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2016 Asian Banker Retail Services West African Awards

First Bank of Nigeria Limited has won “The Best Retail Bank in Nigeria Award” for the fifth time; the “Mobile Payment Product of the Year award” and the “Credit Card Product of the Year award” in the 2016 Asian Banker Retail Services West African Awards which took place in Lagos.

Organized by the Asian Banker magazine, the awards programme is renowned for its rigorous and transparent process in selecting outstanding financial institutions in retail banking. It is to recognize competition and innovation in one of the fastest growing and fierce markets with fierce competition.

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Euromoney 2016 Awards

Access Bank wins ‘Africa’s Best Bank Transformation’ in the Euromoney 2016 Awards for Excellence

Wazobia Tricycle

An indigenous Nigerian company based in Benue State has designed, engineered and manufactured a new brand of keke (tricycle) dubbed the Wazobia Tricycle. The tricycle was produced by Chinatown & Benue Valley Vehicle Manufacturing Co, with a unit of the multi-purpose tricycle to cost 250,000 Naira.

Professor Emily Alemika

Professor Emily Alemika of the Department of Public Law, Faculty of Law, University of Jos (UNIJOS), is the first female law professor to have come out of the entire Kogi State

GSK Inventor Award

The Managing Director, Neimeth International Pharmaceuticals Plc, Dr Ebere Igboko Ekpunnobi has won the GSK Inventor Award for two patent applications covering her inventions related to discovering of compounds potentially useful for the treatment of a rare disease

CSO’s Launch Online Portal to Track Police Abuse [2016]

A coalition of 49 Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) has launched an online portal to document and track human rights abuses by the Nigerian police.

The coalition Network on Police Reform in Nigeria (NOPRIN) and Connected Development [CODE], a non government organization whose mission is to empower marginalized communities, said unlawful police detentions are escalating and police extortion of citizens had become alarming.

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Ijodo

Nigerian engineer Timothy Addigi Terfa designs and builds a tractor he named ‘Ijodo’, which is 100% Nigerian, with a team of skilled individuals.

He has called the tractor Ijodo, meaning labour in the Tiv language.

The tractor is designed with different attachments to cover a variety of farm jobs.

For many, agriculture is still manual in Nigeria because of the high cost of farm machinery.

Some Ijodo tractors have been sold, but the engineer is looking for more investment.

Mr Terfa wants to inspire others:

“My greatest desire is that someone out there will be encouraged and motivated to do something with the ideas they have to make Nigeria better.”