Category: Education & Innovation
The goal of education and innovation in Nigeria is envisioned to be ruled by true wisdom and self-consciousness. The Nigerian innovative spirit coupled with humane values is acknowledged in its dynamic and universal applicability.
Imoh Essien Wins 2016 Maltina Teacher of the Year Award
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.
2016 Internet.org Innovation Challenge
Toyosi Akerele-Ogunsiji Elected Vice President Of International Students Affairs At Harvard University
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.
1st E-Learning MBA
AUN Builds Solar Oven & Chicken Tractor For Rural Dwellers
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.
Instead of felling trees and encouraging desert encroachment, the students decided to make use of the abundant sun in the state. The oven and chicken tractor were fabricated using a design first developed at a Kenyan refugee camp.
Working under the supervision of AUN’s former Director of Sustainability, Professor Charles Reith, Mr Rotimi Ogundijo and Mr. Matthew Abedoh, all of the Sustainability Unit of the university, the students used recycled cardboard, masking tape, glue and aluminium foil to construct the solar oven. Each oven took them about 45 minutes to construct and it cooks really fast.
The Chicken tractors were made from scrap metal and pieces of discarded chicken wire (poultry netting). A Chicken tractor is a screened-in box or portable bottomless cage or pen used by organic farmers to prepare soil for planting. The chickens are confined in the tractor and they eat all the weeds, bugs, scratch the soil and fertilize it with their guano or faeces (which is a highly effective fertilizer due to its exceptionally high content of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium essential for plant growth.) This is one of many ways organic growers fertilize their farms without using harmful and expensive chemicals.
Omotoyosi Craig Honoured With Renewable Energy Research Excellence Award (RERE) 2016 In South Africa
Omotoyosi Craig has been honoured with the Young Researcher of the Year Award 2016 in South Africa. The award, which is dubbed Renewable Energy Research Excellence Award (RERE), is jointly organised by Renewable Energy Centre of Research and Development (RECORD), and South African National Energy Association (SANEA).