Category: Education & Innovation

Ayoola Oguntade and Juliet Eko have emerged winners of the 2016 edition of Cowbellpedia mathematics quiz competition for the Senior and Junior school categories respectively receiving the ultimate cash prize of 1 million Naira each.

The 1st and 2nd runner-ups in each category were rewarded with 750,000 Naira and 500,000 Naira respectively.

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Physical and Health Education teacher, Mr. Wesley Orioha, has emerged the “Best Teacher of the Year,” for Dansol High School, Agidingbi, Lagos State and rewarded with a cash prize of 1 million Naira for his steadfastness and dedication to his duty.

Computer, Basic Sciences and Physical Education teacher from Special Education Centre for Exceptional Children, Uyo in Akwa Ibom State, Mr. Imoh Essien, has emerged the 2016 Maltina Teacher of the Year.

The Maltina Teacher of the Year Award, instituted by the Nigerian Breweries-Felix Ohiwerei Education Trust Fund, was aimed at restoring the pride and dignity of the teaching profession and recognising the all-encompassing role of teachers in nation building.

Imoh Essien, who started nurturing the desire to become a teacher from childhood, was able to achieve the feat due to his ability to clearly define and demonstrate what it means to impact knowledge to the Nigerian child.

Having keenly competed with 34 teachers across the federation, he was, at a grand reception held at Oriental Hotel, Lagos, adjudged the best teacher of the year by the panel of independent jurists, headed by the Founder/Chief Executive Officer, Centre for Values in Leadership, Prof Pat Utomi.

For this, he was rewarded with ₦1 million overall prize, in addition to ₦500,000 he received as state champion from Akwa Ibom.

He would also be getting the sum of ₦1 million every year for a period of five years, a training programme abroad and block of six classrooms for his school.

An English teacher from Borno State, who was the first runner-up last year, Mohammed Binta Lawan, repeated the feat this year, while Ogwu Patrick from Government Day Secondary School, Adankolo in Lokoja, Kogi State, came third.

Tuteria Nigeria wins one of six awards for the Internet.org Innovation Challenge for services that provide education and economic development opportunities across the African continent

Toyosi Akerele-Ogunsiji has been declared the Vice President, International Students’ Affairs of the Harvard University John F. Kennedy School Students’ Government.

Toyosi, a Mason Fellow and Candidate in the 2017 Class of the Mid-Career Master in Public Administration Programme at Harvard emerged winner after an election among candidates from China, India and Nigeria among other countries.

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Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) has made history as the first university in the country to have a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) programme accredited by NUC to be delivered in e-learning mode

Adamawa State-based American University of Nigeria (AUN) have built a solar oven and chicken tractor – a wood and electricity-free oven for the benefit of rural dwellers that depend solely on firewood for cooking.