NILDS Organises Quiz Competition For Bauchi Schools

The National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies (NILDS) has organised an inter-school quiz contention for secondary schoolhouse students successful Bauchi State.

Speaking earlier the commencement of the 2025 variation of the nationalist statement which focuses connected the legislature, ideology and governance, the director-general of the NILDS, Prof Abubakar Sulaiman, said the workout is to deepen the cognition of legislative and antiauthoritarian governance among secondary schoolhouse students.

According to him, it is besides to animate young Nigerians to cultivate the involvement to enactment successful legislative governance.

He explained that enhancing the cognition of young Nigerians successful the legislature would not lone foster an inclusive and participatory legislature successful Nigeria but would besides service arsenic an avenue for national engagement successful the legislative process.

Represented by Dr Hadiza Sa’idu, NILDS coordinator, Sulaiman added that the quiz contention would instrumentality spot successful each the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

“This 10th variation of the contention is truthful the 4th clip the contention has been held astatine the nationalist level.

“As the 2025 NILDS National Quiz Competition is declared open, I truthful impulse each competing students and their teachers to abide by the rules of the crippled truthful that the desired objectives of the contention are achieved,” helium said.

The state’s commissioner for Education, Dr Muhammed Lawal, said the workout was a invited improvement successful the ellipse of education, adding that it is simply a crushed wherever students successful the authorities could beryllium tested among different students.

“This volition alteration america to amended the prime of our transportation successful our assorted schools to our teeming students crossed the state.

“I privation them to instrumentality it upon themselves that successful an engagement similar this, determination is nary loser. You enactment successful your best, and if astatine the extremity of the day, you don’t marque it up to the top, your efforts volition beryllium crowned.

“I anticipation this volition beryllium good covered due to the fact that it volition stimulate different schools to beryllium portion of and execute amended truthful that they tin travel up to this level arsenic well,” helium said.

Announcing the victor of the contention astatine the authorities level, the president of the House Committee connected Education, Bauchi State House of Assembly, Mr Nasiru Alah, declared Government Day Secondary School, Bulkachuwa, arsenic the wide winner;

Government Secondary School, Gamawa, arsenic the archetypal runner-up up portion Government Girls Day Secondary School, Dagaud, came arsenic the 2nd runner-up.

Other schools that participated successful the contention successful the authorities included Fariah Foundation School, Government Secondary School Ningi and Government Day Secondary School, Rimin-Zayam.