A student of Bowen University, Gifty Nnaji has won Amnesty International Nigeria’s 2024 Intervarsity Human Rights Debate.
The winner of the second position is Abdul Korede of the University of Ibadan while a student of Enugu State University of Science and Technology, Enebechi Obumneme Joel won the third position.
The final debate held at Baze University Abuja is the second edition of the annual human rights debate organised by Amnesty International Nigeria aimed at expanding the understanding of human rights and encouraging the integration of human rights in university spaces.
The Country Director, Amnesty International Nigeria, Isa Sanusi, disclosed this in a statement on Saturday.
Sanusi said the programme is one of their initiative to spread human rights education and bring young people into the human rights space.
He further said the intervarsity debate also aimed to create a culture of debate and encourage young people to have a good idea of human rights, so that they can grow up to help create a Nigeria in which human rights are respected.
Twelve universities cutting across the six geopolitical zones of Nigeria participated in this year’s debate.
The institutions are University of Lagos, Bowen University, Enugu State University of Science and Technology, University of Ibadan, Obafemi Awolowo University, Cross Rivers State University, University of Calabar, Landmark University, Adamawa State University, Ahmadu Bello University, University of Nigeria Nsukka and Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka.
Director of Amnesty International Nigeria, Isa Sanusi said: “This debate is part of Amnesty International’s efforts to empower Nigerian youth and university students with deeper understanding as well as engagement with human rights and to enhance their debating skills and capacity to convince and make change possible.
“As a human rights organisation, we will continue to expand our engagements with Nigerian youth through innovative ways”.
