2011 – Indomie Heroes Awards

When Sule Mallam Hamza set out to the village river for taking his bath, he had no clue he was on a mission to save a life. On that fateful day, Sule, his younger brother Musa and some of his friends set out to the river to take their bath when they met a group of young children playing in the shallow edge of the river. Amongst them, a little boy was lured by the others to go to the deep side of the river. And there, he began to drown while the others were laughing and having fun not realizing the impending doom. Sule who had seen the incident from a distant realized the little boy was drowning and instinctively swam to him to rescue him not minding his poor swimming skills. By the time, Sule reached the little boy; the boy had drunk so much water while struggling to stay afloat.

Njoku Chigbo -1st Prize Winner Njoku Chigbo is a 14-year-old primary schoolboy and a native of Ezza South LGA in Ebonyi State. He lives with both parents in a remote village in Ebonyi State. On one fateful morning, Njoku and his friends were at a riverbank in their neighborhood when they saw a boat mishap. A man and a woman who had earlier come to the river by motorcycle with the intention of crossing to the other side had boarded the boat and they were being transported with their belongings when the boat capsized. Luckily, the man held on to a trunk in the river but the woman began to drown. Njoku swiftly and instinctively dived into the river and rescued the woman. After taking the woman to the shore, he got a rope and tied one end around his waist and jumped into the river the second time to salvage the motorcycle and other belongings of the victims.