Abdulsalam Omotunde and Korole Elizabeth Boluwatife of Wesley Girls Senior Secondary School, Yaba, Lagos have emerged winners of the 2023 Nigerian Stockholm Junior Water Prize.
About 60 entries were received from different schools across the country and only seven made it to the final.
Nigerian Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Ibrahim Abubakar, has been awarded the 2023 Roux Prize for his “dedication to improving health outcomes over the last three decades”.
The Roux Prize is awarded by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington’s School of Medicine.
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Eco-Life Company has emerged winner of the 2023 National Innovation Challenge on Young Voices for a Sustainable Future for some selected secondary students in Nigeria among a group of nine student teams that presented ideas to address the local impacts of climate change, during the second edition of the competition.
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U-Recycle Initiative Africa has emerged winner of the 2023 Inclusive GEF Assembly Challenge Program.
U-Recycle Initiative Africa advances environmental education, a circular economy, youth development, and climate action. Its PlasticWize Fellowship initiative is designed to build the largest campus movement geared towards tackling plastic pollution in Nigeria and other parts of Africa. This initiative is designed to empower university students across Nigeria with the knowledge, tools, and resources to take a stand against marine plastic pollution through proactive, comprehensive, and creative interventions.
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BlueHub has won the Awareness to Action category for tertiary student projects at the 2023 Xylem Ignite Global Student Innovation Challenge.
Chinwe Lawrence-Uchenna, former Health Coordinator of Anambra branch of the Nigerian Red Cross Society, has been awarded the 2023 Florence Nightingale Medal.
The award recognises exceptional courage and devotion to victims of armed conflict or natural disaster.
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Professor Ademola Adelowo Adenle has emerged as the only African among the winners of the Sustainability 2022 Carbon Neutrality Award by the Sustainability Publishing House Office, Basel, Switzerland.
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