LASU Student Wins LASEPA Essay Competition

First position, Sowemimo Efunjola Olumayowa, gets prize

The Lagos State University (LASU) has refused to stay off the news chat just as it has consistently continued to compel mention in prime times and pages of electronic and print media respectively locally and globally.

This best state university in Nigeria, the best In West Africa, the most digitally inclined higher institution in Nigeria; and now authoritatively one of the top-rated among well over 400,000 varsities in the world, has garnered another four-fold top feathers in its intellectual flight.

Another testimony to this is that four LASU students made the list of the five tops in an essay competition for undergraduate students of all tertiary institutions in Lagos State organised by the Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency (LASEPA) to commemorate the Y2024 World Environmental Day.

The essay competition with the theme “Land Restoration, Desertification and Drought Resilience” had a total of 174 students debate using the Lagos State experience while proferring innovative solutions to the problems identified.

We gathered that LASU had a total of seventy-three (73) entries at the competition (which made the highest number of entries) nine of which scaled the rigorous screening to the final top 20 list.

Four of the students made the top five (in straight first to the fourth positions) at the event held on Thursday, 20^th June 2024 at the LASEPA Headquarter, Alausa, Ikeja.

Bieni Precious Chinomso, second position gets rewarded

Hamzat Kabir Olorunwa with the third position

The resilient winners are:

Sowemimo Efunjola Olumayowa (Medicine and Surgery) with the 1^st position, Bieni Precious Chinomso (History and International Relations), 2^nd position, Hamzat Kabir Olorunwa (Physiology) 3^rd position, and Adebiyi Omotola Elizabeth (Mechanical Engineering), 4^th position.

The first prize winner was gifted N500,000 cash, an award, and a LASEPA Ambassador status for Y2024. For the second position, N300,000 plus an Award and a LASEPA Ambassador status for Y2024 was the reward. The third position earned a N200,000 cash reward, an award and a LASEPA Ambassador status for Y2024, while the 4^th position got rewarded with N100,000 cash, an Award as well as a LASEPA Ambassador status for Y2024.

Acting Dean of Students Affairs Division, Dr Abiodun Fatai-Abatan led the students to the grand finale of the competition while the Director, Directorate of Special Interventions, Prof. Oseni Afisi, coordinated LASU’s participation in the event.

The Vice C”ancellor, Prof. Ibiyemi Olatunji-Bello congratulates the students on their participation and victory. She urges them to keep the flag of the university flying while assuring them of the university’s support for future competitions.

With this sustained soft surge in success, LASU has, today, become the hard nut to crack and the envied model to emulate among its contemporaries in the comity of Ivory Tower.

 

 

June 22, 2024