Yobe wins Operation Hadin Kai quiz competition with N750, 000 prize
By Njadvara Musa, Maiduguri
The Fika Government Secondary School (FGSS), Potiskum in Yobe state, has won the 2023 Operation Hadin Kai (OPHK) quiz competition in Northeast.
According to the Nigerian Army, the competition was to encourage students take academic activities seriously and excel at higher education levels.
Declaring the quiz open, yesterday (Thursday), in Maiduguri, OPHK Theatre Commander, Maj-Gen, Gold Chibuisi, disclosed: “We’re here today to witness one of the non-kinetic community impacting endeavours instituted by the leadership of Joint Task Force (JTF), OPHK.
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“It’s the grand finale of the maiden inter-secondary school quiz competition in the Northeast,” adding the competition is the brainchild of the Commander to encourage young ones to take their academic activities seriously,
He noted that the exercise will secure students’ future with insurgency-free education in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states.
Besides, the Commander, added that quiz competition among schools is the convergence and emerge of winners from the three participating states affected in the over a decade insurgency.
During the quiz competition in Mathematics, English and General Studies to answer 40 questions in each of the subjects, FGSS scored 40 points to emerge the winner of this year’s quiz competition.
Yerwa Secondary School (YSS), Maiduguri, scored 30 points to emerge second, while Government Secondary School (GSS), Garkida, Adamawa state came third with 28 points.
While presenting certificates, medals and prizes awards to three participating secondary schools and their students, FGSS was given a cash prize of N500, 000, while YSS and GSS were each given N250, 000 and N150, 000 respectively for emerging second and third positions.
The nine participating students were also each given cash prizes of N20, 000, N30, 000 and N50, 000 for the first, second and third positions in the quiz competition.
Customized text and exercise books worth N200, 000 were also distributed to all the quiz participating students of the three secondary schools.
The Borno State Commissioner of Education, Science, Innovation and Technology, represented by the Director, Education, Ali Musa, said that the Nigerian Army has enabled schools in the state to open for academic activities.
“This is the first time for a student in the Northeast to win a prize of N50, 000, while the school he or she represents also won N500, 000 at the end of the OPHK quiz competition,” he said.
The Director, therefore, challenged the teachers to emulate what the Army has done in the education and health sectors, including the restoration of peace in the state.
