Nigeria’s Veritas University is to represent Africa in the Intercontinental Debate in New York scheduled to hold on the 1st of April 1, 2023, and World Universities Debate in Madrid, Spain, in June 2023 respectively.
The University clinched the space after it won the All African Universities Debate recently concluded in Stratford University Nairobi, Kenya.
The victory makes it the first time Nigeria will be winning the All African University Debate Championship.
Different Parts Of Africa
The University came first after beating over 100 other universities from different parts of Africa.
Addressing journalists in Abuja, the Vice Chancellor of the University, Reverend Father, ProfessorHyacinth Ichoku, said the team would now represent Africa at the Intercontinental Debate in New York on the 1st of April 1, 2023, and World Universities Debate in Madrid, Spain, in June 2023 respectively.
According to Ichoku, Winning the championship opens new set of opportunities, because these students will be representing Africa in the intercontinental debate that would happen in New York from April 1, and furthermore go to Madrid in Spain to represent Nigeria in the global universities championship that will also take place in June,” he stated.
The Team lead of Veritas students in the competition champions,Edwin Ochiedo said the factor behind their success was belief and full support of the university.
“When I said belief, it meant something. Our Vice-Chancellor wanted us to go, so he believed in us more than we believed in ourselves, that was enough push.
So, imagine someone who is spending the money pushing you to go there, so, there was something there. So if he can see that belief, there is no reason why we don’t see it. So when we went there, our job was simple and we assure him that we were going to win,”
“The only opposition we saw was ourselves and we had no choice but to win,”. Ocheido said.
Other team members are Yetunde Oshinowo, Ayanfe Amanda Tonye, and Uguru Grace.
Lateefah Ibrahim
