Category: Health & Environment

Runcie Chidebe has been named recipient of the 2020 Distinguished Advocacy Award by the International Gynecologic Cancer Society (IGCS) during its annual global award on cancer and gynecology.

Others include:

• Lifetime achievement awardees – Monica Bacon (Canada) and Dr. Nicoletta Colombo (Italy)
• Excellence in Teaching awardee – Dr. Rahel Ghebre (USA)
• Distinguished advocacy awardee – Dr. Nathalie Dauphin McKenzie (USA/Haiti)
• 2020 IJGC award recipients – Dr. Gloria Salvo (Most Downloaded Paper Award) and Dr. David Cibula (Editor’s Choice Award) will receive the journal awards.

These award recipients will be recognized at the upcoming xDigital Annual Global Meeting of the International Gynecologic Cancer Society, which will be held in a fully digital setting this September 10-13, 2020.

The Awards Ceremony will take place during the Opening Ceremony on September 10th at 2:00 p.m. UCT.

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Nnaemeka Ikegwuonu is one of the four winners of the 2020 Waislitz Global Citizen Award in the “water and sanitation” category for his innovation ‘ColdHubs’.

The Waislitz Global Citizen Award is an annual competition that rewards outstanding individuals who strive to reduce global poverty.

ColdHubs is a modular refrigeration chamber powered by solar energy.

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Oluwaseun Sangoleye, the founder of Baby Grubz Nigeria, has been crowned the winner and champion of the 2020 SUN Pitch Competition for the most innovative solution for improved nutrition.

Baby Grubz is a social enterprise in the nutrition space, processing all-natural cereals for children under five (5) years to tackle malnutrition, with a special focus on authentic African tastes made from locally sourced ingredients.

Oluwaseun Sangoleye wins a cash prize of $20,000 and a mentorship prize from BoP to digitalise her business.

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Professor Olayinka Olusola Omigbodun has been elected as the Provost of the College of Medicine of University of Ibadan (the first female and the 12th Provost of the college).

Professor Olayinka Olusola Omigbodun, the first female Professor of Psychiatry in Nigeria, resumed duty on the 3rd of August 2020.

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Gloria Bulus has won the “Alfredo Sirkis Memorial Green Ring Award” from former U.S Vice-President, Al Gore, at the 44th Climate Reality Leadership Corps Global Training.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Green Ring Award is presented to outstanding Climate Reality Leaders who have demonstrated an exceptional commitment to their role as climate communicators and activists.

Presenting the award to Ms. Gloria Bulus virtually, Mr. Gore said she was the first to receive the award in Africa.

He identified other recipients of the award as Nana Firman from Indonesia, Ximena Loría from Costa Rica and Tim Guinee, U.S.

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Dr. Samson Arigbamu has invented a stethoscope with sound recognition capacity after being issued a patent (number: 10,667,783) by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

The stethoscope is equipped with components capable of identifying adventitious lung such as COVID-19 infected lungs immediately.

Dr. Samson Arigbamu disclosed that the stethoscope is in production at prototype and optimisation stage, which the final product would commence by December [2020].

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The World Health Organization (WHO) has certified Nigeria as free of wild polio, following the completion of documentation for the free status.

Polio is a viral disease, that is transmitted from person to person, mainly through a faecal-oral route or, less frequently, through contaminated water or food, and multiplies inside the intestines.

There is no cure for polio, but the disease can be prevented through administration of a simple and effective vaccine. That is why efforts are underway across every country to rapidly boost immunity levels in children and protect them from polio paralysis.

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