Nigerian Tulip International Colleges (NTIC) has announced scholarships and cash prizes to the finalists of the 19th Annual National Mathematics Competition (ANMC).
The awardees are the outstanding students from the junior and senior categories who have made it to the second round, which commenced on the 4th -8th for the JSS 3 categories and 6th-8th for the Primary 5 and 6 category.
LEADERSHIP reports that twenty students from Primary 5 and 6 and twenty students from JSS 3 have been awarded a 100% tuition fee scholarship.
The second-round qualifiers were invited for the second round and award ceremony at NTIC last Friday, on the 8th of April, 2022, which witnessed the emergence of 21 exceptional students from the junior and senior category who will have access to 100 per cent full-tuition scholarship awardees plus cash prizes and academic equipment.
The managing director, Nigerian Tulip International Colleges (NTIC), Fevzullah Bilgin, said the annual National Mathematics Competition is a platform by which NTIC supports and encourages excellence.
“I must confess that ANMC is one of Nigeria’s largest mathematics competitions,” he said, adding that the Nigerian Tulip International Colleges is the sole sponsor of ANMC scholarships for the benefit of students, while Access Bank is sponsoring the organisation of the 19th edition of ANMC.
The second-round award ceremony took place on 8th April, 2022 at the NTIC Conference Hall with three exceptional students given 100% percent scholarship. Luis Lu from Kerrile Prep school topping the roll in the primary 5 and 6 level while Okadike Kennedy from Dority Intl school emerging the first position at the JSS3 category.
Also, the top twenty positions were awarded cash prizes that ranged from N10,000 to N200,000, for both the Primary category and JSS 3 category, while their mathematics teachers received cash prizes up to N100,000.
‘‘I feel great, like I am on top of the world, said Luis Lu, a student of Kerridale Prep School, Rivers state, who took first position in the South category of the Annual Mathematics Completion. Favour, who took first position in the North, thanked his parents for helping him to develop his interest in Mathematics.
The ANMC coordinator, Erdal Yilmaz noted that, currently, 167 students are benefiting from the NTIC scholarship scheme, with more than N500 million spent annually for the awardees.
Speaking at the event, the Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, who was represented by a director in the ministry, Folake Olatunji David, said, “Seeing children growing up in mathematical subject and excelling is a very good thing which must be appreciated and awarded.’’
In his remarks, the director general, National Mathematical Centre (NMC), Prof Promise reiterated that the National Mathematics Centre is a place where teachers, university students, secondary school students and even lecturers are trained.