Category: Religion, Social Values & Empowerment

Kenneth Ekhuemelo Wins Hymnodia Season 1

Kenneth Ekhuemelo (Hymntestant Number 6) has emerged winner of Hymnodia at its Season one grand finale held at the MUSON Centre in Lagos.

Hymnodia is the first-ever reality TV show created around hymns and worship in Nigeria.

In addition to the ASAPH (which is the referred grand prize specially named and designed after King’s david chief musician), the prize for Kenneth Ekhuemelo also included a cash reward of ₦5 million and a brand-new car.

Olumide Dada emerged second place winner and Mobolanle Oladimeji emerged in third place.

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Peter Genger Wins 2019 Nahlah Ayed Prize For Student Leadership And Global Citizenship

Peter Genger, a student of the Arthur V. Mauro Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, St. Paul’s College, University of Manitoba, Canada, has emerged winner of the 2019 Nahlah Ayed Prize for Student Leadership and Global Citizenship.

According to Peter Genger:

“I never thought that my little pieces of leadership service would gain a rewarding recognition as noble as the Nahlah Ayed Prize for Student Leadership and Global Citizenship. I sincerely appreciate the award.

This award has made me realize that there is no service that is too little or too much to give. The most important thing is for one to keep serving with sincere concern for humanity. After all, there is joy in true leadership and service.”

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Emir Muhammadu Sanusi II Appointed UN SDGs Advocate

The Emir of Kano, His Royal Highness, Muhammadu Sanusi II has been appointed by the United Nations (UN), as a member of the new class of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Advocates.

UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres made the announcement through his spokesman, Farhan Haq, at a news conference in New York on the 9th of May, 2019.

The SDGs Advocates are 17 influential public figures committed to “raising awareness, inspiring greater ambition, and pushing for faster action on the SDGs”.

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Follow The Money Wins United Nations SDG Mobiliser Of The Year Award 2019

Follow The Money, an initiative of Connected Development (CODE), has won the United Nations (UN) mobiliser of the year award at the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Global Fest for 2019.

Hamzat Lawal, the co-founder of CODE, received the award in Bonn, Germany on the 2nd of May, 2019.

The mobiliser of the year award is given to “the project/team that demonstrates the greatest successes with mobilizing individuals organizations or networks for collective action for the SDGs”.

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University Of Ibadan & Covenant University In Inaugural UN SDGs Rankings [2019]

The United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Rankings has been released for the first time ever – including University Of Ibadan and Covenant University.

In West Africa only three universities featured amongst the 500 universities and that include University Of Ibadan, Covenant university and University Of Ghana.

The research was conducted, collated and released by a British organization, Times Higher Education, which is a leading consultant in Higher education and audited by PwC a leading auditing firm on behalf of the UN.

According to the rankings, the University Of Auckland, New Zealand emerged as the best university in the world for SDG values.

The SDG sustainable development goals (SDGs) to transform our world: the ranking organization used 11 out of the 17 SDG goals to conclude on its rankings.

‘PositiveNaija Series 2018: The Love of Patriots’ Published

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.

PositiveNaija Series 2018

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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Sandra Olubukunola Popoola Awarded Order Of The British Empire (OBE)

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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