For the third year running, Waves Magazines, the popular all glossy pages magazine that started from Ikorodu and founded by a hardworking and young entrepreneur, Mr. Azeez Lamina, has demonstrated its commitment to the development of the youths through educative engagements, by staging the third edition of the annual Waves Magazine Inter – School Quiz Competition.
The laudable initiative, which debuted last year, was instituted by the Magazine outfit for student in senior secondary schools in Ikorodu division as a way of giving back to the society.
The laudable initiative, which debated in 2019, was insistituted by the magazine outfit having noticed that youths of nowadays have been left all by themselves.
According to the company, the initiative took off in 2017 with the “Waves Magazine Inter- School Debate Competition,: which was won by Homat College, Igbogbo, while in 2018, a book-shelf tocked with books was donated to the library of the Publisher’s alma mata, Oriwu Model College, Ikorodu and this year, Waves Magazine Inter-School Quiz Competition was held. All these were aimed at enhancing the development of the upcoming generation.
The event, which was held at the Ikorodu Local Government Secretariat hall, Beach road, Ikorodu, on Wednesday, March 13, was also attended by notable dignitaries in and outside Ikorodu.
The quiz session was moderated by Princess Shola Kosoko, a presenter from LTV 8, Mr. Mojeed Sanni, a legislative aide to Hon. Babajimi Benson and Mrs. Karimot Lamina (ACA).
In his address, the Publisher of Waves Magazine, Mr. Abdul-Azeez Lamina, stated that he had initiated the quiz competition to give back to the society and that his publishing company also intended to enhance youths development by actively and positively engaging them.
According to him, many distractions such as phones and social media engagements are adversely affecting the student’s concentration and time nowadays.
The young Publisher, however, urged the students to see the acquisition of phones and access to social media platforms as a privilege and not right, while also enjoining them to use the gadget for productive engagements.
He also mentioned music and dance as other factors affecting the concentration of the youths.
Lamina explained that his company’s resolve to address this negative trend led to the initiative of the annual quiz competition.
“After analyzing these challenges, we, at Waves Magazine, have decided not to join the crowd of those who we only complain but rather, find a way of correcting the situation; hence, our engagements with the youths and the quiz competition are one of the ways through which we are trying to contribute to their developments.”
He advised the students to make efforts in developing themselves, stating that it is what they put into life that they would get as life would only give back what they put into it.
Lamina further advised the students to read extra hard, pay attention to details, be focused and develop themselves by working on their respective abilities to achieve something extraordinary.
While corroborating Lamina’s statement, Hon. Adeola Banjo, Chairman, Ikorodu North Local Council Development Area (LCDA), also encourage the students to give all their best in developing themselves.
He commended the management of Waves Magazine for providing such an educative platform for the youths to develop themselves.
In the same vein, Mayor Deen Sanwoola, an IT expert and Tech-political strategist, challenged the students to study courses that are not common but are technological based such as Aeronautic, neuro-surgeon, etc, if they truly want to stand out.
He also told them that their ability to use technology will differentiate them from others and make them to be in high demand in the present day information and technologically based economy.
Mayor Sanwoola further challenged the students to start looking for problems to solve in order to positively impact on the society.
In his own remarks, Otunba Saheed Ibikunle, a former Senior Assistant to the Governor of Lagos State on Education Management, commended the participating students for conducting themselves appropriately throughout the quiz competition and urged them to develop themselves into men and women of integrity and honour.
He also appealed to them on the need to acquire skills while pursuing their academic careers.
At the end of the event, Civil Service Senior Model College, Igbogbo, garnered twenty (20) points in the three subjects to emerge as winner and carted home the fifty thousand naira (N50,000) prize money.
Access Point College, Ikorodu, emerged the 1st runner-up with eighteen (18) points while HOMAT College, Igbogbo, emerged 2nd runner up with sixteen (16) points.
Aside the monetary gifts presented to the best three schools, certificates of participation were also issued to the students.
Other guests that graced the occasion were Hon. Wasiu Adeshina, Chairman, Ikorodu Local Government; Mr. Lanre Kuye, Deputy Registrar (information), Lagos State Polytechnic; Alhaja Kudirat Lamina, Director, Lateef Lamina Memorial School (LATLAM) and Mr. Yusuf Gadebo, Supervisory Councilor for Works, Ikorodu Local Government among others.
