Habiba Muhammed and Yamusa Bello, have emerged the best students from their individual Departments as the couple obtained their PhDs on the same day at the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia.
Emir Muhammadu Sanusi II Appointed UN SDGs Advocate
The Emir of Kano, His Royal Highness, Muhammadu Sanusi II has been appointed by the United Nations (UN), as a member of the new class of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Advocates.
UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres made the announcement through his spokesman, Farhan Haq, at a news conference in New York on the 9th of May, 2019.
The SDGs Advocates are 17 influential public figures committed to “raising awareness, inspiring greater ambition, and pushing for faster action on the SDGs”.
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Emediong Udnak Uko Exhibits At The Cyprus Modern Art Museum
19-year-old Emediong Udnak Uko, a medical student in Cyprus, becomes the youngest artist in the world and first African to ever have her work grace the walls of Cyprus Modern Art Museum.
Emediong Udnak Uko dedicated the paint to the legendary Nigerian musician, Lagbaja.
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Dr. Maxwell AzukaMeju Wins 2019 Reginald Fessenden Award
Dr. Maxwell AzukaMeju, has been selected by the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) headquartered in Tulsa, USA, for the 2019 Reginald Fessenden Award, one of the highest prizes in exploration geophysics.
A notification by the SEG 2018/2019 President, Robert Stewart, said the award was in recognition of the development of the current cross-gradient joint-inversion method, an invention now widely used in academia and various industries.
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Martins Ifijeh, Olasumbo Modupe & Anthonia Obokor Win 2019 Nordica Media Merit Awards
Martins Ifijeh, Olasumbo Modupe and Anthonia Obokor have emerged winners of the 2019 Nordica Media Merit Awards for excellence in fertility reporting at a presentation ceremony in Lagos.
For the second year running, THISDAY journalist, Martins Ifijeh, emerged the winner in the print category of the 2019 Nordica Media Merit Award with his entry ‘Heavy Metals and the Pain of Infertility’.
Olasumbo Modupe of Lagos Television emerged the winner in the electronic category while Anthonia Obokor of Business Day Newspapers emerged the winner in the online category.
The winners of each of the categories were given plaques and ₦250,000 cash prize each.
Follow The Money Wins United Nations SDG Mobiliser Of The Year Award 2019
Follow The Money, an initiative of Connected Development (CODE), has won the United Nations (UN) mobiliser of the year award at the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Global Fest for 2019.
Hamzat Lawal, the co-founder of CODE, received the award in Bonn, Germany on the 2nd of May, 2019.
The mobiliser of the year award is given to “the project/team that demonstrates the greatest successes with mobilizing individuals organizations or networks for collective action for the SDGs”.
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Emmanuel Gabriel Develops OBTranslate As ML/AI Assistance For Translating Over 2,000 African Languages
41-year-old Emmanuel Gabriel, has developed OBTranslate – a global Machine learning (ML) / Artificial Intelligence (AI) assistance platform for over 2,000 African language translation.
According to the German-based Emmanuel Gabriel, being the first globally, OBTranslate is an online Common Admission Tool (CAT) for machine learning, AI platforms and neural network systems for over 2,000 African languages. He explained that the drive to expand the Nigerian, African ICT market, create jobs and help improve lives of people motivated him to come up with the innovation.