Chikanyima, Adeola Win Children’s Day Essay Competition

Uwakwe Johncollins Chikanyima of Sacred Heart Seminary, Rivers State and Afolabi Adeola Joanne of Bishop Howells Memorial Grammar School, Lagos State have emerged winners of the 2023 SystemSpecs Children’s Day Essay Competition (CDEC) held recently in Lagos.

The duo emerged winners in the CDEC in the junior category and senior category respectively.

About 3,000 entries were received from children between the ages nine and 16 from over the federation and the FCT, while they shared mind-blowing technology innovations on the topic: “Making Nigerian Children Better Citizens Through the Use of Technology”.

In the junior category, Ifelaja Elliot of Masterhills School, Ogun State and Onile Jomiloju Ayoade of Eternal Excellency College, Oyo State, won the second and third prizes. At the same time, Madu-Nwaigwe Henry of White of Pearl International School, FCT-Abuja, and Dioha Adaeze Margaret of Grundtvig International Secondary School, Anambra State, came second and third in the senior category, respectively.

Lagos State emerged as the Winning State among other states across Nigeria that participated in the competition. This award is reserved only for the state with the highest number of public schools in the top 100.

Speaking on the competition, the managing director, Remita Payment Services Limited (RPSL), Deremi Atanda said, “It is a dream in the making, helping young Nigerians to recognise early that they have got a role to play in nation-building.

‘’Today, we are celebrating another set of Nigerians who have demonstrated excellence, discipline and rigour, allowing their mind to be expanded in what is possible in terms of citizenship, capacity-building and more importantly having a vision that they can do a lot more,”,

The group head, Corporate Services at SystemSpecs, Oluwasegun Adesanya, said the company’s annual Children’s Day Essay Competition is one of its CSR initiatives aimed at developing indigenous technology capacity.’’