In The Zain Africa Challenge Player Of The Week

May 10, 2010, Accra: Another Ghanaian student competing in the Zain Africa Challenge (ZAC) has made history by emerging the ZAC player of the week to win US $1000. Lloyd Owusu Asante, a member of the team from University of Ghana won this when the team took on their counterparts from the Makere University of Uganda in the first quarter final game of the contest. The 23-year-old surged pass fellow team members, Kofi Adomako Agyepong and Richard Nichinaba to pick the US $1000 prize. The ZAC Player of the Week competition is an initiative which gives viewers the opportunity to choose the best player in every episode of ZAC. The player with the highest number of votes is then awarded with US $1000. This competition is applicable to every game and will continue for the duration of the challenge. Viewers across Africa voted Lloyd, the 2nd player of the team and a final year Computer and Statistics student at UG as Player of the Week after a great performance in the competition. This brings to two the number of Ghanaian students who have won since the commencement of season four of the competition. Stefan Katamin-Dol Froelic from the University for Development Studies was the first to win the prize. Zain Africa Challenge is the first ever televised Pan African academic competition among students competing from registered universities within Africa. These include Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. The objective of this initiative is to develop the intellect of Africa’s youth and highlight the excellent educational opportunities that African Universities offer to its citizens.

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