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Akinfoluhan Akinleye and Chinedu Mgbemena have emerged overall winners respectively in the junior and senior categories of the 2018 Cowbellpedia Mathematics Quiz.

13-year-old Akinfoluhan Akinleye is a student of The Ambassadors College, Ota, Ogun State while 17-year-old Chinedu Mgbemena is a student of Graceland International School, Port Harcourt.

As part of the 20th anniversary of Cowbell and Mathematics in Nigeria, the champions in both categories received increased prize money of ₦2 million each with an all-expense paid educational excursion outside the country.

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Miss Lawrence Deborah, a student of Good Shepherd School, Ajegunle Village, Atan-Ota, Ogun State, has emerged overall winner of the 2018 edition of the Nigerian Stock Exchange Annual Essay Competition for students in Senior Secondary Schools in Nigeria.

The 2018 NSE Annual Essay Competition and Scholarship, themed “Building a Sustainable Capital Market”, is one of the Exchange’s financial literacy and inclusion initiatives aimed at building a financially savvy generation. The winners were announced during an awards ceremony at the Civic Center, Ozumba Mbadiwe Road, Victoria Island, Lagos.

Miss Lawrence Deborah clinched the first position ahead of over 20,150 participants across the country, winning ₦500,000 scholarship fund for her university education, ₦250,000 equity investment, and a laptop, with her school also rewarded with a trophy, three desktop computers, and a printer.

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Presentation National High School, Benin City, Edo State has emerged winner of the ₦7 million star prize in the 7th edition of the Seplat Pearl Quiz Competition held in Asaba, Delta State.

The three-year-old competition for all secondary schools in both Delta and Edo States commenced in the first week of October 2018 with each of the three student representatives of the victorious school (Presentation National High School) received ₦100,000 and a laptop each.

Sponsors of the 7th edition of the Seplat Pearl Quiz Competition also rewarded the second place winner, Lawrence Prentice Academy, Delta State with ₦3 million prize money for a project in the school just as the three representatives received the sum of ₦75,000.00 each while the third place went to University Preparatory Secondary School (UPSS.), Benin that won ₦1 million and ₦50,000 each for the representatives of the school.

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Taiwo Jolade has emerged winner in an annual essay competition jointly organized by the Nigerian Press Log and University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom in partnership with the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC).

The essay competition had as its theme the dangers of publishing fake news on any media platform ahead of the 2019 general elections.

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Peter Ngene, Soji Cole and Professor Isidore Diala have emerged winners of the 2018 Nigeria Prize for Science, Literature and Literary Criticism respectively sponsored by Nigeria LNG Limited.

A cash prize of $100,000 each was given in the prize for Science and Literature respectively while one million Naira was given for Literary criticism award.

The winners were announced by Ayo Banjo, Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Nigeria Prize for Science and Literature, in Lagos.

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Anthonia Crystabel Nya emerges as the best graduating student of Caleb University, Imota, Lagos with a 4.81 Cumulative Grade Point Average [2018].

Anthonia Crystabel Nya, 23, a graduate of Computer Engineering emerged as the best with determination, hard work and self discipline.

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Ojelade Islamiyat Adenike emerges as the best graduating student of the Federal Polytechnic, Ilaro, Ogun state at the 18th convocation ceremony of the institution.

23-year-old Ojelade Islamiyat Adenike graduated with a Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 3.89. Adenike studied science and laboratory technology (SLT).

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