Winners of 2023 Bishop Mike Okonkwo Competition Emerges

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Winners of 2023 Bishop Mike Okonkwo Competition Emerges

2023-08-05T11:36:49+01:00

By Marie

The overall winners of the 2023 Bishop Mike Okonkwo National Essay Competition instituted for Secondary Schools in the country have emerged.The winners, Destiny Ike, a student of VIK International School, Akere Alagbado in Ogun State emerged as the overall winner, while Chibuzor Alexander of Archbishop Heerey Technical College, Ogidi in Anambra State clinched the second position, respectively.Ike, will smile home with a cheque of N500,000, a trophy, and a plaque, while the school gets a set of computers, and Alexander, who will receive a cheque of N250,000, a plaque and the school will get a set of computers, emerged the winners out of the 795 entries in the 18th edition of the essay competition.The theme for this year’s essay is “Nigerianisation of Nigerians: A Look Inward.” According to the Chief Examiner for the competition, Prof. Akachi Ezeigbo, Ike and Alexander won the coveted trophy for addressing the topic within the mental orbit of their age and demonstrated commendable passion and independent thinking in their writing.The winners will be presented with their prizes during this year’s Mike Okonkwo Annual Lecture, billed for September 7, 2023, which will take place at the Zenith Shell Hall, Muson Centre, Onikan, Lagos. The theme for this year’s lecture is “Nigerianisation of Nigerians: A Look Inward.”While congratulating the winners, the Chief Examiner said, “We congratulate and present them as exemplars of young people determined to forge their own path through critical use of easy ways.”She added, “We are constrained to present an overall winner and just one runner-up this year, against the normal practice of presenting one winner and two runners-up. A considerable chunk of the entries we received was, as usual, unsuitable for consideration.“They were either lifted directly from online sources and presented as original materials or were revised and presented as such.“We are used to this practice among young people, and so spent considerable time tracking the essays on the internet in line with our quality control procedures.”Bishop Mike Okonkwo National Essay Competition was instituted in 2004, as part of activities to celebrate and mark the birthday of the Presiding Bishop of The Redeemed Evangelical Mission (TREM), Dr Mike Okonkwo, and more importantly to contribute to the development of the education sector.ALSO READ: Ada Ehi Drops New Soulful Gospel Anthem