Wilfred Emmanuella, Adeboh Hannah, Comfort Agbo, Gift Ononiwu, and Dorcas Jacob have emerged winners of the 2021 Social Impact Challenge Competition, organised by the YoungStars Initiative.
The winners who won $1,000 each for winning the competition were rewarded at the 2022 Female And More (FAM) Summit in Abuja.
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Towards a reliable documentation and celebration of the best Nigerian sports men and women in basketball, who through their extraordinary feats have defined history in the 2020 decade, Nigerian History Makers In Basketball (2020 Decade) by Toju Micheal Ogbe has been published.
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The National Basketball Association (NBA) Africa in partnership with Hennessy has launched the first basketball floating court in Africa when NBA Crossover tipped off at Lekki-Ikoyi Bridge in Lagos, Nigeria on February 4, 2022.
The floating court remained on display for the next two days, until the Crossover concluded at Lagos’ Landmark Beach at the immediate weekend.
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Standard Chartered Nigeria has announced five (5) winners of the third edition of its Women in Technology Incubator programme (SC-WITI) in Nigeria.
Chief Executive Officer, Lamin Manjang announced the winners from the 3rd cohort of the program at the graduation ceremony in Lagos on February 4, 2022.
This year’s winners are: Oluwadamilola Soyombo (Founder of Skooqs); Bolarinwa Kemisola (Founder of Nextwear Technology); Adegbite Adenike ((Founder, The Trillionbucks Company); Zita Agwunobi (Founder/CEO of Iverify) and Wunmi Akinsola (Founder of Fashtracker’).
The Federal Republic of Nigeria has been re-elected into the African Union Peace and Security Council (AUPSC) to represent the West African region, the Nigerian embassy in Ethiopia said in a press release.
Nigeria will sit in the council for another three years (2022-2025).
The West African country had 44 votes in the first round to secure the statutory two-thirds votes required to win the election.
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Jubril Dokun, a 16-year-old student of Brainfield College, Salolo, Lagos State, has emerged winner of the third edition of the InterswitchSPAK National Science Competition held on February 5, 2022.
Contesting with over 18,000 students from various secondary schools in Nigeria, Jubril Dokun won the 13-week educational show (run on both terrestrial and domestic television stations) to clinch the first prize of ₦7.5 million in scholarships, among other prizes.
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Towards genuine and insightful reasons why Nigeria exists as a country today for the good of Nigerians, Africa and humanity, The Purpose Of Nigeria By Toju Micheal Ogbe has been published.
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