Kwame Blay (left), presenting the certificate to the Isaac Owusu Nsiah, winner of the 2017 Daily Guide easy competition
DAILY GUIDE and Study Abroad on Wednesday rewarded winners of its maiden easy competition.
The competition was launched earlier this year for university graduates in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the country’s independence on the topic, “Encouraging the Reading Culture in a Developing Country: Ghana’s Social Media Era.”
It was aimed at testing the knowledge of competitors and to encourage them to have interest in both national and international affairs.
Speaking at the awards ceremony at the premises of Western Publications Limited (publishers of DAILY GUIDE), Kwame Blay, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the company, congratulated finalists and participants on their contributions that made the maiden edition of the newspaper’s essay competition a success.
He said to his outfit, all participants were recognized as winners, adding that submissions for entries into the competition were fantastic and that he was happy to see all who made it to the finals.
Mr Kwame Blay noted, “Essays submitted for the competition were resourceful and informative for us and as a media house, it is heartwarming to see that people are still interested in the art of writing and reading.”
He thanked all participants for their time, works and research towards their participation and encouraged those who were not able to win the ultimate prize to freely participate in subsequent competitions by his outfit.
“This is the first of many competitions that we will be running and we hope that we will be able to keep it going,” he said.
Prizes
The ultimate winner, an alumnus of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Isaac Owusu Nsiah, won a $19,000 scholarship for a Master’s programme at the Global University, India and a 32-inch Hisense digital television.
Five other winners, including the first and the second runners-up, took away a table top fridge, 32-inch digital television; and all the 20 participants who qualified to the final stage of the competition were awarded certificates of participation.
A lecturer at the Ghana Telecom University College (GTUC), who was the head of the jury for the essay competition, Osei Antoh, said the jury was tasked to conduct the compiling, marking, assessment by interview and the selection of the best five entries of the competition.
He indicated that the objective of the essay competition was to stimulate creative writing and thinking in the youth, increase the reading and writing culture among them and to boost literary and writing competitions.
Mr. Antoh asserted that the jury received 134 scripts from young men and women from different backgrounds across the country, which had been carefully scrutinized, through marking and interviews for the selection of the top five finalists.
For DAILY GUIDE, the quiz competition is one of Western Publications Limited’s corporate social responsibilities to give back to the community by helping increase the reading and writing culture among the youth.
By Abigail Owiredu-Boateng