Category : National

FUTA Alumnus Emerges Best Student In China

NigGalAugust 30, 2019October 19, 2019

An alumna of Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA), Ayoola Oluwakemi has won the prestigious 2019 China Excellent International Students award. Oluwakemi is currently undergoing her Ph.D. programme in...

Academics Prizes & Awards

UNIZIK Students Top Studies In Chinese As 100 Bag Scholarships.

NigGalAugust 28, 2019October 19, 2019

AWKA – Twenty-four students of the Confucius Institute of Nnamdi Azikiwe University (UNIZIK), Awka were among the 35 that passed the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi (HSK) translated...

Academics Innovations

Unijos develops first anti-snake venom vaccine

NigGalAugust 28, 2019October 19, 2019

Vice Chancellor of the University of Jos, Prof. Seddi Maimako, has said the university through a researcher has developed the first ever anti-snake venom vaccine....

Academics Prizes & Awards

Nigerian school’s Air Quality Project wins gold in U.S.

NigGalAugust 28, 2019October 19, 2019

Marist College, Yangoji, Abuja, has won a gold medal at an international school entrepreneurship competition in the U.S., Mr Romanus Ayeh, Team Coordinator, has said....

Prizes & Awards Sports

12th African Games: Nigeria win six gold medals in weightlifting

NigGalAugust 27, 2019October 19, 2019

Team Nigeria has won six gold medals in weightlifting and three silver at the ongoing African Games in Morocco. The weightlifting event was held at the...

Arts Prizes & Awards

Nigerian Wins 2019 Koffi Addo Prize for Creative Nonfiction Awards

NigGalAugust 26, 2019October 19, 2019

Authors Resoketswe Manenzhe from South Africa and Frances Ogamba from Nigeria have won the 2019 Writivism Short Story and Koffi Addo Prize for Creative Nonfiction...

Innovations

Meet mother of 4 selling roasted plantain ‘Boli’ with digital technology in PH (Video)

NigGalAugust 26, 2019October 19, 2019

A Nigerian mother is now being celebrated for selling her roasted plantain, Boli with the use of Digital technology. Grace Osadebe is a mother of...

ICT Innovations

Apple buys a Nigerian-owned ICT firm for $1 billion.

NigGalAugust 26, 2019October 19, 2019

UNITED States of America’s most celebrated brand, Apple, has bought Nigeria’s Chinedu Echeruo’s HopStop.com. According to The Wall Street Journal’s publication, AllThingsDigital, it informed that...

Academics Innovations

Unilag students invent flood level caution device.

NigGalAugust 22, 2019October 19, 2019

Three University of Lagos students have invented a vehicular road advance electronic flood level caution device for detection of water levels on major roads. The...

Prizes & Awards Sports

Chukwueze wins revelation of the season award.

NigGalAugust 22, 2019October 19, 2019

Villarreal winger, Samuel Chukwueze, has won the player revelation award for the 2018/19 season at La Liga club. The award was announced on Villarreal’s Instagram page on Tuesday....

Prizes & Awards

A Nigerian, Elizabeth Ehi-Ebewele, and 11 others honoured for combating wildlife crime.

NigGalAugust 22, 2019October 19, 2019

A Nigerian, Elizabeth Ehi-Ebewele, and 11others have been honoured for demonstrating excellence in combating wildlife crime. The award was presented by the Animal Welfare Institute...

Nollywood, Movies Prizes & Awards

Celebrate Your Heroes, US Urges Nigerian Filmmakers.

NigGalAugust 22, 2019October 19, 2019

The United States Consulate in Nigeria has urged local filmmakers and documentary producers to use their skills in telling stories about the African experience especially...

Nollywood, Movies Prizes & Awards

Nigerians win Netflix’s ‘Dear White People’ contest

NigGalAugust 21, 2019October 19, 2019

Contest across the United States, a film by Olamide Oladimeji and Ejiroghene, was selected as one of the top two. The film received an honorable mention...

National Press Releases

Toyota unveils integrated auto centre in Abia

NigGalAugust 21, 2019October 19, 2019

Toyota has unveiled an ancillary auto centre in Umuahia to improve the automobile industry in Abia State. The Managing Director, Elizade AutoLand, Mr Demola Ade-Ojo,...

Innovations

5 Nigerian girls at 2019 Technovation World Pitch Summit need our votes!

NigGalAugust 14, 2019October 19, 2019

Five young Nigerian girls have earned themselves a slot in the 2019 Technovation World Pitch Summit that is being held at Silicon Valley in California,...

National

Excellent Nigerian Army display at Scotland Int’l Military Day.

NigGalAugust 9, 2019October 19, 2019

The Nigerian Army Band got so many commendations after bringing their A-game to the annual Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo, an international military event. The 2019...

ICT Innovations

Meet Basil Okpara Jr., A Nigerian programmer who built more than 30 mobile games

NigGalAugust 8, 2019October 19, 2019

Seated in a stylish living room of a home in a suburb of Nigeria’s commercial center, Lagos, Basil Okpara Jr. is tapping away on his...

Prizes & Awards Sports

8-year-old Nigerian, Stephanie Ogechukwu Onusiriuka Won Gold Medal At African Gymnastics Championship

NigGalAugust 8, 2019October 19, 2019

8-year-old Stephanie Ogechukwu Onusiriuka started Gymnastics on her own when she was just two years old. Her parents discovered her talent and decided to help...

Academics Innovations

Unilorin PhD student develops new anti-TB drug

NigGalAugust 6, 2019October 19, 2019

A PhD student in the Department of Chemistry, University of Ilorin, Misitura Arowona, has developed a drug that promises to be potent in the treatment...

CSR Innovations Training & Workshops

SystemSpecs Announces Summer Coding Camp for Students

NigGalAugust 5, 2019October 19, 2019

SystemSpecs Limited has announced its forthcoming Remita Summer Coding Camp for secondary school students in Nigeria. The fully-funded camp scheduled to hold from August 12...

Prizes & Awards Sports

Nigerian sprinter, Jerry Jakpa, wins 200m in Europe

NigGalAugust 5, 2019October 19, 2019

A week after failing to make Nigeria’s list of athletes to the Africa Games in Rabat, Morocco, Nigerian sprinter, Jerry Jakpa, won the men’s 200m...

Academics Prizes & Awards

Nigerian students shine at CFO Global Competition 2019

NigGalAugust 2, 2019October 19, 2019

4 Nigerian students of the University of Ibadan, Ibadan have emerged as one of the top six teams at the 2019 CFO Global Case Study...

National Sports

Nigeria to attend snow Volleyball in Argentina.

NigGalJuly 31, 2019October 19, 2019

The President of Nigeria Volleyball Federation, Engineer Musa Nimrod said the country will take part at the Snow Volleyball World Tour in Bariloche, Rio Negro....

Events Innovations Press Releases

Google for Nigeria: All the Key Announcements at the #GoogleForNigeria Event 2019

NigGalJuly 30, 2019October 19, 2019

Google made a couple of exciting announcements for its customers and partners in Nigerian and Africa during the 3rd edition of the annual Google for...

Music Prizes & Awards

Burna Boy’s ‘African Giant’ Tops Chart On Apple Music In More Than 10 Countries

NigGalJuly 29, 2019October 19, 2019

The African Giant is indeed standing tall amongst the rest. Burna Boy’s recently released album, ‘African Giant’ has bagged the number one spot on Apple...

Prizes & Awards Sports

Team Nigeria leads in African Cycling Cup

NigGalJuly 29, 2019October 19, 2019

After two days of action at the maiden edition of the All African Track Cycling Championship at the Moshood Abiola National Stadium in Abuja yesterday,...

National

‘Green’ Buses for Lagos State

NigGalJuly 25, 2019October 19, 2019

It was in March 2019 that the former Governor of Lagos State, Akinwunmi Ambode announced a new Bus Reform Initiative (“BRI”) which will include 5,000...

Innovations Press Releases

Global Infoswift powers Access Bank ATMs with CR2 solution

NigGalJuly 25, 2019October 19, 2019

Global Infoswift, in partnership with CR2, has completed the migration of Access Bank on its Bankworld Automated Teller Machine (ATM) driving and card switching solution...

Events Prizes & Awards