FCT Minister, Muhammed Musa BelloMinister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Malam Muhammad Musa Bello, today, Monday, received students of different secondary schools in the capital city who won various academic and other prizes and honours.
They are students of the Government Girls Secondary School, Abaji who won the 2016 World Cup of the Student Advancement in Global Entrepreneurship (SAGE), winners of 2016 NNPC National Science Competition, winners of the National Science Teachers Competition (Senior category GSS Wuse), winners of the National Science Teachers Competition (Junior category JSS Pasali) and the winners of the National Science Teachers Competition (Primary category LEA Primary School, Jabi).
The Minister congratulated the students/pupils and the teachers for doing the country and FCT proud by coming first in all the competitions, and that his Administration would do everything to improve educational infrastructure in FCT public schools to give the teachers and students conducive environment to excel.
He stressed that education remains the foundation and bedrock of any economy or system in any society and would therefore remain top priority of his Administration even as he called for hard work and rededication by all stakeholders to sustain the feat achieved so far by coming first in all these competitions even at the global stage.
Muhammad Bello promised to continue to support the Secretariat for the growth and development of the educational sub-sector.
The Secretary of the FCT Education Secretariat, Musa Maikasuwa Yakubu, who presented the victorious students to the Minister appreciated the support given to the Secretariat to travel to Manila, Philippines for the SAGE Competition.
He said that with the exception of one student out the three who is from Loyola Jesuit College, Gidan-Mangoro that participated in NNPC National Science Competition, all other winners are from the public schools, owned and managed by the FCT Administration. [myad]
