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Victor Onwuka and Onyinye Okafor have emerged overall winners of the 2021 Secondary School Chemistry Competition organised by the Chemical Society of Nigeria (CSN).

Acting Head Teacher, Nnamdi Azikiwe University (UNIZIK) High School, Mrs. Atinuke Israel, disclosed that Victor Onwuka scored 92 percent in the male category, while Onyinye Okafor recorded 87 percent in the female category.

She attributed their performance to what she described as “intensive preparations by the school and divine backing”.

Two representatives each were drawn from the 36 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja.

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Dr. Felix Ajiola has emerged winner of the 2021 Rahamon Bello Best Thesis Award after being overall best among 23 others from universities in Nigeria and other African countries to win the prize.

The award was put together by the Institute of African and Diaspora Studies, University of Lagos, and Dr. Ajiola, whose Ph.D. thesis is entitled: “Cocoa Production and Rural Development in Idanre, South Western Nigeria (1900 to 1996)”, won the first prize which attracts a cash reward of $1000.

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Enomfon Akpan has emerged overall winner of the 2021 Nigerian Content Development And Monitoring Board (NCDMB) Essay Competition.

The 5th edition of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) Annual National Undergraduate Nigerian Content Essay Competition Award and Prize giving ceremony was held on November 24, 2021 in Yenagoa, Bayelsa state.

The topic of the 2021 edition of the competition was “Ten years of local content implementation in Nigeria: Successes, challenges and the imperative of expanding beyond oil and gas”.

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Esther Oluwabukola Gbeja has emerged overall winner of the 2021 NCC National Essay Competition during the prize presentation ceremony held on November 23, 2021, at the Conference Room of the Commission’s Head Office in Abuja.

Over 2,000 entries were received from 97 public and private tertiary institutions for the competition in which Esther Oluwabukola Gbeja, a 600-Level student of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Ilorin, was declared overall winner. Gbeja received a cash prize of ₦500,000.00, a laptop, and a printer; while the first runner-up, Moses Nosa Edosa, a final year student of Accounting at the University of Port Harcourt, received a cash prize of ₦300,000.00 only.

Two second runners-up emerged from the competition to pick the third prize. MarcPatrick Efevuriri Efeni, a 200-Level student of Cybersecurity at the Airforce Institute of Technology, Kaduna; and Nasiru Abdul Karim, a 400-Level student of Computer Engineering at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, both came third having scored same number of points. They both received cash prizes of ₦200,000 each.

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The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has awarded Miss Yinka-Banjo Victory Morenike as the overall best student in 2020 at a ceremony held on November 18, 2021.

Miss Yinka-Banjo Victory Morenike, a student of Princeton College, Aguda, Surulere, Lagos, with No. 4252067/039 came first, having scored A1 in her subjects, while her total score was 606.3196.

Adebowale, Dorcas Ayooluwa of Emerald Laurel Comprehensive College, Ibadan came second, having A1 in all her subjects with a total score of 601.2198.

Nwaozuzu Confidence Chinaza of Total Education Development Academy, Eke-Owerri, Abia came third. She also scored distinctions in all her subjects with a total score of 599.605.

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Dr. Joy Oyinlola Adesina has emerged the best-ever graduating student in the Faculty of Clinical Sciences at the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife.

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Ewerechukwu Favour Asaka has emerged as the overall best graduating student at Covenant University for the 2020/2021 academic session at the school’s 16th Convocation.

Ewerechukwu Favour Asaka, a graduate of Computer and Information Science from the College of Science and Technology, Department of Computer Science, received her first class degree with a Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 5.0 (out of 5.0).

Blessing Jimoh of the Department of Chemical Engineering had a CGPA of 4.93 and Eunice Ojutiku of the Economics Department had a CGPA of 4.93.

The 16th Convocation of Covenant University, held on October 22, 2021 was titled, ‘The Release of Eagles 2021.’

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