{"id":79264,"date":"2025-11-24T11:09:46","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T11:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=79264"},"modified":"2025-11-24T11:09:46","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T11:09:46","slug":"abuja-airport-acj-ceo-welcomes-national-essay-participant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/24\/abuja-airport-acj-ceo-welcomes-national-essay-participant\/","title":{"rendered":"Abuja Airport: ACJ CEO Welcomes National Essay Participant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Samuel Adeola<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Abuja City Journal (ACJ), yesterday received the 26 finalists of the National Essay Competition as they arrived at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport.<\/p>\n<p>In a strong show of commitment, ACJ CEO and Publisher, Mr. Foluso Sylvanus Ojo, popularly known as Fosh, led the organising team to personally welcome the young writers.<\/p>\n<p>His presence underscored ACJ\u2019s dedication to identifying and celebrating exceptional talent across Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>Fosh described the competition as \u201ca platform designed to groom the next generation of thinkers and solution-driven leaders,\u201d noting that the initiative continues to grow with strong support from partners.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s edition is sponsored by the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) and Kapek International, whose backing has boosted the reach and impact of the programme.<\/p>\n<p>The finalists, drawn from various states, were warmly received by the organisers, who coordinated their arrival and logistics.<\/p>\n<p>The grand finale will hold on the 26th, with cash prizes of \u20a65 million, \u20a63 million, and \u20a62 million for the top three winners.<\/p>\n<p>The National Essay Competition remains one of Nigeria\u2019s leading platforms for discovering and nurturing future intellectual leaders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola The Abuja City Journal (ACJ), yesterday received the 26 finalists of the National Essay Competition as they arrived at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport. In a strong show of commitment, ACJ CEO and Publisher, Mr. Foluso Sylvanus Ojo, popularly known as Fosh, led the organising team to personally welcome the young writers. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":79265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,183,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-79264","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\/79264","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79266,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79264\/revisions\/79266"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}