Akinwumi Adesina Wins 2017 World Food Prize Laureate

The President of the African Development Bank, (AfDB), Akinwumi Adesina, has won the 2017 World Food Prize Laureate with a $250,000 prize for driving change in African agriculture for over 25 years and improving food security for millions across the continent.

According to Ambassador Kenneth Quinn, President of the World Food Prize Foundation:

“Awarded by the World Food Prize Foundation, the $250,000 prize honors Nigerian Dr. Adesina for his leading role over the past two decades in: significantly expanding food production in Nigeria; introducing initiatives to exponentially increase the availability of credit for smallholder farmers across the African continent; and galvanizing the political will to transform African agriculture.

The selection of President Akinwumi Adesina as the 2017 World Food Prize Laureate reflects both his breakthrough achievements as Minister of Agriculture of Nigeria and his critical role in the development of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA). It also gives further impetus to his profound vision for enhancing nutrition, uplifting smallholder farmers, and inspiring the next generation of Africans as they confront the challenges of the 21st century.”

Dr. Akinwumi Adesina acknowledging the Prize said:

Olukayode Mobolaji Oluwasona 5.0

Olukayode Mobolaji Oluwasona, has graduated with a Cummulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 5.0 in Computer Technology from the University of Computer Sciences and Skills, Lodz, Poland – the best result under a special degree exchange programme arranged by Babcock University.

Already leading in first class from his first semester examinations in Babcock University, 20-year old Olukayode Mobolaji Oluwasona, was among the 17 outstanding students of Babcock University that left Nigeria at the beginning of their 200-level programme in 2014 to continue undergraduate studies in Poland.
This was under a special degree exchange programme arranged by Babcock University with the University of Computer Sciences and Skills in Lodz, Poland, where they remained ‘international students’ until the end of their four-year course.

Under the arrangement, they had to return to Babcock for their last and final year in 2016, during which they remained under the monitoring, supervision and mentorship of their lecturers in Poland. Mobolaji and his colleagues were the pioneers in the four years old exchange programme between Babcock and the Polish institution.

Chancellor of the University of Computer Sciences and Skills, Mrs. Aniela Bednarek, presented to Mobolaji a Special Achievement Award for his superlative academic performance.

Olukayode Mobolaji Oluwasona attributes his success to vision, determination, discipline and above all, the Grace of God. He looks forward to a successful working career in any of the world’s topmost Information Technology organisations. He dedicated his award to his parents, who he said mentored him well and set his feet on the right path.

Call for Entries: 2017 PositiveNaija Annual Essay Competition

2017 POSITIVENAIJA ANNUAL ESSAY COMPETITION

The 2017 PositiveNaija Annual Essay Competition aims to encourage Nigerian patriotism, nation building as well as a platform for excellence!

Title of Essay: HOW GREAT IS NIGERIA!

Objective: Inform the world through your essay, what genuinely makes Nigeria a great country today, which every Nigerian and Non-Nigerians should be proud of.

Eligibility

  • Essay submissions are free – at no cost to the participants
  • Open to all nationalities
  • PositiveNaija Team and the Advisory Judges are not eligible

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Adeniyi Kolade Launches ‘Entrump6’ Game [2017]

Adeniyi Kolade launches his fourth game and first entrepreneurial board and card game, Entrump6 – designed to promote entrepreneurial attitude for both impact and profit at the Alexander Brown Hall, University College Hospital, Ibadan Oyo State.

According to Adeniyi Kolade:

“For the business entrepreneur, the primary goal is to make profit through pursuit of opportunity, while for the social entrepreneur; the primary goal is to make impact through problem solving and value creation.

Entrump6 is a board and a card game designed to promote entrepreneurial attitude for both impact and profit. It is logically crafted to demonstrate entrepreneurship realities with respect to attributes of, and challenges faced by entrepreneurs within the entrepreneurship ecosystem, and largely, traits exhibited by successful entrepreneurs.

Support for entrepreneurship is a crucial strategy for national transformation and economic development through problem solving and opportunity finding respectively. Entrump6 is an entrepreneurship-based game designed to project these realities.”

Mr Kolade has also designed games like Cool Tour, to promote peoples knowledge, places and product; Prompt Card, designed to aid prompt and managerial reasoning; Scripstars, a bible board game and Entrump6, to promote entrepreneurial thinking.

Winners of 2017 Marketing Edge Brands & Advertising Excellence Awards

The MARKETING EDGE Brands and Advertising Excellence Award provides a unique platform for robust intellectual engagement as well as honours practitioners for their commitment to excellence in the field of branding and marketing.

Outstanding Young PR agency of the Year – Modion Communications

Financial Brand of the Decade – United Bank for Africa Plc (UBA)

Marketing Personality of the Decade – Bunmi Oke, Chief Operating Officer and Executive Director, 141Wordwide and Tunji Olugbodi, Executive Vice Chairman of Verdant Zeal Group

Lifetime Marketing Achievement – Ekwunife Okoli

Telecoms Brand Leadership Award- MTN

Outstanding Customer-Centric Telecoms Brand of the Year – Airtel

Innovative Telecom Brand of the Year- Etisalat

Outstanding Dairy Brand of the Year – Peak Milk

Outstanding Brand Re-Launch of the Year – Union Bank

Outstanding Cola Brand of the Decade – Coca-Cola

Media Advertising Personality of the Year – Emeka Okeke

Adedipe Oluwatosin Is Young Scientist of the Year [2017]

16-year-old Adedipe Oluwatosin, an SSS III student from Shepherd International School, Ado-Ekiti has been crowned Young Scientist of the Year [2017], after winning the Young Nigerian Scientist Presidential Award at a ceremony held at Eagle’s Square, Abuja.

Adedipe Oluwatosin emerged best at a competition organised by the Federal Ministry of Science and Technology, out of a total of 774 candidates (drawn from all the local government areas in the country) who participated both at the preliminary and the final stages.

In recognition of this achievement, the Ekiti State Government very recently awarded a cash prize of 2.5 million Naira to Adedipe as well as an annual scholarship grant of 1million Naira per annum for a period of four years as funding for his undergraduate studies.

Adedipe Oluwatosin was also the 2016 winner of the Science Teachers Association of Nigeria (STAN) National Science Competition.