Rotimi Ojomoyela
Ekiti state has re-enacted its leading position in the nation’s education sector as it produced the Best Nigerian Secondary School Teacher and Second Best Primary School awards in the 2013 edition of President’s teachers’ schools award.
The teachers are Mr Michael Osiagwu of AUD High School, Ire Ekiti who got a KIA Picanto and Mrs Sesan Bosede of AUD Pilot Primary School, Ado- Ekiti.
The state which also produced the third best primary school teacher got virtually all the trophies for the Fracophone competition for states in the South-west as Victor Obi of Anglican High School Ado Ekiti and Felix Adegboyega of Ekiti Baptist High School emerged first and second respectively in the competition.
In the quiz aspect of the Francophone competition Omoya Timileyin of Anglican Grammar School Ado Ekiti came first while the same school led by Omosule Banke came second in the Dance competition.
Also Makinde Seun of the State College of Education Demonstration Secondary School, Ikere Ekiti emerged first in the annual National Mathematics competition organised by the National Mathematics Association of Nigeria and also came second in the International Junior Olympian Competition.
Receiving the awardees, Governor Kayode Fayemi expressed delight at the rapid transformation in the State’s education sector, saying that the investment of the present administration is gradually being reciprocated and yielding fruits.
Fayemi said the state College of Education Ikere Ekiti “now ranks as one of the best colleges of education in Nigeria,” stated that the efforts on the state university had also produced good fruits with EKSU moving from 216th position to 17th position in the webometric ranking of varsities.
Meanwhile, Fayemi has offered Makinde Seun, an orphan who won two trophies for the College of Education Demonstration School a scholarship to continue his education.
He commended Ekiti teachers for putting in their very good performance to prove that public education has much more to offer the people than private education.
