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  • Akwa United pick up two pre-season wins

    Akwa United pick up two pre-season wins

    • Promise Keepers  almost set for ABS tie

    Akwa United have picked up two valuable pre-season friendly matches victory as they prepare for their 2016/17 NPFL Match Day One tie against ABS this weekend in Ilorin.

    The Promise Keepers defeated Spartans of Lagos 3-1 before adding another 1-0 away win against Calabar selected side in Calabar on Saturday to maintain their impressive pre-season form where they have only been beaten once by Abia Warriors.

    The Media Officer of the club, Mfon Patrick told SportingLife that the Uyo side still hopes to play a test game before their trip to Ilorin where they are scheduled to tackle the newly promoted premier league side.

    He said it is uncertain if they will be able to face a topflight side before the start of the season as the 2015 Federation Cup champions strive to dust off the unimpressive result of last season where they managed to escape relegation.

  • Lawyer wins alumni award

    Lawyer wins alumni award

    Country Representative of the United Nations (UN) Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Uganda Dr. Uchenna Emelonye has been honoured with the Outstanding Career Achievement Award of the Central European University (CEU).

    He graduated from the CEU Legal Studies Department in 2004 with an LL.M in Human Rights Law.

    The university is a post graduate institution based in Budapest, Hungary; funded by a philanthropist, George Soros, and dedicated to promoting open societies worldwide.

    As part of its 25th anniversary, CEU held the Alumni Impact Award on May 7 to showcase alumni who have helped to bolster its overall mission and enhance its international reputation.

    The award was vested on 25 recipients selected from more than 13, 000 alumni who have contributed to the cause of humanity.

    Emelonye was the Senior Human Rights Adviser to the UN Africa Headquarters in Kenya, as well as Head, Governance, Institutional and Justice Reform Division of the International Development Law Organisation in Rome, Italy.

    He served as Judicial Affairs Officer of the UN-African Union Mission in Darfur Sudan. Before then, he was a Human Rights Officer at the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Pristina, Kosovo, and the UN Mission in South Sudan.

    He also served as Rule of Law Coordinator of the International Rescue Committee, New York USA as well as Executive Director of the Constitutional Rights Project Nigeria, among others.

    Emelonye holds a doctorate degree in Law (LL.D) from the University of Helsinki in Finland. In addition to his master from CEU, he also obtained an LL.M from the Abia State University, Uturu, where he graduated with an LL.B.

    Since his call to Bar in 1995, he has authored and contributed chapters to eight books on human rights, rule of law, protection of civilians and good governance.

  • Oshoala wins Leadership Sports Personality award

    Oshoala wins Leadership Sports Personality award

    Super Falcons’ striker Asisat Oshoala has been named Leadership Sports Personality of the Year. The award was presented at the newspaper’s Conference/Awards ceremony in Abuja on Wednesday.

    The pacy forward, who plays her club football for Liverpool Ladies FC in the English Women’s Super League, won several awards last year, including the BBC Women’s Player of the Year diadem.

    Selected as the Most Valuable Player (MVP) of the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup finals in Canada, where Nigeria emerged runner-up, Oshoala was also named Player of the Tournament at the 2014 African Women Championship in Namibia, where she was also the second Best Goalscorer.

    The Award was presented at the Sheraton Hotel, Abuja on Wednesday morning and received on Oshoala’s behalf by the Team Administrator of the U-20 Women National Team, Mrs Faith Ben-Anuge.

    Oshoala, who will turn 21 on Friday, also played for Nigeria at this summer’s FIFA Women’s World Cup finals in Canada.

  • Babcock varsity wins award

    Babcock varsity wins award

    Babcock University, Ilishan-Remo, has won the Brand of the Year Award by the World Branding Forum.

    Tagged: the 2015 World Branding Awards, the event held at Kensington Palace, London.

    The university was the only brand in the Education category from Nigeria selected for the award.

    Winners were judged at three levels – Brand Valuation, Consumer Market Research and Public Online Voting. The 2015 awards saw a total of 65,000 voters, who nominated 1,300 brands among which only 3 per cent from 35 countries around the world were selected as winners.

    Babcock University won Brand of the Year Award in the National tier category.  Only Babcock University and Ecobank brands from Nigeria won awards at the event. Other winners include BBC, Coca-Cola, Guinness, Ferrari, British Airways, Starbucks and Shell.

    The award was among other national and international ones won by Babcock University over the past five years.

    They included the ones from National University Commission (NUC), National Association of Nigeria Students(NANS), Nigeria Legal Council, Nigeria Private Universities Debate and International Nursing Council among others.

  • FCT wins NNPC’s 2015 quiz

    The Federal Capital Territory  (FCT) representing the North Central Zone has won the 2015 NNPC annual national quiz competition.

    The contest was won by three students from some secondary schools in the FCT. They will enjoy university scholarships to be sponsored by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) in any institution.

    Speaking during the grand finale of the event at the NNPC Towers, Abuja, the Group Managing Director of the Corporation, Dr. Joseph T. Dawha, felicitated with the winners, assuring of the readiness of the NNPC to sustain the programme to mentor the leaders of tomorrow to succeed in their academic pursuits.

    Dawha said the competition, which is the 14th edition, has lived up to the objectives for which it was instituted, adding that most of the winners of the competition in the past have graduated with flying colours from various universities across the country.

    According to him, since the competition made its debut 14 years ago, it has helped in developing the interest of young Nigerians in studying science and technology courses in tertiary institutions across the country and beyond. He said the scholarship scheme has not only helped the development of science and technology in the country but has also gone a long way in assisting the nation’s future leaders to prepare towards contributing their quota to national development.

    He assured that NNPC would not relent in supporting this competition and other community-based efforts aimed at building national human capacities and capabilities stressing that the NNPC would continue to execute many more strategic community development projects, particularly those that would improve Nigerians.

    Dawha announced the increase of the bursary from N100,000 to N250,000 yearly for all NNPC scholars in their first degree programmes.

    The Permanent Secretary Ministry of Petroleum Resources, Mr. Taiye Hassan Haruna represented by the Director Reform and Coordination Mrs. Edna Eneh commended the NNPC for giving the young ones the opportunity to compete at the national stage stressing that hard work is the only way out of hard life.

    The Permanent Secretary Ministry of Education Dr. MacJohn Nwaobiala represented by Mrs. Justina Ibe, Director Support Services in the Ministry applauded the NNPC for encouraging science based education, saying it would help sustain the programme of the Federal Government.

    A pioneer winner of the NNPC quiz competition, Modungwo Andrew Nwabu, expressed gratitude to the NNPC for the award of scholarship that saw him through his university education and called on the winners to do the Corporation proud.

    The Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, Ohi Alegbe said the NNPC as a responsible and responsive corporate citizen, would continue to contribute its quota to adding value to the educational sector through its annual quiz competition.

    The list of finalists for the competition were made up of the champions of the six geo-political zones, including Akwa Ibom for the Southsouth, Anambra for the Southeast, FCT for the Northcentral, Lagos for Southwest, Katsina for Northwest and Gombe for Northeast.

    The contest was in English Language, Mathematics, Chemistry, Physics, Biology and General Knowledge.

  • St Gregory’s College wins Sing-Out Cancer competition

    St Gregory’s College wins Sing-Out Cancer competition

    St Gregory College, Obalende, Lagos, has emerged the winner of this year’s annual inter-school singing competition themed “Singout Childhood

    Cancer”. The event, organised by Children Living With Cancer Foundation(CLWCF), a non-governmental organisation based in the state, was held at Pinefield School, Lekki phase 1, Lagos, last weekend.

    Laureate School, Mafoluku and Atlantic Hall School, Epe came second and third respectively. Methodist Girls College Yaba, Avicenna School Ikeja, Pinefield School among others, also participated in the competition.

    Pinefield School won the best choreography award, Methodist girls school won the best costume award, while Avicenna school won the best composure awards.

    Various categories of awards were  presented to schools that participated, with certificates of participation given to the entire participants after the event.

    The participating schools kept the audience spell bound when they jointly performed Mariah Carey’s song, Hero and proceeded to do one other song of their choices.

    The Marshal Music Academy also presented  violin orchestral and a solo saxophone player to the delight of the audience.

    Miss Pat Okoro , a clinical oncologist at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) gave the childhood cancer awareness talk that triggered deep sense of pity and concern from the participants for the victims.

    Kenny St Best, a leading gospel artiste and an ambassador of the organisation also gave an inspiring speech and also performed one of her songs which entertained and thrilled the audience.

    Speaking, Dr Nneka Nwobi, founder of organisation expressed satisfaction with the large turnout and scintillating performance of the students, calling on the government and all stakeholders in the health sector to put up necessary steps to tackle the increasing menace of childhood cancer in the country.

    “I am overwhelmed by the performance of the participants. It is good seeing these children coming out to support children living with cancer. If they would be so concerned about this challenge, the government and other stakeholders in the sector should rise up and help these kids.

    “What we have done today is to further spread the awareness about childhood cancer that we have embarked upon for  so may years. Children too have cancer. We have spoken about the signs and symptoms and the children really expressed their interest in coming to do community service with us. They really showed concern and care for the victims. We have been working with these kids and their families over the years to alleviate their sufferings and assist them in our own little capacity. With the knowledge they have acquired today, these children would also go out there to educate their colleagues.

    “We would be willing to accommodate more schools, especially the public ones in subsequent competition. Educating children about childhood cancer does not translate to giving infecting them with the ailment. This is one fact that parents and guidance should accept. Many people live under the fear that childhood cancer is not curable but when you attend this kind of awareness programme, you will get to know that it is curable.”

  • Scatec wins renewable-energy contract in South Africa

    Scatec Solar ASA, a Norwegian developer of renewable-energy facilities, is among preferred bidders for three solar-power projects in the fourth of five programme rounds to increase electricity from clean sources in South Africa.

    The country’s Department of Energy awarded Scatec preferred-bidder status for projects in the Northern Cape province with a combined capacity of 258 megawatts, the Oslo-based company said in a statement

    South Africa is expanding capacity as the state utility, which generates about 95 percent of the country’s power mostly using coal, has been forced to implement managed blackouts due to breakdowns at its aging fleet of plants and failure to invest in new facilities on time.

    The country procured about 3,900 megawatts of capacity through the first three competitive rounds of bids by clean-energy producers, with about $10 billion invested so far, the Department of Energy said in December. That already exceeded the 3,725 megawatts initially sought from five bid windows.

    The department had planned to name the preferred providers in the program’s fourth round on Dec. 15. Maduna Ngobeni, a spokesman for the department, didn’t immediately respond to an e-mail seeking comment.

    Scatec has arranged financing for the projects that will be built near Upington, about 870 kilometers (540 miles) northeast of Cape Town, it said. Construction will start in early 2017, according to the company.

    It will own 42 percent of the plants while the Norwegian Investment Fund for Developing Countries, or Norfund, will hold 18 percent and a trust for local South African communities will control the rest, it said.

  • EKSU wins grant

    A Switzerland-based organisation, AZTRASZENECA, has selected EKSU as one of the five beneficiaries of a research grant of above $11, 835.

    AZTRASZENECA received about 80 applications from top universities and research institutes across the globe and selected five on merit.

    Speaking on EKSU’s successful application, Prof. Diran Famurewa, a Microbiologist, said as the Principal Investigator, he would lead a team of virologists to conduct a research into “Contribution of Saffold Virus to Acute Flaccid Paralysis of Unknown Origin”.

    Receiving members of the team in his office, the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Aina praised their commitment, especially the responsible leadership of Famurewa.

    He urged other academics to improve their ability to attract global funding and attention to the university.

     

  • Akwa United, Sharks pick home wins

    Akwa United, Sharks pick home wins

    Akwa United, Gombe United and Sharks secured important victories to aid their chances of either surviving the relegation chop or consolidating on their position on the league table after Week 28 Premier League games.

    Adio Yusuf and Utibe Achibong both scored their first goals for the Promise Keepers in their 2-0 home win over Giwa FC while Gombe United’s  Suleiman Usman was the match hero when his team beat Nasarawa United by a lone goal at the Pantami Stadium.

    Sharks also recorded a 3-0 win over Kaduna United thus giving them a reality check after the latter’s 5-0 thumping of Crown FC  last Sunday. Akwa United moved to 42 points while Gombe United increased their points haul to 35. Sharks have amassed 41 points from as many games after a goal laden win over Kaduna United.

    It was the right response to the Blue Angels 2-0 away loss to Nasarawa United in Lafia.

    Meanwhile at the Jolly Nyame Stadium in Jalingo, FC Taraba dropped further into the mire of relegation zone after they were held to a 2-2 draw by visiting Sunshine Stars yesterday.

    The Akure Gunners have now scooped 41 points from 28 games.

  • Rodney wins Naija Street Champ

    Rodney wins Naija Street Champ

    The contest was tough for Shanuolu Adesola (Sholz), Rodney Brown Edemhanria (Rodney) and Abimbola Olugbenga (Raptitude), the three finalists in the maiden edition of Naija Street Champ, judging by fans’ reaction and dlemma of the judges; but in the end, Rodney Brown Edemhanria stole the day.

    Amidst the popular British band Right Said Fred’s ‘Stand Up’ victory song, the audience, mainly youths, went ecstatic at the Eko FM Hall, LTV studios, Ikeja, venue of the grand finale, as the name of the 25-year-old burgeoning artiste was announced last Saturday.

    Rodney the Monster, as he is fondly called, represented Ikeja zone in the competition, and thus had more crowd at the venue who echoed his victory – his contenders stood agape as he was lifted to high heavens.

    The package for the winner was a cash prize of N1 million and a three-year recording deal – Rodney, posing with show jurors, Terry G, ID Cabassa and D’Tunes, smiled to the cameras, as the dummy cheque was being presented.

    The evening held great promises for all finalists, including Sulaimon Idris (Dabreez) who was the first to be evicted among the four in the first round of performances.

    Sholz, Rodney and Raptitude, the only lady standing, had performed twice on stage, thrilling the enthusiastic crowd with their songs done on beats produced by Terry G and ID Cabassa. And when there was no clear winner, the judges asked for another round of performances, this time, a freestyle show by the three contenders.

    Despite Rodney’s win, the judges also had kind words for the two other contestants whose musical career they promised to help actualise. In the same vein, D’Tunes announced that he would be giving the sum of N300, 000 each to the first and second runners up.

    Taking inventory of the first edition of the Naija Street Champ, Project Manager Oladehinde Fajana described the show as a huge success. He was optimistic that subsequent editions will be greater. He also urged brand custodians to take the opportunity of the project to reach their targets, especially the youth market.

    Rodney, while speaking to the press, congratulated other contestants on their wonderful performances, courage and showmanship, saying he would be willing to work with them in the future.