Brendon Ikem and his pair Christian Peter-Jesse have emerged joint champion at the 2019 World Robot Olympiad (WRO) Nigeria held at the Oriental Hotel, Victoria Island.
The 2019 WRO Nigeria serves as the qualification stage to the upcoming WRO in Gyor, Hungary from November 8 to November 10 [2019]. The qualifiers may have about 22,000 participants according to the organisers.
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A team of three students from Bowen University, Osun State, have emerged the overall winner of the 2019 Nigeria Universities Programming Contest (NUCPC) ahead of 15 other teams.
The winning team, along with three others that came second, third and fourth, will represent Nigeria at the next level of the contest – the Africa and Arab Collegiate Programming Championship (ACPC).
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Officer Cadet Sunday Linus Ogbole has received the King Hussain Award by the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst for the most improved International Cadet of the Intake on the Regular Commissioning Course.
According to the British High Commission in Nigeria:
The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has declared that it has completed the airlifting of relief materials to Mozambique and Zimbabwe to further assist victims of the massive flooding that affected some communities in the countries in April 2019.
NAF’s Director of Public Relations and Information, Air Commodore Ibikunle Daramola, disclosed this in a statement on the 31st of August 2019.
Air Commodore Ibikunle Daramola explained that the airlift missions were conducted for the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA).
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Nigerian film, ‘Daughters of Chibok’, has won the best virtual reality (VR) immersive story for linear content award at the 76th Venice International Film Festival.
The film, which addresses the impact of the kidnapped Chibok girls on their surviving family members, also aims to remind the global community on the need to rescue the remaining 112 school girls still in Boko Haram captivity.
The Advisory Board of the Nigeria Prize for Science has announced the works by Professor Meihong Wang and Dr. Mathew Aneke on Carbon Capture, Carbon Utilization, and Biomass Gasification and Energy Storage for Power Generation as the winning works for the 2019 NLNG Nigeria Prize for Science worth $100,000.
In its 15 years history, this is the first time a non-Nigerian has been awarded the Prize, which is sponsored by Nigeria LNG Limited (NLNG). This is also the third joint winners’ award since inception in 2004.
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Tade Ipadeola has been selected to participate in the International Writing Programme (IWP) Fall Residency at the University of Iowa, courtesy of the United States Department of State.
From September 1 to November 16, 2019, Tade Ipadeola, the 2013 winner of the Nigeria Prize for Literature, joins 28 other accomplished writers from across the globe in the world’s oldest and largest multinational writing residency.
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