‘We want more youths to attain Microsoft Championship’

The Group Managing Director of Zenith Bank Plc, Peter Amangbo, has expressed the bank’s desire to increase the number of Nigerian youths participating in the annual Certiport Microsoft Office Specialist World Championship event.

Amangbo made the disclosure at the reception and presentation of cheques in Lagos to members of Team Nigeria who participated in the 2017 world championship in California.

He said the decision to expand the number being prepared by the ReadManna Empowerment Initiative was because every concerned stakeholder must be involved in the technologically viable future of Nigeria.

“Zenith Bank is very much interested in the continuous participation of Nigerian youths in the global event. Our priority is to see to more Nigerian youths benefitting from a world driven by technology,” Amangbo said.

The Chief Executive Officer of ReadManna, Mrs. Edna Augusto, said to select the Nigerian contingent who participated at the world stage, a national competition was held between August 2016 and April 2017 with 882 entries from 20 secondary schools.

She said the competition ended with 112 out of 161 students shortlisted for the national competition certified in Microsoft Excel, Powerpoint and Word.

“The national winners in the six programmes and Mr. Stephen Adeyemi, the ICT teacher of Glisten International Academy, Abuja, formed the national team that competed at the 2017 World Championship where 157 students from 50 countries participated,” Augusto said.