2024 042 Debate Tournament tagged, “Debate Cool-it”: A Member of the Governing Council of Enugu State University of Science and Technology (ESUT), Dr Oluedo Eric, has commended the ESUT University’s Participants for being the Winner of the Debate. Speaking on the Tournament, Dr Oluedo thanked the Governor of Enugu state, Dr Peter Ndubuisi Mbah, for his Transformational Leadership that has brought Agricultural Revolution, Infrastructural Revolution, Industrial Revolution, Health care Revolution, Social Revolution etc to Enugu state. He also praised him for the calibre of Men and Women he put in charge of ESUT Administration and Management that made this success possible, lead by the Pro Chancellor and Chairman of the Governing Council, Sir Chinyeaka Ohaa, the Vice Chancellor, Prof Aloysius-Michaels Nnabugwu Okolie and others.
At the end of the Tournament, the Enugu State University of Science and Technology (ESUT) defeated the University of Nigeria, Nsukka and its Enugu Campus, the Institute of Management and Technology (IMT), Godfrey Okoye University, Renaissance University, Caritas University, among other top institutions to emerge winner of the 042 Coal City Debate with a Cash award of N15M. While presenting the grand prize of N15 million to the representatives of ESUT, and N5 million to the UNN which emerged runner-up over the weekend in Enugu, Governor Peter Mbah reiterated his administration’s commitment to continue to invest in quality education that would incentivize creativity, critical thinking and innovation among students at all levels of education in the state. Governor Mbah, who was represented by the Secretary to the State Government, Prof Chidiebere Onyia, described the debate as a huge success aimed at inculcating the right civic values, discipline and leadership skills in young people, particularly students and youths, which will prepare them for leadership role and make them agents of transformation in the society. Governor Mbah said the exercise was the first phase for higher education, stressing that it would cascade down to the secondary and primary school levels, especially the Smart Green Schools in order to build resilient youths that can challenge and compete with their peers across the globe.
Earlier, the organiser and Senior Special Assistant to the governor on Social Culture and Self-development, Mrs Dera Okenwa, said several social issues that impact societal culture with overarching implications on the way people live and communicate among themselves formed the debate topics to test the intellect of the young ones and their worldview. “Burning global issues, such as climate change, human rights and press freedoms, governance, religion and its effects, corruption, gender inequality, feminism, minimum wage, abortion, polygamy, cybercrime and cybersecurity, were among the highly contested topics that were discussed among the debaters. While commending Governor Mbah for the initiative, one of the debaters, who spoke on behalf of others, Emmanuel Nwuze, thanked the state government for the opportunity afforded thousands of young ones who participated saying it has offered them the atmosphere to contribute meaningfully to the development of the state.
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