Category: Education & Innovation

Winners have emerged at the REEL Foundation maiden edition of the ‘Young Writers Challenge’ (YWC) in Lagos.

The Young Writers Challenge is a story writing competition, which was designed to provide an avenue for children aged 7-13 years across Nigeria to be resourcefully engaged outside the physical school environment with the goal to ignite imagination, ingenuity, promote, reward diligence and excellence.

It was on this backdrop that contestants were asked to write a story on how the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) has impacted their life or people around them and what has been learned from the experience of staying at home.

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Five teams have been selected as the winners of the Nigerian Oil and Gas Technology (NOGTECH) Hackathon sponsored by the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB).

The teams are Fuel Intellisense, Homefort Energy, Gricd Mote, Kiakia Gas and Airsynq and their projects were picked as the most innovative and bankable by judges after the 15 semifinalists made presentations on their innovations.

The three-day NOGTECH Hackathon had teams with detailed engagement with industry experts, mentors and entrepreneurs.

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Professor Florence Obi has emerged the first female Vice-Chancellor of the University of Calabar (UNICAL) in its 45-year-old history.

Professor Florence Obi of the Faculty of Education is to succeed Professor Zana Akpagu, whose tenure would elapse on November 30 [2020].

The choice of Professor Florence Obi was announced on the 11th of September 2020 by the 12th Governing Council of the university as the 11th Vice Chancellor-elect at the UNICAL Hotel in Calabar after emerging winner out of 13 contestants.

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Okwubi Godwin Adah has emerged the overall winner of the Poets in Nigeria (PIN) 2020 Nigerian Students Poetry Prize announced at an award ceremony at Virgin Rose Resorts, Victoria Island, Lagos.

Okwubi Godwin Adah, a 400-level student of Anatomy, University of Benin, won the first prize with his poem titled ‘The House That Built Me’.

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GodsWill Dickson has emerged winner of the 2020 Drucker Challenge Essay Award in the students category.

GodsWill Dickson, a student of University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) won with his essay titled: “My journal of cognitive errors: Critical Thinking for the Individual”.

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Thelma Ihenacho of Meadow Hall School has emerged global junior winner in the 2020 Wole Soyinka Essay Competition in the francophone and anglophone category.

Thelma Ihenacho receives a prize of $600.

The competition received more than 2,000 entries from more than 20 countries.

Tyrone Nkululeko Takawira from Zimbabwe of Ashesi University emerged global senior winner.

Other winners include: Toluwanimi Sonuga and Joseph Divine from Nigeria, Emily Suh from the USA, Shaoyuan Li from China, Vera Honham Anthonio from Ghana, Sampada Dahal from Nepal, and Pamphile Sassi Aubert from China/Nigeria.

The topic of the competition this year was “I AM because YOU ARE”, philosophy on the interdependence of the human family.

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A team from Covenant University, Ota Ogun State have emerged the national champion of the 2020 Enactus Nigeria leadership and entrepreneurship challenge.

Covenant University team’s Pet City project an environmental sustainability social enterprise structured to systematically remove plastic waste and nylon from the environment by recycling them into construction materials was adjudged the best at the 2020 competition. It was also adjudged the best in the 2019 edition of the competition.

The team from Covenant University by emerging national champion will be representing Nigeria, and competing with 35 other national champion teams at the Enactus World Cup 2020 in Netherlands in September 2020.

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