Ships & Ports announces 2013 essay competition

Ships & Ports Communication, one of the leading maritime media firms in the country, has called for entries into the seventh edition of its annual national essay competition. The topic of this year’s essay is ‘How to Check Corruption at Nigerian Ports’.

According to a press statement released by the company and signed by Eucharia Okoli, coordinator of the competition, entries for this year’s essay competition opened on October 2 and will close on November 15, 2013 while prizes will be presented to winners in Lagos on Friday, December 13, 2013. The prizes for this year’s competition include prize for best overall essay, prize for creativity, prize for originality, prize for research and for outstanding essays.

Okoli said in the statement that various cash prizes will be presented to winners while the best overall essay winner will smile home with N100,000, adding that the competition is open to every member of the public irrespective of age, sex and vocation.

She explained that the focus of this year’s competition is to help proffer solution to the menace of corruption at the nation’s seaports which has assumed a worrisome dimension that impairs prompt clearance of goods.

She said since inception in 2007, the Ships & Ports Annual National Essay Competition sets out to encourage the average Nigerian to think aloud about the maritime industry and deepen the public’s knowledge of operations in the industry and make intellectual contribution to its growth and development.

“The annual competition is in pursuit of our commitment to enabling Nigerians appreciate the potentials of the nation’s maritime industry and ruminate over its importance to their well-being,” she said.

By: Uzoamaka Anagor