Category: Proudly Nigerian
Three Nigerian girls build app to aid people with dementia in Ireland
A group of three Nigerian teenage girls have gained accolades after they developed an application that uses music to aid those living with dementia in [...]
GMD UBA, Kennedy Uzoka wins Zik Leadership Award
The Group Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, Kennedy Uzoka, has been announced as a winner of the 2019 Zik A [...]
Elumelu, two others, make ‘Time 100’ list of world most influential people 2020
TIME magazine has named one of Africa’s leading investors and philanthropists, Tony Elumelu, in the 2020 TIME 100, the annual list of the 100 most in [...]
Former Shell MD bags award for rejecting $6m bribe
Dr. Olufemi Lalude, the first managing director of Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company, has been awarded the 2020 Leadership Award by the [...]
Nigerian, Kaycee Madu, appointed Justice Minister in Canada
A Nigerian-born Canadian, Kaycee Madu, has been appointed as the justice minister and solicitor general of Alberta, a province in Canada. Madu, 47, wa [...]
Enugu housewife returns N14m wrongly paid into her account
An Enugu housewife, Mrs Josephine Nchetaka Chukwujama Eze, has caused a furore after she returned approximately N14 million wrongly paid into her acco [...]
Kiki Mordi bags Emmy nomination over sex-for-grades investigation
Nigerian journalist, Kiki Mordi, has been nominated for the 2020 Emmy Awards over her sex-for-grades investigation which uncovered assault in Africa’s [...]
Primary school teacher invents breast cancer detecting bra
A primary school teacher, Idris Dangana was touched by the death of a woman from breast cancer and decided to invent an affordable device to help with [...]
Enenche, six others make list of 100 Most Reputable Africans
Leading reputation management consultancy firm, Reputation Poll International has announced its 2020 publication of the 100 most reputable people on e [...]
Meet Ofodile Anulika, designer of Nigeria’s first indigenous military-grade aerial vehicle
Nigeria’s first indigenously produced military grade Unmanned Aerial Vehicle was designed by a woman – Lieutenant Nkemdilim Anulika Ofodile.
The ve [...]