GGSTC Kano Emerges Winner of ICT Quiz Competition

Government Girl’s Science and Technical College Kano has emerged  the winner of this year’s ICT annual quiz competition  organized  by the Centre for Information Technology and Development (Citad ) for secondary school students held recently in Kano .
Government Technical College Wudil and Hauwa Memorial College Funtua came second and third respectively in the competition that was attended by two representatives each from twenty nine secondary schools from Kano, Katsina, Bauchi and Jigawa states.
.Announcing the winner, Abdullahi Ibrahim Nashe, managing director of Mediwat Computer Institute, Kano said this year’s overall best student was Maude Yusuf from Government Technical College, Wudil while Nusaiba Ibrahim Rabi’u from Government Science and Technical College, Kano emerged as the best female student.
The winning schools, Government Girls Science and Technical College Kano won brand new laptop computers donated by Microsoft Nigeria, the second best school, Government Technical College, Wudil won a brand new desktop computer while Hauwa Memorial College, Funtua, won a new LaserJet Printer. Other prizes included television set for the best female student, refurbished PC was given to the best male student, wall clocks were given to the winning schools’ teachers; and computer text books were given to all staff and students who participated in the competition.
Nashe, the proprietor of Mediwat School of Computer Sciences announced the donation of computer to GSS Sharada, a participating school from Kano State. He said the donation was to signal his enrollment to the Old Students Personal Computer (OSPC) scheme of the Information Technology Association of Nigeria (Itan), which had been launched days earlier in Kano.
In his speech, Rabi’u Yusuf Alhaji, representative of the Kano State commissioner for education who is also the director for education support services, congratulated the winner and commended Citad for the wonderful initiative which he urged other IT organizations to emulate. He said the Ministry was fully prepared to support this programme, while urging the organizers to seek government support  in  the initiative.
In his closing remarks, Y. Z. Ya’u, executive director of Citad, expressed appreciation at the support and the assistance given towards the successful conduct of the quiz competition, while thanking the students, their teachers and principals of the participating schools for honoring the invitation to be part of the event.
He pointed out that the donation made by Microsoft to the competition had shown how far the initiative has gone in IT world; even as he lauded the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), and the office of the special adviser to the Kano state governor on education and information technology for their support to the quiz programme.
Ya’u also commended the Kano state government for its dynamism in educational pursuit, assuring that Citad will continue to be committed to producing self-reliant and patriotic up-coming generation of the youth.