Asisat Oshoala of Barcelona Femeni has won the 2021/2022 Women’s Spanish Primera Division Pichichi Award for the league’s top scorer.
The 27-year-old Super Falcons forward achieved the feat after scoring 20 goals in 19 league appearances and will share the award with Brazilian Geyse Ferreira, who managed 20 goals in 27 appearances for Madrid CFF.
She is the first African to win the award.
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ARM has announced Tunde Adeyemi as the winner of the 2022 Deji Alli ARM Young Talent Award (DAAYTA) programme at the finalists’ pitch event.
Tunde Adeyemi of D-Olivette Enterprise, emerged winner out of seven contestants to claim the ₦12 million grant. His business idea – D-Olivette is a social enterprise that is accelerating the advent of sustainable domestic biogas biodigester for clean cooking, electrification, and sustainable agriculture.
The enterprise is doing this through the provision of domestic biodigesters innovation exclusively designed to convert household, farm organic waste and biodegradable wastewater into fertilizer and biogas within ten days.
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Paddy Cover and Pricepally have emerged winners of the 2022 Dubai World Trade Centre Lagos talent show with TruQ emerging the EIC and Lagos State winner.
The insuretech firm, Paddy Cover, co-founded by Mayowa Owolabi and Tobi Obasa, and the food sourcing and distribution tech firm, Pricepally, owned by Luther Lawoyin, as well as TruQ, owned by Williams Fatayo, beat 24 other contestants who pitched their ideas before six judges.
The two winners (Paddy Cover and Pricepally) will go on an all-expense-paid trip to Dubai to pitch their idea to over 400 investors and thousands of technology ecosystem players at the GITEX 2022 exhibition for a chance to win $200,000.
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Franca Ovadje has been awarded the Harambee 2022 Prize award for the promotion and equality of African women, her academic and professional merits, as well as for her great social works.
The executive committee of Harambee Spain gave Ovadje the award in recognition of her work for over 20 years in promoting female entrepreneurs and leadership skills development among female undergraduates, which she has been doing voluntarily.
University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN) has emerged winner of the 2022 Nigerian Genius Engineering Competition – receiving a cash prize of one million Naira.
Team UNN (Benstowe Destiny, Uzodinma Somto, David Okenwa) designed and built a Portable Water-Powered Electricity Generator that can be installed in every home with an overhead water tank.
It also includes an Energy Management System, which monitors and displays power generation, consumption and reserve.
Forty-five (45) tertiary institutions were shortlisted for the competition and egineering students representing four (4) tertiary institutions in Nigeria competed in the finals of the competition in Aba.
Winners have emerged in the BusinessDay 2022 Nigerian Investor Value Awards (NIVA), which recognizes leaders of public companies who have created sustainable alpha-generating value for their shareholders through their strategic priorities, operating efficiencies, organisational values, and market engagement activities.
Formerly known as the Top 25 CEOs & Next Bulls Awards, winners were selected through a proprietary survey carried out by the BusinessDay Research and Intelligence Unit (BRIU) with respondents including equity analysts, retail and institutional investors, financial journalists, sectoral experts and professional advisers.
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Lanre Oguntoye, a A Chemistry teacher from Greensprings School has emerged in the top 60 of Cambridge Dedicated Teacher Award 2022.
He was nominated among 7,000 teachers from 113 countries.
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