Benue Varsity to fly Nigerian flag at SIFE World Cup

By Emmanuel Elebeke

AFTER a keen competition for the Students In Free Enterprise, SIFE, by over 1,000 high institutions in the country, Benue State university, Makurdi emerged the national winner.

With this victory, Benue state university has earned the right to represent Nigeria at the First bank sponsored programme, SIFE world Cup, where students of the school will compete with over 38 other university champions from countries around the world.

One of the projects implemented by the team that earned them thee ticket to the world cup, was a project that involved the innovative use of agro wastes from orange peels to make biodegradable insecticide that kills mosquitoes.

With this winning projects, Benue State university hopes to join the league of other universities that have represented Nigeria at the world cup and earned themselves a place at the final round of the event in the last 10 years.

According to the university, this innovation was not only easy to prepare domestically and affordable but also did not have the negative effect that other chemical insecticides had on the environment.

In her speech, Country Director of SIFE, Adesuwa Ifedi said “the emergence of the these students is attestation to the quality of graduates Nigerian universities can produce if given the right attention.