Category: Religion, Social Values & Empowerment

Towards an objective, verifiable, refreshing and valuable sense of Nigerian self-worth, patriotism, nation building and impactful scholarship, the PositiveNaija Series 2018: The Love of Patriots has been published.

Authored and published (in March 2019) by Toju Micheal Ogbe, the second annual edition of the PositiveNaija Series, is a history-defining and educational resource, which reliably informs the world of the positive progress excellence of Nigeria and Nigerians globally for the year 2018. In addition, it features the best essays of the 2018 PositiveNaija Essay Competition with the overall best essay of the Competition by Miss Akunna James-Ibe being the First Foreword of the Series. The Second Forward was by Miss Mafeni Praise – overall winner of the 2018 PositiveNaija Video Contest.

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Mrs. Sandra Olubukunola Popoola has been awarded the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for her services to local government, communities and charity.

Mrs. Sandra Olubukunola Popoola was born and raised in Lagos, Nigeria, and has decades of achievement and experience in civil service. She is also the founder and chair of VOS foundation, a charity organisation helping children in many schools in Nigeria.

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Apostle Eunice Gordon Osagiede along with 19 others have been awarded the United States of America Congress Women of Excellence award for the year 2019.

Apostle Eunice Gordon Osagiede, a social crusader for women and youth empowerment was amongst 150 people that were screened across the globe.

It is to be noted that she is the only African woman to be featured in the 2019 awards. USA Congressman Danny K. Davis commented that the 7^th congressional district’s Multi Ethic Advisory Task Force (MEATF) celebrated the 7^th Annual International Women’s day by honoring “Twenty Global Women” who are excelling in their field of study.

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Job Oyebisi has who won the 2018 Ideas Change Lives British Council global competition and awarded a cash prize of £20,000 for emerging champion.

Job Oyebisi, who is the founder of StanLab, a 3D virtual science laboratory, is also a joint winner of the competition with ‘Malawi’s mHub’.

He won the championship that featured over 170 countries by creating a viable solution that would enhance secondary school students get acquitted with new learning skills in laboratory technology.

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Afe Babalola (SAN) has emerged the winner of the 2018 Obafemi Awolowo Leadership Prize announced at a ceremony held in Sheraton Hotel, Ikeja, Lagos.

Afe Babalola was announced as the winner of the award by Chief Emeka Anyaoku, who is also the Chairman of the Selection Committee of the Obafemi Awolowo Leadership Award.

The Founder of Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD) and winner of the Zik Prize in Leadership for 2013 also become the third African to win the distinguished Obafemi Awolowo Leadership Prize (2018) after former South African President, Thambo Mbeki and Nigeria’s Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, won the Prize in 2014 and 2012 respectively.

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Seven (7) Nigerians have been honored as recipients of the Nigerian British Awards 2018.

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Dr. Felix Eiremiokhae has been honoured with a Presidential lifetime achievement award by the President, United States of America, Donald Trump.

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