Ojeifo Hauwa has been selected by Human Rights Watch as the recipient of its inaugural Marca Bristo Fellowship, which is an award created in memory of the pioneering disability rights icon, Marca Bristo.
The fellowship honors emerging activists for their courageous leadership in disability rights.
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Ediomo Akpan has emerged winner of Season 2 of Hymnodia 2020 receiving the grand prize of an Asaph (a specially designed award named after David’s chief musician), a brand-new car and ₦5 million.
Hymnodia Season 2, the triple E: Entertainment, Education and Edification, reality TV show is built around hymns and worship.
The grand finale, known as Hymncert, was held on September 13, 2020 in Lagos.
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28-year-old Hauwa Ojeifo has won the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation changemaker award for 2020.
According to the Gates Foundation, the award celebrates an individual who has inspired change using personal experience or from a position of leadership.
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Nine Nigerians have emerged recipients of the 2020 The Diana Award, which celebrates outstanding young people selflessly creating and sustaining positive social change.
The Diana Award was established in memory of Diana, Princess of Wales for young persons aged 9-25 years for their social action or humanitarian work through a retrospective nomination process only.
Young people as recipients of the 2020 The Diana Award do not work towards the award, rather they demonstrate their suitability through their actions, without any expectation of reward.
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Kayode Adeuja has emerged one of the winners of the Global HR Awards at the 28th edition of the World HRD Congress in Mumbai, India, with a celebrated listing and citation as one of the “501 Fabulous Global HR Leaders”.
For the first time in its 28-year history, the World HRD Congress introduced a Talent Listing, featuring “501 Fabulous Global HR Leaders”, to showcase leaders of the world who set big examples for transformation and change.
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Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP), Mr. Francis Erhabor has emerged the lead Integrity Icon of 2019 in a workplace honesty survey conducted by the Accountability Lab Nigeria, an organisation committed to “naming and faming” honest government officials in Nigeria.
Other icons honoured at the award event, which held on 21 January 2020 in Abuja were: Kacheilom Betram Roberts-Ndukwe, a teacher at GSS Andoni in Rivers state; Tina Odinakachi Iirmdu, a lecturer at the University of Jos; Christian Ahiauzu, an ICT unit head at the University of Port Harcourt; and Tani Ali Nimlan, an assistant director at NAFDAC.
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Runcie Chidebe has emerged recipient of the 2020 Global Ties U.S. International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) Alumni Award for Social Innovation and Change.
Runcie is a health advocate, civil society activist, and a leading voice in making cancer control a national health priority in Nigeria. His many accomplishments include launching trainings for oncology care, volunteer mentorships, establishing breast cancer support groups, and advocating for improved cancer care and mandatory health insurance. He also led campaigns to establish the National Institute for Cancer Research and Treatment through an act of the Nigerian Parliament, and sits on several committees to ensure its implementation, as well as other programs for cancer prevention.
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