Mujeebat Idris, a final-year Law student at Crescent University, Abeokuta, has won the seventh edition of the Alao Adavise National Essay Competition on privacy and data protection.
Her essay, titled “The Invisible Audience: Can Online Platforms Safeguard Youth Privacy?”, was selected as the best among over 300 entries submitted nationwide.
She received ₦350,000 as prize money.
Presenting the award at the New Moot and Mock Court of the Faculty of Law, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, the Founder and Convener of Lawyard, Tobi Adebowale, said the competition was instituted in 2019 in honour of late Alao Adavise, a young lawyer and advocate of data protection.
Adebowale noted that the prize was established to celebrate legal scholarship and innovation.
He added that the winning essay had been published in the current edition of The Lawyard Journal.
Speaking on her entry, Idris said the nation’s privacy must be defended through strong laws, smart enforcement, and an informed generation.
Chiamaka Patrick emerged as first runner-up in the 2025 edition of the competition, organised by Lawyard in collaboration with Tech Hive Advisory Africa.
Mujeebat Idris is a serial award-winning essayist who has distinguished herself in several national and international writing contests.
She is the winner of the Nigerian Society of International Law Essay Competition (2025), the Winner of the Parliamentary System Support Group National Essay Competition (2024), and a Bronze Winner in the 2021 Queen’s Commonwealth Essay Competition, among others.
Her essays often interrogate societal realities through the lens of law, with notable works such as Between Justice and Torture: Nigeria’s Death Row Phenomenon, published by Lawyard.
