Aruna Quadri and Bode Abiodun have assisted Sporting CP to win its 37th title in the Portuguese national league [Table Tennis].
Sporting CP won their fifth championship trophy in a row after beating GD Toledos 3-0 in the 2nd leg of the final held at the High-Performance Center of Vila Nova de Gaia, after repeating the same margin in the first leg on Saturday, July 4.
Dr. Eugene Ohu, a researcher at the Lagos Business School has won a $234,000 grant from the Templeton World Charity Foundation, Inc.
A statement on the website of the school said Dr. Eugene Ohu, won the grant to conduct a two-year virtual reality research titled Teaching Children Empathy and Compassion through Virtual Reality Games.
Dapo Olorunyomi has been honored alongside four others with the 2020 International Press Freedom Award by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).
Dapo Olorunyomi is the co-founder, CEO, and publisher of the Nigerian newspaper Premium Times, which today is one of the most trusted newspapers in Nigeria and a standard for African investigative journalism.
Dapo Olorunyomi has dedicated his life to holding the powerful to account and is a fierce advocate for press freedom.
Dapo Olorunyomi worked as an editor at other Nigerian media outlets, including PM News, which he helped co-found; Radio Nigeria; The African Guardian magazine; and NEXT newspapers. In 2005, he founded the Lagos-based Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism, named after Africa’s first Nobel laureate in literature and dedicated to exposing corruption and human rights abuses. He also co-founded the Premium Times Centre for Investigative Journalism, a partner organization to the newspaper, which has its own press freedom tracker.
Dapo Olorunyomi serves on the advisory boards of nonprofit organizations Africa Check and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalism.
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Wana Udobang has been selected to participate in the 54th International Writing Programme (IWP) Fall Residency at the University of Iowa, courtesy of the United States Department of State.
Over the course of 11 weeks, Wana Udobang will join 29 other accomplished writers from across the globe in the world’s oldest and largest multinational writing residency. She and the other participants will give readings and lectures that share their work and cultures, collaborate with artists from other genres and art forms, and travel to interact with audiences and literary communities across the United States of America.
In addition, the residency will provide the writers a one-of-a-kind inter-cultural opportunity to forge productive relationships with colleagues and translators, and take part in the vibrant social and academic life of the University of Iowa as well as the larger American literary scene.
Ndubuisi Egbo’s KF Tirana has emerged the 2019/2020 Albanian League champions [Kategoria Superiore] and have qualified for next season’s UEFA Champions League qualification stage.
KF Tirana were confirmed champions after second placed Kukesi lost 1-0 at Vllaznia on July 19, 2020.
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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