The organisers of Etisalat-DigitalSENSE students essay
contest on Internet Governance for Development (IG4D), the DigitalSENSE Africa (DSA) Media Group, has named Odonoekuma
Onyebuchi Ekuma as the star prize winner for the 2016 edition, which is on
Season 2, reports ITRealms.
The Executive Director,
Operations at DigitalSENSE Africa (DSA) Media Group, Nkemdilim Nweke, disclosed
this in Lagos, and said that the 2016 theme was on ‘Internet Governance:
Creating Opportunities for All Nigerians’ which saw Odonoekuma Onyebuchi Ekuma,
a fourth-year medical student at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), Enugu
State, emerging top.
Also, she revealed that
Henry Monday Oguns, a five-hundred level Petrochemical Engineering student of
the University of Benin, Edo State, and Egwe Tochukwu Christopher, a fourth
year Law student of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka-Anambra State, taking
the second and third positions, respectively.
Mrs. Nweke equally said that
the finalists will in the coming week receive their prizes which include a
Laptop, Tablet and smart phone with data for the trio.
She stressed that the essay
competition is aimed at encouraging creativity and discourse on Internet Governance
for Development (IG4D) by Nigerian youths, especially the students.
Mrs. Nweke explained that
participating students were mostly between the ages of 18 and 30, pointing out
that the competition sponsored by Etisalat Nigeria is organised by DigitalSENSE
Africa Media, the publishers of international award winning DigitalSENSE Business News, ITRealms
and NaijaAgroNet; is part of the annual Nigeria
DigitalSENSE Forum on IG4D and Nigeria IPv6 Roundtable.
Reacting, the star prize
winner, Odonoekuma Onyebuchi Ekuma, on getting the news declared “I am very
excited. Winning the contest has made this year very awesome for me.”
Odonoekuma also advised
Nigerian youth, saying that the Internet holds the key to virtually every
progress in life, stressing that the Internet provides the connectivity that
yields efficiencies to employment creation, healthcare delivery, economic
development and indeed all sectors of life.
An elated first runner up, Henry
Monday Ogun beckoned on youths in Nigeria to embrace opportunity as this being
offered by Etisalat-DigitalSENSE Africa to diversify their limitless positivity
through properly harnessing same, declaring, “The way forward is active
participation.”
And for the second runner
up, Egwe Tochukwu Christopher, the
internet is a blessing to this generation, hence more than ever “we are
connected to persons and opportunities to further our dreams and ambitions in
life, and to create positive impact in the society.”
Nigerian Youths, Egwe said, should
seize this rare opportunity to connect with those positive opportunities,
persons, and communities to name a few, which will help in projecting their
life’s aspirations.
Pix: Star prize winner 2016 Etisalat-DigitalSENSE Students Essay, Odonoekuma Onyebuchi Ekuma.
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