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2016 J1 League Highest Goalscorer Award

Peter Utaka has become the first Nigerian player to be named the J1 League joint top scorer with Brazil’s Leandro Montera da Silva after scoring 19 goals for his club Sanfrecce Hiroshima.

Utaka who joined Hajime Moriyasu’s men from Shimizu S-Pulse on loan in January has made a virtue out of necessity for the Sanfrecce despite finishing 10th on the league table with 26 points from 17 games.

The 32-year-old attacker won the top scorer prize in the Belgian second division with Royal Antwerp in the 2007/2008 season before repeating the feat in the Danish Super League with Odense Boldkulb in the 2009/2010 season.

The former Beijing Guoan player who is set to return to Shimizu S-Pulse in January becomes the second African player to win the prestigious Japanese award after Cameroonian Patrick Mboma who scored 25 goals for Gamba Osaka in the 1997 season.

The Venture 2016/2017 – Chivas Regal Scotch Whisky’s $1 Million Competition for Social Enterprise

RecyclePoints, an incentive based recycling scheme that deploys the use of electric cargo tricycles, the first of its kind in Nigeria, has been announced as the Nigeria winner of The Venture, Chivas Regal Scotch Whisky’s global competition; scooping the 1 million Naira prize money and will represent Nigeria in the Global Final in Los Angeles in July 2017, to compete with social entrepreneurs from 31 countries across 6 continents for a share of the $1 million in funding to take their business to the next level.

Sand Eagles Finish Second At 2016 Beach Soccer AFCON

The Sand Eagles, host of the 2016 beach soccer AFCON, lost to Senegal in the final of the competition played at the Eko Atlantic Beach in Lagos.

Super Sand Eagles player, Emeka Ogbonna emerging the Most Valuable Player (MVP) of the tournament.

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2016 African Corporate Excellence (ACE) Awards

Caritas Communications, Africa’s pioneer energy, oil and gas specialist reputation consultancy has emerged the best Reputation Management Consulting firm at the 2016 African Corporate Excellence Awards

AIT All Time Best Graduating Students [2016]

Two Nigerian students Kingsley Ikhuoria Cookey and Mariam Tosin Sanni at the Accra Institute of Technology (AIT), Ghana have become AIT all time best graduating students.

Kingsley graduated with a First Class Honours Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical and Electronics Engineering Degree was adjudged the overall best student of the graduation class with a cumulative GPA of 4.21 and Mariam graduated with a First Class Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration with a cumulative GPA of 4.01.

Osemudiamen Anao Winner Of 2016 Ideas Matter Research Fellowship For West African Scholars

Osemudiamen Anao from University of Benin, has emerged among the three winners of the Ideas Matter Research Fellowships for West African Scholars.

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2016 NSE Most Compliant Dealing Member Firm

The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) has conferred its prestigious “Most Compliant Dealing Member Firm” award on Capital Assets Limited, a Lagos-based indigenous full-service capital market operator