The Nigeria Police Force (NPF) has inaugurated a mobile application known as iPolice-Hawk Eye Crime Reporting System to eradicate insecurity in the country particularly kidnapping.
The iPolice-Hawk Eye Mobile App allows users to report crimes anonymously to the police by video, voice or text.
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Digital Encode Limited has been honoured by the African Quality Achievement Awards (AQAA) 2017 as Africa’s Most Innovative Quality Cyber Security Consulting Firm of The Year 2017.
The Central Committee of the Nigeria Agriculture Awards (NAA), has awarded cash prizes to winners of the Youth Project and Essay Competition at De-Renaissance Hotel, Alausa-Ikeja, Lagos.
Organised by AgroNigeria in May this year, the objective of the initiative was to crystallise the interest of young Nigerians towards agriculture for the overall development of the nation.
Continue reading Winners of 2017 Nigeria Agriculture Awards (NAA)
Ifeoma Chinenye Onuike, has clinched first class from Law faculty of Girne American University in Cyprus; graduating as the best graduating student with a cumulative grade point average (CGPA) of 3.99/4.00 after acing all her courses from her first year through her fourth year.
25-year-old Ifeoma Chinenye Onuike had her early education in Infant Jesus Nursery and Primary School Kubwa, Freedom Academy Nursery and Primary school Kubwa and L.E.A. Primary School Kubwa, all in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory of Nigeria. Her secondary education was at Government Secondary School Kubwa Abuja, Government Secondary School Nakere, Nassarawa state.
PositiveNaija Monthly Newsletter August 2017
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*It is important to mention that most achievements by Nigeria/Nigerians achieved abroad should not be relegated as being ‘superior’ or achieved out of a ‘privileged comfortable environment’ as most of these achievements are usually first in recognition of what has been done or attained within Nigeria and as such requiring an international/global export.
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16 Nigerian athletes have emerged overall winner at the 2017 African Masters Athletics Championships in Cote d’Ivoire by winning 31 gold and eight silver medals.
The championships was held from August 25-27, 2017.
Safiya Yahaya-Kongoila, who represented the country for the first time, won four gold medals for the country.
Cote d’Ivoire emerged second, winning 15 gold, nine silver and four bronze medals, followed by Tunisia with five gold medals.
Countries that featured at the event were Algeria, Barbados, Egypt, Burundi, Cameroon, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Germany, Mauritius, Tunisia, Nigeria, and Gabon.
In the 2016 edition of the championships, Nigeria came second winning 30 gold, six silver, and three bronze medals.
The next edition of the African Masters Athletics Championships is scheduled for December 8-9, 2018, in Tunis, Tunisia.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has been honoured with a Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.
The award was presented to her at the university’s St Cecilia’s Hall, which happens to be Scotland’s oldest concert hall, by the university’s Principal and Vice Chancellor, Professor Sir Timothy O’Shea,
“in recognition of Ms Adichie’s achievements as an author and public intellectual.”
In appreciation of the honour, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie said: