the preliminary and the final stages.
In recognition of this achievement, the Ekiti State Government very recently awarded a cash prize of 2.5 million Naira to Adedipe as well as an annual scholarship grant of 1million Naira per annum for a period of four years as funding for his undergraduate studies.
Dr. Edward Nkwegu has been presented the prestigious African Child Prize Award 2017 for Leadership in Development of the African Child for meritorious activities in children and women empowerment.
According to Owosakponome Donaldson, representative of the African Child Foundation:
The awards commemorate the 2017 International Day of the African Child (June 16), organised by the African Child Foundation, in Lagos.
The International Day of the African Child was first established by the Organisation of the African Unity (OAU) in 1991 and aims at raising awareness for the situation of children in African, as well as on the need for continuing improvement in education. It also encouraged people’s spirit of abundance to share something special with a child in Africa.
Remita has been honoured as the Most Innovative Mobile Payment Solution of the Year at the DigitalPay Expo Awards 2017 in recognition of its contributions to the improvement of the payments processing experiences of individuals and businesses in Nigeria, through the innovation introduced by its Remita Mobile App.
According to the organisers of the awards, the recognition was bestowed on Remita because it provides “the most user-friendly payment application interface and accuracy in transactions settlements”.