Delta school wins in AGIP quiz

St. Michael Secondary School, Oleh, Delta State, has won the grand finale of this year’s Nigerian Agip Oil Company-Green River Project (NAOC-GRP) Agricultural Quiz Competition for Secondary Schools in host communities of the company in Port Harcourt.

St Michael Secondary School scored 33 points to beat Kins Comprehensive College, Omoku, Rivers State, which scored 13 and half points to take the second position in the contest that started on May 2 with 74 secondary schools from the host communities.

While 30 secondary schools came from the swampy area, 44 came from the land area of NAOC host communities spread across Bayelsa, Delta, Imo and Rivers states. Incidentally, the first and second prize winners are from the land area.

For coming tops, St Michael Secondary School, went home with a trophy, shield, laptop computers for the students and the teacher, agricultural text books, slashing machine, knapsack sprayer, wheel barrow and spades.

Kins Comprehensive College, Omoku was presented with a shield, laptop computers for the students and the teacher, agricultural text books, slashing machine, knapsack sprayer and spades.

Government Secondary School, Ndoni, Rivers State which emerged third position in the semi-final got a plaque, laptop computers for the students and the teacher, agricultural text books, slashing machine and knapsack sprayer while consolation prizes of agricultural text books were given to other schools that participated in the competition.

The three pupils who represented St Michael Secondary School in the quiz competition were given a one academic year scholarship while Miss Ijeoma Ahiakwo, one of the representatives of Kins Comprehensive College, Omoku, who already has a scholarship from NAOC running is allowed to continue with it.

The Public Relations, Communication and Government Liaison Manager of NAOC, Prince Nwachukwu Obi, who represented the firm at the event, said the competition which made some of the pupils to shed tears and emotion is an indication of their desire to rise.

Obi said the contest is channelled towards human development because while the company produced oil, “man cannot use it if he does not know how.”

Obi noted that no nation working with it government apparatchik can develop the country alone; adding that its concerted efforts by government, organisations and individuals would achieve greatness.

He also expressed hope that the competition would in future “create greater minds that will not cram but have the knowledge and be able to apply it when need be.”

He commended the participants’ teachers for imparting knowledge into them. He expressed hope that someday the company would celebrate them since he does not believe teachers reward should be in heaven alone.

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