Miss Chinalurumogu Eze, a third-year student in the Department of mass communication, University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) emerged winner of the 2023 Future Creative Leaders Academy (FCLA) Prize. She was announced the winner on March 29 by CHINI Africa after the international jury made their choice.
For winning, she is entitled to attend the Roger Hatchuel Student Academy taking place during the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity in France from Monday, June 19 to Friday, June 23.
Eze made history by becoming the first student from her institution to join the academy at the international level. The participants were asked to create a two-minute video to showcase their creativity and explain why they deserve a place in the Roger Hatchuel Student Academy reserved for only 30 select students from around the world.
Eze was nominated by her department, along with two others in her class, Ifeoma Aroh and Felix Udochukwu. The Record (in-house publication of the department) gathered that this is the 17th year of organising the FCLA and selecting students for Cannes Lions Roger Hatchuel Student Academy, a programme fully sponsored by CHINI Africa, organisers of the Pitcher Festival of Creativity and Cannes Lions official festival representative in Nigeria.
The Pitcher Festival of Creativity’s FCLA is a youth programme for university and tertiary institution students, aimed at providing an inspiring platform for intensive learning, talent discovery and professional development in the advertising and marketing communications industry.
Meanwhile, the Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate in the 2023 general election, Peter Obi has congratulated Chinalurumogu Eze for winning the 2023 Future Creative Leaders Academy (FCLA) Prize for the Roger Hatchuel Student Academy.
In a statement issued via his verified Twitter handle on Tuesday, Obi urged Eze “to go all out for victory as she represent Nigeria”.
“My very warm congratulations to Chinalurumogu Eze for winning the 2023 Future Creative Leaders Academy (FCLA) Prize for the Roger Hatchuel Student Academy.
“I urge @nalu_kings to go all out for victory as she represent Nigeria at the Roger Hatchuel Student Academy (RHSA) in the Cannes Lion Festival in France. May God Almighty, who sees your goodness and hard work grant you success,” Obi tweeted.
It would be recalled that in December 2022, Eze also created another record by winning the Youth Digest Campus Journalist of the Year award, thus becoming the first student to bring the award to a South-East Nigeria university, UNN, and emerging as the second female winner ever.