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Barakat Adeoti has emerged the winner of the Real Act of Kindness Development Foundation (RAK) 2020 COVID-19 essay competition for secondary schools in Badagry, Lagos State.
17-year-old girl, Barakat Adeoti, a student of Araromi Ilogbo Senior Secondary School, Oko-Afo, won the final round of the RAK COVID-19 Essay Competition held on the 1st of July [2020] at Ajara Vetho, Badagry.
The competition was organised by a Non-Governmental Organisation, Real Act of Kindness Development Foundation.
Maduafokwa Egoagwuagwu Agnes has emerged the overall best candidate in the 2020 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) as revealed by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB).
Miss Maduafokwa Egoagwuagwu Agnes emerged as the candidate with the highest score of 365 out of 400.
She is the President of the Maths Club, and the 1st Assistant Head Girl of Louisville Girls High School Ijebu-Itele in Ogun State.
She wants to study Engineering, where she can apply mathematical concepts in solving societal challenges.
She wrote her UTME on March 14th 2020 in St Michael Otedola Education Centre in Epe, Lagos State.
Miss Maduafokwa Egoagwuagwu Agnes scored 72 in Use of English, 99 in Mathematics, 99 in Physics and 95 in Chemistry 95.
Miss Maduafokwa Egoagwuagwu applied to study Industrial Production Engineering at the prestigious University of Ibadan, Oyo State.
Winners have emerged in the 2020 SystemSpecs Children’s Day essay competition with entries received from public and private secondary schools in Nigeria.
The competition was organised to create opportunities for children from ages nine to 16 to share innovative ideas capable of driving the attainment of a sustainable, technology-driven economy in Nigeria, which would be the pride of Africa.
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The Lagos State University (LASU) has been selected by the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) as its National Partner Institute (NPI) in implementing the FISH4ACP Project.
The university also receive a partial grant of up to $95,000 towards the FISH4ACP Project (Support for the Development of Farmed Catfish Value Chain in Nigeria).
Nigerian Students have received various awards of excellence from the Cambridge Assessment International Education in the 2019 examinations.
The University of Lagos (UNILAG) has been ranked as the third (3rd) most productive school in educating entrepreneurs in an online publication by Forbes titled: “If You Want To Start A Tech-Company In Africa, Go To College.”
UNILAG was ranked alongside the University of Cape Town, South Africa, which took 1st place; Makerere University, Uganda, which came 2nd; University of Nairobi, Kenya, which came 4th and Stellenbosch University, South Africa, which took 5th place.
The article further described the University of Lagos (UNILAG) and the University of Nairobi as the “startup powerhouses of Nigeria and Kenya.”
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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