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Winners have emerged in the seventh Lafarge Africa National Essay Competition in Nigeria with the theme ‘Building the Nigeria of my dreams’. The competition, open to pupils aged 9 –13 in public primary and secondary schools in the junior and intermediate categories opened for entries on the 04 December 2020 until the 15 January 2021. Sixteen hundred participants from all the thirty-six states in Nigeria, including the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, enrolled for the competition.
Miss Ewaade Adebowale of Alapere Primary School, Alapere-Lagos, who emerged as the overall winner in the Junior category was awarded a cash prize of N1.5 million in the Diamond category, while Zainab Saliu of Ummul Khair Model School, Lagos, and Emmanuel Somefun of Community Nursery & Primary School, Magodo Lagos, won N1 million and N750 000 in the Gold and Silver categories respectively. In the Intermediate category, Miss Bilkisu Aliyu of U.B.E Junior Secondary School, Abaji, F.C.T, emerged the overall winner to cart home a cash prize of N1.5 million in the Diamond category while Ekpono Obot of Uyo High School, Uyo, Akwa Ibom, and Alexandra Pearl Egonu of Federal Government Girls College, Nkwelle, Anambra State, won N1 million and N750,000 in the Gold and Silver categories respectively.