Story by Elizabeth Vincent yenagoa
The award ceremony of the 2023 NCDMB annual national undergraduate essay competition comes to a close with the award and prize giving ceremony holding on 20 September, 2023 in Yenagoa Bayelsa state.
A statement signed and issued to newsmen at the weekend in Yenagoa, by the consultant, Mr. Eyinimi Omorozi, CEO of Mahogany 21st Century Concepts Limited stated that, “the ten national finalists are expected to arrive Yenagoa on 18th September, 2023 for the last phase of the academic exercise which is the interactive assessment holding on 19 September, 2023.
According to Omorozi,
“the 2023 edition which is tagged, ” Nigerian Content and the lessons from COVID-19,” is the seventh in the series of the prestigious NCDMB flagship event.
The Competition is designed to promote academic excellence for Nigerian young undergraduates in Nigerian tertiary institutions and the Nigerian Content Policy.
“The academic exercise is mainly to encourage Nigerian youths build local capacities and competencies and to prepare for effective participation in Nigeria’s Oil and Gas industry and also promoting academic.
The 2023 edition will close out on the 20” of September 2023 with an award/prize giving ceremony in Yenagoa Bayelsa State.
“The first prize is N1,000,000.00, then second prize N700,000.00 and the third prize N500,000.00. All the top ten finalists will each receive a laptop.”
According to the statement, the prestigious event will hold at Lady Daima event centre, Osiri yenagoa, Bayelsa state, and time for interactive assessment is 9.00 am on 19th and time for the main award event on the 20th is 10.30 am respectively.
Recall that, Ayotomowa Elesho, a 200 level political science student of the University of Lagos won the 2022 first prize with a cash reward of one million naira.
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