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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.
Blessing Odesola has emerged winner of the Women and Girls Advancements and Resources Centre (WAG-ARC) bi-annual research competition, carried out amongst undergraduates in universities across Nigeria.
Blessing Odesola is a 22-year-old 400 level student of the Faculty of Law, University of Ibadan.
Blessing Odesola, who is the student campus ambassador of a digital company, a co-host on a campus show on Inspiration 100.5 FM Ibadan and a student volunteer, wrote on the topic – Addressing Youth Marginalisation: A Link Between Youth Employment and Capacity Building as a Tool for Youth Development in Nigeria.
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David Roluga has emerged the overall winner of the maiden Save-A-Lot Media Mobile Classroom monthly quiz.
David Roluga is a senior secondary (SS) 3 student of Mayflower School, Ikenne, Ogun State.
Saffiyah Abdulhammed of Powerfield Group of School, Lagos State and Ibukunoluwa Arowosafe, Advanced Breed Comprehensive College, Ogun State were announced as first and second runners-up respectively during a winners’ party and media event held on Zoom on August 1st, 2020.
The top 20 students who emerged winners of the competition were awarded ₦20,000 cash prizes.
Toluwalase Oseni of Caleb British International School, Lekki, Lagos State, has been declared winner of the 2020 World Scavenger Hunt Award.
The event, an annual global entrepreneurial competition, which took place virtually on Zoom Platform as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic had 55 teams from the USA and other countries as participants with Master Toluwalase Oseni winning the Scavenger Hunt Award out of the eight awards available at the event.
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