ZAIN TO SUPPORT NIGERIAN UNIVERSITIES

Zain Nigeria, has restated its commitment to supporting Nigerian universities to perform their key role as source of knowledge, innovation, development and change by igniting the desire for learning and rewarding academic brilliance through its academic programme, Zain Africa Challenge.

Speaking at a recent prize presentation ceremony held in honour of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka's representatives to the international festival of the on-going Zain Africa Challenge, the Public Relations Manager, Zain Nigeria, Mr. Emmanuel Otokhine, said the company would continue to provide exciting platforms for students of Nigerian universities.

He added that the quiz show was designed to stimulate and reward academic excellence among youths in Nigerian universities.

Otokhine also commended the university for qualifying for the international festival two years in a row and for being worthy ambassadors of the country at the championship in Kampala, Uganda.

The UNN team comprising four team players, a coach and a liaison were presented with cash prizes as reward for their participation in the international championship festival and for emerging from the keenly contested national qualifier tournament as one of the country's representatives.