Winners Emerge in Indomie ‘Team Yourself Up’ Contest
The Indomie Fan Club (IFC) ‘Team Yourself Up’ competition Season five has ended with winners rewarded with cash prizes and other items.
Sponsored by Dufil Prima Foods, makers of Indomie Noodles, the Indomie Fan Club is Nigeria’s largest children-based fan club- a child engagement initiative designed to enhance the writing and creative skills of members of the club across 3,000 schools in Nigeria.
The ‘Team Yourself Up’ competition required interested children to team up with any adult in their household to create something unique using empty Indomie wrappers, cartons, or a combination of both. Participants were then required to send in a picture or video of their creation through designated online channels with their name, age, class, and school to dedicated IFC WhatsApp numbers.
The competition also allowed children to send in multiple entries. This year, the competition began in June and ended in August, and recorded over 24,000 entries.
After in-depth scrutiny of the entries, Ayomide Mercy Kolawole from Beclem Foundation School, Lagos emerged the grand prize winner and received N500,000 and a year supply of cartons of Indomie, while the first, second, and third runnes-up were Alonna Mbah of Handmaids Infant Jesus School, Awka, Anambra; Mamuzo Jethro Olomu of Purple Dot International School, FESTAC, Lagos; and Ezezhinyere McDonald of Grand Child School, Port Harcourt. They got N100,000, N75,000 and N50,000 respectively.
Four regional winners also got
N35,000 each in the competition. They are Adebanjo Jomiloju of Rossi Model School, Ijaiye for Lagos; Uche-Orah Adaeze from First Park View School, Enugu for the East; Ajibola Jesuferanmi from Captain of Host School, Ogun; and Chinda Tedrick from Bettyvine Model School, Abuja.
Speaking on the conclusion of the competition in Lagos, the National Coordinator of IFC, Mrs. Faith Joshua explained that the competition is one of the many ways through which the Indomie brand engages thousands of children and provides a platform for them to express their creative talents and abilities even amid the lockdown occasioned by COVID-19.
She described the entries received for the competition as the height of artistry and creativity ever displayed by children. “Beyond just winning prizes, the IFC Team Up Yourself Competition is designed to instill the habit of creativity in children,” she said.
Also commenting on the competition, the Group Public Relations and Event Manager, Dufil Prima Foods Plc, Mr. Tope Ashiwaju said: “We see an opportunity during this challenging period of the COVID-19 pandemic to create a bonding avenue for the families, especially parents and their children. It is part of our responsibility to ensure that during this out-ofschool period, our children are engaged in activities that will aid their mental and physical development. We know that not every child will be rewarded in the competition, but we are happy that these kids have loads of fun displaying their creativity with their families.”