Category: Education & Innovation

14–year-old Odjegba Divine Omesiri has emerged the overall winner of the 2018 UBA Foundation National Essay Competition at the grand finale, which was held at the UBA House, Marina Lagos.

Odjegba Divine Omesiri, a student of The International High School, Delta State, won over 11 other finalists selected from over 6,000 entries received by the UBA Foundation from students of senior secondary schools across Nigeria.

Miss Odjegba Divine Omesiri is rewarded with a laptop as well as an educational grant worth ₦2 million to study in any African university of her choice.

The second prize was won by Ozemoka Halimat Emesomi, aged 15, of University Preparatory Secondary School, Edo State, who won a ₦1.5 million educational grant and a laptop, while the third prize of ₦1 million educational grant and a laptop went to Adiankpo Ini-Iso Christopher, 16 years old of the Nigerian Christian Institute Akwa Ibom State. The other 9 finalists all received laptops.

This year’s edition of the competition expected eligible secondary students to send in handwritten entries on the topic: What is the biggest environmental issue you think your generation will face? How can it be avoided and how can it be solved?”

The UBA Foundation National Essay competition aims to provide a competitive platform to develop the intellectual and writing abilities of senior secondary school students in Nigeria. Winners get educational grants to study in any African University of their choice. The competition has been held annually since 2011 with students challenged to write on different engaging topics to test their writing and cognitive skills.

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Impact Team comprising of Abiodun Okunade, Yetunde Akinbola and Comfort Tayo – all final year Computer Science and Engineering students of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso, Oyo State, have won the maiden edition of the LAUTECH Innovation Challenge (LIC) held on the main campus of the school.

The 3-female Team won 1 million Naira seed investment fund, after they emerged the best team after competing with 29 others to win the prize.

The work of Team Impact is to reduce the learning difficulties faced by children with Down Syndrome. Before winning LAUTECH Innovation Challenge (LIC), the Team had made 50 animations for a child with Down Syndrome and discovered the innovation could be extended to others.

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The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has awarded 18 years old, Miss Isabelle Gelegu as the overall best student in 2017.

Isabelle Gelegu, who was a student of Oritamefa Baptist Model School Ibadan scored distinctions in all the subjects she sat for to receive the 1st prize of National Distinction/Merit Award 2017.

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Akinfoluhan Akinleye and Chinedu Mgbemena have emerged overall winners respectively in the junior and senior categories of the 2018 Cowbellpedia Mathematics Quiz.

13-year-old Akinfoluhan Akinleye is a student of The Ambassadors College, Ota, Ogun State while 17-year-old Chinedu Mgbemena is a student of Graceland International School, Port Harcourt.

As part of the 20th anniversary of Cowbell and Mathematics in Nigeria, the champions in both categories received increased prize money of ₦2 million each with an all-expense paid educational excursion outside the country.

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Miss Lawrence Deborah, a student of Good Shepherd School, Ajegunle Village, Atan-Ota, Ogun State, has emerged overall winner of the 2018 edition of the Nigerian Stock Exchange Annual Essay Competition for students in Senior Secondary Schools in Nigeria.

The 2018 NSE Annual Essay Competition and Scholarship, themed “Building a Sustainable Capital Market”, is one of the Exchange’s financial literacy and inclusion initiatives aimed at building a financially savvy generation. The winners were announced during an awards ceremony at the Civic Center, Ozumba Mbadiwe Road, Victoria Island, Lagos.

Miss Lawrence Deborah clinched the first position ahead of over 20,150 participants across the country, winning ₦500,000 scholarship fund for her university education, ₦250,000 equity investment, and a laptop, with her school also rewarded with a trophy, three desktop computers, and a printer.

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Presentation National High School, Benin City, Edo State has emerged winner of the ₦7 million star prize in the 7th edition of the Seplat Pearl Quiz Competition held in Asaba, Delta State.

The three-year-old competition for all secondary schools in both Delta and Edo States commenced in the first week of October 2018 with each of the three student representatives of the victorious school (Presentation National High School) received ₦100,000 and a laptop each.

Sponsors of the 7th edition of the Seplat Pearl Quiz Competition also rewarded the second place winner, Lawrence Prentice Academy, Delta State with ₦3 million prize money for a project in the school just as the three representatives received the sum of ₦75,000.00 each while the third place went to University Preparatory Secondary School (UPSS.), Benin that won ₦1 million and ₦50,000 each for the representatives of the school.

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Taiwo Jolade has emerged winner in an annual essay competition jointly organized by the Nigerian Press Log and University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom in partnership with the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC).

The essay competition had as its theme the dangers of publishing fake news on any media platform ahead of the 2019 general elections.

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