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2016 FPA Scholarship Fund Award

A Nigerian student of Columbia Graduate School of Journalism in the United States of America, Jennifer Ehidiamen is one of the winners of the 2016 Foreign Press Association (FPA) Scholarship Fund Award emerging as the third joint winner of the award

ERRA Full Membership

Nigerian membership of the Energy Regulators Regional Association (ERRA) has been upgraded from associate status to full membership at the ongoing General Assembly of the international organisation holding in Warsaw, Poland

Invitational Artistic Gymnastic Championship

Ondo State has won the second edition of the Invitational Artistic Gymnastic Championship hosted by Lagos State with 14 gold, 8 silver and 11 bronze medals

2016 York College Valedictorian

Eunice Udensi, a Pharmaceutical Science major mentored in the Chemistry department has emerged York College Valedictorian for the Class of 2016

Gbenga Adesina & Chekwube O. Danladi Win 2016 Brunel Poetry Prize

Two Nigerians, Gbenga Adesina and Chekwube O. Danladi have been announced joint winners of the 2016 Brunel University African Poetry Prize in partnership with Commonwealth Writers.

Gbenga Adesina, who lives in Nigeria, was an Open Society Foundation Resident Poet on Goree Island, off the coast of Senegal. His first chapbook, ‘Painter of Water, will be published by APBF in 2016. The judges described his poems as “powerfully political, beautiful and truly searing,” and as “a poet with compelling voice addressing concerns of injustice, memory, migration and family.”

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Ikechukwu Onwurah Emerge President of SETAC, Africa

Professor of Biochemistry, Pollution Control and Biotechnology Unit, Department of Biochemistry, University of Nigeria, Nsukka , Enugu State, Ikechukwu Onwurah has emerged President, Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC), Africa.

Ifo Ikede

Ifo Ikede graduates from University of Prince Edward Island in Canada with first class in Computer Science despite being discouraged by his lecturer.