A Nigerian student studying in the United States, Noel Ifeanyi Alumona, has won the 2022 AFS Award for Young Global Citizens, and became the first African to win the prize since its inception in 1914.

The award was presented during the International Youth Day organized by the United Nations Global Communications Department, the AFS Intercultural Programmes and the Youth Assembly at the United Nations headquarters in New York.

Noel, who is studying in Vanderbilt University, United States, smiled home with a cash prize of $10,000 in recognition of his vigorous campaign to end violence against women and girls through proper orientation of boys on responsible behaviour.

The AFS Award for Young Global Cituizens recognizes the work of young people around the world for their commitment in improving the global community and contribute to a more just, peaceful, and tolerant world. Aside the star prize winner, Mariana Reyes and Larissa Cevallos emerged second place winners with $2,500 prize award.

Noel, who hails from Enugu State, beat other 500 contestants after a strenuous and rigorous selection process and interviews, from where 10 finalists were selected from over 200 applications. The winner, who is also a 2018 Obama Foundation Fellow of the African Leaders programme, explained that the inspiration for the formation of Boys Champion came in 2018 after his meeting with Barack Obama in Johannesburg as an Obama Foundation Fellow. It was an encounter that transformed his worldview and ignited in him the flaming zeal to make a positive impact in his community.


On October 1, 2018, he formed the Boys Champions as a youth focused group committed to providing safe space for young boys and training them to become part of the solution to ending societal violence and prejudice against women and girls in Nigerian communities. According to him, some obnoxious cultural and religious practices infringe on women’s rights, for which Boys Champion launched the campaign for change.

Noel, who is presently pursuing a graduate degree in Special Education in the United States, said he has remained passionate about youth development, education and more specifically on ways to improve access to quality education in underserved communities. As part of the mentorship programme targeted at youths, he said his organization would organize a leadership conference in Enugu State where speakers from the United Nations, Harvard University and Vanderbilt University would tutor participants on leadership. He urged the Nigerian Diaspora Commission, government agencies and corporate organisations to key into the project for youth empowerment and training of future leaders.

Recounting his past experiences in his community, Udenu LGA, Enugu, Noel explained that he spent over five years in classroom teaching, monitoring and evaluating students’ performance. He expressed on the poor attention given to Special Education of kids with Learning Disabilities and Emotional Behavioral Disturbances. He warned that the neglect of children with special needs and other vulnerable groups does not guarantee an inclusive education system, which every country should aspire to achieve.

He disclosed that he and Chike Stf Nwoke, a PhD student at Carleton University in Canada, were collaborating on a research paper to analyse the first ever 2015 policy document and the level of implementation on special education in Nigeria. He said critical questions needed to be asked in order to chart the way forward for special education in the country.



“At the moment, Nigeria is at the end of the bridge on global rankings for special education support. I am happy to continue to offer my voice to conversations that will inspire change in Nigeria, Africa and across the world. As I always say, Africans will change Africa and I am happy to lead that change from my own community through Boys Champions and Hope for African Children,” he said.

As a community development specialist, Noel told journalists that he would remain resolute in his commitment towards improving access to education for vulnerable children, children displaced by Boko Haram and insurgent attacks, as well as millions of out-of-school children in Nigeria. He promised to always look out for victims of disasters and violent extremism in Nigeria through his Hope for African Children, a community-based organization he founded in 2013 that increases access to education for children with disabilities and vulnerable children in underserved communities. His nonprofit organization, Boys Champion, has continued to work closely with over 4,900 young volunteers in Nigeria on issues of gender-based violence, peace-building, special education, youth value development, and childcare improvement.

Noel is an Obama Foundation Fellow, United States Institute of Peace Fellow, and United Nations Youth Assembly Delegate. He is also a recipient of the AFS Award for Young Global Citizens at the United Nations in NYC, African Youth Award, Nigerian Goodwill Ambassador Award, Volunteer of the Year Award by Appreciate Africa Network, Beijin, China.

While celebrating Noel’s global award, the immediate past Governor of Enugu State, His Excellency Sullivan Chime, described the recognition as noble, while assuring that the future belongs to Enugu youths. Perhaps Chime was right in seeing the future in the hands of younger and visionary leaders with a selfless disposition to serve the people and recreate a better world.


https://www.sunnewsonline.com/nigerian-student-shines-in-us-wins-10000-afs-award/

Lalasticlala.

NnamdiAzikiwe:


Bearing Igbo name doesn't matter if the individual doesn't recognize with his tribe plus baba didn't get Grammy because he was singing or rapping in Igbo, if you even see him music you go shame. The boy was raised purely by his African American mother and it even states that he never met his father.....e be like sey na even product of ashawo tdb. Everything dey him wiki page Sha. You fit even go try speak Igbo to am make the akata boy call you nigger....

This is a very unintelligent take Lol.

Okonma Identifies as Igbo. Goodbye.

NnamdiAzikiwe:


Tyler doesn't even know his Igbo father and hardly relates with his Igbo culture. That boy na black american.

Go and tell him he is not Igbo; Endeavour to remove the 'okonma' from his name...Lol.

The only word I captured "my wife left me" sad!

I have literally come to a conclusion that 99% of Nigerian women most especially this current generation, will live you in your time of need, dispair and financial struggles...

An Adage says: "He whom the gods want's to kill they will first make mad."

The gods have struck 'IPOB' with madness and the coming of it thereof will be destruction.

una go hear word!

Nigerialabalaba:


u just dey use style dey confirm d curse. u no fit dey type trash like dis make u tink say na ordinary,na dat curse fit make u dey type tins wey go dey do ibo strong tins like d curse of Tafawa Balewa.
Nobody go vote for ibo wit dis ur yeye. U no see say na curse make ipob terrorists reverse all d ibo gains since 1999? Na only native ibo people remain for ibo land, beta posh ibo people don japa comot leave ibo land for native people like u

U sound way too Empty!

BSdetective:



give your candid advice to your rettarded mother........you posted this in politics section to drive an agenda becus you little divks nyamiris can't stand others in the spotlight....everything is always a dvck measuring contest for you punks.....still you come out at the bottom.

Incoherent rants of an Abobaku pig!

It must really be the fault of Ndigbo that wizkid, tems and kuti lost out on a grammy Award Night!...

Like I deposited earlier on: go and take an overdose of otapiapia and end your miserable Life.

when The Igbo brag, failed enslaved entities like 'Yoruba pigs' with-out fixed address should keep momm. you degenerates are beneath our feet in all metrics of life.

We keep winning while you degenerated pigs keep wailing, holding placards and scream " Igbo domination."; Apparently we got the tiny dicks to measure, do yaribas have any? apparently none. That is why we use our tiny dicks to Bleep your butt holes and y'all scream out in pain from our heavy thrusts'.

PIG!


Bomb.2022

BSdetective:
Lol..... it's one thing to have an nyamiri name and another thing to be an nyamiri. Tyler the Creator is a full akata.

You are such a boring troll!

Go back and read what you wrote again.

You sounded Like someone suffering from.multiple dis-orders!

My Candid Advice to you: If you can't stand his wins kindly take an overdose of rat poison and end your miserable, painful, never ending sufferings or better still donate yourself to one of your Obas as 'Abobaku', and end your sufferings.

Tyler, the Creator Wins Best Rap Album for Call Me If You Get Lost at the 2022 Grammys.

Tyler, the Creator has won the Best Rap Album award at the 2022 Grammys for
Call Me If You Get Lost. He scored his second win in the category (following Igor in 2020) ahead of fellow nominees Nas (King’s Disease II ), J. Cole ( The Off-Season), Kanye West (Donda ). (Drake
pulled out of the category, withdrawing
Certified Lover Boy from consideration in December 2021.)

Tyler posted his acceptance speech via an Instagram story following his win. “First off, I’m hyped,” he said. “Thank you to DJ Drama. You are fucking so important to rap music… Thank you to all of my friends for being my cheerleaders.” He also thanked his team for letting him “make an album where I can just flex all goddamn day.”

He added: “I know you’re seething and angry and, ‘argh, no one listens to that album.’ These arena tours that are selling out says different. And if you put that much energy into something maybe everyone will be proud of you, too.” Find his full acceptance speech below.

Tyler, the Creator was nominated for Best Melodic Rap Performance this year (for “WusYaName”), but the award ultimately went to Kanye West for “Hurricane.”

https://pitchfork.com/news/tyler-the-creator-wins-best-rap-album-for-call-me-if-you-get-lost-at-the-2022-grammys/

lalasticlala
mynd44

LLiKYekoba:
yorubas will tell you 'Ibos wake their fathers with a kick'. But they will not tell you that yorubas wake up their fathers with matchetes and 'langa langa'

punchline!

Disgusting abobaku pigs, just because the South West has been bombarded over the gory Ritual killing carried out by 4 yoruba teenage boys, The programmed bmc E-rats within your bastardy ranks opened an account "Ngozi kenneth" to dish fake news out to the public in the bid to regain their self-elsteem..

I won't be surprised if this bull-crap is moved to the front page by Afonja mods. low life pigs. I spit on your oblong heads!!

gentiles:

You guys have started with all the rubbish waec stats again, waec has denied ever releasing any rankings, yet you shameless lots still go about the false rankings and ratings from blogs written by igbo propagandists.

What an idiot it seems to me u lack comprehensive skill! U posted an article claiming the SSCE taking for the year 2020 and 2021 best result were all yorubas.

so i deposited two igbo students from the previous years who sat for the exam and had distinctions in all their subjects.

so my question to you was; what are the modalities being used to determine the best student In waec?

like you falsely claimed the best waec results in the last two years has all been yorubas.

Alabo7978:
Despite the stupidity of ofoigbo, Eastlink , Ekealterego SlayerForever Igboid Bkayy etc, I still love the Igbo people as humans because my dear mother is igbo and they all in my maternal home laugh at the clowns who come to the delta's to claim.
They still don't believe it because they're not on nairaland.
They deem y'all as clowns who spoil the image of Igbo people.

your mother can never be Igbo.

u're not part of us..

U're free to take the suicidal part your ancestors were known for...fool

Billingslord:

this is top 10 highest score in jamb last year
https://suresuccess.ng/jamb-news/top-10-candidates-with-the-highest-jamb-utme-scores/
his is number of jamb enrollment by state
https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/486160-jamb-2021-oyo-osun-ogun-have-highest-number-of-applicants.html
this is best students in waec in 2020
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/11/waec-honours-2020-best-students-in-wassce/
this is best student in waec in 2021
https://dailypost.ng/2021/11/30/2021-waec-kings-college-student-emerges-best-student-so-far/

they also best and most institutions whether private,state or federal with most literacy rate in Nigeria

I wouldn't want to dive into further investigations of the dumb research carried out by the SW gutter media in bestowing the "best candidate" bla blah lies they dish out to the media. so i will make it short and simple.

Governor of Imo State, Hope Uzodinma has awarded scholarship to an Imo state indigene, Miss Chinaza Nwozuzu, who scored 9 distinctions in her 2020 Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE), IgbereTV reports.

https://www.nairaland.com/6845922/chinaza-nwozuzu-gov-uzodimma-gives

A Nigerian girl from Imo state, Chiemela Stephanie Madu, made distinctions in all the subjects she sat for at the WAEC level 2021.

https://www.legit.ng/people/1444802-girl-celebrates-packing-striaght-as-waec-people-praise-her/

I will like you to explain the modalities that is been used to determine the best SSCE student.

ekealterego
antivirus92

Investigative:
Yes they have can we rest

lolzz nice response.

Govt stops Ekiti workers' pay over alleged certificate forgery
From Ifedayo Sayo, Ado-Ekiti.

AN industrial crisis is brewing in Ekiti State over the suspension of the July salary of about 3,000 workers over alleged forgery of certificates.

Also, the state government has ordered hundreds of workers to repay certain sums of money ranging from N20,000 to about N300,000 as over-payment in their salaries over a period of time.

The development followed the report of the investigation by a consultant appointed by the state government to verify the certificates of workers in the service of the state government.

The consultant who was also saddled with the responsibility of identifying ghost workers in the employment of the state government had in the course of its assignments asked the public servants in the state to produce their primary six and school certificate results.

It carried out a verification of the results with relevant examination bodies and discovered that about 3,000 of the workers had presented fake school leaving certificates.

Acting on the report, the state government, in a letter by the Deputy Accountant General of the state, Mrs. O. O. Owolabi, ordered the salaries of the affected workers to be stopped with immediate effect.
The letter which contained the names of the affected workers and directed to the permanent secretaries of the various ministries and departments reads: "I am directed to kindly inform you to stop the salaries of the underlisted officers with effect from July 2009 until further notice."
For instance, in the Ministry of Local Government and Culture, about five workers had their salaries stopped while in the Ministry of Health, six workers were affected.

Worst hit is the State Teaching Service Commission where hundreds of workers were affected by the order of the state government.
Already, the directive is generating some disquietedness among the workers who saw it as another attempt by the state government to retrench some of its workers.

A top senior civil servant who condemned the stoppage of salaries of the workers said the state government ought to review the report before implementing it.

VOICEofORIENTAL:
I'm not Yoruba.i am 100% igbo.pride makes you think you are better than everyone.presently igbos are not better than the Yorubas in: sports, music, politics.. education maybe 50-50... apart from trade & bussiness tell me where igbos are better than the Yorubas?

Me,I don't live by wrong perception I live by what is on ground.The same thing you are accusing the Yorubas for,is the same thing Ndigbo is doing with s, south.we are trying so hard to woo the s, south to our side, the Yorubas also are wooing the north to their side, what's the difference between this two scenario?

we are more technological advanced than them.

We have the most renowed scientists and highest patent holders in the history of Nigeria.

I would implore you to atleast list 10 notable yoruba achievement in sports i will wait..

Yoruba: soft work is our work ooh!

Anago55:
. An Igbo man is the only person that can reposition Nigeria. I am done with you

that idiot is a yoruba-slum candidate.

VOICEofORIENTAL:
Some times I wonder the way you reason & talk?..ok, you that is brave & have killed plenty lions, tigers, leopards why haven't you use this your braveness & strength to draw Nigerians to vote our candidate instead of asking Tinubu to close his shop for Ndigbo? Mr brave, apart from trade & bussiness which other area do you think you are better than the Yorubas?..is it in sports, music, politics, education?Mr brave I'm waiting for your reply

Empty yoruba chest beater, u better own up to your afonja lineage of street urchins.

Igbos are undisputed champions in sporting activities in Nigeria likewise in education; we have long left the yorubas behind.

yes the yorubas are better than the igbos in politics for their pechant penal servitude to the north and the continuos humiliation of their political god-fathers by the north.

How jimoh obasu was finally caught while on the verge of feasting on his daily meal ( human parts) in zamfara. read the below.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/06/s-h-o-c-k-i-n-g-how-female-student-was-killed-by-a-cannibal/

Bettykeys:

Which one is better btw cannibalism and drug peddling ?

Your people are worst in ritualist, cannibalism and drug peddling yet they are found ofof pointing fingers

jimoh obasu the yoriba cannibal from the headquaters of rituals in west africa...


Jimoh Obabu Salau probably was born and grew up like most other Nigerian men of his age and generation. Unlike his contemporaries, however by the time Jimoh had joined the army and become a fully-fledged “mad dog” as we fondly call our uniformed men and women he had evolved into something very few people could have imagined. The problem was that Jimoh liked to eat. He liked to eat human beings, their internal organs to be precise. When the army sent him to fight alongside others in the Ecomog forces in the Liberia this was a perfect opportunity for Jimoh to get a steady supply of his favourite food. Alas as with all good things he over did it and was apprehended for killing and eating innocent civilians. In the best traditions of the military, they simply shipped him back home to Nigeria and gave him the boot from the Army leaving him free to eat some more of us.
Either due to circumstances or simply because women are a pain in the azz, he killed and ate the intestines of his wife and two children in 2003; he then sold the other parts of their bodies to people. Sadly, his wife was a police officer and was missed, he was promptly traced arrested and charged for the triple homicide. He was sentenced to death and was awaiting execution at the Kaduna prison. What happened next is not too clear but it seems it was decided by some “powerful people” that he was useful so he was PARDONED. And set free to eat some more of us.
Having learnt his lesson, that eating people that can be missed is not the brightest idea Jimoh relocated to Ogun state, in the southwest and eventually became an okada rider who chose a route that enabled him to take passengers to a motor park whilst passing through a bushy area. This was perfect for him, as he made sure that he had plenty of “meat” to eat and sell. Once again, luck ran out on him as some farmers saw him as he was killing a young 22-year-old student (Miss Idowu Aliyu) who he was taking to the motor park to catch a vehicle back to school. The farmers quickly rounded him up and called the cops. Sadly, the girl was dead. Jimoh is still being held by the police and has not yet been charged to court for this latest death.
The police believe that he has not been working alone and I agree. How many of you would like to bet that Jimoh would again be pardoned and freed to eat even more of us?

vannessa7:
See pepper body everywhere, some people already jittery on seeing this thread, inferiorly complex is a curse

go and learn how to spell "Inferiority" complex properly before typing shit about your Yoruba race.

Invictuse:
I doubt if my paternity was ever questioned but for an Osu that wake his wretch of a father with flying tackles daily. My sympathy to the regret your father goes through knowing you are destined to be a daily source of regret misery n agony to your family.

Thanks for telling the world, you wake your old man up with a heavy knock on his oblong head for being an outspoken and crystal clear failure he is. for were your old man stand's today in his penury, misery, agony and dilapidated-brown roof building tells the story a of generational failure and poverty inherent in your blood-line, a redenzvous you have booked with your chi of which your daily breakfast will be served with a heavy konk on your oblong head while pespirating from the heat emanating from your 100year old decayed zinc..

What a sad tale of olaniyi!

Invictuse:
Just imagine the dullard telling me to go learn how to construct sentences ?! I leave you to your tribesmen to judge what brand of rettarded pig you are, but trust if I was your father I will ensure you do not live another day to type this with intention at correcting any error.

Bullshit from a slum candidate. mere looking at your write-up one can easily deduce between me and you who is fucking retarded..

An Afonja desecrated blood such as you can never be my father. If a proper DNA test is carried out to ascertain your paternity; 99% chances the oblong head who fathered you, is not your dad, omo ale.!

BKayy:
It is very difficult to live in Ogun state these days.
Fulani Herdsmen from the right, Skull Miners from the left and joint operation of cultists, One million boys, Omo nile and Agbero from the center.

Chai, if you live in Ogun state sorry oh. May God help you.

lolz