Gombe wins 2017 National ICT WHIZKIDS contest

@Haroungimba Two Gombe based private schools, Pen Resource Academy and Gombe High School, have emerged winners at the 2017 National Information Technology Whiz Kid Competition held in Abuja.

The Pen Resource Academy emerged overall winners while Gombe High School beats other schools to clinched third position in a competition organized by the Nigerian Computer Society (NCS) for secondary schools nationwide.

They both received a desktop computer, printer, tablet and certificates of recognition from the NCS. Presenting the prizes to the schools, the North-East Coordinator of the NCS, Engr. Gambo Abdullahi Shehu said the competition was created to encourage amd promote ICT among young Nigerians.

He explained that both schools have done the North-East proud, a zone ravaged by the activities of insurgents.

Principal of Pen Resource Academy, Dr Stanley Maikano said the school has maintained high standards since it was established in 2012.

He said the school will integrate 60 per cent British Curriculum and 40 per cent Nigerian curriculum in its primary and secondary school by 2018, to boost the students’ performance in their internal and external examinations.

The state Commissioner for Higher Education, Dr Isa Mohammed Wade, pledged to make sure that one of the public schools in the state is among the winners in next years’ competition. As the 2019 general elections draw closer, Nigerian youth have been urged to resist any crave to engage in electoral violence to enriching themselves.

The National Chairman of National Liberation Forum (NLF), Engr Haleem Hassan, made this call in a statement after the inauguration of interim executive officials, who would sensitise youths on improved national leadership.

Hassan lamented that the violence recorded in most parts of Nigeria are as a result of youths engaged by selfish politicians, who armed them with dangerous weapons to perpetrate violence during elections.

He said that Nigeria would only have the true transformation the country long for, if the youths are given the opportunity to take charge of over 80 per cent of the leadership roles in the country.

“The youth should be given the opportunity to take over the leadership affairs of Nigeria, because this country needs fresh ideas and initiatives that will change the situation of Nigeria for the better.

“We are tired of old ideas that are been recycled for years by our aged leaders without positive results,” he explained.

Hassan also blamed the youth for being used and dumped by selfish prehistoric politicians who always neglected them in leadership positions.