Kogi State has won the Zonal finals of 2022 Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) National Science Quiz Competition of Secondary Schools in the North Central zone.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that students from Kogi, Kwara, Benue, Nasarawa, Niger, Plateau and the FCT Abuja, participated in the quiz competition at Baptist High School, Lokoja.
The National Coordinator, NNPC National Science Quiz Competition, Mr Tayo Sanni, who announced the results, said the students were tested in various science subjects, and Kogi emerged the winner.
According to him, Kogi emerged first position with 65 points, FCT came second with 60 points, while Plateau came third with 55 points.
”Benue got fourth position with 50 points; Nassarawa, fifth with 45 points; while Niger and Kwara States, came sixth and seventh with 40 and 35 points respectively,” he said.
In his remarks, Mr Garba Muhammad, the Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, NNPC, congratulated the schools and their students for representing their states in the zonal contest.
Muhammad, represented by his Technical Assistant on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Mrs Doris Lepsen, said the NNPC had made intervention in education and capacity development areas, as a fulcrum of its approach to Corporate Social Responsibility.
Earlier, the Kogi Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Wemi Jones, commended the NNPC for the choice of Kogi to host the 2022 edition of the annual competition.
He said that Gov. Yahaya Bello, had duly promoted and elevated the status of education in the state.
Ibrahim Abdultareeq, a 14 year old SS 2 student of Champion Group of Schools, Otite, Okehi Local Government Area, represented Kogi State at the competition. (NAN)
