…As NECO Announces Qualifying Exams Results
A total of 11 former participants in Cowbellpedia Secondary
School Mathematics TV Quiz Showhave scaled the qualifying examination hurdle to contest for this year’s
senior category title of the Nigeria’s foremost mathematics secondary school
competition.
The Cowbellpedia Qualifying Examination result released by the National
Examinational Council (NECO) is now available on Cowbellpedia
website: www.cowbellpedia.ng Results can also be accessed
through Facebook messenger @cowbellmilk
Last February 9, the qualifying examination for the competition
sponsored by Cowbell, the flagship brand of Promasidor Nigeria Limited, was conducted
nationwide.
All the 11 returning candidates, who
contested in the junior category two years ago, represent 10 states. Among them
is the 2017 junior champion, Jesse Uche-Nwichi of Graceland International
School, Rivers State, who will be aiming to repeat the feat of Munachi
Ernest-Eze, then a student of Loyola Jesuit College, Abuja, who won the 2017
Cowbellpedia senior category two years after being crowned the junior champion.
For this year’s edition, Oluwafemi
Adeyanju of Jesuit Memorial College Port Harcourt, Rivers State stands out
among the three candidates who achieved a perfect score in the qualifying
examination. Contesting for the junior category in 2017, Oluwafemi also scored
100 percent in the qualifying examination and went all the way to the final
only to marginally lose to the champion, Jesse Uche
- Nwichi. Oluwafemi received the prize as first runner-up.
The other two returning candidates with perfect
score this year are: Joel Ndoh of Marist Brothers’ Juniorate, Uturu, Abia State;
and Hezekiah Olabisi Ilesanmi of Bibo Oluwa Academy, Ilesa, Osun State.
Like Jesse and Oluwafemi, Joel also got to the
final of the junior category in 2017 but could not make it beyond the first
round.
Others in the Class of 2017 Junior category competition who
are back in the Senior category include: Greatman Nwachukwu of Dority
International Secondary School Abia; Joseph Agom of Topfaith International
Secondary School, Uyo, Akwa Ibom; Biobele Harry of Access High School, Calabar,
Cross River; and Emmanuel Musa Yakubu of Evangel Group of Schools, Gombe, Gombe
State.
The rest are: Yusuf Khalid Gobarau of Academy Katsina, Katsina
State; Henry Famuyiwa of Model Secondary School Alagbaka Akure, Ondo State; and
Ibrahim Isa Jajere of Nigerian Tulip International College Damaturu, Yobe
State.
At
the flag-off of the competition earlier in the year, Managing Director of
Promasidor Nigeria Limited, Mr. Anders Einarsson had disclosed
that ultimate winner in each of the two categories willwinN2 million plus an all-expense paid educational excursion outside
the country, while the first and second runners-upin each category will receive
N1.5 million and N1 million respectively.
The teachers of the top prize winners
will be awarded N500,000 while those
of the first and second runners-up will receive N400,000 and N300,000
respectively.
The Cowbellpedia Secondary School
Mathematics TV Quiz Show is organised in partnership with NECO to widen the
reach to participants across the country.
At the 2018 finals in Lagos, NECO’s
Director of Examination Development, Mr Mustapha Abdul, who represented the
Acting Registrar, Mr Abubakar Gana, commended Promasidor for the Cowbellpedia
initiative and pledged the council’s continued technical support for the
project.
He described the project as laudable
as it enables students across the country to compete openly, adding that
Promasidor deserves a national award for promoting scholarship through this
Cowbellpedia initiative over the years.
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