Category: Religion, Social Values & Empowerment

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, 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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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.

• University Of Ibadan (200 – 300)
• Covenant University (300+)
• University Of Ghana (300+)

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.

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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