Sara Adegoke Wins The 2017 McDan West Africa Open Championship

Sara Adegoke defeated 16 year-old Angel MacLeod 6-4, 6-3 in an all Nigerian affair to win the McDan West Africa Open Championship 2017 held at the Accra Sports Stadium Tennis Court. She wins a $1,000 prize money in addition to silver trophies and products from the supporting sponsors including Twellium Industries, COCOBOD, GNPC and Babolat.

Sara Adegoke becomes the second player to win back-to-back the McDan Open titles equalling Ghanaian player Francisca Nyarko’s record set in 2014 and 2015.

UNIPORT Emerges Winner of NUGA Games 2017

University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT) has won 150 medals comprising 70 gold, 47 silver and 33 bronze in Judo, Athletics, Taekwondo, Volleyball, Basketball, Scrabble and Tennis to emerge overall winner of the 25th Nigeria University Games Association (NUGA) Games.

The NUGA Games were held at the Federal University of Agriculture, Makurdi between April 22 and April 29 with a total of 57 contesting universities.

Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) Zaria with 16 medals comprising 11 gold, 2 silver and 3 bronze medals followed a distant second while Benson Idahosa University (BIU) came third with 26 medals comprising 10 gold, 7 silver and 9 bronze.

University of Lagos (UNILAG) with 20 medals, made up of 9 gold, 4 silver and 7 bronze took fourth position.

University of Benin (UNIBEN) was fifth on the medals table while the host institution took the 11th position with 24 medals comprising 2 gold, 10 silver and 12 bronze medals.

2017 NFPAWA Writing Contest Winners

Martin Agbili (an electrical/safety engineer and senior service officer in Anambra State Fire Service) and Jonathan Mairiga have emerged winners in the risk management writing contest put together by the National Fire Prevention Awareness and Advocacy (NFPAWA), a life, fire safety and security risk management organisation, for safety experts.

The novel competition in Nigeria and West Africa is according to NFPAWA, an initiative geared towards developing capacity in security, fire and safety risk management as well as part of programmes line up for the forthcoming risk management conference by the organisation.

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Sijibomi Ogundele Wins Hospitality Honorarium Grand 2017 Award

MD/CEO of Sujimoto, Sijibomi Ogundele has been honoured with the ‘Hospitality Honorarium Grand 2017 Award’ at the IDE 10th Hotelier Summit in Sandton, Johannesburg, South Africa in appreciation of his tenacity and contribution to the hospitality and luxury industry in sub-Saharan Africa particularly for promoting Nigeria as the best place for Real Estate investment in Africa.

NiRA Awards 2017

The NiRA Awards 2017 recognises and acknowledges companies and organisations contributing to the growth of the .ng domain name registration.

NiRA is the registry for Nigerian Internet Domain Names (.ng) which maintains the database of names registered in the .ng country code Top Level Domain.

Winners

Best Primary school portal – Ifako International schools, Lagos

Best Secondary school portal – Shepherd International college, Nasarawa

Best Tertiary institution portal – University of Uyo

Digital innovation in local government – Amuwo odofin

Digital innovation in state – Lagos state

Digital innovation in federal government – Federal Road Safety Commission

Public sector star – National Bureau of Statistics

Making the internet a better place – National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA)

Best print media – The Guardian Nigeria

Best media online website – Pulse Nigeria

Best electronic media (television) – Iroko

Best electronic media (radio) – Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria

Most valuable youth organisation – National Youth Service Corps

Startup company of the year – Eazyhire

Best payment website – Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System

Best Insurance company – Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund

Best banking website – Bank of Industry (BoI)

Most innovative service provider – Jiji Nigeria

Company of the year – Google Nigeria

Youth Development award – Startuparewa.ng

Women Development award – Saferinternet.org.ng

The Best Local Hosting Company – Garanntor for garanntor.ng

Supporting  media partner – Guardian newspaper and Technology times

Special recognition of outstanding board members award – Mr. Biyi Oladipo

Special recognition award – Mrs. JAF Olushola

Winners: Best .ng registrar (four categories)

1. Silver- netorb media ltd

2. Gold- Icecool ltd

3. Platinum- McReal online networks

4. Standard level- Whogohost ltd

‘Nigerian Prince’

Faraday Okoro, a 30-year-old Nigerian-American filmmaker, has been awarded a $1 million grant for his film Nigerian Prince from AT&T in its first program to help emerging filmmakers.

Written and directed by Okoro, the movie will be produced by Biyi Bandele and Oscar Hernandez-Topete with a focus on underrepresented perspectives.

Nigeria Prince will premiere at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival.

A New York City based Nigerian-American filmmaker, Faraday Okoro graduated with Distinction from Howard University and has MFA in filmmaking from NYU Film School.

But the money came with pressure: For example, it was to be filmed in Africa.