Category: Education & Innovation

Cookey Kingsley scored an unprecedented grade to graduate from Ghana’s Accra Institute of Technology (AIT) achieving 4.1 out of 4.2 CGPA in Electrical/Electronic Engineering

The University of Ilorin (UNILORIN) has won the 2016 All-Nigeria Universities Debating Championship (ANUDC), beating 19 other universities that participated in the competition.

The University of Calabar came second while the Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA), took the third position.

The All-Nigeria Universities Debating Championship (ANUDC), which is the fourth in the series, took place at the Covenant University, Sango-Ota, Ogun State between July 9 and July 16, 2016.

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Chinedu Ihenetu-Geoffrey wins the 2016 prestigious Oxford University Allen and overall best prize in Corporate Finance Law

A 22-year old Nigerian graduate, Maimuna Tani Matankari of Usmanu Danfodio University, Sokoto (UDUS) graduates with a Distinction in Software Engineering from the prestigious University of Southampton, United Kingdom where she completed her Masters in Engineering programme

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

Ifesinachi Nelson Ezeh, a 26-year-old Nigerian finished his Master’s degree in Agronomy at Saint Petersburg State Agrarian University, graduating with a Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 5.0 – the highest Russia has ever recorded

Malaysian Research University, the Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) has awarded Umar Ahmad, Certificate of Merit for being the best student to graduate with Outstanding Distinction with a CGPA of 4.00 in his Master of Science by Research in area of Medical Anatomy.

In addition, Umar Ahmad has published 5 papers from his Master Thesis in a peer review, high impact scientific journals. He participated in about 30 different professional certification workshops and attended many international seminars, conferences, and scientific gathering during his master studies.

His major research activities in basic and translational research focus on developing targeted therapies for human cancer and he is currently interested in the targeting and identification of genes involved in breast cancer metastasis, neuroblastoma prognosis, anti-angiogenic factors relates to NDV virus and apoptotic pathways in cancer such as how the virus stimulates DNA fragmentation, which will of course be relevant in drug development and initiate virotherapy application for cancer patients. In recognition of his accomplishment, he was offered to service Malaysian Journal of Microscopy (MJM) as their Sub-editor.

Umar Ahmad was among the best students in Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria, where he had his undergraduate degree at Medical Faculty of the University and graduated in 2010.