UNBELIEVABLE!! Blind student wins 2.1 Million Naira in essay competition

A blind student of Ihuogbe Junior Secondary School, Benin City, Edo State, Master Lucky Emmanuel has been rewarded with a cash prize of N2.1 million for emerging first in the junior category of this year’s edition of the annual Kenneth Imansuangbon Essay Competition.
The competition, which according to the organizer was open to all students from JSS I to SSS III across the federation, held in four designated centres of Benin City, Uromi and Ibillo, all in Edo State and Abuja.
Emmanuel, who initially won the first prize of N100, 000 with a laptop computer, was further rewarded with N2 million by the Chairman, Parents/ Teachers Association of Pacesetters College, Wuse, Abuja, Alhaji Bichi Yar’Adua.
This year’s competition, which is titled; Politics, Peace and Unity, attracted 227 students from both private and public schools. While Emmanuel won in the junior category, Edobor Precious, a student of University Preparatory Secondary School, Benin City, won the first prize in the senior category for the third time running.
Speaking at the prize presentation, which recently took place at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja, Imansuangbon said the aim of setting up the competition was to discover talents in the rural areas that can make the country greater through essay writing.
He said the annual competition, which he established five years ago, does not only open up new windows for young minds to exhibit their writing ingenuity, but also seeks to produce literary icons such as Wole Soyinka, Chinua Achebe, among others for national and international recognition.
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