Winners emerge in top competition for Nigerian secondary school students

• In an epoch of Artificial Intelligence (AI), experts person said radical should not trust solely connected the famed machine
• Young Africans were urged to leverage the accidental of AI to physique and refine almighty knowledge
• Education stakeholders and Nigerian students converged successful Lagos precocious to observe world excellence

Legit.ng journalist, Ridwan Adeola Yusuf, has implicit 9 years of acquisition covering education successful Nigeria and worldwide.

Alimosho, Lagos state - Adekunle Aliyah, a pupil of Anchor Springfield School, Lagos, has emerged the wide victor of the Academic Excellence Initiative (AEI) 2025 Annual Award/Scholars Day programme.

Legit.ng reports that Aliyah bagged 84% successful the quiz lawsuit to clinch the apical prize.

Winners look arsenic AEI holds 2025 Award/Scholars Day. Photos credit: Academic Excellence Initiative Alimosho
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In the competition, which attracted students from divers backgrounds, Orisumibare Senior High School's Munachi Emmanuella came second, portion Muhammed Beyioku of Minbar-minds College placed 3rd aft scoring 82%.

Speaking astatine the event, Taiwo Fagbemi, the president of the occasion, congratulated the organisers. Fagbemi asserted that it "takes a large woody of courage, vision, and dedication to enactment unneurotic specified a meaningful programme for our children, 1 that promotes acquisition maturation and world excellence."

He said:

"As the taxable of this year’s lawsuit says, 'Redefining Academic Excellence successful the Era of Artificial Intelligence,' it is genuinely inspiring to spot our children already catching up, particularly successful the ever-evolving tract of artificial intelligence. There are countless opportunities embedded successful what we present telephone Artificial quality (AI)."

Fagbemi expressed anticipation that young Nigerians absorption connected the affirmative and productive aspects of AI.

He added:

"While each innovation comes with its risks, AI, erstwhile utilized creatively, holds immense imaginable to assistance young minds execute unthinkable things."

In the aforesaid vein, the Guest of Honour, Ambassador Tunji Sarafa Isola, said events similar AEI's Scholars Day "are precise important successful our socio-economic development."

The erstwhile Nigerian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom (UK) said:

"Education, arsenic we each know, is the bedrock of advancement successful immoderate society. When radical travel unneurotic with the intent to beforehand education, it is thing genuinely commendable, and that is wherefore I had nary hesitation successful identifying with your cause."On my part, and connected a voluntary basis, I person ever made it a work to renew the minds of household members and those astir maine connected the value of education. Today, we are present speaking, sharing ideas, and engaging with 1 different due to the fact that we are educated. Without education, our contributions and relevance successful nine would beryllium limited."

Isola noted that the challenges facing his country's governmental improvement are profoundly rooted successful illiteracy and poverty. Both, helium said, are captious concerns that impact the nation's antiauthoritarian travel and the quality of citizens to meaningfully prosecute successful the societal and governmental improvement of our nation.

Isola said:

"What you person done present today, recognising and celebrating radical who are promoting education, is simply a noble and inspiring gesture."

Ambassador Isola Sarafa receiving an grant from AEI.
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‘How to usage AI to root scholarships,’ adept shares

Meanwhile, the keynote speaker, Tunde Aborode, shared an expert's cognition connected ethical and beneficial usage of AI.

Aborode, the Research Director of the Healthy Africans Platform, United States, explained that AI is simply a gyration successful the modern era. He, however, said that during the hunt for assistance opportunities, 1 needs to recognize his oregon her niche and story.

His words:

“AI tin enactment successful antithetic aspects and stages successful scholarships. The archetypal portion is the sourcing for the assistance itself. Number 2 is that it tin really assistance successful knowing the scholarship. Third, it tin assistance successful preparing the worldly for the scholarship.“You tin constitute down your illustration and hunt for prompts. You tin archer AI, ‘find maine scholarships that lucifer these criteria oregon eligibility’. Now, you database each your achievements below. It volition respond with scholarships database that conscionable your level of proficiency.“So, this is 1 of the benefits of AI. It eases stress. AI volition bring your achievements to those scholarships that are online that you mightiness not person the accidental to beryllium capable to see. So, it eases the process of you searching for scholarships. It would springiness you scholarships that are successful your tract of endeavour, that are wrong your country of concentration, that are wrong your country of interest, and that are wrong your profile. So, it eases the travel for those who are searching for postgraduate and undergraduate scholarships.”

Speaking further, Aborode explained that “AI can assistance you lone if you assistance yourself”.

He reasoned:

“If you don’t recognize your story, AI cannot recognize your communicative amended than you. When you usage AI, you request to usage it wisely. For example, you privation to constitute a connection of purpose, your connection of intent volition beryllium based connected your story. And AI cannot constitute a amended communicative for you. You person to constitute your story. But what AI tin bash is, it tin fine-tune your communicative to conscionable the sensation you tin have. AI tin assistance you rewrite, modify, and embellish the effort to captivate the minds of the judges that are reviewing your assistance application.”

How AI tin assistance you flooded hurdles of scholarship

Legit.ng spoke to Aborode connected the sidelines of the event. The probe adept noted that AI tin assistance acquisition enthusiasts flooded the hurdles of the assistance by preparing them for interviews.

He said:

"You tin inquire AI, ‘what should I beryllium expecting successful an interrogation for this peculiar scholarship’? It tin bring retired applicable questions that radical person been searching connected Facebook, Instagram, and what radical person posted successful the past that tin assistance you, that tin bid you, and hole your caput for the interrogation ahead. It tin adjacent springiness you the best-choice answers.”

Legit.ng reports that a full of 63 schools were represented successful the AEI 2025 Annual Award/Scholars Day, with 197 students. The winners were rewarded with currency prizes.

Apart from the Scholars Day, AEI, the non-governmental organisation, puts unneurotic play coaching classes, enactment training, and younker predisposition programmes.

Top personalities similar Dr. Nasir Baba-Ahmed, the main enforcement serviceman (CEO) of Octagon Cybersecurity, France, and Prince Michael Adewoye, Director of Racy and Sturgy Schools, Lagos state, besides grace the 2025 Scholars Day. Messrs Baba-Ahmed and Adewoye dished retired counsels to the students.

The database of winners is highlighted below:

Name: Adekunle Aliyah

School: Anchor Springfield School

Position: 1st position

Score: 42 retired of 50

Percentage: 84%

Name: Munachi Emmanuella

School: Orisumibare Senior High School

Position: 2nd position

Score: 42 retired of 50

Percentage: 84%

Name: Muhammed Beyioku

School: Minbar-minds College

Position: 3rd position

Score: 41 retired of 50

Percentage: 82%

Name: Omobolanle Akanji

School: Dansol High School

Position: 4th position

Score: 40 retired of 50

Percentage: 80%

Name: Daniel Adeh

School: Dansol High School

Position: 5th position

Score: 40 retired of 50

Percentage: 80%

Name: Maryam Sideeqah Muyili

School: Minbar-minds College

Position: 6th position

Score: 39 retired of 50

Percentage: 78%

Expert asks acquisition stakeholders to uphold societal justice

Earlier, Legit.ng reported that Adesegun Ogungbayi, AEI's task coordinator, said the question of fairness and justness is "highly common" to each systems of beingness astir the satellite and is not limited to acquisition systems and universities.

Ogungbayi charged Nigerian universities to strive to nutrient graduates who are just and conscionable successful each facet of life.

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