Despite the warning strike by the members of the
Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), students are scrambling for the
on-going national software competition.
The software contest is being organized by the Institute of
Software Practitioners of Nigeria (ISPON), just as the deadline has been
extended by seven days.
Chairman, Public Relations and Communications Committee,
ISPON, Mr. Moses Braimah, confirmed this at the weekend, saying that the issue
of who wins the National Software Innovation Cup 2011, has become the hottest
news across the campuses nationwide.
According to him, over 32 schools are currently moving
quickly to outsmart one another to compete for the National Software Innovation
Cup.
He listed some schools that have filed in to include the
University of Calabar, Calabar; University of Uyo, Uyo; Ladoke Akintola University
of Technology, Ogbomosho; Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago Iwoye; Delta State
University, Abraka; Cross Rivers State University of Technology, Calabar; The
Polytechnic, Ibadan; Uyo City Polytechnic; Federal Polytechnic, Offa; Yaba
College of Technology, Yaba; Federal Polytechnic, Idah; while others are making
frantic efforts to beat the submission deadline.
The decision by ISPON NEC and the judges to extend the submission date by seven
days was in response to pleas from contenders at various schools to enable them
complete the documentation of their applications for the competition.
“Also, as at the time the entry opened many of the
universities were yet to start the new academic session” he explained.
The 2011 edition, he said, is being sponsored by Cross
Rivers State Government, National Information Technology Development Agency
(NITDA), MTN, NigComSAT, Visafone, NCC and others.
As said by him, the ISPON’s first national software
conference would take place at Tinapa Business Resort, Calabar between 27 and
28 October, 2011.
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