Aba student wins NDLEA Inter-secondary school essay competitions

BY CHUKWUEBUKA OHUIZU / UMUAHIA

Chimaeze Ngozichukwu from NINLAN Demonstration Secondary School, Aba, Abia State has won the maiden edition of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) Essay Competition for Secondary Schools in Nigeria.

Our correspondent reports that the NDLEA Annual Essay Competition Exercise was Part of the Weeklong Programme of this year’s United Nations Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Drug Trafficking.

According to the grading/result sheet obtained by our correspondent for the competition, Chimaeze Ngozichukwu of NINLAN Demonstration Secondary School, Aba scored 171 to take the first position.

The sheet shows that Chidera Nwoye of United Baptist Model Secondary School in Jos, Plateau State scored 162 to take the second position while Ikegwuone Mmachukwu of Saint Augustine’s College in Du, Plateau State scored 156 to take the third position.

It was gathered that the schools were given a topic titled: “Substance Abuse is a Major Problem among the Young Generation of Today, What is the Way Forward.”

At the end of the exercise, Ngozichukwu’s write-up emerged as the best of all the schools that submitted entries and was adjudged the best by the judges.

This online newspaper learnt that based on the preliminary entries submitted by Secondary Schools in Abia State, the Judges comprises, representatives from the State Ministry of Education, Ministry of Health and an NGO selected the three best Schools of which Ngozichukwu’s NINLAN Demonstration Secondary School was one.

Ngozichukwu received a Merit Award on Monday 26th June 2023, from the Chairman Chief Executive Officer of NDLEA, Brigadier-General (retd) Mohammed Buba Marwa in Abuja.

IK Akunne, NDLEA Abia Command Public Relations Officer described the achievement of Ngozichukwu as a great one for Abia, and vowed that the command will continue to sensitize the younger ones and everyone in Abia about the dangers of drug abuse.

Editor

Jude Ossai (JP) a veteran journalist is a National Diploma holder in Mass Communication from Ogwashi-Uku Polytechnic Ogwashi-Uku, Delta State. He also studied at Enugu State University of Science and Technology (ESUT) Enugu and Imo State University, Owerri for his first and second degrees in Mass Communication, respectively. He writes extensively on politics, crime, corruption, climate change, healthcare, human rights, social justice, among others.