Deutsche Bank AG, has rewarded Ecobank Nigeria Limited, Access Bank, Sterling Bank Plc, Stanbic IBTC and Zenith Bank, for excellence in payment efficiency, cash management and trade finance.
The first award by Deutsche Bank AG, titled “Straight-Through Processing (STP) Excellence Award”, which has been a feature of Nigeria’s financial markets for six years, went to Ecobank Nigeria Ltd, followed by Stanbic IBTC and Sterling Bank Plc.
Deborah Fari representing Plateau State, came first with a record time of 38 mins 15 seconds in the Nigerian category of the 10-kilometre 2017 Okpekpe International Road Race in Edo State, Etsako East Local Council, South-South Nigeria.
Elizabeth Fawa representing Nasarawa State came second in 38 minutes 41 seconds, while Rose Akesho, also from Plateau state came third after finishing in 38 minutes 55 seconds.
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Immaculate Onyinye Onuigbo of the Department of Petroleum Chemistry, AUN emerged the overall best graduating student of the class of 2017 and received seven awards and different cash prices for each award from corporate sponsors.
Her awards were best graduating student in Petroleum Chemistry, overall best student of school of arts and sciences, two cooperate awards with a cash prize of 500,000 Naira each and a fully paid internship in any subsidiary of Afrinvest Limited.
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Team Lagos has emerged the best state at the 2017 Asaph Zadok National Scrabble Championship held in Abuja.
Team Lagos retained the title, after five out of their six players emerged as the top six on the scores table.
With the victory, Lagos won a trophy and a cash prize of 100,000 Naira.
Delta and Akwa Ibom came second and third best respectively.
Dipo Akanbi, representing Lagos State, emerged the 2017 individual champion after winning 18 games with an aggregate of +743.
Akanbi, with the victory, earned a trophy and a cash prize of 150,000 Naira
Dayo Tayo, also of Lagos State, came second with 16.5 wins and +346 aggregate and a cash prize of 100,000 Naira.
Moses Peter of Akwa Ibom came third with 16 wins and a +1351 aggregate, for a cash prize of 50,000 Naira.
Olatunde Oduwole, the 2016 national champion and Lagos representative, came fourth with 16 wins and +764 aggregate.
With a view to introducing DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid) extraction laboratory practical in secondary schools across Africa, an Associate Professor of Virology in the Department of Biological Sciences, Covenant University (CU), Dr. Angela Eni has in conjunction with one of her students, Miss Oluwaseunnlafunmi Oke, developed a rapid and inexpensive DNA isolation kit for secondary schools, using locally available materials.
Stating the motive behind the research, Dr. Eni, who is the Team Leader, of the Covenant University Hub of the West African Virus Epidemiology (WAVE) for root and tuber crops, said she observed that both her undergraduate and postgraduate students struggle with molecular biology concepts and techniques mainly because these were not introduced to the students on time and appropriately. This, she said, has been a reoccurring challenge over the years, hence one of the solution would be to bring DNA or the molecular biology studies home to young people in a practical way that they would understand and early enough to capture their interest.
One of the reasons why both secondary schools and some higher institutions in Nigeria do not teach their students DNA extraction, she revealed, is because the kits required for conducting these “young mind entrancing” laboratory practical are either too expensive and/or unavailable in most schools in Africa including some higher institutions unlike elsewhere around the world, where the knowledge of DNA and the huge potentials locked therein is introduced to youngsters in secondary schools.
Based on this realization, she and her student decided to use locally available materials in Nigeria to develop a kit that would allow them introduce DNA extraction as a science laboratory practical in secondary school. However, because her student was working for a B.Sc. in Microbiology degree, it became important that they included some microbiology in her work.
Covenant University (CU) has been ranked Number One (1) globally in some research endeavours and rated among the top 10 in others, based on the latest computations by Elsevier SciVal, the world acclaimed ready-to-use solution that offers easy access to the research performance of 8,500 research institutions and 220 countries worldwide.
This latest rating is a huge boost to the University’s vision of being one of the top 10 universities in the world by the year 2022.
Over 13 million publications for the period 2011-2015 were extracted from the Scopus database, to form 168,092 clusters. SciVal subsequently identified 53 publication clusters in which Covenant University has a significant presence. The 53 publication clusters were grouped into 16 Competencies for Covenant University.
SciVal classified 4 of the 16 Competencies as Distinctive Competencies of Covenant University because they are significantly large fields, and the institution is leading these fields in terms of publications, highly cited publications, and/or innovation.
Twelve other areas of emerging competencies were identified.