Professor Charles Egbu has been appointed Vice-Chancellor of Leeds Trinity University, United Kingdom.
Professor Charles Egbu will return to Leeds, a city in which he studied and taught, to begin his new role on 1 November 2020.
He will take over from Professor Margaret A House OBE who will step down after seven years as Vice-Chancellor.
Nneka Ede has purchased Portuguese clubside Lusitano Ginásio Clube, Futebol, SAD.
Starting in June 2020, Mrs. Nneka Ede has become the new owner of the 108-year-old club, which competes in the Campeonato de Portugal, the third division of Portugal’s football pyramid.
Mrs. Nneka Ede emerges as the first African woman to own a football club in Europe following her acquisition of Lusitano Ginásio Clube, Futebol, SAD and the second Nigerian to purchase a Portuguese club after businessman Kunle Soname bought Clube Desportivo Feirense in 2015.
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Vincent Kolo, has won the $50,000 Nefertiti grand prize for creativity during a virtual festival as part of the African Union & Afrochampions inaugural Africa Integration Day Creative Challenge celebration.
Vincent Kolo won the visual art category with his artwork ‘The Cords of Yesterday’.
Sponsored by Afreximbank and Commercial International Bank, the Grand Prize was awarded for work that passionately highlights the contemporary quest for Africa to learn from its past, take charge of its present and build its own unique vision of a united, prosperous, future. Its thematic essence is: the Africa we Want, the AU’s Agenda 2063 grand slogan.
Winners have emerged at the Global Banking and Finance awards 2020 [Nigeria].
This was announced by Global Banking and Finance magazine in the 18th edition of its annual awards for deserving financial institutions in seven regions and more than 80 countries.
Global Banking & Finance Review® is a leading financial portal and Print Magazine offering News, Analysis, Opinion, Reviews, Interviews & Videos from the world of Banking, Finance, Business, Trading, Technology, Investing, Brokerage, Foreign Exchange, Tax & Legal, Islamic Finance, Asset & Wealth Management.
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Welcome to the PositiveNaija Bi-Annual Newsletter: January – June 2020.
This newsletter reliably provides a comprehensive first half-year report for the year 2020 on the positive progress of Nigeria and Nigerians globally.
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Nine Nigerians have emerged recipients of the 2020 The Diana Award, which celebrates outstanding young people selflessly creating and sustaining positive social change.
The Diana Award was established in memory of Diana, Princess of Wales for young persons aged 9-25 years for their social action or humanitarian work through a retrospective nomination process only.
Young people as recipients of the 2020 The Diana Award do not work towards the award, rather they demonstrate their suitability through their actions, without any expectation of reward.
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FBN Holdings Plc has won the 2019 World Finance award for best corporate governance in Nigeria.
The award was organised by World Finance, a quarterly print and online magazine that provides coverage and analysis of the financial industry, international business and the global economy.