Love Afodu Standard School, wins 6th edition of Comrade Mulade Quiz Competition

Love Afodu Standard School in Igbidi, Isoko South Local Government Area of Delta State, on Wednesday February 16, won the 6th edition of the Comrade Sheriff Mulade Inter-Local Government Quiz competition, courtesy of Center for Peace Environmental Justice, CEPEJ.

Our Correspondent reports that the grand finale of the quiz competition, which held at Federal Government College, Warri, saw Love Afodu Standard School, going home with one hundred thousand naira.

11-year old JSS3 student, Efiri T. Trust-God, of Gbesa Grammar School, Ojobo in Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State, was given scholarship by Comrade Mulade and Gbesa Grammar School, Ojobo, went home with a cash reward of seventy thousand naira, for emerging the first-runner up.

Iwere College, Koko in Warri North Local Government Area, won the third position and went home with fifty thousand naira.

Fresh Angle International understands that schools that participated in this year’s quiz competitions are; Akugbene Grammar School, Bomadi; Love Afodu Standard School, Igbidi in Isoko South Local Government Area; Gbesa Grammar School, Ojobo in Burutu Local Government Area, Iwere College, Koko in Warri North Local Government Area; Government Model Secondary School, Patani in Patani Local Government Area; Erejuwa II Grammar School, Ode-Itsekiri in Warri South Local Government Area; Evans International School, Emevor in Isoko North Local Government Area and Ogbe-Ijoh Grammar School, Ogbe-Ijoh in Warri South-West Local Government Area.

Comrade Sheriff Mulade (on hat) with other dignitaries, Principals of various schools & beneficiaries, in a group photograph, shortly after the programme

The Comrade Sheriff Mulade Quiz and Essay Competition for Junior and Senior Secondary Schools in Delta South Senatorial District, is organized annually. While students in Junior Secondary School, participate in the quiz competition, their counterparts in the Senior Secondary School, partake in the essay competition.

In the Essay competition, Abraham Rudolph, an SSS2 student of Kpakiama Secondary School, Kpakiama in Bomadi Local Government Area, won the first prize of fifty thousand naira, with 36 points and Jolomi Stephanie, an SSS3 student of Beach Secondary School, Koko emerged second with 20 points, going home with a cash prize of thirty thousand naira. Odaderia Eloroghene of Oproza Grammar School, Patani, won the third prize of twenty thousand naira with 18 points. 

Video Clip Of Comrade Sheriff Mulade, delivering his speech

The National Coordinator/CEO of Center for Peace and Environmental Justice, CEPEJ, Comrade Sheriff Mulade, in his speech, explained: “The Quiz and Essay Competitions for the Riverine/Rural Secondary Schools in the State, is aimed at bridging the gap between the Riverine, Rural Schools and their Urban counterparts, so that the coastal schools can have a full taste of what they have been denied over time, in terms of academic competitions and exposures”. 

Comrade Mulade, further noted that the primary aim of CEPEJ, was to promote educational awareness among the Riverine/Rural communities, as well as to assist the less-privileged and to support education of highly intelligent students with scholarship. 

He called on Delta State Governor, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa as well as other South-South Governors and multinational oil companies, to pay more attention to the improvement of the educational sector at rural and riverine areas.

"We urge multinational oil companies, operating in these areas (rural and riverine) to channel more of their corporate social responsibility functions to the development of education, so as to help reduce illiteracy and put an end to civil unrests in their operational areas”, Mulade stated.

Comrade Mulade, added: "I was a victim of lack of education, due to the challenges of the riverine terrain, where there is poor education and lack of facility for learning. I lived in the creeks and struggled through education, with strong determination, I was able to acquire the level of education that I have today. If I can make it, then you also can have it".

A Cross section of some participants, during the grand finale     

He advised the students: “Never to give up their determination for quality education, as they work hard and live a life of hope". 

The Chairman of Warri South Local Government Area, Dr. Michael Tidi, who was also chairman of the occasion, told Comrade Mulade: “God Almighty, is aware of what you are doing and He will continue to lift you, for giving our children this opportunity, even to the rural and urban areas”.

Dr. Tidi, who was represented by Ighomrore .E. Hope, admonished the students not to rest on their oars, but keep on striving.

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