Offey Volleyball Club of Akure and Sonmfo Volleyball Club of Abuja have won the male and female categories respectively of the fifth edition of the Legacy Volleyball Championship, which ended at the indoor sports hall the National Stadium, Lagos.
Offey men’s team defeated Nigeria Police 3-1 in a highly competitive encounter to emerge champions, while Sonmfo beat hosts, Legacy Women’s Volleyball Club to be crowned champions of the event.
Ikechukwu Wilson Nweke has won the second edition of the BBC News Pidgin Essay competition titled: “Is Africa Ready for Female Political Leadership?”
Ikechukwu Wilson Nweke, currently studies International Studies at the University of Benin (UNIBEN). The winning essay will be shown on BBC News Pidgin and Ikechukwu will receive his award at a ceremony in Lagos where he will read his essay to a specially invited audience.
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Divine Football Club has emerged the winner of the 2019 edition of the General Officer Commanding, 1 Division Nigerian Army Youth Football Competition held in Kaduna.
Divine Football Club in a week-long competition at Ribadu Cantonment Sports Arena in Kaduna defeated the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) bombers 4-0 to lift this year’s trophy.
This compilation attempts to provide a reliable guide on how to be patriotic as a Nigerian through the recommendation of several relevant songs and their associated excellent messages therein.
“Our values aren’t just collections of feelings. Our values are stories.”
– Mark Manson
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Follow the Money emerges winner of the Council of Europe Democracy Innovation Award 2019 at the closing session of the 2019 World Forum for Democracy held in Strasburg.
Follow the Money, an initiative of Connected Development, is a network of grassroots citizens in Nigeria dedicated to advocating, visualizing and tracking government and international aid spending in rural communities.
Follow the Money is a participatory advocacy-based initiative that advocates for the proper use of government and international aid funds in grassroots communities, to ultimately ensure that public services work for the people. It is a network of activists, social workers, lawyers, journalists, development consultants, researchers and data analysts, that have signed up on its social mobility platform. It uses media platforms like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube, as well as mainstream media, to amplify the voices of marginalised communities.
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Ndagaba Baba Alhaji and Dr. Paul Farmer have been awarded the Bob Freeman Humanitarian Award by the United Nations (UN).
Ndagaba Baba Alhaji has dedicated his life, according to the citation of his award, to “working to provide medical supplies and equipment to under-served communities across the African diaspora.”
Ndagaba’s humanitarian effort was inspired by the same he received from a Chicago hospital when he needed a heart surgery that would have costed him 180 million Naira.
Help came for him when the Advocate Christ Medical Center in Chicago operated on him for free and told him all he needed to pay back was to extend the same act of kindness to others.
Osahon Enabulele, a physician has become the first Nigerian to head the Commonwealth Medical Association, (CMA).
He was inaugurated on the 5th of November 2019 at the 25th president of the association during the opening ceremony of the 25th Triennial Conference of the 57-year-old renowned global medical body holding in Abuja, Nigeria.