Category: Education & Innovation

The Towunmi Coker Literary Initiative has awarded winners in the 4th edition of Teecoks Writing Competition, founded by Dr. Towunmi Coker.

The award aims to promote reading and writing culture among Nigerian students, as well as, build and train emerging writers and lovers of writing in the country.

First Prize in Poetry Writing – Adebogun Oluwatosin of Ansar-Du-Deen College, Isolo

First Prize in Prose Fiction Writing – Ibukun-Oluwa Addy, from Chrisland College, Idimu

 

The American University of Nigeria (AUN) with its Team comprising of Zamiyat Abubakar, Abdulmalik Aminu, Exploits Nicholas, Hafiz Michika, and Ahmed Mohammed; Yola, Adamawa State, has won the first Africa Regional Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Challenging Extremism Competition; #IAMABeliever Campaign.

The AUN beat 32 other universities in the continent to clinch the top prize during the competition, which was held in Accra, Ghana and received $5,000 prize money.

The University for Development Studies, Ghana (UDS), emerged first runner-up with $3,000 received, while the Tunis Business School, Tunisia (TBS), was the second runner-up with $1,000 received.

The Accra outing was the first Peer-to-Peer Challenging Extremism competition to be organized in Africa 17-years after the program kicked was initiated.

Facebook, Edventure Partners, and officials of the United States Department, co-sponsors of the competition, commended the AUN’s #IAmABeliever campaign.

The esteemed  Harvard Law Review has elected the first Black woman elected as president, Imelme Umana, Harvard Law student class of 2018.

According to the Harvard website, “She is also on the board of Harvard Model Congress Boston, the nation’s oldest government simulation conference run exclusively by undergraduates at Harvard College. During the school year, Imelme works as a Research Assistant at the Hiphop Archive at the Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research. She also worked as the Harvard Summer in Washington student coordinator, organizing political events for Harvard interns in DC.”

The Harvard Law Review  is a student-run organization whose main purpose is to publish a journal of legal scholarship. While the Review is formally independent of the Harvard Law School, student editors make all editorial and organizational decisions.

Umana is a doctorate candidate at Harvard Law School, and is most interested in the intersection between government and African American studies by exploring how stereotypes of Black women are reproduced and reinforced in American Political discourse.

The University of Lagos (UNILAG) honours Babajide Alo, Olukayode Amund, Im Unah and Cecilia Igwilo, West Africa’s first female professor of pharmacy, by awarding them UNILAG Distinguished Professors, one of the University’s highest honours for pedagogical excellence as part of activities marking the grand finale of the institution’s 2016 convocation ceremonies.

27-year-old Christine Izuakor has graduated with a Doctorate of Philosophy (PhD) degree in Security Engineering and became the youngest & first African American at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs (UCCS), USA.

Walter Emeka Dinjos, has won the 2016 edition of the Writers of the Future Award with his short story, “The Wood Cutter’s Deity,” published in the annual bestseller, L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume 33.

Two Nigerian students Kingsley Ikhuoria Cookey and Mariam Tosin Sanni at the Accra Institute of Technology (AIT), Ghana have become AIT all time best graduating students.

Kingsley graduated with a First Class Honours Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical and Electronics Engineering Degree was adjudged the overall best student of the graduation class with a cumulative GPA of 4.21 and Mariam graduated with a First Class Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration with a cumulative GPA of 4.01.