Team Earth Wins InterswitchSPAK 2.0 Innovation Challenge

Team Earth, a group of nine teenage students, have emerged winners of the InterswitchSPAK 2.0 Innovation Challenge.

The group of nine collaborated to ‘Identify a problem in the agricultural value chain in Nigeria leveraging technology’.

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Amos Abba Emerges Third-Place Winner Of Fetisov Journalism Award [2019]

Amos Abba, an oil and gas reporter at the International Centre for Investigative Reporting (ICIR) has received a Fetisov journalism award in Lucerne, Switzerland.

Amos Abba, alongside 39 journalists from 21 countries were shortlisted in four different categories, including; Excellence in Environmental Journalism, Outstanding Investigative Reporting, Contribution to Civil Rights, and Outstanding Contribution to Peace, in November [2019].

The winners of the different categories were announced at the Fetisov Journalism Awards ceremony, with Abba emerging as 3rd place in the Excellence in Environmental Journalism category, for his report on  How Nestle Nigeria contaminates water supply of its host community in Abuja, which was published in April, 2019.

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Winners Of Global Business Outlook Awards 2019 [Nigeria]

Winners have emerged in the Global Business Outlook Awards 2019.

The Global Business Outlook awards aim to recognise and reward excellence in business to companies all over the globe, both in the public and private sector. The goal is to ensure that innovation, creativity and the drive to create value gets its due recognition.

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Reelfruit Emerges Winner Of Village Capital Accelerator Program [2020]

Reelfruit and Complete Farmer have emerged winners of Village Capital Accelerator Program [2020].

The Village Capital Accelerator program focused on startups whose solutions addressed food security issues and improved results for small farmers on the African continent.

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Egbe Joy, Derick Nwasor And Oghale Yome Win ROSATOM Atoms For Africa Competition

Egbe Joy, Derick Nwasor and Oghale Yome have emerged winners of the ROSATOM Atoms For Africa Competition.

Russia’s state-run nuclear energy corporation, ROSATOM, says it has acquainted three Nigerian youths with its leading institutions for nuclear research.

The company, in a statement on the 14th of January [2020], said the ROSATOM Atoms For Africa Competition was in-line with its efforts to inspire and raise the next generation of nuclear energy technology experts in Nigeria.

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Winners Of The Ballers Awards 2019

Winners have emerged at the Ballers Awards 2019 organised by Naija Footballers, which held on the 12th of January 2020 at the Oriental Hotel in Victoria Island, Lagos with a host of players, journalists and football administrators present.

The Ballers Awards was sponsored by e-commerce investment platform Versa.

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