The Rotary Club of Abuja, Garki Neighborhood has given Scholarship to six students of GSS Kubwa School for the Gifted, Gwagwalada and GSS Nyanyan for the 2022/2023 academic session.
This according to the club is in a bid to continue to encourage hard work among Secondary School students.
The President Rotary Club of Garki Neighborhood, Rotarian Zainab Owonikokow who made the presentation following the students’ sterling performance at the FCT Senior Secondary School Quiz Competition held at GSS Wuse Zone 3, Abuja noted that each of the six students were given automatic one-year sponsorship.
Ten schools drawn through a selection process that involved the FCT Secondary Education Board, participated in the quiz competition.
At the end of the exercise, the president explained that, ” GSS Kubwa emerged champions with 13 points and got the cash prize of N100,000. The School for the Gifted finished second with 12 points and got N75,000 while GSS Nyanyan finished third and went home with the cash prize of N50,000 after edging GSS Wuse 3 after a tie breaker”.
Speaking on the objective of the annual quiz competition, Rotarian Owonikoko described education as the strongest tool to the prosperity of every state.
She says Rotary Club encourages its community to be educated and learn as education gives peace, unity and civilization.
According to her, “We have different months designated for different projects. September in Rotary terms is basic education and literacy month that is why we have 10 schools competing for this competition. It is not the only prize we are giving to them, we have six participants for the first three schools and the six of them will be given a year scholarship funded by the Rotary Club of Abuja, Garki Neighbourhood and the first position has a trophy in addition to the cash prize “.
Also commenting, the Director of International Service and the past Assistant Governor of the District, Rotarian Sikiru Owonikoko, said the Garki Rotary was branded as a neighbourhood because they have not moved away from the tenet of Rotary in all they have been doing as recommended by Rotary International.
Meanwhile, Community Service Director, Rotary Garki, Rotarian Solomon Okoh, said, before any project is executed, they do needs assessment which was done in conjunction with the FCTA Secondary Education Board.
While expressing their joy to have particited at the quize competition, the six students who won the competition and got the scholarship thanked their teachers for preparing them, the organiders and God Almighty for the privilege, and promised to take their studies more seriously.
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