Tag: nobel prize
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Nigeria and the 2024 Nobel Prize – By Dakuku Peterside
In 2024, the Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James Robinson for their groundbreaking research into how political and economic institutions shape nations’ prosperity—or failure. Their work, particularly in the influential book “Why Nations Fail”, emphasises that the quality of their institutions largely determines the success of nations.
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Nobel Prize: Why Nigerian scholars were not nominated
The Committee of Vice-Chancellors of Nigerian Universities (CVCNU) has said Nigerian scholars, especially from the intellectual community, were not nominated for the 2023 Nobel Prize because of poor research funding.
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Three Scientists bag 2022 Nobel Prize Award for quantum mechanics
Three Physicists, Anton Zeilinger, Alain Aspect and John Clauser have been awarded the 2022 Physics Nobel Prize for quantum mechanics. This was revealed on Tuesday by the Committee for Physics Prize, noting that it “laid the foundation for a new era of quantum technology”. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences who announced the winners, said…
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Govts incompetently running NNPC deserve the Nobel prize – By Owei Lakemfa
THE latest episode in the Nigerian drama of governance is the importation of at least 100 million litres of contaminated PMS which knocked car engines. As with such cases of governance, nobody, official or organisation is willing or honest enough to take responsibility.
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Nobel Prize for peacemakers and warmongers, By Owei Lakemfa
By Owei Lakemfa THE Nobel Peace Prize, perhaps the most prestigious annual award in the world, suffers from a chronic illness: the inability of the award committee to define what is peace. It is like one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter. The loose framework; that the prize be awarded to those…
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Ballon D’Or is my Nobel Prize – Ronaldo
Juventus forward, Cristiano Ronaldo, has likened the Ballon d’Or to the Nobel Prize, as he dreams of his sixth title. Ronaldo stated this while speaking with France Football after making the 30-man shortlist for the 2019 award. The 34-year-old also said that he has learned from the likes of Michael Jordan and others, who have…