Applicant Wins Maritime Essay Competition

A 2010 graduate of the Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Ogun State, and job seeker, Miss Funke Abimbola Olotu , recently carted away the N100,000 star prize cheque of the sixth Ships & Ports Annual National Essay Competition. Olotu’s feat at the prize presentation ceremony which held at the Etal Hotels and Halls, Apapa, Lagos makes the first female star prize winner since the competition, which has transformed into a strong brand, kicked off in 2006. While Olotu netted the Dangote Port Operation Prize for Best Overall Essay, other prize winners in this year’s competition include, Mr. Onyema Emmanuel Ngwakwe, Sifax Group Prize for Creative Writing & Presentation; and Mr. Babatunde Bello, Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) Prize for Outstanding Essay. Other winners of the NIMASA Prize for Outstanding Essay were the Maritime Correspondent of Businessday newspaper, Miss Uzoamaka Anagor; and Messrs Ejike-Ume Felix Ifeanyi, Daniel Henry Onovo and Christopher Okeke. It would be recalled that one of this year’s winners of the NIMASA Prize for Outstanding Essay, Messr Ejike-Ume Felix Ifeanyi, a lawyer, was the star prize winner of the 2009 edition of the competition. A journalist with the Nigerian Tribune, Peter Chukwuma Okparaocha, won the 5th edition in 2011; a Post-Graduate student of the University of Ibadan, Mr. Uchenna Jerome Orji, won the star prize of the 4th edition carting away a new Kia Piccanto; Ejike-Ume Felix Ifeanyi won the 3rd edition; Mr. Adewale Opeyemi, a Masters degree student of Archaeology at the Federal University of Technology, Minna Niger State won the 2nd edition while a naval officer; Navy Captain Atakpa Sunday Daniel won the star prize in the maiden edition of the competition. Chief Executive Officer of Ships & Ports Communication Company, Mr. Bolaji Akinola, in his welcome address disclosed that the Essay Competition was designed “to encourage Nigerians to think aloud about the maritime sector and to revive and sustain vivid, contentious and creative essay writing about the sector”. “The enormous interest the maiden edition generated among Nigerians and industry stakeholders was the stamp of approval we needed to institutionalize the competition”,Akinola stated. Managing Director of Dangote Ports Operation, Captain Joshua Oyewumi, chaired the prize presentation ceremony which was attended by several industry stakeholders. Oyewumi urged participants in the essay competition who were mostly youths, not to lose hope in the country. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++   Think about it, if you can get your school or college essays completed properly by someone else, you will be able to focus more on your job or other courses or anything that you want to pursue. Now, you might be wondering- who will do my essay? Or as outsourcing will clearly add some costs to your already expensive educational expenses, you might be thinking – who will do my essay for cheap? -Uchechukwu Okwum