Category: Education & Innovation

Oluwatobi Ojo has won the 2019 Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Science Quiz Competition for secondary schools across Nigeria.

Oluwatobi Ojo emerged as the winner at the grand finale of the competition held at the NNPC Towers in Abuja on November 21, 2019.

According to the News Agency of Nigeria, a pupil of APT Scholars Universal College, Ota, Oluwatobi Ojo, won the first prize for Ogun state with 80 points, while Mbazu Justice from CSMT Staff Secondary School, Abakaliki in Ebonyi State, took the second position with 70+points.

Nwachukwu Ugochukwu of Dority International School Aba, Abia State, took the third position with 70 points.

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25-year-old Abibat Owolabi has emerged as the overall best graduating Master’s Degree student at the University of Ibadan. She obtained the degree from the Department of Botany, Faculty of Sciences.

The Vice-Chancellor of the university, Abel Olayinka, announced this during the convocation ceremonies of the university that Miss Owolabi graduated with CGPA 7.0.

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Mayowa Mubashir Abiru, a graduate of Babcock University has emerged the overall best graduating student in the August 2019 Bar Final Exams in the Nigerian Law School.

Mr. Mayowa Mubashir Abiru, a Group 9 student of Nigerian Law School, Lagos Campus in the 2018/2019 academic session, has the Best Overall Result in the August 2019 Bar Final Examinations of the Nigerian Law School. The student automatically is the winner of the Star prize for the Overall-Best Graduating for the Year 2019.

Formal call to the Bar (Induction) ceremonies for successful candidates in the August 2019 Bar Final Examinations are scheduled to hold in late November 2019.

Ofure Mary Ebhomielen, a student in the Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science at the University of Ibadan has emerged the best graduating student at the 2019 convocation ceremony.

Ofure Mary Ebhomielen, who graduated with the highest Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 7.0 received a thunderous ovation when she was presented to parents and well-wishers at the ceremony.

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Michael Enehizena and Oghenero Ologe have emerged overall winners respectively in the junior and senior categories of the 2019 Cowbellpedia Mathematics Quiz.

Michael Enehizena is a student of The Scholars Universal Secondary School, Ota, Ogun State while Oghenero Ologe is a student of Zionfield Pinnacle School, Ikorodu, Lagos State.

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Ten cities from around the world including Ibadan (Nigeria) received the 2019 UNESCO Learning Cities Award on 30 September in Medellín, Colombia on the eve of the opening of the Fourth International Conference on Learning Cities.

David Atchoarena, Director of the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning stated:

“The Award is a recognition of exemplary progress made by cities in promoting inclusive education and lifelong learning in local communities.,”

It is a means to honour our network member cities as they have demonstrated remarkable progress by implementing the UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities (GNLC) guidelines.”

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Iorliam Simon Tersoo has won the 2019 Future Maritime Leaders essay competition organised by the Global Maritime Forum.

Tersoo’s essay titled, “Emerging Technologies: Autonomous Shipping and Seafarers’ Continuous Professional (Ir) Relevance,” was among top three essays selected from 140 shortlisted entries from 46 countries that participated in the annual competition.

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