Olusegun Adekunle has been appointed the Alternate Chairman of the 127th Economic Commission Board of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC).
Mr. Olusegun Adekunle was before this appointment Nigeria’s representative to the Organisation.
Team Nigeria won six (6) medals at the 2017 Islamic Solidarity Games, which was held in Baku, Azerbaijan.
A total of six medals, consisting of two Gold, three Silver and one Bronze medals was won by Team Nigeria at the 4th edition of the games.
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Winners of the 2017 African Banker awards have been announced at an event in India. The awards held annually on the fringes of the Annual Meetings of the African Development Bank, celebrates excellence in banking and finance on the African continent.
President of Afreximbank, Dr. Benedict Oramah won ‘Banker of the Year’. Afreximbank has grown considerably in the past year, whilst other metrics, such as income to cost ratio were very competitive.
Guaranty Trust Bank (GTBank) won the ‘African Bank of the Year Award’. GTBank posted a 37% increase in profits in 2016, despite difficult trading conditions in its main market Nigeria.
Two subsidiaries of SIFAX Group, SIFAX Haulage and Logistics Limited and Skyway Aviation Handling Company Limited (SAHCOL) have won the Haulage & Logistics Company of the Year as well as Aviation Handling Company of the Year awards respectively at the fifth Nigeria Transport Awards.
Akwaeke Emezi has emerged the African region winner for the 2017 Commonwealth Short Story Prize with her work – Who is Like God.
Commonwealth Writers has partnered with Granta magazine to give regional winners of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize the opportunity to be published by Granta online. Akwaeke Emezi’s Who is Like God as well as the work of other regional winners will be published on www.granta.com every Tuesday from 30 May until 27 June (‘Who is Like God’, Akwaeke Emezi – 13 June), in order from East to West across the Commonwealth.
Another Nigerian who also was part of the shortlist is Kelechi Njoku with the story – By Way of a Lifeplot.
Jowhor Ile, has emerged winner of the 2016 Etisalat Literature Prize for his book: And after Many Days, published in Nigeria by Kachifo Limited, which depicts originality of voice, literary excellence and African sensibility.
Jowhor Ile becomes the first Nigerian to win the award as past winners of the Prize: Fiston Mwanza Mujila from The Democratic Republic of Congo (Tram 83; 2015); South African novelist Songeziwe Mahlangu (Penumbra, 2014) and Zimbabwean writer NoViolet Bulawayo (We Need New Names, 2013).
As winner, Jowhor Ile receives £15,000, an engraved Montblanc Meisterstück pen, an Etisalat sponsored book tour to three African countries.
He will also have an Etisalat-sponsored fellowship at the University of East Anglia, mentored by Professor Giles Foden, author of “The Last King of Scotland”.
The runners-up include; Jacqui L’Ange’s (South Africa) “The Seed Thief” and another Nigerian Juliet Iromuanya’s “Mr and Mrs Doctor”.