Tosin Durodola Emerges Second In 5th Border Criminologies Dissertation Prize For 2021

24-year-old Tosin Durodola has emerged runner-up of the 5th Border Criminologies Dissertation Prize for 2021.

Durodola set a new record by becoming the first African and postgraduate student from a University in the Global South to make the top two places of the Border Criminologies Masters’ Dissertation/Thesis Prize since the inception of the competition. The past winners and runners-up of the award were from Oxford, Cambridge, Glasgow and Amsterdam Universities.

The award was put together by Routledge and Oxford University’s Centre for Criminology and Border Criminologies to support early career researchers working on citizenship, migration and the intersections between border controls and criminal justice.

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Bose Omolayo And Folashade Oluwafemiayo Set New Powerlifting World Records At 2021 Powerlifting Championship In Tbilisi

Bose Omolayo and Folashade Oluwafemiayo have set new world records in the up to 79kg and 86kg categories winning gold at the 2021 Powerlifting Championship in Tbilisi, Georgia.

The 2021 World Para Powerlifting Championships was a powerlifting competition for athletes with a disability. It was held in Tbilisi, Georgia from 27 November to 5 December, 2021.

The tournament was one of the compulsory tournaments to qualify for the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris, France.

Team Nigeria won a total of six (6) medals: three gold; one silver and two bronze.

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Seven (7) Nigerians Triumph At 2021 International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World Championship

Seven Nigerian weightlifters have won nine medals at the 2021 International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World Championships, which was held in Uzbekistan.

The lifters, made up of five women and two men, represented the country in the 10-day events, which also served as the Commonwealth Games qualifiers.

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Kwara State Wins 2021 President’s National Inter-Basic School Debate Championship

Kwara State has emerged as the winner of the 61st Independence anniversary President’s national Inter-basic school debate championship held in Lagos State.

Kwara and Katsina states competed for the first and second positions, while Imo and Lagos states competed for the third and fourth positions.

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Winners Of 2021 Diamond Awards For Media Excellence (DAME)

Winners have emerged at the 2021 Diamond Awards for Media Excellence (DAME), which held at the Shell Hall, Muson Centre, Lagos.

Speaking at the award ceremony, Mr. Lanre Idowu, editor-in-chief of Media Review, the organisers of the award said 24 categories were advertised in the award but that only 13 categories had worthy entries.

He said DAME did not find entries for 11 categories that were worthy of its awards and that the organisation has resolved to put in place a programme to improve quality of entries in the coming year.

He said journalists are very important people in the society and that they deserve to be rewarded for the good work that they do.

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Akwa Ibom State Emerges Nigeria’s Cleanest State In 2021 By Clean-up Nigeria

Akwa Ibom State has emerged Nigeria’s cleanest state in 2021 having won same for four consecutive years in 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021 based on a rating, which  is an integral part of The State of the Nigeria Environment Annual Report; a project of Clean-up Nigeria.

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Trove Finance Wins Ecobank Fintech Challenge 2021

Nigerian-based global share dealing app, Trove Finance, has emerged as the winner of the fourth edition of the annual Ecobank Fintech Challenge.

In a statement released on 16 December 2021, the organisers said the winner was announced at the grand finale on 9 December, 2021 streamed live from Accra in Ghana – and saw each of the five finalists pitching to the tech-savvy jury.

Trove Finance’s app enables African-based financial institutions and individuals to buy, sell and trade any publicly traded equity, bond or exchange-traded fund across the US, Chinese, Nigerian or other global stock markets, with as little as ₦1,000 (circa $2).

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