Rivers indigent student breaks JAMB record in Showers Int’l School with 334 score
that baffle even external examiners. Students from such a background have so far gone ahead to shake the world and end up as top and confident leaders so far.
Ike also had best result in the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) Rivers State in 2017 examination for junior secondary schools where he scored A in all subjects with 14 distinctions (14As) in 2017.
Ike, who comes from the Catch Them Young (CDY) scheme of Showers in conjunction with Total E&P Education Initiative, wants to study Mechanical Engineering in the University of Lagos. He hails from Amah in Ogba, Egbema, Ndoni local government area (ONELGA) of Rivers State.
Ike’s result is among the best so far released from Rivers State and Nigeria with a student from Ahoada scoring 361 and another from the north topping the national chart with 366. Showers students however start from year one to sweat to write exams without any single assistance, a feat that has made the school dreaded but famous in the Garden City and entire Niger Delta. In some years, Showers students win best results awards from the British Council for all of Nigeria.
Apart from Ike who scored English A 87 per cent, Maths. A* 93 per cent, and Combined Science A* (as best over all), others who made top showings include Timothy Ezike (English 82, Maths 86, Physics 83, Chemistry 80, Biology 81). Eden O. Temerigha English 85, Biology 84, Maths 66; Kingsley Agburuga Maths 88, Combined Science 89, English 69; Progress Goodluck Combined Science 85, English 74, Maths 69; Isaac Onyekachi Combined Science 83, Maths 77, English, 67; and many others.
Reacting, the founder and CEO of Showers Group, Ekama Emilia Akpan, said;
“Rivers State has proved again why they are there at the top of Nigerian education but more efforts needed to follow up these exceptionally brilliant children and absorb them in the systems once they finished. He seems to also follow after the likes of Chilem Amirize and Promise Emeri who achieved First Class in Business Administration and Geology respectively in 2019 from a private university. These were the Premier CDY students of Egi communality, Rivers State, who set the pace for others to match. They prove that if absorbed in any organization, they shall prove their mettle.
Showers Schools thus thank the state government for providing enabling environment for education and businesses to return. Total E&P also got commendations for the initiative to fish out a lot of young brains that were wallowing in very poor rural schools to an elite college in the Garden City where they have overtaken the world. It is believed that this is a sign that most of the boys now carrying guns in the communities could be world beaters in academics and industries, if harnessed.
Akpan appealed to individuals to support the Catch Dem Young Initiative to bring to board young brains that will be will guarded to use their natural intelligence to do something positive for the state developmental efforts.