Ugwoke
Peace, a final year marketing student of University of Nigeria was grin like a
Cheshire cat when her named was announced as the winner of 2014 National
Institute of Marketing of Nigeria (NIMN) Best Marketing Student of the year
recently held at Planet One, Marry-Land, Lagos.
Peace leapfrogged
other four students and went home with a whopping sum of N100,000 cheque, a
certificate and marketing textbook.
The award is
an initiative of NIMN to indentify and nurture talents offering marketing and
business administration in higher institution in order to focus their attention
of pursuing a professional.
While speaking
about the award, the assistant director of examination NIMN, Mr. Sidney Ogodo
said the Unilever sponsored award is a deliberate strategy to create a competitive synergy
between various schools offering marketing and business administration.
Besides, he added, it was also
designed to identify and nurture marketing talents in the nation’s tertiary
institutions from the cradle, in order to promote the profession and expose
students in tertiary institutions to the reality of professionalism in
marketing practice.
In an exclusive interview with TOTALNEWS247, Peace described her victory as a reward to hardwork, stating
that she has been looking forward to a day her academic effort will be
bountifully crown.
She acknowledged that the award will
add to her curriculum vita (CV) and give her an edge over her compatriot. She
also said that, “I am optimistic that better things are on my way. I am looking
forward to be the best marketing student in the world.”
Before the
grand finale, 42 students of various higher institutions in the country were
subjected to three hours writing exams and an oral interview. It will be
recalled that Constance
Nkechi Atueyi, a 400-level student in the Marketing
Department of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, emerged the winner of the
2013 edition of the award.
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