Three students from Abuja, Gombe and Kwara states, have emerged as winners of Center for Information Technology and Development (CITAD), report a project competition.
The students, Adamu Usman from Gombe State University, Hussain Musa from Aliko Dangote University of Science and Technology Wudil (ADUST), and Zubair Onireke from Kwara State University, were honoured for reporting abandoned uncompleted projects in their communities.
Speaking during the event, CITAD Digital Rights Programme Officer, Malam Ali Sabo explained that, the report a project competition was initiated to encourage students of tertiary institutions to assist in monitoring, evaluating and tracking government projects.
He stressed that, the competition which is the 8th had promoted accountability, good governance and continuity.
Ali Sabo hinted that, nineteen students submissions were received, six selected after careful scrutiny by a panel of judges, and exposed to online voting, where over three thousand people voted for the best three.
He appealed to the winners, to liaise with their community leaders to ensure abandoned projects were completed.
“The competition is organized every month, where three winners are selected and awarded with laptop and handsets”
In his remarks, the Executive Director CITAD, Engineer Yunusa Zakari Ya’u, represented by Coordinator School of Community Networks, Malam Haruna Aliyu Hadejia, maintained that, students of tertiary institutions have great potentials, saying that, they have a great deal to contribute by being prudent in ensuring proper utilization of public properties.
He noted that, the laptop and handsets given to the winners would assist as an investment into their future.
Malam Haruna charged them to be good ambassadors and rededicate themselves to their studies, to achieve the desired objectives.
“one of the core values of CITAD is accountability , if we don’t hold leaders accountable resources would not be utilized”
In their remarks, winners of the 8th edition of report a project, Adamu Usman Garko, Hussain Musa and Zubair Onireke, commended the Centre for organizing the competition to encourage youths.
They stressed that, the gadgets would go a long way in giving them the opportunity, to contribute their quota to the development of the country, and uplift the standards of their academic activities.
Radio Nigeria reports that, the report a project competition is organized by CITAD with support from MacArthur foundation, which is targeted at encouraging students from tertiary institutions, to report abandoned uncompleted or poorly executed projects in their respective communities.
KHADIJAH ALIYU
