I write this with regret and pain in my heart. How I wish this can get to President Buhari, MTN, ETISALAT, AIRTEL and the likes.

Sometimes ago, while watching spelling bee competition for 2015, I fell in love with those kids. But to my utmost surprise, at the end of that competition, the winner got less than N200,000. Then I wondered why such a brilliant boy (the overall winner) could not get a car from Lagos State Government, N1M from MTN like they give out in beauty competitions & dancing competitions.

I became more furious this Tuesday (21st of July) when my kids had their school party.

After the end of a beauty show, where various indecent dancing steps were displayed, the school authority announced a whole session free tuition for the winner, two terms tuition free for the second position and a term free for third position .

My first observation is that none of the 3 pupils got any academic award.

To cut the long story short, my daughter, who came out as the overall second best student got just a free textbook as her prize.

No wonder every kid wants to be a wizkid.

It is high time various sponsors recognised brilliant academic performances. Only then will there be improvement to education in Nigeria.

Cc:Government, MTN, AIRTEL, ETISALAT, OIL COMPANIES etc.

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