Two final year students of the Department of Mass Communication at the Benue State University, Makurdi, yesterday bag merit awards from veteran broadcaster, Peter Okwoche of the British Broadcasting Corporation, (BBC) Focus on Africa programme.
The students, Comfort Apeh and Brian Torsar Ula received the awards as the best female and overall while Ula was best male student.
The winners, Comfort Apeh has CGPA of 4.42 while Mr. Byran Torsar Ula has 3.81 CGPA.
Presenting the awards to the recipients at the conference hall of the office of the Deputy Vice Chancellor, Administration, the initiator, Okwoche stated that it would be an annual event to encourage excellence.
He announced that each recipient would take home a laptop computer, cash of N50,000 and sponsorship for one month training at a media house and would receive N30,000 at the end of the month.
