 In a quest to revive reading culture and writing skills among schools in the country, university writers and authors has organized inter-secondary schools as a writing competition for secondary school students across the three sedentary zones in Cardinal State. They say the aim is to reawaken the last glory of reading in the society and to foster peace and unity among secondary school students. Our correspondent Habila Darufai, filing this report, presented from our studios. Reading and writing culture has been one of the major keys to every student's success over the years. But in the 21st century, this habit seems to have been lost as many students now depend on digital. This has greatly affected the academic performance of many students, hence the need to restore the reading culture to give the education sector a new look in the country. Speaking at the award and certificate presentation to the best schools in Anguandasa, Cardinal, the president of the universal writers and authors, Abdulaziz Al-Assan, said the aims of the competition is to foster unity among schools in the state and to improve lexicals, vocabulary and daily usage of words by students. To revive reading and writing amongst secondary school students, because if you assign students to write, definitely they must read. There is no way that a student will write without reading. And we consider that, we also observe and consider that there are a lot of problems in terms of paragraph development, in terms of writing AC, in terms of grammar of the students. He called on the government and stakeholders to show greater commitment to growing the education sector in order to save the future of the country. Also, the Cardinal State Commission of Education, represented by the Deputy Director of Public Schools, Merci Binta Kudi, expressed delight seeing the female gender emerges winner of the competition. Study, let them value education with a passion, let them continue writing because when you write, you write and you write, you move towards perfection. So they need to write all the time in essay writing. You bring storm, you jot down your points, you make your drafts, you develop on points in paragraphs. The teacher is the one that holds the pointer, guides the learners. If the teacher does not do it right, the learners may not get it right. Some of the overall best winners express their joy. I've been studying, I've been learning more on essay writing, I've been prepping myself so that when I come on stage, I will deliver what I have to do. And that is how I ended up the winner because I studied hard, I worked hard even at home in school. I made people around me, they helped me. I am matched as the winner by reading a lot of reading, also sleepless nights, making researches and also I make a lot of researches and reading textbooks also. My advice to my colleagues and friends is that they should focus on their studies. Very, very happy even though it's not my doing. First of all I thank Allah, then I thank my school and then the organizers of the competition. Over 400 schools participated in the competition with three schools emerging winners. Awards and certificates were presented to the winners.