A student of Oriwu College, Ikorodu Lagos, Abdulsalam Bada has emerged overall winner of the Atinuke Cancer Foundation Inter-school/Inter-state Essay Competition.
The competition, aimed at improving knowledge about cancer and access to health care, also had Success Oloyede of Baptist Boys High School, Abeokuta, Ogun State, as first runner-up and Destiny Orako of Eva Adelaja Girls School, Bariga, Lagos State, as second runner-up.
Bada received a sum of N500,000 while the two other winners got an Android phone and a video/photo camera, respectively. “We started last year and we decided to bring the message to the youths because cancer is a scourge that respects no one.“We feel that if we pass the message onto young adults, they will grow with the knowledge and their generation will have less mortality rate from cancer because they already know what to do, what to avoid, and where to go.”The President, Nigerian Cancer Society, Dr Adamu Umar, said prevention was better, safer, and cheaper than cure.
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