Category: Education & Innovation

The Nigerian Prisons Service (NPS) has emerged winner of the 2018 UNESCO Confucius Prize for Literacy due to an education for prisoners programme being run by the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN).

The Nigerian Prisons Service (NPS), which was selected as one of the five winners of this year’s prize, got the laurel in recognition of its innovative literacy programme of equipping prisoners with useful skills and professions to facilitate income generation upon discharge and discourage future crime.

Winners of the prize are awarded a silver medal, a diploma and US$20,000 prize money, as well as a trip to the birthplace of Confucius.

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Lotachi Ugwunwa Onyemenam has emerged the best graduating student of University of Cape Coast (UCC) in Ghana receiving a record 15 out of 21 awards.

Some of the awards received by Lotachi Ugwunwa Onyemenam are the vice-chancellor of UCC prize for the overall best performance, Ghana Medical Association best student, Cape Coast Teaching Hospital prize for the best student among others.

The other awards went to Akorfa Ama Wotordzor who received five awards with the remainder going to Amanda Naa Atwei Bruce-Adjei.

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Juliet Ezekiel emerge as the best graduate of Benson Idahosa University (BIU), Benin, in the 2017/2018 academic session at the 14th Convocation of the University.

The 23-year-old graduated with a first class degree from the Department of Computer Science, with a Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 3.95 on a scale of 4.0.

Juliet Ezekiel also received the President’s Prize and Dr. Goddie Isibor’s Prize for the Best Graduating Student, among others.

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Brampton Manor Academy in East Ham, London with Dr. Dayo Olukoshi, OBE, as its Executive Principal has achieved record A-level results with over 100 students achieving straight A or A* grades.

The feat gives Brampton Manor Academy its best ever student success in A’level results this year.

Dr. Dayo Olukoshi was awarded Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2015 for his services to education.

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Deborah Onitilo of New Chrisfield College, Ikorodu, Lagos, has emerged overall winner of the 2018 Mike Okonkwo National Essay Competition for Secondary School students in Nigeria.

Deborah Onitilo emerged winner after scoring 63 percent in the first round of the competition and 52 percent in the second round.

The second position went to Miss Ashley Davidson of Vivian Fowler Memorial College for Girls, Ikeja, who scored 62 percent in the first round and 49 percent in the second round to emerge second.

Master Ferdinand Esigbone-Omagbemi, a student of Roshallom International Secondary School, Lagos, scored 60 percent in the first round and 47 percent in the second round to claim the third position.

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OVH Energy Limited has announced Solomon Tolulope Oyakhire, 23 year old first class graduate of Chemical Engineering from the University of Lagos as the winner of its 2nd edition of its Prodigy Series writing competition themed So You Think You Can Write.

This is following OVH Energy’s call for entries which it announced in May 2018 in commemoration of the 2018 United Nations World Innovation and Creativity Day – an observance designed to raise awareness of the role of creativity and innovation in problem-solving and by extension, in the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals. It is also a day set aside by the United Nations to celebrate the creative human mind, and encourage people to be innovative about making the world a better place to live.

It is against this backdrop that OVH Energy has tailored its writing competition (So You Think You Can Write) to encourage the art of creative writing in Nigeria, with this year’s competition focusing on how corporations can positively influence their environment through socially responsible business practices in the 21st century.

The entry of Solomon Tolulope Oyakhire came first out of the 1,024 entries received from candidates in the So You Think You Can Write contest.

All entries were graded based on originality and strength of proposed ideas; in-depth study/specific reference to the downstream oil and gas sector; grammar structure and coherence; use of English, paragraphing, spacing and punctuation; and adherence to writing terms and conditions. The results were based on the cumulative assessment scores of both internal and external judges.

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