Sara Adegoke defeated 16 year-old Angel MacLeod 6-4, 6-3 in an all Nigerian affair to win the McDan West Africa Open Championship 2017 held at the Accra Sports Stadium Tennis Court. She wins a $1,000 prize money in addition to silver trophies and products from the supporting sponsors including Twellium Industries, COCOBOD, GNPC and Babolat.
Month: April 2017
UNIPORT Emerges Winner of NUGA Games 2017
University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT) has won 150 medals comprising 70 gold, 47 silver and 33 bronze in Judo, Athletics, Taekwondo, Volleyball, Basketball, Scrabble and Tennis to emerge overall winner of the 25th Nigeria University Games Association (NUGA) Games.
The NUGA Games were held at the Federal University of Agriculture, Makurdi between April 22 and April 29 with a total of 57 contesting universities.
Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) Zaria with 16 medals comprising 11 gold, 2 silver and 3 bronze medals followed a distant second while Benson Idahosa University (BIU) came third with 26 medals comprising 10 gold, 7 silver and 9 bronze.
University of Lagos (UNILAG) with 20 medals, made up of 9 gold, 4 silver and 7 bronze took fourth position.
2017 NFPAWA Writing Contest Winners
Martin Agbili (an electrical/safety engineer and senior service officer in Anambra State Fire Service) and Jonathan Mairiga have emerged winners in the risk management writing contest put together by the National Fire Prevention Awareness and Advocacy (NFPAWA), a life, fire safety and security risk management organisation, for safety experts.
The novel competition in Nigeria and West Africa is according to NFPAWA, an initiative geared towards developing capacity in security, fire and safety risk management as well as part of programmes line up for the forthcoming risk management conference by the organisation.
Sijibomi Ogundele Wins Hospitality Honorarium Grand 2017 Award
NiRA Awards 2017
The NiRA Awards 2017 recognises and acknowledges companies and organisations contributing to the growth of the .ng domain name registration.
NiRA is the registry for Nigerian Internet Domain Names (.ng) which maintains the database of names registered in the .ng country code Top Level Domain.
Winners
Best Primary school portal – Ifako International schools, Lagos
Best Secondary school portal – Shepherd International college, Nasarawa
Best Tertiary institution portal – University of Uyo
Digital innovation in local government – Amuwo odofin
Digital innovation in state – Lagos state
Digital innovation in federal government – Federal Road Safety Commission
Public sector star – National Bureau of Statistics
Making the internet a better place – National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA)
Best print media – The Guardian Nigeria
Best media online website – Pulse Nigeria
Best electronic media (television) – Iroko
Best electronic media (radio) – Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria
Most valuable youth organisation – National Youth Service Corps
Startup company of the year – Eazyhire
Best payment website – Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System
Best Insurance company – Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund
Best banking website – Bank of Industry (BoI)
Most innovative service provider – Jiji Nigeria
Company of the year – Google Nigeria
Youth Development award – Startuparewa.ng
Women Development award – Saferinternet.org.ng
The Best Local Hosting Company – Garanntor for garanntor.ng
Supporting media partner – Guardian newspaper and Technology times
Special recognition of outstanding board members award – Mr. Biyi Oladipo
Special recognition award – Mrs. JAF Olushola
Winners: Best .ng registrar (four categories)
1. Silver- netorb media ltd
2. Gold- Icecool ltd
3. Platinum- McReal online networks
‘Nigerian Prince’
Written and directed by Okoro, the movie will be produced by Biyi Bandele and Oscar Hernandez-Topete with a focus on underrepresented perspectives.
Nigeria Prince will premiere at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival.
A New York City based Nigerian-American filmmaker, Faraday Okoro graduated with Distinction from Howard University and has MFA in filmmaking from NYU Film School.
But the money came with pressure: For example, it was to be filmed in Africa.
Tomi Adeyemi’s ‘Children of Blood and Bone’
Tomi Adeyemi, has landed a seven figure book-and-movie deal for her first novel, Children of Blood and Bone, which is described as a “Black Lives Matter-inspired fantasy novel.”
The film rights were purchased by Fox 2000 before the novel was released.
Tomi Adeyemi is a 23 years old Nigerian-American writer and creative writing coach based in San Diego, who graduated from Harvard with a major in English Literature before receiving a fellowship to study West African mythology and culture in Salvador, Brazil.