TEARS of joy rolled down from the eyes of Hannah Ojo as she was announced a grand prize winner of this year's edition of the Campuslife Award co-organised by the Coca-Cola Nigeria Limited and Nigerian Bottling Company.

For about two minutes after she was asked to give a remark on behalf of four other awardees of different categories, she could not compose herself. She regained her balance when the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Coca-Cola Nigeria, Mr. Islay Rhind quickly , embraced her and congratulated her for the exemplary feat.

"I don't know what to say," Hannah said eventually. "It is God I give thank to."

Whatever you are, she noted, some people make it so. "So I also thank people, who have invested on me", she added.

Hannah, an undergraduate of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, beat two other nominees to win the Campuslife Reporter of the year. She also won the Opinion Writing Category.

Other winners of different categories include Stanley Ibekwe, a 500 level student of Material and Metallurgy from the Federal University of Technology (FUTO), Owerri, Imo State, who won both Campus Politics, and Culture/Entertainment Reporting; Steve Ugboko, from Abia State University, Uturu,(Investigative Reporting); Silas Ilesanmi from Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko, Ondo State (Campus Sports Reporting); and Opeyemi Samuel from University of Ado-Ekiti (UNIAD) (Interviewing Reporting).

Each of them went home with a plaque and gift items, the value of which was not quoted.

In addition, Hannah was offered an admission by Professor Ralph Akinfeleye, of the department of Mass Communications, University of Lagos, to study Mass Communications at masters and doctorate degree levels in the university if she so wish after completion of her first degree.

Campuslife is a Coca-Cola sponsored weekly Education pull out in the Nation Newspapers, where undergraduates across the nation's tertiary institutions voluntarily contribute articles on events around them and of public interest.

Explaining the reasons behind the beverage manufacturing giant sponsoring the column, Coca-Cola boss, Rhind, said the company saw it as a platform for undergraduates to make positive impacts around them and on the society while they are still students.

"And I specially thank The Nation Newspapers to have provided the platform", he said. "It is one of our corporate social responsibilities using to make a difference in the environment we operate."

Rhind added that the platform is also serving as a capacity building for the young student writers, who have started contributing to the socio-economic development of the country right from school.

Eulogising awardees virtues, Professor Ralph Akinfeleye of the Mass Communications Department, UNILAG, urged them and their defeated colleagues and other students at the event to be steadfast and courageous on the job and also on their other endeavours.

He also told them to be journalists of conscience and not of any other types, which he called next of kin and kangaroo journalists, adding that, catching journalists young is very importance.

Earlier in his opening remark, Mr. Soji Omotunde, General Manager, Training and Development, Vintage Press Limited, said the concept of Campuslife was conceived to raise generations that will succeed the present crop of journalists.

While thanking Coca-Cola for the partnership, Omotunde urged the student journalists to see journalism profession as a rewarding one.

"Be more passionate about the job, you will discover it is rewarding and through it, you can influence policy makers on their decisions," he said.

Sharing similar view, Mr. Sam Omotseye, Chairman, Editorial Board, The Nation, told these emerging journalists to be confidence in themselves and cultivated the habit of reading informative and motivational materials, saying doing these, will help them in achieving their visions for life.

"You should also know you have a role to play in this world and ensure always to pay attention to peoples' comments and views. You can never tell what can take you to the next level." Omotseye said.

Corroborating him, Azubike Ishekwuene, Executive Director (Publication), The Punch Newspapers, told the celebrated student journalists to be diligent, innovative, focus, determined and hardwork in their studies as well as campus journalism, noting that they can never tell where their talents will take them to.

For Pastor (Mrs.)Ify Okonkwo, of the Glory in the House Ministry on her part, urged the awardees not to relent on their oars rather to increase the tempo to enable them go far in the profession after school.

The cleric noted that media is in the position to transform the society but only when practitioners do the job based on ethics.