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  • Foundation gifts quiz winners N1.8m

    Foundation gifts quiz winners N1.8m

    The Queen Irene Onwuka Peace Foundation (QIOP) has given a total of N1.8 million cash prize to winners of its quiz competition held at the main auditorium of the University of Lagos (UNILAG).

    Twenty schools in Lagos State participated in the contest which was won by Oriwu Junior College, Ikorodu. For emerging victorious, the college went home with N1million, while Unity Junior Secondary School, Oshodi, as the first runner-up  got N500,000, with second runner-up Ajao Estate Junior Grammar School, Isolo, getting N300,000.

    The competition with theme:“Educating the Nigerian Child, the Importance of Peaceful Coexistence”, was organised in collaboration with the Lagos State Ministry of Education. Contestants were drilled in General Knowledge, Mathematics, Spelling Bee and Current Affairs.

    Convener, Queen Irene Onwuka, said the competition was aimed at celebrating Nigerian pupils, broaden their horizon, promote learning and critical thinking.

    She urged the pupils to continue to work hard in their studies because, according to her, they are leaders of today and  not leaders of tomorrow as widely held.

    Onwuka noted that education is a holistic process and it is imperative to equip them  with relevant skills in the 21st century.

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    Founder Silverbird Group, Guy Murray-Bruce lauded the organisers and urged the Federal Government to make education free for low-income earners in the country to address the issue of out-of-school children.

    Permanent Secretary, Lagos State Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education, Abayomi Abolaji, who was represented by Asaolu Olufemi, praised the foundation its collaboration with the state. He urged the pupils to use their knowledge to enhance growth of the society.

    Representative of Oriwu Junior College, Master Lemboye Abdulrahim, thanked the foundation for giving pupils a platform to showcase their intelligence.

    Other participating schools included, Immaculate Junior Grammar School, Kosofe; Eva Adelaja Junior Grammar School; Unity Junior School, Oshodi; Model Junior Secondary School, Alimosho;  Dolphin Junior High School, Lagos Island.

  • MGHS Yaba wins maritime quiz for secondary schools

    Methodist Girls High School, Lagos has won the maiden edition of Maritime Quiz Competition for Secondary Schools.

    Quiz moderator Mrs Violet Williams said at the end of the competition last Wednesday in Lagos that Mind Builders emerged as first runner up while Regency School became second runner up. Ten secondary schools participated.

    She explained that the rationale behind the competition was to expose the participants to the maritime industry and guide them to the “Career of the Future.”

    Williams, who is also the Principal Partner of Vow Ventures, said her firm had exposed the students to the shipping environment before engaging in the competition to raise their interest in shipping career.

    “We want to demystify the aspect of no-go- area in the maritime sector and we have discovered that some school owners do not know anything about shipping.

    “Shipping is a global and international business, and it is in the nation’s best interest to invest in the future by catching them young, thus making them economically and professionally children self-sufficient when they leave school.

    She said that the quiz would be extended to secondary school students  in  the South-East and South-South  of the country which have proximity to the sea before 2020.

    Director-General, Nigerian Chamber of Shipping Mrs Obiageli Obi, advised students interested in maritime career to study hard and explore the maritime industry, regardless of their biases.

    Mrs Obi urged the students to be disciplined and resourceful because shipping business is capital intensive but hugely rewarding.

    President, Women’s International Shipping and Trading Association (WISTA) Mrs Mary Hamman, advised the students to choose relevant courses to enable them to build career in the shipping business.

    She announced that the winners of the quiz would be exposed to all aspects of the  maritime industry within and outside the country.

    Women Governor Association of Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA) Mrs Bola Muse, commended the organisers for enlightening the students

    She urged the organisers to extend the competition to other schools to enable Nigerian students understand the profession.

    Six students from the three prize-winning schools – Methodist Girls High School, Yaba; Mind Builders High Schiol, Alausa and ST +T Regency Schools, GRA, Ikeja, are to proceed on maritime sponsorship tour soon.

    Advising the students, Navy Capt. Abel Abuchi (rtd), said “We are trying to  encourage the students not just to be  lawyers, bankers but they can also be seafarers.

    “They can be captains of sea-going vessels or a Navy: all what they need to do after having their “A” level is to go to Maritime institutions such as Maritime Academy Oron, Certified Institute of Shipping and so on.”

    President, Women’s International Shipping and Trading Association (WISTA), Mrs Mary Hamman, advised the students to choose relevant courses to enable them build career in shipping.

  • Police to quiz Omisore over 2014 assault on Adeleke

    Police to quiz Omisore over 2014 assault on Adeleke

    Osun State Police Command has invited  Senator Iyiola Omisore, over an alleged assault reported to the command by the late Senator Isiaka Adetunji Adeleke in 2014.

    In a letter titled “Invitation to Police station” dated October 20, Omisore is expected to meet with Deputy Commissioner of Police (State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence department.)

    The letter signed by Deputy Commissioner of Police, Umege Uzochukwu read: “You are invited to meet with the Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department in connection with a case of assault occasioning harm reported by the late Senator Isiaka Adeleke against you.

    Looking forward to seeing you on the 27th day of October, 2017 at about 1200hrs please” But it was learnt that Omisore did not honour the invitation on Friday.

    In a statement yesterday, Omisore said he received “the very curious but interesting invitation”

    He added:  “We all know that as Nigerians we are living in a very interesting time. The culture now is to source for scapegoats in members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for every inaction of government. The tragic instance in which the late former Osun State governor, a distinguished senator of the Federal Republic, died is still fresh in our memories, particularly the controversy that his death generated across the nation.

    “Therefore, I want the public to know about the plot and keep them informed about this sinister plan, which I believe is just unfolding, against myself, some other members of the opposition and even the good memory Osun people cherish about Senator Adeleke.”

  • UK, Ghana trip for school quiz winners

    Finalists of the ongoing Ayodeji Joseph Inter-Primary Schools Quiz competition would be taken on tour to the United Kingdom  (UK) and Ghana.

    Ayodeji Joseph, a lawmaker, disclosed this at the kick off of the quiz, noting that it would promote academic excellence among the pupils.

    The contest held simultaneously in 20 schools.

    According to the legislator, two best pupils from the competition, one each from Apapa Local Government (LGA) and Apapa-Iganmu Local Council Development Area (LCDA), would be sent to the UK for two weeks, while the runners-up would go on tour of Ghana, as well as N500,000 cash prizes each.

    The tours, he said, would be co-sponsored by the Apapa LCDA Chairman, Elijah Owolabi.

    Ayodeji said he was committed to instilling the passion for education in the children, adding that the quiz would encourage academic rivalry, challenge the pupils to be focused and bring out the best in them.

    He said: “Many youths in this constituency have seen touting and thuggery as the only means by which they can make money. We need to change this and that is why we want to focus on the pupils, so that they do not grow with that mentality.

    “When you educate a child, you enhance the potential inherent in him or her and when we fail to do this, they will take to hooliganism.

    By sending them on UK tour, we need them to know another part of the world where development is on the high side.

    “Since they are the leaders of tomorrow, we need them to know that something is wrong in this part of the world and that something must be corrected. We want them to know that electricity can run uninterrupted and traffic can flow better.”

  • VC hails Math dept’s feat in quiz, sport contests

    VC hails Math dept’s feat in quiz, sport contests

    The Vice-Chancellor (VC) of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University (UNIZIK) in Awka, Anambra State, Prof Joseph Ahaneku, has praised the Department of Mathematics for its students’ “good performance” at the just-concluded conference of the National Association of Mathematical Sciences Students of Nigeria (NAMSSN) in Abuja.

    The conference featured a quiz, beauty pageant and sport competitions, in which the UNIZIK students was one of the top winners.

    The VC received the students and the department’s staff, led by the Acting Head of Department, Dr. Donald Okoli, in his office. Congratulating the students, Prof Ahaneku said the university had become a centre of academic excellence, given the strides of its students and lecturers in various endeavours.

    By distinguishing themselves in the competition, the VC said the students had projected the good image of the school. He praised the staff of the department for mentoring the students to achieve excellence. He surprised the students with cash prizes.

    Dr. Okoli said the students did not just emerge top in the quiz contest, but also excelled in other competitions. He listed the prizes won by the students to include first position in soccer contest, Best Player Prize and Best Defender Prize in football.

    Others include highest goal scorer, best goalkeeper, first position in the Miss NAMSSN beauty pageant and first runner-up in chess contest.

    The students, who represented the school, were Charlesdan Arazu, Blessing Nwonu, Chukwuma Onu, Joshua Iloka and Clement Okoli. Others are Ukamaka Nnebue, Amarachi Ifechukwu, Solomon Uchendu, Judith Amobi and Stanley Ejiofor.

  • ‘Quiz contests grow pupils’ intellect’

    ‘Quiz contests grow pupils’ intellect’

    Managing Director of PZ Cussons Consumer, Mr. Alex Goma, has described quiz contest as a strong tool for intellectual development capable of improving the quality of education.

    Goma spoke during the grand finale of the yearly PZ Cussons Chemistry Challenge contest held at the MUSON Centre in Onikan, Lagos.

    No sooner had the quizmaster declared the event open than the six finalists locked in a fierce challenge for the coveted prize. Intermittently, the quizmaster admonished the contestants to relax, as the contest wasn’t a war.

    Having become winners in their groups during the preliminary stages of the contest, who would be the ultimate champion among the six contestants?

    After hours of intense suspense, Dara Ogunmola, SS II student of New Hall International School in Lekki, was declared overall winner of Chemistry Challenge. He scored 90 per cent in practical test and 100 per cent in the quiz sessions.

    Dara was rewarded with N700,000  cash, a brand-new laptop, a trophy and gold medal. His Chemistry teacher, Mr Raphael Adeoye, was presented with N100,000 cash and a plaque. His school also got N100,000 worth of laboratory equipment.

    Samuel Oyelami of Tomia Community Senior Secondary School in Alagbado, who scored 88.50 per cent and came second, was presented with a cash of N450, 000, a brand-new laptop and silver medal. His Chemistry teacher, Mr Bowale Oludare, went home with N80,000 cash and a plaque, while his school got N80,000 worth of laboratory equipment.

    With a cumulative score of 88 per cent, Justine Anyika of Federal Government College in Ijanikin, Lagos, finished as second runner-up and received N350,000 cash, a laptop and bronze medal. Justine’s Chemistry teacher, Adedamola Ibunkunola, got N70,000, while her school received N70,000 worth of laboratory equipment.

    The third runner-up, Adepoju Adewale of Fountain Height School in Lagos, received N250,000 cash, a laptop and a consolation medal. His Chemistry teacher was presented with N60,000 cash reward and a plaque, while his school received N60,000 worth of laboratory equipment. Other finalists were also rewarded with cash and laboratory equipment.

    Some science teachers in the audience were picked to participate in teachers’ challenge. At the end of the contest, Mr John Nnani of Top Grade Secondary School slammed his colleagues. He went home with N70,000 cash and PZ Cussons products; same went for runners up who were also rewarded with cash and products.

    Goma recalled that the Chemistry Challenge was created by the PZ Cussons Foundation in 2011,  as the corporate  social responsibility arm of PZ Cussons, to reward excellence among teachers and pupils.

    He said: “We created this initiative to massively motivate pupils and their teachers to aim for excellence, and also to appreciate the importance of science to our everyday life. We brought in two quality brands, Premier Cool and Nunu Milk, to do the physical and emotional connections needed to consolidate the impact of this project. This edition has been a great improvement on the past ones.”

    The Permanent Secretary, Lagos Ministry of Education, Mr Adesina Odeyemi, reiterated government’s support for the initiative, praising PZ Cussons Foundation and the supporting brands for contributing to the development of science education in the state.

    National President of Chartered Institute of Chemist of Nigeria, Prof Oladele Osibanjo, who is also chairman of Advisory Board of the PZ Cussons Chemistry Challenge, said the initiative would create academic opportunities for winners and motivate students to study chemistry.

    He said: “Nigeria is abundantly blessed in human capital. If students can put up great skills at national competitions, such as the Chemistry Challenge, I have no doubt they would compete and excel anywhere in the world.”

    The overall winner, Dara, praised the organisers. “The quiz did not only challenge my intelligence from the preliminary stages, it has also created a lasting experience which I will never forget in life,”Dara said.

    This year edition of the Chemistry Challenge with the theme: Be a winner, started with over 3,000 participants at the first stage. The second round had 130 pupils that qualified from the first round. They were taken through multiple answer examination, which led to pruning them to 24. Following the practical test for the 24 contestants, six finalists emerged to compete for the star prize.

  • Anambra, professionals hold quiz competition for pupils

    THE League of Anambra Professionals (LAP) and the state government are set to hold a school quiz competition for SS2 students, as part of fresh investment in education.

    Highest winner will go home with N100,000 as well as certificate of excellence in competition holding across the state. Various cash prizes are for other winners.

    Announcing this in his office in Lagos, LAP President Willy Nzewi said the competition will start in a written quiz at both the local government area and the state levels and end in an oral televised quiz.

    The local government area level competition takes place on Tuesday May 23, 2017 and the state level holds on Wednesday May 31, 2017, he further said.

    In his contribution, the chairman of the group’s education, research, doctrine and publication committee, Prof. C.U. Ezeigbo said the subject areas of the quiz are English Language, Igbo Language & Culture, ICT and Mathematics.

    Ezeigbo added that each school in Anambra State will send its best two students to the local government area level competition. Then each council will send its best three best students to the state level and the best six students at the state level will proceed to an oral televised quiz.

    The LAP school quiz expert confirmed that first prize will get N100,000, the second prize is N50,000 naira and the third prize is N30,000 – in addition to three consolation prizes of N5,000.

    On the cash prizes at the council level, he said the first winner will smile home with N12,000 as well as a certificate of merit, adding that the second and third winners will get N8,000 and N5,000 plus certificates of merit.

    Nzewi said the first and only LAP school quiz competition held in 2008, expressing happiness that it is back and brighter nine years later.

    According to him, “the 2017 competition is billed as the battle of the minds to emphasise its objectives among which are to promote and stimulate education as an enabler of economic advantage towards the transformation of Anambra State into a richer and safer society.”

    Nzewi, a renowned chartered accountant and business adviser, added that the group, through the school quiz competition, is also drawing the attention of privileged Ndi Anambra to the need to invest in education and the opportunities that lie in coming together to pursue development in their home state in partnership with government at every level.

  • $43.4m: Osinbajo panel to quiz NIA boss again

    $43.4m: Osinbajo panel to quiz NIA boss again

    Cash not slush fund, says NIA

    DSS boss offers to testify at panel

    National Intelligence Agency (NIA) boss Ayo Oke is to face the Presidential Investigative Committee today —the second time in two weeks.

    He will be questioned over the  $43.4million recovered by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in Ikoyi, Lagos.

    Oke will explain today how the cash got to Apartment 7B in Osborne Towers, Ikoyi, The Nation learnt.

    The cash haul is suspected to be part of the slush funds for the failed re-election of former President Goodluck Jonathan

    But Oke, who  has submitted a document to the committee, is said to be insisting that the $43.4million was part of the $289million special intervention funds for NIA which he spelt out in a memo to the National Security Adviser (NSA), Gen. Babagana Monguno.

    In the document, Oke  accounted for the $289million, which he said was spent on nine key projects.

    He stressed that the $43.4million was no campaign funds.

    The NIA is, according to a source, worried about the leaks from the panel, which it claims have been destroying its image.

    The committee last night sent text messages to Oke and some government officials whose names were not immediately known.

    A source, who spoke in confidence, said: “Oke has been re-invited because the committee has not been convinced about where he got the $43.4m and how the cash got to Apartment 7B in Osborne Towers, Ikoyi.

    “These are the two questions he needs to clarify before we round off our work. We want to give him the benefit of doubt.

    “Oke admitted that NIA got $289 million Special Intervention Funds for nine projects and he has accounted for how the funds were spent on the completed and ongoing projects.

    “The only area of disagreement is that the panel suspects that the $43.4 million is not part of the $289 million. It believes the cash was part of the campaign slush funds for the re-election of ex-President Jonathan.”

    An NIA source said last night that the fresh invitation to Oke was unnecessary because he had provided the committee with all the documents it needed.

    “In fact, NIA accounts have been scrutinised and no infractions were found. Some forces are just desperate to find faults.

    “It is as if there is pre-determined agenda.”

    A document obtained by our correspondent indicated that the NIA DG in a memo of January 26, 2016 to the NSA, gave the following breakdown of the Special Intervention Funds:

    • Total amount—$289, 202, 382
    • Payment already made on nine projects as at January 2016—$98,891,067.57
    • Actual balance—$190, 311.314. 42
    • Cash at hand—$89,298.759.43
    • Cash in the bank—$101,012.555

    But the suspended NIA DG in the memo insisted that the $43.4million was part of the $289million Special Intervention Funds.

    A top NIA source said: “The $43.4million was part of the $89.298million cash at hand with the agency. We have not paid all the bills.  As of January 2016, this agency declared the cash to the NSA in a detailed memo. This cannot be controverted.

    “The NIA was never given any money for the campaign. If the $43.4million was part of the campaign, what will the agency be doing with it for about two years after the election?

    “The $43.4million was part of the funds meant for an ongoing security classified project in Lagos. The money cannot even complete the project; it  is part of the project. If this money is taken away, the project cannot be completed.

    “When the NIA DG appeared before the committee, he insisted that the cash recovered was not slush funds in any manner whatsoever.

    “He even listed the Director-General of the Department of State Services (DSS) , Mallam Lawal  Daura, as one of his witnesses who knew about the classified projects. Daura has formally written to the panel to testify. But the panel has not permitted Daura to appear before it.

    “Up till now, nobody knows why a vital witness was yet to be allowed to testify before the committee.

    “All we are reading about borders on some leaks from the committee which are rubbing off on the image of NIA.

    “As a professional organisation, we believe that some of the leaks were sheer lies from the pit of hell.”

    A source in the Presidency confirmed that the DG of NIA wrote a memo to the NSA and the NSA did a memo to President Muhammadu Buhari and the President was briefed about the nine projects being executed with the $289million.

    “The NSA was said to have raised a committee to inspect the projects. “It is a different ball game  whether or not the funds spent on  the projects were justified,” the source said, pleading not to be nambed because of the “sensitivity” of the matter.

    The Osinbajo panel is yet to do cost analysis, he added.

    “The only issue outstanding before the committee is the suspicion that the $43.4 million was campaign slush funds. It is unclear if NIA does not want to open the Pandora Box,” he said.

    There were indications last night that the Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, may have been co-opted into the committee.

    It was not clear if it was based on the directive of the President or not.

    A source close to the committee said: “The presence of the Minister is to clarify the release of some funds, including budgetary and extra-budgetary or for special intervention.

    “I think the committed is at liberty to call on anyone to assist it.”

    But the involvement of the minister has created some disquiet in government circles, with some wondering why those with knowledge of intelligence were not involved in the committee’s work.

  • Why we sponsor quiz contests, by Mobil

    Mobil Producing Nigeria (MPN) has said that it sponsors quiz competitions amongst secondary schools in Bonny, Rivers State, because “it is a key strategy for enhancing reading and learning culture amongst students in the locality.”

    The General Manager, Public and Government Affairs of MPN, Mr Paul Arinze, who said this during the seventh edition of the competition organised for secondary schools in Bonny by NNPC/Mobil Joint Venture, expressed hope that the programme would continue to provide a platform for interaction and healthy competition amongst the students.

    Represented by the Bonny River Terminal Superintendent, Mr Taiye Gbenjo, Arinze said the competition would help to address critical educational gap that was highlighted during the recently held Pan-Bonny Conference on Sustainable Development, where education on the island is said to be on the decline.

    The Chairman of the occasion, Se-Alabo Reginald Abbey Hart, who is also the former Chairman of Bonny Chiefs Council, lauded MPN for sponsoring the competition and expressed happiness that education is beginning to pick up in the locality.

    Also speaking, the Bishop of Bonny Diocese of Christ Army Church of Nigeria, Rt Rev Dappa Abbe commended MPN for sponsoring the competition and the students for showing their academic mettle.

    The facilitator of Recreasport Consult, Dr Jude Ben-Stowe whose company organized the competition on behalf of NNPC/Mobil, explained that “the essence of the competition is not for the schools to win essentially but to encourage reading habit among students and consequently bring out the potentials in them to contribute positively to the development of education in Bonny Kingdom.”

    At the end of the exercise, Elizabeth Chukwumma of Government Girls Secondary School (GGSS), Finima, Bonny won the best student award.

    She scored 30 points while the first runner up, Edwin LongJohn of Bonny National Grammar School (BNGS), Bonny had 26 points and was followed by Jonathan Jumbo of Lucille Education Centre who scored 24 points.

    In the highly competitive finals among seven secondary schools in Bonny, Chukwuma’s school, GGSS, Finima also came tops in all the three rounds with 32 points to defeat Kings and Queens Secondary School which scored 21 points.

    BNGS won in all three rounds with 28 points to defeat Lucille Education Centre that had 18 points.

    While Chukwuma and the two runners up went home with laptops, all the contesting schools won cash prizes of various amounts to enable them provide furniture for their libraries. The top three schools also got trophies, while all participants as well as those who answered questions from the audience got certificates.

     

  • School wins Rotary quiz contest

    Eva Adelaja Senior Secondary School, Bariga, Lagos has emerged the overall winner in this year’s Inter- School Quiz competition organised by Rotary Club of Gbagada South held at the school’s hall.

    It beat seven other schools to win the trophy a second time. Others were Muslim Senior College, Oworonshoki, Arcdeacon Adelaja Senior High School, SMS Grammar School, Bariga, Ifako Comprehensive Senior High School, Gbagada, Ajayi Crowther Secondary School, Bariga and Augus Memorial Secondary School.

    Rotary International District 2110 Governor-elect Dr Wale Ogunbadejo, who presented the prizes to the winners, congratulated them on their performance. He advised the winners not to rest on their oars, and the others, to prepare well against the next competition. He likened the contest to sport, where there are winners and losers.

    Rotary Club of Gbagada South President Babatunde Jeje said the contest was held to promote education in the state,  help pupils learn.

    “We should come together to improve knowledge of the pupils. By so doing, we improve the society, ” he said.

    The quiz master, Bello Olasumbo, graded the pupils’ performance average.  He said the questions were not too difficult, adding that they needed further grooming in some topics.

    The time keeper Chris Ezefula also urged pupils to up their game, especially in mathematics.

    A member of the Eva Adelaja team, Abiola Adetumbi, an SS 3 pupil, said she was happy to win, though she was nervous at the beginning.

    “I think the government should support this competition to boost education,” she added.

    At the event was an American septuagenarian Mr Nelson Anderson, an honorary member of Rotary Club (District 5170) of Morgan Hill, California.