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Team Delta State Wins 5th National Youth Games

Team Delta State has made history again by winning the fifth National Youth Games in Ilorin to make it five wins out of five competitions.

Team Delta State won the multi-sports youth development Games for the fourth time in 2018, after garnering a total of 67 medals, made up of 27 gold, 24 silver, and 16 bronze. And on the 15th of September 2019, in Ilorin, Team Delta State incredibly won a total of 104 medals, made up of 41 gold, 32 silver, and 31 bronze.

Team Lagos finished second with 72 medals made up of 22 gold, 36 silver, and 14 bronze, while Team Bayelsa was third with 45 medals made up of 17 gold, six silver, and 22 bronze.

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Brendon Ikem & Christian Peter-Jesse Win 2019 World Robot Olympiad (WRO) Nigeria

Brendon Ikem and his pair Christian Peter-Jesse have emerged joint champion at the 2019 World Robot Olympiad (WRO) Nigeria held at the Oriental Hotel, Victoria Island.

The 2019 WRO Nigeria serves as the qualification stage to the upcoming WRO in Gyor, Hungary from November 8 to November 10 [2019]. The qualifiers may have about 22,000 participants according to the organisers.

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Bowen University Wins 2019 Nigeria Universities Programming Contest (NUCPC)

A team of three students from Bowen University, Osun State, have emerged the overall winner of the 2019 Nigeria Universities Programming Contest (NUCPC) ahead of 15 other teams.

The winning team, along with three others that came second, third and fourth, will represent Nigeria at the next level of the contest – the Africa and Arab Collegiate Programming Championship (ACPC).

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Cadet Sunday Linus Ogbole Wins King Hussain Award By The Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst

Officer Cadet Sunday Linus Ogbole has received the King Hussain Award by the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst for the most improved International Cadet of the Intake on the Regular Commissioning Course.

According to the British High Commission in Nigeria:

“Officer Cadet Ogbole has shown determination & zest. His work ethic & dedication has endeared him to his platoon. He is extremely grateful of the opportunity & is conscious of the role he must play when he returns to #Nigeria & passing on his knowledge”

Nigeria Donates Relief Materials To Mozambique And Zimbabwe Flood Victims [2019]

The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has declared that it has completed the airlifting of relief materials to Mozambique and Zimbabwe to further assist victims of the massive flooding that affected some communities in the countries in April 2019.

NAF’s Director of Public Relations and Information, Air Commodore Ibikunle Daramola, disclosed this in a statement on the 31st of August 2019.

Air Commodore Ibikunle Daramola explained that the airlift missions were conducted for the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA).

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‘Daughters of Chibok’ Wins Best VR Story Award At 76th Venice International Film Festival

Nigerian film, ‘Daughters of Chibok’, has won the best virtual reality (VR) immersive story for linear content award at the 76th Venice International Film Festival.

The film, which addresses the impact of the kidnapped Chibok girls on their surviving family members, also aims to remind the global community on the need to rescue the remaining 112 school girls still in Boko Haram captivity.

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Dr. Mathew Aneke & Professor Meihong Wang Win 2019 NLNG Nigeria Prize For Science

The Advisory Board of the Nigeria Prize for Science has announced the works by Professor Meihong Wang and Dr. Mathew Aneke on Carbon Capture, Carbon Utilization, and Biomass Gasification and Energy Storage for Power Generation as the winning works for the 2019 NLNG Nigeria Prize for Science worth $100,000.

In its 15 years history, this is the first time a non-Nigerian has been awarded the Prize, which is sponsored by Nigeria LNG Limited (NLNG). This is also the third joint winners’ award since inception in 2004.

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