Enyimba International Football Club of Aba have won the Nigerian Professional Football League (NPFL) title for the 2019 season.
The club beat Akwa United 3-0 at the Agege Stadium, Lagos to win a record seventh NPFL title, thereby maintaining the club’s reputation as Nigeria’s most successful club (winning the championship in 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2010, 2015 and 2019).
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Abdullateef Olasubomi Abdul has emerged the overall winner of the 2nd Babalola’s Law Dictionary Quiz Competition For Young Lawyers.
Abdullateef Olasubomi Abdul, an Associate at Ikeyi Shittu & Co. received the grand cash prize of ₦250,000 courtesy of the firm of Perchstone and Grady’s.
The event, which had 9 finalists was held at Onikan Youth Centre, Lagos on June 07, 2019.
Winners have emerged in the sixth edition of the Nigeria Pitch Awards [2018/2019], which took place at a ceremony in Asaba, Delta State.
Shina Philips, President of the Nigeria Pitch Awards, expressed the appreciation of the organisers to the Federation and the Delta State Government.
He said the organizers remained committed to giving Nigerians a transparent and credible award.
In his words:
“We will continue to do what is right because we believe our players need to be motivated by a transparent and credible reward system which will see them earn the respect of everyone in the football community.”
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The African Union (AU) has conferred a medal of honour on Dr. Aniekeme Uwah, for his role in the fight against the deadly Ebola virus in Liberia.
The AU head of mission in Nigeria, Joshua Obasanya, presented the medal to Dr. Uwah in Abuja, May 24, 2019.
Dr. Aniekeme Uwah, an epidemiologist, works in the ministry of health in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria.
He was among a few doctors with a requisite knowledge in public health and epidemiology recruited as volunteers by the AU in 2014 to help in the containment of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
Dr. Uwah spent six months in Liberia.
Ejowvokoghene Divine Oduduru has won the 100 meters race at the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) championships in 9.86 seconds.
Ejowvokoghene Divine Oduduru is now officially the second fastest African ever just behind his compatriot and legend Olusoji Fasuba (9.85 seconds 13 years ago in Doha).
About 45 minutes after his heroics in the 100 meters, Oduduru won the 200 meters in 19.73 seconds, both times wind-legal.
Mrs. Edafe Dogo has emerged the best graduating student at Babcock University, in Ilishan-Remo, Ogun State in the 2018/2019 academic session at the 17th convocation of the institution.
Mrs. Edafe Dogo, a mother of two children out of 1,926 first degree graduands, graduated with a 4.95 Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA).
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Team Tetra of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) have emerged first place winner in the national finals of the second edition of the Global Management Challenge (GMC).
Team Tetra were rewarded with a cash prize of 500,000 Naira.
The trio, Obi Ifechukwu, Ojodu Opeyemi and Amosu Oluwatobi of Team Tetra, represents UNILAG and Nigeria in the International Finals scheduled to hold in Russia in July 2019.
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