John ODHE, Yenagoa
The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) has rewarded winners of the sixth edition of the NCDMB Annual National Undergraduate Essay Competition, 2022 with cash and kind prizes.
During the award and prize giving ceremony held in Yenagoa, Bayelsa state, Ayotomiwa Elesho, a 23-year old male student of Political Science at the University of Ibadan, Oyo State, emerged overall winner of the competition with a cash prize of N1 million and a brand new laptop.
Second position of the competition went to Victor Sunday, a native of Ebonyi state and second year student of law at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka with a cash of N700,000 and a laptop while the third place went to a Bayelsa born 100 level student of Medical Engineering, Federal University, Otuoke, Doutimibraladei Frank, who went home with N500,000 and and a laptop.
Other competitors who made the top ten list and went home with laptops and other consolation prizes include: Oluwafela Bibire of Obafemi University, Femi Oyedele of University of Uyo, Abdullahi Yequb of University of Lagos, Osahuemwenmwen Ofumwengbe-Evba of the University of Benin, Jonah Alidor, Bayero University, Kano, Princess Tari Tarawou of the Niger Delta University, Amassoma and Abosede Iyiola of the university of Ibadan.
Delivering a keynote address, the Executive Secretary of the NCDMB, Engr. Simbi Wabote remarked that for the NCDMB to have sustained the sponsorship of the event for six consecutive years spoke volume of the importance of the competition and the impact it had been making on its targets.
Represented by the Manager, Corporate Communications, NCDMB,p Barr. Dan Kikile, the executive secretary pointed out that those who had participated in the competition had not only become great writers in their own rights but had also represented the NCDMB competition outside in other similar contests and had become winners.
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“The NCDMB began to sponsor this competition because we understood the need to inculcate local content consciousness amongst undergraduates in our higher institutions, to make them understand that local content is an imperative for economic development of our local economy for job creation and national security.
“This annual essay competition is one of NCDMB multiple interventions to lift the standard of education in Nigeria. It aims to promote proficiency in writing, awareness of local content and its benefits to the national economy and to engender citizen engagement from the undergraduate level,” eh added.
The NCDMB scribe promised to sustain the sponsorship of the annual essay writing competition, calling on students at all levels to imbibe the culture of reading.
In a welcome address, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Mahogany 21st Century Concepts Limited, organizers of the event, Mr. Eyinimi Omorozi thanked the NCDMB for consistently sponsoring the yearly competition and commended the participants drawn from all parts of the country, especially the top ten finalists for their outstanding academic performance.
Omorozi said the event was organized for undergraduates across the country to promote writing and analytical and research potentials of students in the tertiary institutions and to enhance academic excellence.
He added that the event was organized by the NCDMB for the youths to understand the local content policy of the federal government.
Responding on behalf of the winners, the first prize winner, Ayotomiwa Elesho who hails from Ogun state expressed gratitude to the NCDMB for sponsoring the event and commended the consultant for their hospitality.
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The winner also encouraged his co-competitors who were not lucky to win prizes not to deter, adding that tomorrow may be their turns through more effort, recalling that he had participated in the previous editions of the programme but did not win.
Elesho dedicated his award to his immediate family.
The topic of the 2022 edition of the NCDMB annual national undergraduate essay competition was “strategizing for transformation to clean energy in the changing global energy landscape: the NCDMB intervention.”
