League of Anambra Professionals (LAP) baptises over 80 SS2 students with thousands of Naira

www.odogwublog.com reports that the League of Anambra Professionals (LAP), under the Education Committee as chaired by Prof. Christian Ezeigbo conducted a grand finale of the State quiz 2017 as a way of encouraging the students to continue

to become enlightened and work towards academic excellence and lead in the National Academic Exercise on this day 31^st May baptised our SS2 students with thousands of Naira. This exercise was in collaboration with the Ministry of Education, Anambra State

The President of the League, Mr. Willie Nze with His Team, Prof. Christian Ezeigbo (Exco and Chairman Education Committee), Prof. Phil Eze (Exco Member, Education Committee), Prof. Nwanna (Member), Buchi Ochuba (LAP Administrator), Mr. Peter Eze (LAP Member) and Mr. Chike Nwegbe (LAP Member) were all present at the final competition held at the Main hall of St. John of God Secondary School, Awka.

The students who were drawn from the 21 Local Government Areas of Anambra State and had earlier won 1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd Positions were slated to compete for the ultimate prizes of N100, 000.00 and N50,000.00 as well as N30,000.000 and N5,000 consolation prizes to the 4^th, 5^th and 6^th positions. The written Examination conducted today gave birth to first six students out of 63 students to compete for the ultimate prizes unto consolation prizes altogether through oral quiz.

It would be recalled that the 6 Zonal Education Officers (ZEOs) of the Educational Zones of the State namely Aguata, Awka, Nnewi, Ogidi, Onitsha and Otuocha Zones with their Area Education Officers (AEOs) of the Ministry of Education conducted Local Government Quiz held fortnight ago in the 21 Local Government Areas of the State were the 1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd positions went home with N12,000.00 and N8,000.00 as well as N5,000.000 respectively and thus 63 students were rewarded at Local Government Level.

The Acting Director, Education Services Department, Mrs Monic Okoye in her appreciation to the League of Anambra Professional (LAP) thanked them for coming up with this exercise to reinforce and encourage the Students to continue working hard toward academic excellence in learning and in character. She went on to express her gratitude to the Honourable Commissioner for Education, Prof. Kate Azuka Omenugha for approving the Programme to be held in the State. The Commissioner breezed in during the quiz competition but did not stay long. Also, she thanked very immensely the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Education, Mrs Ifeoma Ezeaku for coordinating the Preliminary selection quiz conducted at the Zonal Level across the 6 Educational zones in the State.

Others present in the programmes were Members of the Ministry of Education, Teachers of the various schools, parents and guardians as well as other passer-by. Onwube Mike was the Time Keeper, Modesta Adigom was the Recorder of the scores, Amaka Molokwu was the Igbo Language Mistress. Others were Samuel Obi the Quiz Master Mathematics, Ifebu Nnatuanya in charge of ICT and Teacher in Charge of English Language was Miss Chinyere Ndeche. The PRO of the Ministry of Education Mr. Emeka Egwuonwu was the Quiz Moderator.

Contenders for the ultimate prizes were as follows according to their positions starting from the first position in the written section exams for the Oral final deciding category:

1^st Position - Anadi Vincent Uzochukwu Tansi International College Okpuno

2^nd Position – Ucheagwu Francisca Chidimma Sancta Maria Ozubulu

3^rd Position – Nwebunne Chukwubuikem P. Marist Comprehensive College Nteje

4^th Position - Chinwendu Kennedy Divine Royal International College Nkpor

5^th Position - Ifechukwu Ifeoma Grace – Maria Regina, Nnewi

6^th Position - Onu Emmanuel Nzubechukwu – Arch Bishop Onyemelukwe Onitsha

After the oral quiz but the final context, the following positions emerged as thus:

1^st Onu Emmanuel Nzubechukwu – Arch Bishop Onyemelukwe Onitsha

2^nd Position – Ucheagwu Francisca Chidimma Sancta Maria Ozubulu

2^nd Position – Nwebunne Chukwubuikem P. Marist Comprehensive College Nteje

3^rd Position - Anadi Vincent Uzochukwu Tansi International College Okpuno

4^th Position Chinwendu Kennedy Divine Royal International College Nkpor

4^th Position - Ifechukwu Ifeoma Grace – Maria Regina, Nnewi

Two persons had aggregate positions of 2^nd and 4^th positions and this led to the repeating the quiz to select the second and third positions by those who had 2^nd Positions each. The subject areas the students were asked to choose their questions were English Language and ICT. After this time around the second position emerged and the runner up took 3^rd Position and in that order.

1^st Onu Emmanuel Nzubechukwu – Arch Bishop Onyemelukwe Onitsha – N100, 000.00