A 400-level student in the Marketing Department of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Miss Constance Nkechi Atueyi, has emerged the winner of this year’s National Institute of Marketing/Unilever Best Marketing Student Award, held in Owerri, Imo State.
Nnamdi Azikiwe University Student Emerges 2013 Best Marketing Student
Atueyi came tops out of the five marketing students from various institutions of higher learning short-listed for the award.
Speaking at the event, the President and Chairman of Council of the institute, Mr. Ganiyu Koledoye, explained that the award, sponsored by Unilever Nigeria Plc, was conceived by one of the previous administrations, led by Taiwo Fagbemi, as a deliberate strategy to create a competitive synergy between various schools offering marketing or marketing-related courses.
He added that the award is also designed to identify and nurture marketing talents in the nation’s tertiary institutions from the cradle, in order to promote the profession and expose students in tertiary institutions to the reality of professionalism in marketing practice. Source: Vanguard Newspaper