Ecobank Wins Starsight Sustainability Award 2020.
Leading West African Commercial and industrial solar power and cooling provider, Starsight says Ecobank is well placed to be the market leader in the establishment...
Category : Prizes & Awards
Emanuella, Mo Salah, others win big at Nickelodeon Kid’s Choice Awards 2021.
Mo Salah wins Favourite African Star award at Nickelodeon’s Kid’s Choice Awards 2021, as Emanuella takes home African Social Media star prize Uganda’s Vanessa Nakate emerges...
Burna Boy, Wizkid win Grammy Awards (full list of winners).
Nigerian music stars, Burna Boy and Wizkid, on Sunday night, won their first-ever Grammy Awards. Burna Boy bagged the much-coveted Grammy award in the ‘Best Global...
Lagos State launches affordable health coverage for Lagos residents, Ilera-Eko.
The Lagos State Government has unveiled Ilera Eko, to market health insurance to residents in the state. According to the Lagos State Health Insurance Agency...
Nigerian Edtech Team, Ubuntu Hub Wins Japan Hackathon With its Blockchain Solution For Offline Learning.
A Nigerian, Patrick Ocheja and his team have won the Japan Hackathon. Ocheja shared this announcement on February 8, a day after the hackathon ended....
Tiwa Savage through as finalist for MTV Africa Music Awards Kampala 2021.
The votes are in for the first round of the Pan-African Listeners’ Choice category for MTV Africa Music Awards Kampala 2021 and the nominees have...
LaPRIGA Award: MTN Nigeria Wins ‘Excellence’ In Community Relations.
Leading telecommunications services provider, MTN Nigeria has been recognised for best practices in community relations efforts through its social investment arm, MTN Foundation, at the...
Akinwumi Adesina named champion of Africa’s Great Green Wall.
African Development Bank President Akinwumi Adesina has been announced as a champion of Africa’s Great Green Wall (GGW) initiative. The appointment was made at a...
BoICT 2020 awards: Spectranet 4G LTE Wins Best ISP of the Year.
Spectranet 4G LTE has been adjudged the best 4G LTE Internet Service Provider of the year by Communications Week Organizers of the Beacon of ICT...
ADVAN Honours Access Bank, UBA, NB Plc, 17 others as “Community Heroes”.
The Advertisers Association of Nigeria, ADVAN has recognized 20 leading members as “Community Heroes” in a most astonishing way of holding the 2020 ADVAN marketing excellence...
12-Year Old Boy, Joshua Agboola Wins MTN Mpulse Hackathon.
Twelve year old Joshua Agboola has won the MTN mPulse Hackathon themed ‘Beyond COVID’, the company has said.The MTN mPulse was initiated in 2018 for...
‘#EndSARS Protesters’ emerges YNaija Person of the Year 2020.
The editorial board of Y! (TV and Online) has announced the #EndSARS Protesters comprising all campaigners, promoters, online as well as offline protesters, as its pick for Person...
Kunle Afolayan’s “Citation” earns Temi Otedola a Ghana Movie Award.
By Jennifer Okundia Fashion entrepreneur, actor and Nigerian billionaire, Femi Otedola’s daughter, Temi Otedola, emerged winner of the Best Actress award at the Ghana Movie...
Kabiru Rabiu ranked as 2020 Africa’s under-40 economic leader.
Kabiru Rabiu, the executive director of one of Africa’s largest conglomerates, BUA Group, has been named the best African economic leader under the age of...
Lagos Island Maternity Receives International Recognition On Covid-19 Response.
Lagos Island Maternity Hospital (LIMH), the largest maternity unit in Lagos State, has been recognised by an international Non-Governmental Organisation, International Hospital Federation (IHF) as...
UI researcher wins institute’s $1,000 PhD prize.
A sociology scholar, Dr. Kudus Oluwatoyin Adebayo, has become the pioneer winner of the Rahmon Bello Award for the best thesis in African and Diaspora...
Burna Boy, Wizkid make GQ Magazine’s ”Best Albums of 2020” list.
Nigerian music superstars and award-winning artistes Wizkid and Burna Boy have made the list of British GQ Magazine’s Best Albums of 2020. Burna’s Twice As...
Air Peace Wins Company Of The Year Award.
West and Central Africa’s foremost airline, Air Peace, has clinched the Aviation Company of the Year Award under the Sectoral Awards Category at the Nigerian...
Dotti Wins MTN Y’ello Star
The maiden edition of MTN Y’ello Star, a music skill-building initiative for talented young Nigerians, came to a grand conclusion at the finale last weekend...
Abiodun bags Agric Governor of the year award 2020.
Ogun State governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, bagged the Governor of the Year Award at the Nigeria Agriculture Awards 2020, held at Sheraton Hotel and Towers,...
Oluwatobiloba Ajayi wins The Nigeria Prize for Difference and Diversity 2020.
The Nigeria Prize for Difference and Diversity has announced Oluwatobiloba Ajayi as winner of the maiden edition of the N1million Prize. The announcement was made...
Sterling Bank is ‘Overall Best Workplace in Nigeria’
Sterling Bank Plc has emerged the 2020 ‘Overall Best Workplace in Nigeria’ in the large corporate category of the Great Place to Work Institute, Nigeria...
NGEG 2020: FiberOne wins the prestigious Fibre Broadband Provider of the Year award.
Foremost Fiber to the Home (FTTH) provider, FiberOne Broadband, has again added another feather to its cap by winning the 2020 Fiber broadband provider of...
Maltina wins ‘Malt Drink Brand of the Year’ award at BrandCom Awards.
In recognition of its continued game-changing innovations in the malt industry, Nigeria’s leading malt brand – Maltina, has been recognized as the “Malt Drink Brand...
Forbes names Okonjo-Iweala Africa Person of the Year 2020
Nigeria’s former Finance Minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has been named Forbes Africa Person of the Year 2020, The PUNCH has learnt. “The 2020 #AfricanOftheYear Award honoree is…Congratulations to...
Beyonce’s Brown Skin Girl helps Wizkid win BET Soul Train Award
Nigerian singer, Ayo Ibrahim Balogun popularly known as Wizkid has won his second Soul Train Award alongside Beyoncé, for their collaboration “Brown Skin Girl” of...
Ogutu Okudo emerges winner of the coveted Young Person of the Year Prize at The Future Awards 2020.
“Woman on a mission to disrupt the energy sector”, Ogutu Okudo emerges winner. Seven extraordinary individuals including innovators, activists and entrepreneurs from across Africa were...
Three Nigerian start-ups win AfDB AgriPitch contest.
Three Nigerian entrepreneurs have emerged winners in the African Development Bank’s AgriPitch competition. They are Femi Aiki of Foodlocker, Ikenna Nzewi of Releaf and Oluwaseun...
Julius Berger shines at Brand Nigeria award.
Foremost construction company, Julius Berger Nigeria PLC, last weekend, emerged “the Most Valuable Brand in the Building and Construction Services Category as well as the...
Umar Dagona wins $400,000 After Finishing Second At World Chemistry Competition
Nigeria student from Yobe state, Umar Dagona that represented Nigeria at world chemistry competition took the second Position and wins $400,000 after beating other candidates...