Category: Education & Innovation

14-year-old Jolaosho Oluwatoroti Otokini of Louisville Girls High School, Ogun State, has emerged the overall winner of the 2019 edition of the UBA Foundation National Essay Competition.

Jolaosho Oluwatoroti Otokini wins the grand prize of an educational grant of ₦2,000,000 to study in any African university of her choice.

Jolaosho Oluwatoroti Otokini clinched the first position at the grand finale of the competition, which was held on December 9th, 2019 at the UBA Head Office, Marina Lagos. Her essay was declared the best out of over 5,000 entries received by the UBA Foundation from students of senior secondary schools across Nigeria.

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Team AirSync have emerged overall winner of the Hult Prize Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) On Campus Challenge 2020 held on the 12th of November 2019 at the Institute for Entrepreneurship & Development Studies, Obafemi Awolowo University in Nigeria.

Team AirSync emerged as the winner of the On-Campus competition with their soon-to-launch idea of an air balloon device, which could almost at the speed of light detect oil spillage, leakage and vandalism within three kilometer (3 km) range and 5,000 feet (ft) above the ground.

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Adesewa Adeniyi has won the first prize at the Nigerian Stock Exchange 2019 Essay Competition for Senior Secondary School students in Nigeria.

Adesewa Adeniyi, a student of Grandmates Schools in Isolo, Lagos, emerged winner ahead of 40,965 students across the country and was given ₦500,000 in scholarship fund for university education, ₦500,000 worth of equity investment and a laptop.

Her school was presented with three desktop computers and a printer.

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Emmanuel Eze has won the 2019 African Tax Administration Forum (ATAF)  continental tax essay competition among 132 other tax writers from across the African continent.

Emmanuel Eze, an official with the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS, Nigeria) who received the award at the ATAF’s 10 years anniversary and the International Conference on Tax in Africa (ICTA) held in Kampala, Uganda submitted an entry titled: “Taxation Of Digital Economy And Africa’s Quest For Fiscal Justice: Challenges And The Need To Put Our Best Foot Forward.”

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Winners have emerged at the 18th Chris Ikomi Memorial Essay Competition designed to encourage academic excellence among students in Delta State in the junior and secondary categories.

The Chris Ikomi Memorial Essay Competition, organised by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporative (NNPC) and Chevron Nigeria Limited (CNL) joint venture in partnership with the Delta State Ministry of Education, was held in Asaba.

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12-year-old Chika Ofili, has won the 2019 TrueLittle Hero award for his discovery of a new mathematics formula when he made a divisibility by 7 – a new way to divide in mathematics.

The TruLittle Hero Awards is yearly event, which gives recognition and celebrates marveling achievements of children and young people who are still under the age of 17 years in the United Kingdom.

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Chidiogo Jane Onoh emerges overall winner of the maiden edition of the essay writing competition of the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE).

Chidiogo is a student of Girls Secondary School, Abakpa-Nike, Enugu State.

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