Guaranty Trust Bank Plc has emerged the ‘Best Private Banking Services, Best Commercial Banking Capabilities & Best Net-worth Specific Services in Africa’ at the 14th Euromoney Private Banking Awards.
FBN Capital Limited, a subsidiary of FBN Holdings Plc emerged the ‘Best Asset Manager in Nigeria’.
Leicester City midfielder and Nigerian International, Ndidi Wilfred, has been voted winner of the 2016 Belgian Goal of the Year Award in Belgium organised by the Belgian FA and the Sport Foot magazine.
Ndidi’s 30 yards wonder goal for KRC Genk was scored against Club Brugge in the First Division A playoffs on April 20, 2016.
The 20-year-old accumulated 2,385 votes to win the coveted prize, ahead of Club Brugge’s José Izqueirdo who had 1,816 votes and Ricardo van Rhijn who recorded 892 votes. Anderlecht’s Alexanger Chipciu came fourth in the poll with 865 points.
Belgian journalist Kristof Terreur presented the award to the 20 year old midfielder who has scored one goal for Leicester City in England.
Wilfred Ndidi was also ranked the tenth best player in the Belgian top-flight division for 2016.
Odonoekuma Onyebuchi Ekuma, a fourth-year medical student at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Enugu State has emerged the overall winner of the 2016 edition of the Etisalat-DigitalSENSE students essay contest on Internet Governance for Development, themed: “Internet Governance: Creating Opportunities for All Nigerians.”
Henry Monday Oguns, a 500 level Petrochemical Engineering student of the University of Benin, Edo State, and Egwe Tochukwu Christopher, a fourth year Law student of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State, taking the second and third positions respectively.
The Women’s Leadership Board of the Women and Public Policy Program at the Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, Massachusetts in the United States of America has invited Aisha Muhammed-Oyebode onto its Board.
Mrs. Muhammed-Oyebode, a lawyer, administrator and philanthropist, is the Chief Executive Officer of the Murtala Muhammed Foundation, a Nigerian non-governmental organisation.
The Women and Public Policy Program is a centre of the Harvard Kennedy School that specialises in groundbreaking gender research, teaching, training and policy translation. Comprised of leaders from the most senior levels of business, government, academia, and the non-profit sector, members of the Women’s Leadership Board and the Women and Public Policy Program aim to create gender equality and improve the lives of women and men around the world, focusing on rigorous, high-impact research that furthers a shared mission of closing gender gaps in the areas of economic opportunity, political participation, health and education.
By her membership of the Board, Mrs. Muhammed-Oyebode joins a dedicated group of women who have committed to deepening their participation in gender research and to interface with high-level policy and decision-makers to deploy interventions and Women and Public Policy Program expertise to close gender gaps in their spheres of influence.
The Women’s Leadership Board members are nominated by existing Women’s Leadership Board members or Harvard Kennedy School officials, and evaluated by the Women’s Leadership Board executive committee and Harvard University.
Ms. Helen Oyeyemi, the author of the globally acclaimed novel, “The Icarus Girl”, has been declared winner of the PEN America OPEN BOOK Award 2017 for her 2016 book “What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours” with a cash prize of $5,000.
She won the prize for the category of the “Exceptional Book-Length Work of Literature By An Author of Color Published In 2016”.
The judges for the category were Ishmael Beah, Major Jackson and Bich Minh Nguyen.
PositiveNaija Monthly Newsletter January 2017
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Two brands from the stable of Chi Limited, Nectar & Value Added Dairy products, have been honoured for their Outstanding Brand Equity and market leadership.
The award was presented at the maiden edition of the Best Brand Equity Awards 2016, held in Nigeria, recently, by Kantar Millward Brown, one of the world’s leading global research agency, specialising in advertising effectiveness, strategic communication, media and brand equity research.