Managing Director of Promasidor Nigeria Mr. Olivier Thiry has advocated the need to pay greater attention to mathematics and science education, saying it would enhance government agenda on economic diversification.
Thiry, who made the call at a press briefing in Lagos on the 2016 edition of the Cowbellpedia Secondary School Mathematics T.V Quiz competition, posited that science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education is all that Nigeria requires at this time to broaden its economic base from a primary commodity-driven one to a services-oriented economy that the developed world boasts.
“Economic development in the developed world has occurred at the speed and intensity it has due to a strong foundation of STEM education,” he said.
“STEM courses are pivotal to a nation’s technological advancement and mathematics, which has historically been seen by students as an unattractive subject, is a key component of STEM education,” Thiry said.
This year, he said, the top prize student winner in each category (junior and senior classes) will go home with N1 million, in addition to other prizes, while the winning teacher will be awarded N400,000.
The first and second runners-up in the student category will receive N750,000 and N500,000, while teachers will receive the sums of N300,000 and N200,000.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday interrogated former Governor of Akwa Ibom State Godswill Akpabio over allegation of financial crimes. Daily Trust gathered that Akpabio honoured the invitation by the anti-graft agency to explain allegations of looting of the state’s funds during his tenure. Sources told our correspondent that Senator Akpabio was being interrogated late yesterday evening at the Abuja head offices of the Commission. He was spotted at the EFFC office in company of a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Rickey Tarfa, at about 5:20pm. Akpabio’s arrest yesterday is fallout of the petition by an Abuja-based lawyer and activist, Leo Ekpenyong, who had on June 8 this year petitioned President Muhammadu Buhari and the EFCC, calling for Senator Akpabio’s probe and accusing him of looting. The petitioner had earlier on Wednesday adopted his petition and provided more details to the anti-graft agency on the allegations against the minority leader of People...
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