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Finacle Client Innovation Awards 2016

  1. Award for Process Innovation on account of its innovative approach to transaction authentication and reconciliation – United Bank for Africa (UBA)
  2. Award for Project Management Innovation as a result of the outstanding work it has done on implementing a multi country migration of Finacle core banking solution using the Clustered Rollout concept – United Bank for Africa (UBA)

2016 Honorary Georgia Citizen Award

Oluseyi Akindeinde and Obadare Peter Adewale, founders of Digital Encode, a leading consulting and integration firm that specializes in the design, management, and security of business-critical networks, telecommunications environments and other Information Technology (IT) infrastructures, have been conferred with “Honorary Georgia Citizen” as well received the Keys to the cities of Georgia state by the Georgia Legislative Black Caucus, USA

First Black SAAPS Vice President

Professor Christopher Isike, the Head of Department, Politics and International Studies, University of Zululand, Kwazulu-Natal Province of South Africa, has been elected as the first black Vice President of the South African Association of Political Studies (SAAPS) and is also the first black African to be elected into the International Political Science Association Executive Council in the last 20 years

Dr. Oluyinka Olutoye Performs Successful Surgery On Unborn Baby To Remove Tumour

Dr. Oluyinka Olutoye and Dr. Darrell Cass alongside a team of about 20 others have performed a surgery on LynLee Hope who suffered from a tumor known as ‘sacrococcygeal teratoma’, underwent a crucial operation at 23 weeks and then returned to her mother’s womb; healed and continued to grow until she was born again at 36 weeks.

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2016 Governance Advancement Initiative for Nigeria (GAIN) Survey Results

  1. Best Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Company – Dangote Group 
  2. Best Company in Ethical Standards – Nestle Nigeria
  3. Best Company in Quality of Products and Services – Dangote Group 
  4. Most Awesome Line of Products and Services – Dangote Group

2016 L’Oréal-UNESCO Women in Science Honour

As part of the 2016 L’Oréal-UNESCO sponsored Women in Science programme, Eseoghene Umukoro who attends University of Johannesburg has been honoured with a Doctoral Fellowship for her work and impact on experimental and computational study of the electrochemical as well as photo-electrochemical oxidation of organic pollutants at carbon based-semiconductor composite electrodes.