Queen Elizabeth II of Britain has conferred one of the highest national honours, Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, on a British-born Nigerian nurse, health expert, lecturer and medical professor, Ms. Elizabeth Nneka Anionwu.
The Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire conferment on Dame Anionwu of Irish and Nigerian descent was in recognition of her services to the nursing profession in the United Kingdom.
The Western Naval Command emerge the overall winner of the 2017 Nigerian Navy Games in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State with a total of 184 medals, including 69 gold, 69 silver and 46 bronze to top the medal table which over 1,500 athletes and officials across the navy formations in the country participated.
The Eastern Naval Command emerged second position in the competition with 38 gold, 22 silver and 34 bronze medals while the third position went to Naval Headquarters with 108 medals.
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Chimamanda Ngozi-Adichie has been elected into the 2017 American Academy of Arts and Letters as a foreign honorary member.
The objective of the Academy include to “foster and sustain an interest in Literature, Music, and the Fine Arts” by administering over 70 awards and prizes, exhibiting art and manuscripts, funding performances of new works of musical theatre, and purchasing artwork for donation to museums across the country.
Andela receives the United States Secretary of State’s Award for Corporate Excellence (ACE) for 2016, in the category of Small and Medium Enterprises.
Andela is a global engineering organization that connects leading technology companies and talented software developers from around the world. Andela enables companies to build high-performing engineering teams while providing a platform for talented technologists to accelerate their expertise.
According to the United States Ambassador to Nigeria W. Stuart Symington,
Best Customer Experience Award (Electronic Payment Platform Experience) – GTBank; for achieving the highest level of overall customer satisfaction in the delivery of electronic payment services to customers.
Cashless Driver: Instant Payments – GTBank; for the Bank’s performance in recording the highest transaction count on the NIBSS Instant Payments (NIP) Platform.
Cashless Driver: Point of Sale (POS) Issued Cards’ Transactions – GTbank; for having the highest Point of Sale (PoS) transaction count on the National Central Switch with Issued Payment.
Instant Payments Transaction Efficiency – GTBank; for achieving the highest transaction count in Point of Sale (PoS) terminals through the National Central Switch (NCS) Platform.
The Point of Sale Card Transaction Efficiency – GTBank; for the Bank’s outstanding performance in recording the highest level of efficiency in card payments on POS terminals connected to the National Central Switch.
Electronic Data Rendition Compliance and Integrity – GTBank & Access Bank Plc; for the Bank’s outstanding performance in ensuring customer data integrity and compliance to CBN mandated submissions.
E-Reference Operations Award – Union Bank
Direct Debit Award – Ecobank Group
Point of Sales Transaction Acquiring – Zenith Bank; the Bank with the highest POS transactions
Financial Technology Partner Award – Interswitch Group
Most Efficient Third Party Payment Processor Award – Interswitch Group
Most Efficient Card Scheme Award – Mastercard
Cashless Driver: Mobile Money Operator (MMO) – Paga
Most Active Payment Terminal Service Provider Award – Unified Payment Services Limited
Most Improved Merchant Award – Sahad Stores Limited
Payments Aggregators Award – Soft Alliance Limited; payment aggregator with the highest volume of transactions
Merchants Award (POS) – Oswale Enterprises; merchant with the highest volume of transactions
Other Financial Institutions Award – Old Mutual
Federal Government Award – Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)
State Government Award – Lagos State Government
Sliide Airtime has been named as the World’s Most Innovative App at the Global Mobile World awards 2017.
Sliide Airtime was designed to solve a real-life problem for hundreds of millions of people living in Africa and other emerging markets; data is expensive relative to incomes.
