Nigeria has won the 2026 UNODC World Bank Egmont Group Stolen Asset Recovery (StAR) Initiative Award.
The award is one of the highest operational honours in the international financial intelligence community, following a case that highlighted the role of intelligence-sharing and cross-border cooperation in tackling financial crime.
Officer Cadet YB Usman of the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) Kaduna has won the ‘British Aerospace System Award’ at the Royal Air Force College, Cranwell, United Kingdom (UK).
Funke Adeoye has been awarded the 2025 Outstanding Young Lawyer Award by the International Bar Association (IBA) at the IBA’s Annual Conference held in Toronto, Canada.
She is the founder and executive director of the Hope Behind Bars Africa, a nonprofit helping indigent inmates get access to justice and advocating justice sector reforms,
The award recognises young lawyers aged 35 and below around the world with exceptional records of professional contributions to the rule of law, service to humanity and ethical excellence.
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Charles Okon Esu, a researcher at the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Pusan National University in South Korea, has been honored by Brain Korea 21 with the 2024 Best Paper Award for his innovative research into the health impacts of air pollution using machine learning.
He triumphed over 110 other top experts to win this award.
Henry Ndudu Ekong from Pegasus School, Akwa Ibom state has emerged winner of the InterswitchSPAK National Science Competition 6.0.
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16-year-old Ojedele Jesuferanmi Emmanuel, a 200-level student of the Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA), has emerged as the winner of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) Annual National Undergraduate Essay Competition for the 2024 edition.
Lieutenant Changfe Maigari has made history as the first female pilot in the Nigerian Navy since its inception in 1964.
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