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Celtel Africa Challenge winners awarded handsets
2008-03-20 09:03:14
By Njonanje Samwel
The mobile phone company, Celtel has awarded 15 mobile phones to winners of Celtel Africa Challenge worth over 3m/-.
Celtel Public Services Manager Tunu Kavishe handed one Nokia mobile phone to each of the fifteen winners yesterday in Dar es Salam.
She named the winners as Grace Mamuya, John Mlenga, Julieth Jackson, Josephat Francis, Joy Mwamwaja, Elifaraja Limwai, Remen Allan and Laurent Mtayangulwa all from Dar es Salaam.
Other are Zainabu Mohammed and Kamili Matondwa from Tanga, Lucas Kiondere and Margareth Temba from Moshi, Balati Andrew from Arusha and Malongo Mwalingo and Fabian Masenga from Tabora.
Kavishe described Celtel Challenge as an `edutainment` competition for universities in Africa and aired every Sunday evening by Independent Television Limited (ITV).
She said the competition has become a unique platform for students from universities across the continent to challenge themselves in various academic issues.
``Apart from academic challenge, the winning university will come up with a cash prize of USD50,000 and students representing the winning varsities will come up with USD5,000 each all prizes from Celtel,`` said Kavishe.
She said home viewers are also given a chance to participate in the competition by answering `home viewers` questions and win various prizes.
She said three mobile phones, t-shirts and other Celtel products are won as prizes every week.
Sixteen universities are competing in this year`s Celtel Africa Challenge competition.
The universities are Hubert Kairuki, Sokoine, St Augustine and University of Dar es Salaam from Tanzania and Moi, Kenyatta, Egerton, Strathmore and Nkumba from Kenya.
Others are Copperbelt and Zambia University from Zambia and Mzuzu and Malawi University from Malawi.
The other three are already out of competition after they were removed in the first weeks of the competition.
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