By Modupe Gbadeyanka
Winners, on Monday evening, emerged in the maiden edition of an online debating competition organised by JarusHub and HotProForum.
JarusHub, a leading career guidance, mentoring and management firm in Nigeria, created an online platform called Hotproforum.com, where professionals meet and network.
The competition was held among the four JarusHub Career Clubs (JCC) hosted on WhatsApp.
In the first semi-final, JarusHub Career Club 2 defeated JarusHub Career Club 4, while JarusHub Career Club 3 defeated JarusHub Career Club 1 in the second last four.
This set-up the final between JCC 2 and JCC 3 which held on Sunday with the topic ‘Agriculture is Fundamental to Nigeria’s Emergence as a Global Economic Power: Agree or Disagree?’
During the debate, JCC 2 agreed with the motion while JCC 3 opposed.
Both teams of 3 debaters were at their best but after a 24-hour poll, JCC 2 got 32 votes while JCC 3 30 votes.
Winners of the debate get a free training slot with JarusHub Academy and a certificate of achievement while all members of their Career Club are eligible for Jarus’ widely-acclaimed career guidance book, The Road to Victoria Island. The 2nd team also got consolation prizes.
CEO of Jarus & JAN Internet Group explained that, “The purpose of this debate is to improve the presentation, articulation and research skills of the debaters, who are from our Career Club.”
He told the winners that, “You are a group of young students, graduates and early career professionals. You have done very well. I have always been a fan of debate. At the risk of being immodest, I would say if there is anything like being the father of online debate in Nigeria, I deserve it.
“As far back as eight years ago, I championed and organised debates on Nairaland Politics Section, and today, I still receive kudos for such initiative, which was never sustained when I moved on.
“I am happy we have a platform to continue this, although the focus will continue to professionalism – not politics. We are building hot professionals here.”
