Dolphin Aquatic Centre And Dolphin Swim School Wins African Entrepreneurship Award 2018

Dolphin Aquatic Centre and Dolphin Swim School, has won a grant from the Moroccan-funded African Entrepreneurship Award for 2018.

Founder Aderoju Ope-Ajayi, 38 years old, a FINA-certified swimming instructor and coach, was one of three award recipients in the sports category funded by the BMCE Bank of Africa that is headquartered in Casablanca.

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Winners Of 2018 Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) CEO Awards

Winners have emerged at the 2018 Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) CEO Awards at a ceremony held on December 12, 2018, at the Stock Exchange House in Lagos.

Initiated in 2012, The NSE CEO Awards is designed to reward and motivate listed companies, Dealing Member Firms, Fund Managers and Issuing Houses to attain higher levels of corporate governance, compliance and performance that reinforce investor confidence in the Nigerian capital market.

This year, The Exchange enhanced the award categories from three to ten to reflect the dynamic nature of the market.

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Team TechVault Wins NIBSS Hackathon Challenge 2018

Team TechVault has emerged overall winner of the Nigerian Inter-bank Settlement System, NIBSS Hackathon Challenge 2018.

Team Petram and Team PayBeans emerged second and third positions respectively out of the thirteen groups that participated in the challenge.

The grand finale, which held in Lagos had winners receiving 1 million, 2 million and 3 million for the 3rd, 2nd and 1st Prize respectively.

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Guaranty Trust Bank Plc Wins Bank Of The Year Nigeria At The 2018 The Banker’s Bank Of The Year Awards

Guaranty Trust Bank Plc has won the award for Bank of the Year Nigeria for the second year in a row at The Banker’s Bank of the Year Awards held on November 29, 2018 at the Sheraton Grand London Park Lane, London, United Kingdom.

Guaranty Trust Bank Sierra Leone Ltd, a subsidiary of Guaranty Trust Bank Plc (GTBank), was also recognized as the Bank of the Year Sierra Leone.

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CashMadam Wins 2018 TEF Pitching Competition

CashMadam wins the 2018 Tony Elumelu Foundation, TEF Pitching Competition during the TEF Entrepreneurship Forum 2018, which took place at the Balmoral Event Centre, Federal Palace Hotel, Lagos.

Five TEF entrepreneurs took part in a pitching competition anchored by BBC News Correspondent, Mayeni Jones.

The entrepreneurs were Vital Sounovou of Exportunity (Benin Republic), Sandra Onwuekwu of Ecoprune (Nigeria), Jessica Rakotoarisa of Nomad Solar Bag (Madagascar), Mohamed Dhaouafi of Cure Medicare (Tunisia) and Mahassin Quadri of CashMadam (Nigeria).

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Winners Of Forbes Best Of Africa Awards 2018

Forbes Africa has rated Nigeria as the 2018 best economy in Africa and Benedict Peters, awarded Africa’s Oil and Gas Leader of the Year at the Forbes Best of Africa Gala, which held at Forbes Headquarters, New York City.

According to Forbes, Nigeria came top with $172 billion, which was followed by South Africa with $166.735 billion. Also on the list was Egypt as third with $78 billion, Algeria with $66 billion, Libya with $65 billion, Botswana with $22.675 billion, Ghana with $20.458 billion, Morocco with $18 billion, Ivory Coast with $11 billion and Madagascar with $6.766 billion.

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NEPC Wins World Trade Promotion Organisations (WTPO) Award [2018]

The Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC) has won the 2018 World Trade Promotion Organisations (WTPO) award in the category of the best initiative to ensure that trade are inclusive and sustainable at a ceremony in Paris, France.

The Executive Director of ITC Ms Arancha González stated that the participating Trade Promotion Organisations who responded to ITC’s invitation to compete for the awards went through a two-step rigorous assessment process, which was completely independent of ITC.

It is the first time NEPC receives a World Trade Promotion Organisations award.

NEPC works with partners across ministries, departments, agencies and private sectors to promote inclusive and sustainable non-oil export of Nigerian products.

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