Oyeleye Lateefah Abiola, has emerged the best overall student in her graduating class (Medicine) for 2017 – topping the class (a total of 564 students) with a percentage score of 95.6% at the National University of Kharkiv, Ukraine.
Oyeleye Lateefah Abiola is one of the 87 students sponsored by the Osun state government.
PUMA through its official Franchisee in Nigeria, Persianas Retail Limited has signed a five-year first of its kind partnership deal with Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) club side, ABS Ilorin FC, which involves the provision of kit and sponsorship of the activities of the NPFL club side till year 2022.
According to the Brand Manager, Aderemi Adefolabi:
“ABS Ilorin FC has shown potentials of being a great club not just in Nigeria, but also in Africa and this has made PUMA provide the necessary support for it to achieve its potentials. All over the world, PUMA has shown strong commitment to the development of the round-leather game and its sponsorship cross across leading football clubs and national teams.”
Puma’s partnership reaffirms its commitment to the growth and development of sports in Nigeria.
The Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA), has launched a CubeSat, with the code name NigeriaEdusat-1, into space from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, United States.
The Nigerian Cubesat is a component of the Birds 1 satellites, comprising of four other CubeSats belonging to Japan, Ghana, Mongolia and Bangladesh. They were launched from the SpaceX Falcon9 Rocket.
Mr. Ibukun Adebolu of FUTA’s Department of Mechanical Engineering is the representative of Nigeria on the project. It is the first ever university satellite to be launched in Nigeria.
According to a statement from the Head, Media and Protocol Unit of the university, Mr. Adegbenro Adebanjo;
“The Nigerian CubeSat is designed, built and owned by the Federal University of Technology, Akure in collaboration with the National Space Research and Development Agency, Nigeria, and the Kyushu Institute of Technology Japan.
The CubeSats will be launched and docked to the International Space Station where the satellites will be deployed into lower orbit during the last week of June 2017.
The Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA), has been designated Centre of Excellence in Geology and Geophysical studies through its School of Earth and Mineral Sciences by the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB).
According to the Head, Research and Development of the Board, Professor Leo Osuji, FUTA would now, on behalf of the Board, carry out research activities relevant to the needs of the oil and gas industry in pursuant to section 36 -39 of the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry Content Development (NOGICD) Act.
According to Professor Osuji,
Scientists at the African Centre of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Diseases of Redeemer’s University, Ede, Osun State, have developed and patented two rapid diagnosis test kits for the Ebola Virus Disease and Lassa fever virus.
According to the University, the kits are able to detect the virus in human body fluids in 10 minutes.
Five (5) Nigerian women; Carolyn Seaman, Damilola Anwo-Adehave, Olamide Ayeni-Babjide, Ijeoma Vincent-Akpu, and Petra Nnamani have been selected to participate in the 2017 TechWomen Exchange Program.
Carolyn Seaman is using technology to empower girls through her Girls Voices Initiative, while Damilola Anwo-Ade is mentoring the next generation of coders, including young women, through her initiative CodeIT.
TechWomen is a U.S. initiative empowering and connecting the next generation of women leaders in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) from Africa, Asia, and the Middle East.
PositiveNaija Monthly Newsletter May 2017
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In May [2017] we reviewed and improved certain features about our work since January 2017 including better categorisations of all posts, branding as well as better communication of results.
Notably, in terms of communication of results, we sought out to deduce where by geographic locations (within Nigeria or abroad), the positive/success news/updates recorded are being achieved. In other words, our aim is to be able to tell by the results, how conducive the environments are to what Nigeria/Nigerians are achieving. To do this, we determined the locations on the basis of where exactly the achievement, progress, success, etc. was done or achieved as well as will be done or achieved and not based on where an award/recognition was or is presented.
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