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Covenant university team projects adjudged best at 2019 Enactus national competition

Covenant University

Covenant University team projects Pet city and Toles have been adjudged the best at the 2019 Enactus National competition held in Lagos.

Their winning projects focused on solving the health problem of tetanus especially among young children in their rural community who couldn’t afford footwears. Their solution was to provide affordable footwears for these families. The team’s second project focused on managing waste problem and also creating building bricks out of trash.

Covenant University by emerging National champion for 2019 will represent Nigeria at the prestigious Enactus world cup holding at the Silicon Valley, San Jose, California, USA in come September 2019.

Michael Ajayi, Country director, Enactus in his speech at the event, congratulated the team and also encouraged them to double their efforts in preparations for the ENACTUS world cup coming up in September, in the United States.

According to him, “Enactus is an international and non-profit organisation that is improving the quality of life of people around the world, providing business solutions to social, economic and environmental challenges in their communities. “Enactus is a community of Student, academic and business leaders committed to using the power of entrepreneurial action to transform lives.

Ajayi said further that since its inception in Nigeria in 2001, the Enactus programme was structured to build the capacity of the participating students (irrespective of gender and other forms of biases) – in the areas of skills, knowledge and more importantly, character – such that they are able to populate the market place with the entrepreneurial mindset and personal leadership required to create real and sustained value for their businesses or the organisations they work for.

“Today, owing to their increased capacity and commendable work ethics and drive, testimonies abound about how Enactus Alumni are positively impacting the market place, leading change and making significant contributions to organizational growth and national transformation.

Uwa Osa-oboh, a council member of African Capital Alliance during her keynote address also charged ENACTUS students to strive to imbibe what she calls the 5C to succeed in life.

According to her the 5 Cs are Communicate, Critical reasoning; Creativity; Conviction and Character, adding that these steps would forge them into great men and women in future.

ENACTUS is presently in 36 countries including Nigeria, active in over 1,730 tertiary universities with over 72,000 student members and over 550 corporate, organisations and individual partners.