Afrigather The excellent younger abilities who excelled within the 2024 SystemSpecs Children’s Day Essay Competition (CDEC) have been celebrated at a prestigious Nationwide Winners’ Award Ceremony in Lagos, Nigeria. For the previous 5 years, the CDEC has been a catalyst for selling technological consciousness nationwide.
The grand ceremony not solely honoured the distinctive college students but additionally celebrated the achievements of their colleges and states, highlighting the significance of nurturing mental prowess and educational excellence among the many subsequent technology of leaders aged 9 to 16.
Bakare Oluwasubomi of Ijaiye Ojokoro Senior Excessive Faculty, Lagos State, and Aletan Oluwajuwonlo of Apostolic Religion Secondary Faculty, Ibadan, Oyo State, emerged as winners of the 2024 SystemSpecs CDEC within the senior and junior classes, respectively.
The annual Kids’s Day Essay Competitors is a flagship Company Social Duty (CSR) initiative of SystemSpecs, demonstrating the group’s steadfast dedication to fostering technological development in Nigeria.
Dr. Ernest Ndukwe, Group Chairman of SystemSpecs Holdings Restricted, said, “Now we have taken the duty upon ourselves to supply each Nigerian youngster, no matter creed, tradition, or constituency, a chance to be uncovered to the wonderful world of expertise and its transformative energy, thus setting them up on a path for fulfillment in an more and more aggressive world the place expertise continues to be a defining issue.”
With about 3,500 essay submissions from numerous secondary colleges throughout Nigeria, 50 finalists have been shortlisted, from which three excellent contestants emerged in each the Senior and Junior Classes.
The general winners for each the senior and junior classes obtained N1,000,000 every, the second prize winners obtained N750,000 Naira, and the third prize winners obtained N500,000, together with model new laptops, plaques, and different rewarding prizes.
‘Deremi Atanda, Managing Director of Remita Fee Providers Restricted (RPSL), affirmed the Kids’s Day Essay Competitors (CDEC) as a significant initiative devoted to enhancing the nation’s technological capabilities.
He expressed delight on the outstanding progress of this system, which has garnered growing curiosity and participation from throughout the nation, demonstrating its vital affect on the event of technological sources in Nigeria.
“We’re dedicated to the long run, having been on the forefront of enterprise for the previous 32 years. We firmly imagine that investing in native capability constructing is essential for the nation’s world competitiveness. Our objective is to nurture a brand new technology of extremely expert, tech-savvy Nigerians, outfitted to drive innovation and excellence, and make a significant affect on the worldwide stage,” he mentioned.
Lagos State emerged victorious because the successful state on this 12 months’s Kids’s Day Essay Competitors (CDEC), boasting a powerful 19 winners within the prime 50.
In the meantime, Apostolic Religion Junior Secondary Faculty in Ibadan, Oyo State, and Loyola Jesuit Faculty, Abuja, took residence the coveted successful college awards within the junior and senior classes, respectively.
Every successful college obtained 10 laptops, whereas the successful state additionally obtained 10 laptops, additional empowering the following technology of leaders with cutting-edge expertise.
Bukola Adeboye, SystemSpecs Group Head of Company Providers, counseled the finalists on their excellent achievements, reaffirming SystemSpecs’ dedication to cultivating future leaders for Africa by means of the competitors and different strategic initiatives.
“The 2024 version marks one other excellent achievement for the CDEC, as we persist in cultivating ICT capabilities in Nigeria. Our singular goal for the CDEC is to facilitate Nigeria’s development by means of the augmentation of ICT capability nationwide, ” she mentioned.
