Zenith Insurance and FBNInsurance have emerged winners in Nigeria of the World Finance Global Insurance Awards 2020 in General and Life insurance respectively.
Winners Of JETS Competition; SDGs Competition for Junior Girls; World Science Day Competition & Y2020 Robotics Competition (State Finals) [2021]
Winners have emerged in four major competitions held in Abuja between 27th February and 15th March 2021, following their participation in the National Junior Engineers, Technicians, and Scientists, (JETS) competition; Sustainable Development Goals Competition for Junior Girls; World Science Day Competition and Y2020 Robotics Competition (State Finals) [2021].
Raufikat Oyawoye-Salami Wins Season 4 Of The Great Canadian Baking Show
35-year-old Raufikat Oyawoye-Salami has emerged winner of Season 4 of “The Great Canadian Baking Show” after winning over nine other bakers.
She was up against fellow finalists Tanner Davies of Winnipeg, Man. and Mahathi Mundluru of Markham, Ont.
She becomes the first Nigerian to win the competition since the contest started in 2017.
The Great Canadian Baking Show kicked off its season 4 on February 14, 2021, and Raufikat was crowned the winner on April 4, 2021; after 8 weeks of competition.
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Musa Mustapha Ranked World’s Best In Boys’ Under-11 Category By International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF)
Musa Mustapha has been ranked the world’s best in the Boys’ under-11 category by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF).
With this development, Musa Mustapha has become the second African to be rated Number one (1) in the world after Hana Goda was in 2020, named the best under-15 girl in the world.
Team Queens’ Foris Labs Win Diamond Challenge Global Prize Award 2021
Team Queens’ Foris Labs, a team of seven Nigerian students has emerged overall winner of the Diamond Challenge Global Prize Award 2021.
Team Queens’ Foris Labs, a team of seven students from Queen of the Rosary College, Onitsha comprising of Chisom Iwuno, Amara Okechukwu, Okoye Chidinma, Nnaji Mmesoma, Mgbafulu Sandra, Anozie Stephanie and Iheator was led by their mentors – John Onuigbo and Kyrian Obikwelu.
The team won a $1,500 cash prize along with other prizes including further mentorship, etc.
Dyslexia Genius, a team of three students from China/USA emerged in second place.
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“Participatory Research For Low-resourced Machine Translation: A Case Study In African Languages” Wins Wikimedia Foundation Research Award Of The Year 2021
“Participatory Research For Low-resourced Machine Translation: A Case Study In African Languages” has emerged winner of the Wikimedia Foundation Research Award of the Year 2021.
The award was presented by Jimmy Wales, the Founder of Wikipedia and Wikimedia Foundation.
The 18-page research work published in November 2020 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics) was undertaken by a total of 47 authors and the Masakhane community with about 18 Nigerians directly involved.
Kehinde Monsurat Agboola Best Graduating Medical Student At University Of Sierra Leone [2019/2020]
Kehinde Monsurat Agboola has emerged as the best graduating medical student at the College of medicine, University of Sierra Leone [2019/2020].
She had eleven (11) best awards in a row, which has never been achieved in the history of the West African country.
The Award and Swearing Ceremony took place on 9th April 2021, she graduated on 13th April 2021.