{"id":79174,"date":"2025-11-22T11:51:57","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T11:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=79174"},"modified":"2025-11-22T11:51:57","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T11:51:57","slug":"national-essay-competition-organisers-hold-final-virtual-briefing-with-finalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/22\/national-essay-competition-organisers-hold-final-virtual-briefing-with-finalists\/","title":{"rendered":"National Essay Competition: Organisers Hold Final Virtual Briefing with Finalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Merciful Omoba<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The organisers of the National Essay Competition, led by the Abuja City Journal CEO\/Publisher, Mr. Foluso Sylvanus Ojo, popularly known as Fosh, on Saturday held a final virtual briefing with all shortlisted finalists ahead of their trip to Abuja for the grand finale.<\/p>\n<p>The Zoom meeting, held on 22nd November 2025, served as the last official engagement with the participants who made it through the rigorous screening stages.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Fosh congratulated the finalists for their exceptional performance, noting that their hard work, consistency, and intellectual brilliance had distinguished them from thousands of entries nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>He encouraged the students to freely express themselves, ask questions, and mentally prepare for the days ahead.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, all participants are expected to fly into Abuja on Sunday from their various states, with full security and welfare arrangements already in place.<\/p>\n<p>Reassuring the students, he stated that their accommodation in Abuja is secure, well-monitored, and conducive for the competition\u2019s concluding activities.<\/p>\n<p>However, he cautioned that all finalists must conduct themselves responsibly, warning that any breach of the rules would result in immediate disqualification and a return home.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, some participants based near Lagos have begun travelling to ensure they meet their flight schedules on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The grand finale in Abuja is expected to be a remarkable gathering of young, talented writers from across Nigeria, celebrating excellence, creativity, and academic distinction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Merciful Omoba The organisers of the National Essay Competition, led by the Abuja City Journal CEO\/Publisher, Mr. Foluso Sylvanus Ojo, popularly known as Fosh, on Saturday held a final virtual briefing with all shortlisted finalists ahead of their trip to Abuja for the grand finale. The Zoom meeting, held on 22nd November 2025, served [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":79175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,183,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-79174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-education","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79176,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79174\/revisions\/79176"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}