Category: Proudly Nigerian
Ese Brume wins silver medal 7 weeks after dedicating bronze medal to Bishop Oyedepo
Nigerian long jumper, Ese Brume, has won a silver medal at the 2022 World Athletics Indoor Championships at Belgrade yesterday Sunday 20th March Ese B [...]
Chinua Achebe’s son, Chidi, wins US Bard Award in medicine and science
Chidi Achebe, the famous novelist Chinua Achebe’s son, has been named the winner of the 2022 prestigious John and Samuel Bard Award in the United Stat [...]
Chimamamanda Adichie To Receive 16th Honorary Degree From University In Belgium
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie will receive an honorary doctorate degree from the Catholic University of Louvain on April 28th, 2022.
The ceremony will [...]
Remedial Health raises $1 million pre-seed funding to digitize pharmacies in Nigeria and beyond
Nigeria’s Remedial Health, a startup providing financing and supply chain management solution has received $1 million in pre-seed funding to digitiz [...]
Oxford University inducts first Igbo Language lecturer
The University of Oxford, England, has inducted Emmanuel Ikechukwu Umeonyirioha as its first Igbo Language lecturer.
Umeonyirioha made th [...]
Nigeria’s Amabua Mohammed becomes first female police adviser for MJTF in Chad
The Nigeria Police Force (NPF) has announced the appointment of Amabua Mohammed, an assistant commissioner of police (ACP), as its adviser for the Mul [...]
Mo Abudu, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala make Forbes’ List of 100 Most Powerful Women of 2021
Nigeria’s former finance minister and current director-general of the World Trade Organisation Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and filmmaker Mo Abudu have been re [...]
Ogun gov rewards AfDB president’s niece, Dr Oyinlola Adesina with N5m, house, scholarship for breaking OAU record
The Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun has rewarded Dr Joy Oyinlola Adesina who made history by being the best graduating student ever pr [...]
3 Nigerians make top 10 of the 2021 African Business Heroes
Three Nigerians have made the podium of the 2021 African Business Heroes to be awarded in November in collaboration with the Jack Ma Foundation.
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Nigerian breaks record, becomes first black General Counsel American Board of Surgery
Nigerian born Adanwimo Okafor, a lawyer, has become the first person of colour and the first black woman to be promoted to General Couns [...]