By Amaka Abayomi

In order to bridge the technological gap in Nigeria and imbibe in students, the culture of creativity, LITWIT Investment Limited, in partnership with the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) and Engineering Society, UNILAG, has launched a  youth project competition, In’GENIUS Project Competition (Version 1.0).

Aimed at making students use their innate talents for economic development, the competition is paradigm shifts from worshipping certificate to discovering new ideas that will enable Nigeria compete with other industrialised nations.

According to NANS’ PRO, Comrade Clement Godwin, there is a huge technological gap between Nigeria and other developed nations, and the competition would create platforms for ingenious students to proffer solutions to this.

“The In’GENIUS Project Competition is instituted to provide opportunities for ingenious students to present solutions to problems in developing nations and receive funds for execution. This is a movement that stirs up ingenuity for advancing the cause of third world countries. The basic theme is emerging ideas for developing nations.”

The first edition of the competition will focus on five basic problems that cripple the Nigerian economy: poor electric power supply; poor transportation; expensive ICT; poor agricultural mechanisation; poor tax management system and low tourism attraction.

The competition, which will be conducted in three stages, will see the best idea winner going home with N2.5m, 1st runner up wins N1.5m, while 2nd runner up will win N750,000.

In’GENIUS Project Competition which started on Monday, 23rd April 2012, will run till June 28th, 2012. Interested students should log on to www.ingeniusyouth.com/competition.pdf.