Winners of 2017 Marketing Edge Brands & Advertising Excellence Awards

The MARKETING EDGE Brands and Advertising Excellence Award provides a unique platform for robust intellectual engagement as well as honours practitioners for their commitment to excellence in the field of branding and marketing.

Outstanding Young PR agency of the Year – Modion Communications

Financial Brand of the Decade – United Bank for Africa Plc (UBA)

Marketing Personality of the Decade – Bunmi Oke, Chief Operating Officer and Executive Director, 141Wordwide and Tunji Olugbodi, Executive Vice Chairman of Verdant Zeal Group

Lifetime Marketing Achievement – Ekwunife Okoli

Telecoms Brand Leadership Award- MTN

Outstanding Customer-Centric Telecoms Brand of the Year – Airtel

Innovative Telecom Brand of the Year- Etisalat

Outstanding Dairy Brand of the Year – Peak Milk

Outstanding Brand Re-Launch of the Year – Union Bank

Outstanding Cola Brand of the Decade – Coca-Cola

Media Advertising Personality of the Year – Emeka Okeke

Adedipe Oluwatosin Is Young Scientist of the Year [2017]

16-year-old Adedipe Oluwatosin, an SSS III student from Shepherd International School, Ado-Ekiti has been crowned Young Scientist of the Year [2017], after winning the Young Nigerian Scientist Presidential Award at a ceremony held at Eagle’s Square, Abuja.

Adedipe Oluwatosin emerged best at a competition organised by the Federal Ministry of Science and Technology, out of a total of 774 candidates (drawn from all the local government areas in the country) who participated both at the preliminary and the final stages.

In recognition of this achievement, the Ekiti State Government very recently awarded a cash prize of 2.5 million Naira to Adedipe as well as an annual scholarship grant of 1million Naira per annum for a period of four years as funding for his undergraduate studies.

Adedipe Oluwatosin was also the 2016 winner of the Science Teachers Association of Nigeria (STAN) National Science Competition.