Category: Health & Environment

28-year-old Tracy Eboigbodin has emerged winner of the 11th Series of MasterChef Italia held in Rome on March 3, 2020.

The competition is an international culinary talent hunt show, which takes place in the UK, USA, Australia and other countries.

Tracy won the competition with a menu entitled L’abbraccio – the embrace, beating off stiff competition from two young male chefs, 18-year-old Carmine Gorrasi and Christian Passeri, a 20-year-old with Asperger syndrome.

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Lagos State Government has opened the first International Standard Organisation (ISO) certified government-owned laboratory in Nigeria.

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Victor Chude has emerged as the new President of the International Union of Soil Sciences (IUSS) with its Headquarters at Vienna, Austria.

This is the first time in the 98 years of the IUSS that a Nigerian will become the president through an election.

Victor Chude, who is the Registrar, Nigeria Institute of Soil Science (NISS) is expected to serve in the position for the next three years (2023-2026).

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Dr. Osahon Enabulele has been inaugurated as the President of the World Medical Association (WMA) held on 7 October 2022 in Berlin, Germany.

The former President of the Nigeria Medical Association becomes the first-ever Nigerian and West African physician to be elected as President of the World Medical Association (WMA).

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21-year-old Ichor Joshua has emerged winner of the 2022 United Nations Swarovski Prize for creating a technology that monitors contamination and scarcity in groundwater wells in Africa.

The final-year geology student at the University of Jos who is the first and only African to win the Swarovski Prize won alongside five other innovators from different continents.

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Five students of the Department of Fisheries at the Lagos State University (LASU) have emerged winners of the 2022 Millennium Oceans Global Prize with its “Lagos Plastic Revolution” application/campaign.

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Professor Adam Abba-Aji has been appointed as the Chief Medical Director (CMD) of Alberta Hospital Canada, which makes him the first African in the 100-year history of the hospital.

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