African Liberty Essay Competition Winners 2014 Announced

African Liberty Essay Competition Winners
2014 Announced
The Nation/African Liberty essay competition
winners has been announced for
2014. Based on the review of the submitted
essays, the highest score is 77 per cent,
while the lowest score is 3 per cent.
WINNERS/PRIZES
1st - Adeloye Olanrewaju Samuel,
Department of Physiology, Ladoke Akintola
University of Technology, Ogbomoso, Oyo
State. George Ayittey (Platinum) Prize:
$1,000 and full scholarship to 2014 Students
and Young Professional African Liberty
Academy (SYPALA) at the University of Cape
Town Graduate Business School, South
Africa from September 4 – 7, 2014. :
2nd - Gracious Odala Balamu, Majoring
Philosophy, Chancellor College University of
Malawi. Anthony Fisher (Gold) Prize: $700
and full scholarship to 2014 Students and
Young Professional African Liberty Academy
(SYPALA) at the University of Cape Town
Graduate Business School, South Africa,
from September 4 – 7, 2014.
3rd - Olusegun Omoleye, Medicine and
Surgery, University of Ibadan, Oyo State,
Nigeria. Derenle Edun (Silver) Prize: $500
and full scholarship to 2014 Students and
Young Professional African Liberty Academy
(SYPALA) at the University of Cape Town
Graduate Business School, South Africa from
September 4 – 7, 2014
4th - Shittu Oluwakemi Adeola, Department
of Biology, Adeyemi College of Education,
Ondo State; Uzuazor Precious Aghogho,
Chemical Engineering, University of Benin,
Edo State and Afolayan Monisola Ayowumi,
Agricultural Extension and Rural
Development, Obafemi Awolowo University,
Ile-Ife. The Nation newspaper Media
(Bronze) Prize: 70 per cent scholarship to
2014 Students and Young Professional
African Liberty Academy (SYPALA) at the
University of Cape Town Graduate Business
School, South Africa from September 4 – 7,
2014.
Other Consolation Prizes: 50 per cent
scholarship to 2014 Students and Young
Professional African Liberty Academy
(SYPALA) at the University of Cape Town
Graduate Business School in South Africa
goes to:
5th - Oloyede Deborah, Economics,
University of Ibadan, Oyo State
6th - Yohana Gadaffi Ouma, School of Law
Parklands Campus, University of Nairobi,
Kenya
6th - Francis Wambugu Komu, Mathematics
and Computer Science, The Catholic
University of Eastern Africa, Kenya
7th - Balogun Rilwan Opeyemi, Civil Law,
Ahmadu Bello University, Kaduna, Nigeria
The grading of the essays was based on four
key criteria:
1) Understanding and discussion of the
issues: This is to assess the level of
understanding of key liberty elements by the
writer. This carried 50 marks.
2) Organisation and conformity, which carry
15 marks.
3) Grammar, structure and creativity shown
by the writer. This attracted 15 marks.
4) Originality: This assessed the use of other
people’s works and idea, and whether the
writers appropriately credited the source(s)
of used intellectual materials. This attracted
20 marks.
Congratulations to the successful
participants…