President ECOWAS Network of Electoral Commissions [2017]
Professor Mahmood Yakubu, who is also Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has emerged President of the ECOWAS Network of Electoral Commissions (ECONEC).
Team Nigeria Triumph At 2017 Special Olympics World Winter Games
Special Olympics Nigeria athletes at the 2017 World Winter Games in Austria against all odds gave an outstanding performance winning a total of 20 medals.
Twenty two athletes participated at the Winter Games and nine officials. Special Olympics Nigeria athletes won twenty medals; twelve gold medals and eight silver medals.
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2016 WAEC’s Overall Best Performing School in Nigeria
Lumen Christi International High School, Uromi, Edo state emerged the overall best performing school in Nigeria by clinching the Augustus Bandele Oyediran trophy for producing the best overall results in the 2016 West African Secondary School Certificate Examination (WASSCE).
Lumen Christi International High School emerged winner with best aggregate, determined on the results of best 50 candidates based on their grades in English Language, Mathematics and a Science subject.
The school having as its motto, The Best or Nothing, has won the prestigious awards instituted in 1985 five times in a row entering the hall of fame like other past winners such as Queens College, Yaba and Loyola Jesuit College, Abuja.
Since 1985, only 12 schools have won the award. Queens College, Yaba won the maiden edition and five consecutive times. Loyola Jesuit College, Abuja has also won it six times in a row.
Jamilu Hassan Emerges Best Information Technology Student At International University Of East Africa (IUEA), Uganda
Sergeant Jamilu Hassan of the Nigerian Army, has emerged the best student of Bachelor of Information Technology at the International University of East Africa (IUEA), Kampala, Uganda with a First Class degree after scoring 4.97/5.00 CGPA.
Sergeant Jamilu Hassan was born in 1985 and attended Kamara Primary School Gombe from 1990 to 1996 before proceeding to Army Day Secondary School, Bukavo Barracks, Kano from 1998 to 2004.
He enlisted into the Nigerian Army on February 28, 2005 as a member of 56 Regular Recruit Intake and was posted to the Nigerian Army Corps of Military Police where he was trained as a criminal investigator.
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2017 JETS Competition Winner
Akwa Ibom has emerged winner of the 20th national Junior Engineers, Technicians and Scientists, 2017 JETS Competition themed “Enhancing Food Security through Science and Technology Applications’’ for primary and secondary school students in which all the states and the Federal Capital Territory participated.
En route their emergence as the overall winners of the one week competition, the Akwa Ibom representatives garnered four trophies.
Akwa Ibom emerged first in free choice project, winning with their project on “Biodegradable Waste to Wealth” as well as the inter-state quiz competition by claiming the third position.