Stakeholders Call For More Investment In Education Programmes

The 2025 Inter-School Spelling Bee Competition, organised by My Hero Community Development Initiative (MHCDI) has ended successful Abuja with renewed calls for greater concern successful acquisition programmes that nurture literacy, self-confidence, and resilience among students successful nationalist schools.

Speaking astatine the expansive finale, the manager of the Junior Secondary Schools Department, FCT Universal Basic Education Board (UBEB),  Rahmatu Nusa, commended MHCDI for providing a level that inspires excellence among students.

She noted that the competition, which unfolded successful 2 phases and featured 270 students from 9 inferior secondary schools successful the FCT, had promoted “academic excellence, resilience, and emotion for learning” among participants.

Rahmatu described the scholarships and prizes awarded to the winners arsenic a priceless concern successful the aboriginal of the students.

“The grant of one-year scholarships to the champion 3 students from each school, arsenic good arsenic an further assistance twelvemonth to the wide winner, reflects the generosity and imaginativeness of the sponsors,” she said.

Government Secondary School (GSS) Garki emerged wide champion, winning N300,000 and a tablet, portion GSS Wuse Zone 3 clinched 2nd spot with N200,000 and a tablet. The 3rd presumption went to different participating school, with the victor receiving N150,000 and a tablet.

She urged each participants to spot themselves arsenic winners, careless of who took the apical prizes. “By participating, you person challenged yourselves, gained caller knowledge, and acceptable a modular that others volition aspire to,” she told the students.

In her remarks, the programme manager of MHCDI, Damilola Fagbohun, said the inaugural was much than conscionable a spelling contention but a solemnisation of knowledge, courage, and determination.

She explained that the task began with in-school spelling sessions earlier successful the year, wherever students discovered their strengths and built the assurance to vie astatine the inter-school level.

“The contention is not conscionable astir words; it’s astir gathering confidence, nurturing literacy, promoting steadfast competition, and proving that our nationalist schoolhouse students are conscionable arsenic intelligent and deserving of opportunities arsenic immoderate different pupil anyplace successful the world,” Fagbohun stated.

She praised the enactment of teachers, parents, and partners, noting that their encouragement fuels the aspirations of young learners.

“By virtuousness of being present today, each pupil is already a champion. You animate us, you marque america proud, and you punctual america that the aboriginal of Nigeria is bright,” she added.

The contention ended with scholarships, currency prizes, and tablets awarded to outstanding performers, portion participating schools were celebrated for their courageousness and determination.

The inaugural was supported by partners including LaserCards, Kairos Hof, Kairos Hof Energy, and the Bank of Industry.