Category: Health & Environment

The African Centre of Excellence for the Genomics of Infectious Disease (ACEGID), Redeemer’s University, Ede, Osun State, has been named one of the regional repository and bioinformatics centres by the WHO and Africa CDC to provide sequencing, data analysis and other technical support services to the countries where they are located as well as to neighbouring countries and countries in their sub-regions.

This development was announced on Thursday, September 10, by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) through a press release announcing the launch of a network of laboratories to reinforce genome sequencing of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus that causes COVID-19, in Africa.

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ColdHubs Limited has emerged Sustainable and Healthy Food For All winner at the 2020 Mohammed Bin Rashid Initiative For Global Prosperity (Cohort 2).

Nnaemeka Ikegwuonu’s ColdHubs is among four companies to win a $1 million (Dh3.67 million) Global Maker Challenge innovation prize set up by Mohammed bin Rashid Initiative for Global Prosperity.

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ColdHubs Limited has been selected as the winner of the 2020 Cooling as a Service (CaaS) Prize for their exemplary CaaS model that saved 20,400 tons of food from spoilage in 2019 alone.

The runners-up were Energy Partners and Maxwell & Spark.

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Runcie Chidebe has been named recipient of the 2020 Distinguished Advocacy Award by the International Gynecologic Cancer Society (IGCS) during its annual global award on cancer and gynecology.

Others include:

• Lifetime achievement awardees – Monica Bacon (Canada) and Dr. Nicoletta Colombo (Italy)
• Excellence in Teaching awardee – Dr. Rahel Ghebre (USA)
• Distinguished advocacy awardee – Dr. Nathalie Dauphin McKenzie (USA/Haiti)
• 2020 IJGC award recipients – Dr. Gloria Salvo (Most Downloaded Paper Award) and Dr. David Cibula (Editor’s Choice Award) will receive the journal awards.

These award recipients will be recognized at the upcoming xDigital Annual Global Meeting of the International Gynecologic Cancer Society, which will be held in a fully digital setting this September 10-13, 2020.

The Awards Ceremony will take place during the Opening Ceremony on September 10th at 2:00 p.m. UCT.

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Nnaemeka Ikegwuonu is one of the four winners of the 2020 Waislitz Global Citizen Award in the “water and sanitation” category for his innovation ‘ColdHubs’.

The Waislitz Global Citizen Award is an annual competition that rewards outstanding individuals who strive to reduce global poverty.

ColdHubs is a modular refrigeration chamber powered by solar energy.

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Oluwaseun Sangoleye, the founder of Baby Grubz Nigeria, has been crowned the winner and champion of the 2020 SUN Pitch Competition for the most innovative solution for improved nutrition.

Baby Grubz is a social enterprise in the nutrition space, processing all-natural cereals for children under five (5) years to tackle malnutrition, with a special focus on authentic African tastes made from locally sourced ingredients.

Oluwaseun Sangoleye wins a cash prize of $20,000 and a mentorship prize from BoP to digitalise her business.

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Professor Olayinka Olusola Omigbodun has been elected as the Provost of the College of Medicine of University of Ibadan (the first female and the 12th Provost of the college).

Professor Olayinka Olusola Omigbodun, the first female Professor of Psychiatry in Nigeria, resumed duty on the 3rd of August 2020.

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