Aruna Quadri has become the first Nigerian to win the ITTF Nigeria Open men’s singles title after defeating Frenchman, Hachard Antoine in the final match of ITTF Nigeria Open 2018 held at Molade Okoya Thomas Hall of Teslim Balogun Stadium, Surulere, Lagos.
For his effort, Aruna Quadri won the ITTF Nigeria Open top prize money of $5,000. The Nigerian also won another $200 courtesy of the fair play award, which was also awarded to him.
The Nigerian Institute of Management (NIM) has declared Ayodeji Odeleye, an Estate Surveyor, as the winner of its 2018 Edition of Young Managers Competition (YMC) held in Lagos.
The five finalists were Ayodeji Odeleye (Winner), Iyeku Akinwale (first Runner up), Caleb Eke (Second Runner up), Ibidunni Lawani (Third Runner up) and Akinkunmi Elizabeth (Fourth Runner).
The star prize for the winner is a prize of ₦1.5 million, while the first, second and the third runners up were rewarded with ₦800,000, ₦500,000 and ₦200,000 worth of management training at NIM Headquarters respectively.
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Nigeria’s number one female squash player, Yemisi Olatunji has won the SafeGuard Zimbabwe Squash Open Championship after defeating her sister, Busayo Olatunji to win the women’s final, which ended in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe.
The Zimbabwe Squash Open Championship, which featured players from South Africa, Zambia, Swaziland, Nigeria and host country, Zimbabwe’s male and female teams, was organised to develop and expose African stars.
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Victor Ekwealor and Togolese Emmanuel Agbenonwossi have emerged as the pioneer Fellows for the newly introduced Digital Rights and Inclusion Media Fellowship.
The Digital Rights and Inclusion Media Fellowship is a project of Paradigm Initiative, a social enterprise dedicated to the promotion of digital rights and inclusion in Africa.
The fellowship attracted 116 applications from 19 countries.
Nigerian Team Save-A-Soul have won the 2018 Technovation World Pitch Junior Division.
The Nigerian girls won the Junior Division Finalists (App focus) category during the “Global Innovation Celebration” held in the San Jose Theatre, August 9, 2018.
The girls, from Regina Abachi secondary school, Onitsa, codenamed Team Save-A-Soul comprising of Promise Nnalue, Jessica Osita, Nwabuaku Ossai, Adaeze Onuigbo and Vivian Okoye, developed a mobile application called ‘FD-Detector’ to tackle the problem of fake pharmaceutical products in Nigeria with Mrs Uchenna Onwuamaegbu-Ugwu, as their mentor.
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Deborah Onitilo of New Chrisfield College, Ikorodu, Lagos, has emerged overall winner of the 2018 Mike Okonkwo National Essay Competition for Secondary School students in Nigeria.
Deborah Onitilo emerged winner after scoring 63 percent in the first round of the competition and 52 percent in the second round.
The second position went to Miss Ashley Davidson of Vivian Fowler Memorial College for Girls, Ikeja, who scored 62 percent in the first round and 49 percent in the second round to emerge second.
Master Ferdinand Esigbone-Omagbemi, a student of Roshallom International Secondary School, Lagos, scored 60 percent in the first round and 47 percent in the second round to claim the third position.
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Nigerian team Coating+ have emerged as the Grand Prize winners of the 2018 Thought For Food Challenge, receiving a cash prize of $10,000 USD.
Led by biochemists Albert Kure, Basheer Balogun, Lukman Abdulwahab and Suleiman Alakanse, the Coating+ team has developed a safe coating for fresh foods that extends their shelf life while also providing hard-to-access micronutrients to help tackle hidden hunger. When food is coated with their chitosan/soy protein-based product, fresh produce has been shown to retain its quality for up to three times longer in laboratory trials.
Coating+ is currently undergoing regulatory approval for their product, and are ramping up production capabilities with a leading global nutrition company.
The Thought For Food (TFF) Foundation announced the winning teams of its annual global competition, the Thought For Food Challenge, on July 27th at the TFF Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
The TFF teams were evaluated based on their potential for positive social and environmental impact, as well as the scientific and business feasibility of their ideas. The panel of judges which selected the 2018 winners included Cristianne Close (WWF), Teddy Onserio (Open Society Foundation), Peleg Chevion (Blendhub), and Darío Gonzales (Cultivando Futuro).
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