Iberiyenari, Chemical Science student, 2 others win 2018 Nigerian Students Poetry Prize
Poets in Nigeria (PIN) has
announced the winner of 2018 edition of the Nigerian students poetry Prize. The
winners are Iberiyenari Godstime Tamunofiri, Amagwula Nnenna Comfort and Ikeobi
Samuel Chukwubuokem.
Iberiyenari, a 400-level
female student of Chemical Science at Niger Delta University, Wilberforce
Island, Yenagoa whose poem was titled “Deep
Dreams” was announced the first prize winner at the awards ceremony which
held on Thursday May, 24 at the Convocation Hall of the Godfrey Okoye
University, Enugu, Enugu State.
Comfort, a 200-level female student
of Physiology at the University of Lagos came second position in the contest with
a poem titled “Yet Another Head”
while “Two Sides of Hakeem”, authored
by Chukwubuokem, a 500-level student of Electrical Electronics Engineering at
the University of Agriculture, Abeokuta grabbed the third position.
The
first prize winners received the star prize of N150,000, the second prize
winner received N100,000 while the third place winner got N50,000. The cash
Prizes were sponsored by Godfrey Okoye University, Enugu.
Organizers of the prize said 464 entries of poems were received from students
across over 80 tertiary institutions in Nigeria.
Judged by a 5-man panel of judges, with Ismail
Bala Garba chairing, organizers said the top 100 poems would be featured in the
2018 edition of the of Nigerian Students Poetry Prize anthology.
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Cross section of guests at the award ceremony |
Sharing her experience as a judge
of the prize, Professor Hulya Yilmaz who is a member of the Faculty of Liberal
Arts, Pennsylvania State University said
“It has not been an easy feat for me to narrow down the requested number
of poems from a large pool of submitted poetry of substance and beauty.”
She added that those voices
had to be vocalized so the globally relevant and vital conceptualizations of
their authors can be heard by humanity at large. Each of the the poems, she
disclosed, addressed current ills of the world, trials and tribulations from a
relatable stance when humanity is concerned as the only acknowledged race.
She hoped the young poets
would remain eager and determined to speak for the voiceless and the forgotten
by advancing upon the frequency and intensity in the tangible application of
their exceptional command over their poetic craft.
The organizers also named University
of Ibadan as the best participating school and top performing school for three
consecutive years.
The Nigerian Students Poetry Prize
was instituted in 2016 to stimulate literary creativity among Nigerian
students.
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