From Rhoda Godwin, Yenagoa
The organizers of Spelling Bee Bayelsa has called on state government and other relevant agencies to give support to the program, as winners emerged from the tenth edition of the competition for the Junior and Senior categories.
The Spelling Bee competition which was held at Davem Mini Hub & Children Music School, at the weekend inYenagoa had the Spellers winning cash prizes of up to N150,000, 75,000, and 50,000 respectively and many other gift items.
The two days event had the Junior Category, Mame Joanna from the Jacob Beredugo International School emerged as the winner while Mame Eliora from the same school came second,
Nnamdi Chinaza, from Amcel Breed International school, came third, Latica Ojukonsin, also from Amcel Breed International school took forth and Amaegbe Patricia from Tarepet Montessori Group of Schools took fifth position.
In the Senior Category, the first position went to Inko Sodana Precious from Tarepet Montessori Group of Schools. Miss Opuene Michelle from New Total Child Academy took the second position. There was a tie in the third position between Berachah Michelle Okumoko from Faith Comprehensive International Secondary School and Ominigbo Amararu Natei from New Total Child Academy hence the fifth position went to Ebi-Samuel Marvellous from New Total Child Academy.
Speaking on the success of event, the Convener, Dr Ebidenyefa Tarila Nikade expressed her heartfelt appreciation to the front line sponsors, Sundry Foods, Market square, First Exploration & Petroleum Development Company Limited, Lagos, and other local brands that gave their support in making the Spelling Bee a success.
Dr Nikade said, “today we hosted the 10th edition of the event for pupils in public and private Primary School in Bayelsa State.
“This is the first time we are concentrating on science based words and the children were able to assimilate them and reproduce them round after round until a winner emerged.
“It’s been a fantastic experience, quite intriguing, quite a lot of anxiety attacks from the children, it was fun filled, entertaining and educative as well.
“This is a program that is supposed to be supported by the relevant agencies and the government but we have not been fortunate to access that level of commitment from those agencies.
“But the Spelling Bee, Bayelsa has been endorsed by the Ministry of Education, so they are aware that this kind of program is ongoing, they give us permission to host the program, to also invite public and private schools to participate in the program, so they are aware, that is the much support they have given to us.
“Every year is an improvement on the previous one so we are hopeful that next year would be better than this one.”
She therefore called on the state government and other relevant agencies to give support to the Spelling Bee program which is a yearly event.
Highpoint of the event was presentation of checks to winners of the spelling Bee for primary and secondary categories, with Dictionaries, school bags, scramble games and many other items
