With technology and the constant use of mobile dictionaries and other online platforms, the reading and writing culture among students is becoming strange and fading away.
To that effect, Universal writers and authors organize an essay writing competition in Kaduna, with the mission to strengthen and reawaken the lost glory of reading and writing among students in secondary schools.
Students from various schools across the state participated in the competition as Ibrahim Alhassan, from the Ikara Comprehensive Academy, from the Ikara local government area, emerged as the winner.
Ibrahim, who is an SS2 student, beat no fewer than 2000 students from various schools across the state.
However, the organizers of the competition believe organizing such programs will be a motivation factor for students and schools with girl child education as their main goal.
The president of the organization, Abdulazezz Alhassan, notes that girls’ child education is paramount in society. Therefore, governments and non-governmental organizations, as well as parents, must ensure every child is able to study and obtain a minimum of a first degree.
However, the Kaduna state commissioner of education, who was represented by Mrs. Ruth Leo, also noted that the Kaduna state government remains committed to providing quality education to students across the state.
She further reassures that governments will continue to support organizations like Universal Writers and Authors in supporting quality and better education being achieved within and outside the state.
Some of the students who participated called on parents to ensure their children get a quality education.
The winner of the competition, Ibrahim Alhassan, a student of the Ikara Comprehensive Academy, urges that children deserve quality and better education for self-reliance and a better future.
According to him, they are the future of tomorrow and that tomorrow can only be achieved if today is designed to be better than tomorrow.
While Ahmad Salisu, from Paki Premier Academy, who won a medal in the second position, lamented how young girls are predisposed to marrying at an early stage instead of education, he emphasized the need for girls in northern Nigeria to compete with their counterparts around the world, urging that only education can make a girl a better wife as any man wishes.
