Category : Prizes & Awards

A Nigerian teacher, Olasunkanmi Opeifa has made the top ten finalists of The Global Teacher Prize 2020. The award a partnership with UNESCO rewards the winner with...

agos State on Thursday put Nigeria on the Guinness World Record with the largest anniversary logo in the world, made with 60,000 cupcakes mosaic to...

Nigerian physician Dr. Tunji Funsho and African investor and philanthropist, Tony O. Elumelu, have made it to TIME Magazine’s ‘100 Most Influential People 2020’ list. The...

First Bank MD Dr. Adesola Adeduntan: receives Forbes Best of Africa Award President Muhammadu Buhari has rejoiced with Dr. Adesola Adeduntan, Managing Director, First Bank...

Publisher of Nigeria’s online newspaper Premium Times, Dapo Olorunyomi is among four journalists to be honoured in November with the 2020 International Press Freedom Awards....

Helping female businesses grow through discounted access to finance is one of the many unique value propositions under the Access Bank’s W Initiative. Tracy Batta,...

Grammy-nominated singer Burna Boy has been awarded the Best International Act at the BET 2020 awards ceremony. In the ceremony which held virtually due to the coronavirus...

The 2020 Laureates of the Cartier Women’s Initiative have just been announced, and the inspirational LifeBank Founder, Temie Giwa-Tubosun, has just been named as the...

MTN, Access Bank and Governor of Oyo State, Seyi Makinde led the list of 25 winners at the Social Media for Social Good Summit and...

Investigative journalist, ‘Fisayo Soyombo, a former editor of TheCable, on Thursday, got recognised at International Journalist of the Year award organised by the One World...

FBN Holdings (FBNH) Plc, has won the 2020 Best Corporate Governance in Nigeria Award put in place by the World Finance magazine. Mr Urum Kalu...

Nigerian writer and author of a novel, titled: An Orchestra of Minorities, Chigozie Obioma, has won the Internationaler Literaturpreis 2020 awarded by Berlin’s Haus der Kulturen...

A Nigerian writer, Innocent Ilo, has been named the regional winner for Africa of the 2020 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for his story, “When a...

Zenith Bank Plc, Nigeria’s leading financial institution, has emerged as the Best Bank in Nigeria in the recently released Global Finance Magazine World’s Best Banks...

Dangote Group has won another award through its television commercial on the Cable Network News (CNN) detailing its business processes, days after emerging the most...

Just days after Naomi Oyinloye broke a 20-year jinx to become the first Nigerian Certificated Umpire of the Badminton Confederation of Africa (BCA); another Nigerian...

Super Eagles’ 2018 Attire Nominated Among World All-Time Iconic Football Shirts Nigeria’s home shirt at the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia has been nominated...

A Nigerian entrepreneur, Chidi Nwaogu, has won the Migration Entrepreneurship prize organised by the Human Security Division (HSD) of the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign...

Nigerian-based clean energy startup, Homefort Energy, has won $5,000 grant funding after emerging the overall winner of the Kingdom Hackathon competition prize of the Redeemed...

… Joins Ibukun Awosika , Chimamanda, Pres. Sahle-Work Zewde of Ethiopia, Bonang Matheba, Olajumoke Adenowo, Oby Ezekwesili and others Tara Fela-Durotoye, CEO, House of Tara...

Top Nigerian lender, Fidelity Bank Plc was Friday honoured for its innovative digital banking solutions and consistent support for Micro Small Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in...

The Future Awards Africa (TFAA) has partnered with the African Union Commission towards achieving 1 million By 2021 Initiative. The initiative which was launched in...