Centre for Information Technology (CITAD), has announced winners for its 7th round of essay writing competition with the support of MacArthur Foundation.
The Report a Project, which is one of the two categories of the essay writing is a competition that invites applications from students in tertiary institutions to write on abandoned or poorly executed project(s) in their various communities with the aim to expose such cases so as to have a change.
The Innovative Ideas, according to Abdulhamid Abdullahi, training officer, CITAD, involves students of higher learning institutions to write essays on how best to fight corruption and the best writer stands to win a token price of N30.000, while the second runner-up gets the sum of N20.000 and the 3rd winner gets N10.000 for each of the two categories.
The competition geared towards reviving the spirit of reading culture amongst the students and youths, is also aimed to engage the youths in critical thinking and innovative ideas which at the end, will lead them to asking questions and holding those in public offices accountable.
The winners for Innovative Ideas Essay Competition are;
1st: Rabia Muhammad Musa
2nd: Nafisa Muhammad Aliyu
3rd: Ummusalama Adamu Usman
While those who emerged winners for the Report a Project are;
1st: Ummi Idris
2nd: Aisha Inuwa Idris
3rd: Mubaraka Abdu Lawan
