10 QUALITIES OF GOOD TEACHERS

This list is a brief reconstruction from an earlier research designed to promote good teaching ethics in our society.
1.    A contagious enthusiasm for teaching. Enjoyment in transmitting knowledge is a key to success. His passion for teaching instilled a passion for learning in all the participants.
2.    Creative. Good Teachers go beyond opening the book and doing exercises. A good teacher engages the mind, not just the time of the student and employs a myriad of techniques that allows student to utilize the skills in their own capacity.
3.     Add pace and Humor to the class. A classroom where pupils are not afraid to make mistakes creates a good time learning and lots of progress achieved.
4.    Challenges the Student. A teacher who can maintain a level of difficulty high enough to challenge the student, but yet not too high to discourage.
5. Encouraging and Patient. Good teachers are aware that Motivation thrives on success. So they help the student apply themselves more diligently by encouragement and repeated attempts. They apply the policy of correction by never allowing even a shade of annoyance to cross their faces in reaction to continued incorrectness even after endless corrections.
6.    Interests in Individual Students. A teacher who takes interest in the student’s life style and desires will succeed in impacting more. The easiest, most accessible area of conversation is oneself.
7.     Knows well and can explain on the spot. A realistic and courageous trainer who demonstrate quest to know more even before the students besides being a guru in his field.
8.     Can offer extra times.  Good teachers appreciate students’ efforts and are never too in-a-hurry to attend to their quest outside the class. They encourage students not only to study what is required, but also to pursue other areas of interests.
9.    Shows Regard and Respect for All.  Regardless of sex, marital status or race, good teachers accord every student due esteem. A lack of this attribute is not conducive to progress and this can be discouraging to the student.
10.     Leaves Emotional Baggage Outside the Classroom. Keeping the student focus at all times as well as not blocking any learning by playing havoc with their emotions through ridicule or sarcasm. As a strategy, teachers can apply some form of acting too.

Miss Brains Abuja

The problems facing the girl child in Africa is quite enormous; this includes:  religious, traditions/cultural impositions and even social vices keep impeding on their quest to a fulfilled life. Early marriage, rape and lack of education are only some of the wickedness against them, leading to lack of Self-confidence; a major hindrance to their effective contributions to national development.
The Miss Brains project is a girl-child leadership discovery scheme aimed at promoting the enormous power in women to influence right societal changes that is necessary for family development and nation building. It is an event that involves intelligence quotient test, physical fitness test and current affairs awareness test. Participating schools will present their best candidate to symbolize the school as over 40 teenagers will be on the grand stage before a huge crowd of spectators at the International Conference Centre, Abuja as our judges give their scores. The winner becomes the most important teenager ambassador, standing for all Nigerian female teenagers as their voice to self-actualization.
The Miss Brains Abuja is not the usual pageant where beauty is a major criterion; neither is revealing dinner dresses nor bikini outfits considered. Candidates must be between the age of 14 – 16 and must have our authorization form granted and signed by their parents/guardians. The winner and runner-ups get prizes ranging from “soft” education scholarships to shopping vouchers that amounts over N200, 000 in three of the grandest supermarkets and malls within Abuja. Several visits and special dinner meetings with the first lady of the Federal republic on Nigeria, Female Senators, Ministers, other female Ambassadors to discuss and negotiate special offers for certain under-privileged persons are part duties of the Miss Brains Abuja.

Peak Quiz 2017

 

The standard of education in Nigeria has dropped significantly over the past few decades which can be traced to so many factors. The government cannot be left solely with the responsibility of reawakening this dying sector. Therefore all hands must be on deck to ensure that our educational standard gets the required attention necessary for the desired national development.
The Peak Quiz is an inter-schools academic competition where schools are represented by four of their most intelligent students before our panel of reputable and renowned Judges and where questions are drawn from the various departments of the school curriculum; namely science, technology, art and commercial.
The maiden edition of the competition will take place in the FCT between October & December 2017. 
Prizes: the winning school will be presented with our Prestigious Champions’ Academy Trophy, a Two Years Champions’ Advancement Scholarship for each winning student, and various consolation prizes for the runner-ups.
Competition Breakdown: The month of October 2017 will involve all elimination/knockout stages to produce the “Round of 16” schools.  The month of November is meant for the quarterfinals and semifinals to produce the final four schools while the grand finale is set to hold in the first week of December 2017.
The Champions School Guide (the organizers) will work in collaboration with various media houses to reach over 60 million followers and viewers through the broadcast and other outreach. We will also partner with various individuals, government agencies, parastatals, and other interested sponsors.
Our Primary objective: Our primary objective is to set the maximum standard of education in Nigeria in which our schools and students will be a force to reckon with on the international stage.
This competition will therefore serve as a source of motivation to students and in turn stir up the reading culture amongst our young populace.

Abuja Schools’ Olympic

Sports in Nigeria have been on a downtrend recently. This is because we do not pay adequate attention to grassroots sport development in Nigeria especially in our schools.

The fact that team Nigeria came back with just one bronze medal in the just concluded Olympic games can be described as disappointing to say the least. This also points to the fact that apart from football which is the major sport in Nigeria, other sports have somewhat been neglected which has led to the disappointing and below par performances of team Nigeria.

Indeed, you might want to argue that Nigeria still have some athletes such as Segun Toriola, Haruna Quadri and Blessing Okagbare, but can they be at the top level competing to win honors in some 5-10 years time? Well, we really need to think about the posterity and sustainability of our sporting projects because of it importance to any nation.

The adage of 'catch them young' can never be over emphasized. We need to prepare a generation of young and hungry athletes who can compete at the highest level in the near future and bring Nigeria back to her glory days. To achieve this all hands must be on deck to ensure that this initiative comes to fruition.

In view of the above, we are organizing the ABUJA SCHOOLS’ OLYMPIC. This championship will involve games such as basketball, lawn tennis, table tennis, gymnastics, scrabble, chess, swimming, and the list goes on.

This championship aims at bringing to the fore, young Nigerians who have the potentials to become world-class athletes as a grand talent discovery platform. It also aims at harnessing the hidden potentials, which are yet to be discovered.

This will also help to reduce over dependence on government jobs and encourage the young ones to look inwards.

The Nigerian sports sector seems to be tarnished already; this is a fall out on a country that is dubbed as the “The Giant of Africa”. However, the ABUJA SCHOOL’S OLYMPIC will give favourable exposure to young Nigerian athletes as well as rejuvenate the sports sector.

What makes an Outstanding Principal?

Simply put, a principal is the person in charge of a school. He is the chief executive of an educational institution. Principals vary in strategy, temperament and leadership style. But the great ones have seven characteristics in common-
•    An outstanding principal takes responsibility for school success.
•    Outstanding principals lead teaching and learning.
•    Outstanding principals hire, develop and retain excellent teachers.
•    Outstanding principals build strong school communality.
•    Outstanding principals are driven by passion not money. An excellent principal will never give up on any challenged student; he sees such students as a passionate doctor sees his patient.
•    Outstanding principals are open to suggestions and corrections.
•    An outstanding principal aims at ensuring excellence in knowledge impartation, skill impartation and character building.
Outstanding principals believe that the problems of the school are their problems and never stop trying to solve them. If a student is having trouble learning, an excellent principal knows it is his/her job to figure out why; whether it is a learning disability, trouble with attendance or gang involvement. Outstanding principals are also creative in problem-solving. They find ways to implement good ideas rather than accepting the status quo. 
Fortunately in 2017, we are in your school in search of the most outstanding principal of the year!!!

Creating Transgenic Organisms

An organism can acquire a new trait by having a new gene introduced into its DNA. By changing the genetic makeup (genotype) of the organism, the characteristics it displays—or its phenotype—can also be altered. Under appropriate conditions, the new gene can be inserted into the DNA of a cell; this gene will be transcribed and translated into protein along with all the other genes being expressed in the cell.
How does a multicellular organism such as an animal, which has many, many cells, acquire a new trait encoded by a gene from a different organism? Several different methods have been developed. The first step in all of them involves insolating the gene of interest and then linking it to another piece of DNA that contains sequences that enable the gene to be expressed in the appropriate tissues of the recipient organism. This constructed segment of DNA is then inserted into the animals using one of the techniques described below.
Microinjection
In this method, eggs are isolated from animals and fertilized in vitro, and then the constructed
DNA containing the foreign gene is injected—using a very fine needle—into the nucleus of the egg. The foreign DNA is inserted at random locations into the DNA of the fertilized egg. The egg is then implanted into the oviduct of a surrogate animal, where the egg then develops. This method has been used to create many different kinds of transgenic animals, from mice to large animals such as cattle. However, its efficiency in producing transgenic animals is low; only a small percentage of the implanted eggs develop into transgenic animals, and only a small proportion of these animals express the inserted gene efficiently because of the random insertion into the organism’s genome.
Retroviral Vectors
The gene of interest is inserted into the genome of a retrovirus and then this virus is used to infect embryonic cells, which then develop into organisms carrying the gene of interest. However, like mi­ croinjection, this method is very inefficient. The gene is inserted randomly into different sites in the DNA of different embryonic cells. Not only might the DNA be expressed at low levels or not at all, as in microinjection, but it may be expressed only in certain cells.

 

Embryonic Stem Cell Transfer
This method allows for the insertion of the genes of interest into very specific sites in the genome of the recipient organism. Embryonic stem cells are isolated from the recipient organism and grown in tissue culture flasks. These cells are then modified by inserting DNA containing the gene of interest and sequences that enable the DNA to be inserted into specific sites in the genome. These modified embryonic stem cells are then injected into the blastocyst stage of a developing recipient organism, and this blastocyst containing the gene of interest is implanted into a surrogate mother. The resulting organisms express the gene more efficiently. This method has only been used to develop transgenic mice.

Source: European Initiative for Biotechnology Education. 1998. Transgenic animals—unit 11. Retrieved August 18, 2008, from http://www.ipn.uni-kiel.de/eibe/UNIT11EN.PDF.

Your Role As Parents

Parents play a very pivotal role in a child’s education. How much encouragement and support you give your child both at home and involvement at school is critical to your child’s academic success.
Research has shown that parental engagement of various kinds has a positive impact on student achievement; including high grades and test scores; enrolment in higher level programs and advanced class; lower drop-out rates; higher graduation rates and a higher likelihood of commencing tertiary institution.
The media has been awash with the story of the Famous Esther Akade, a 10-year-old UK-based Nigerian who is presently the youngest undergraduate in British Open University, because of her outstanding mathematical skills.  How could a 10 year old do that? Enroll in a university?
Her unusual flair for mathematics is rare and surpasses logical understanding. The secret of Esther’s unusual ground breaking academic excellence are her parents who have been devoting so much time to teaching her mathematics at home. They have served as role models in encouraging and supporting the child’s all round education/development to the best of their abilities.
You might not be able to do as much as Esther’s parents, but the little support and encouragement you can give your children at home can go a long way. Remember that education begins at home. Leaving the bulk of the work for the teacher will only achieve average results. No matter how hard a teacher tries, he cannot take your place in molding and shaping your child. The choice is up to you to deliberately take out time from your busy schedules and create time for your children if you want them to be stars.

CTSA 2017

A Champion is that one who is clearly the superior or has the attributes of a winner. E.g. a champion in sports or teaching. 

 

The Champions Teachers’ Awards (CTA) is an annual event organized to commend and reward teachers who demonstrate excellence in the work of an education professional. The CTA aims to -
a.    Promote admiration and gratitude of teachers;
b.    Stimulate interest in teaching as a career; and
c.    Promote quality teaching and enhance teacher competence.
Each year, 12 teachers will be conferred with these awards because they displayed exceptional performances in various areas including competence; imparting; student progress; school development and contributions to the general education sector and community.

The Champions Schools’ Awards (CSA) is an annual exercise to commend and promote outstanding educational practices in all the schools of Abuja. The CSA aims to -
a.    Give recognition and encouragement to schools with excellent performance;
b.    Promote and disseminate schools' excellent educational practices; and
c.    Cultivate a quality culture within the school sector to strive for excellence having regard to the schools' unique conditions.
The Champions Schools’ Awards will be conferred to schools which demonstrate excellent practices and achievements in four major educational domains including Management and Organization; Teaching and Learning; Support for Pupils and School Ethos and Students' Attainment and Achievement.

The CTA & CSA will be presented by selected and highly esteemed members of the Executive arm of the Federal Government, Legislators, the diplomatic community, important private sector leaders and the most respected trailblazers in Nigeria’s education sector.

CHOOSING THE RIGHT FRIENDS

The matter is very simple “choosing the right friends” yet a crucial one because it is not just about choosing friends but the right friends.
To start with, who is a friend? A friend is a companion, one who has full access to your life, who you share your life with. He/she can influence you positively and negatively.
Furthermore, a friend is a companion (one who accompanies you to a certain destination). The relationship between friends is called ‘friendship’ which is gotten from two words, friend ( a person or people of like minds) and ship (a conveying or traveling medium) meaning friendship is a ship(medium) that drives two or more similar minds towards a destination called destiny.
Most favoured reader, if you will be sincere with yourself; looking at the friends you currently have, you can tell where you are headed; whether you are headed towards a successful end or a deadly and losing end. Consider the proverb, “birds of the same feather flock together”.
Another thing you must consider seriously is this; “evil communication corrupt good morals”. Don’t be deceived, and don’t deceive yourself by saying, “he is just my friend, he can’t influence me”, you are just joking, the time you will begin to notice the changes in your life, I just hope it won’t be too late to make a U-turn. You must note that your friends form your immediate environment, and according to social studies and other social science related courses that study the behavior of man, the environment we find ourselves is one major agent of socialization (learning – which is a relatively permanent change in behavior): meaning by staying constantly in touch with wrong attitude or behavior, you unconsciously develop such attitudes and behavior. You might say it is not true, let me prove it by asking you a question, how did your language or the English we are communicating with right now come about? Can you remember? You unconsciously developed it by staying among people that speak it. Hence, we can say that friendship with a lazy man can cause laziness, as well as staying with a good person can make you good too. Please don’t be deceived; once more, evil communication or bad company corrupts good morals or manners.
More so, you might be thinking, is it not better I just remain without friends? It is also not okay, because God never created us to be loners or to be an island; He created us first for companionship. That’s why God said it is not good for a man to be alone.
Therefore, it will be dangerous to be without friends; yet what is more dangerous is having friends that are not right; haven to choose wrong friends that are vision-less
Therefore, what must you put into consideration before choosing friends that will eventually turn out to be the right friends? The following must be put into consideration to make the right choice of friends:
1.    Is he/she God-fearing; does he/she believes in God, cause anybody without God has really nothing to contribute to your life that will last long. Scarcely can you find.
2.    In searching for the right friends, you must, yourself also be a right friend, cause you will somehow attract your kind.
3.    What’s the person’s philosophy about life, do you think alike, or are his views about life better than yours, then you can go ahead to befriend such, otherwise run for your life.
4.    Is he/she heading in your direction; unless you are pursuing similar goals, you will end up with regrets.
5.    Is he/she helping you to achieve the divinely ordained vision of your life? If no, brother/sister, run for your life.
That will be all for now, till I come your way in the next edition! 

, purposeless, without focus or direction, because irrespective of how intelligent and how promising your future may be, you are likely or rather surely going to turn out otherwise with the wrong friends.



By Emmanuel Joseph

The Benefits of Parent’s Involvement

Benefits for the Children
•    Children tend to achieve more, regardless of ethnic or racial background, socioeconomic status, or parents’ education level.
•    Children generally achieve better grades, test scores, and attendance.
•    Children consistently complete their homework.
•    Children have better self-esteem, are more self-disciplined, and show higher aspirations and motivation toward school.
•    Children’s positive attitude about school often results in improved behaviour in school and less suspension for disciplinary reasons.
•    Fewer children are being placed in special education and remedial classes.
•    Children from diverse cultural backgrounds tend to do better when parents and professionals work together to bridge the gap between the culture at home and the culture in school.
•    Junior high and high school students whose parents remain involved usually make better transitions and are less likely to drop out of school.
Benefits for the Parents
•    Parents increase their interaction and discussion with their children and are more responsive and sensitive to their children’s social, emotional, and intellectual developmental needs.
•    Parents are more confident in their parenting and decision-making skills.
•    As parents gain more knowledge of child development, there is more use of affection and positive reinforcement and less punishment on their children.
•    Parents have a better understanding of the teacher’s job and school curriculum.
•    When parents are aware of what their children are learning, they are more likely to help when they are requested by teachers to become more involved in their children’s learning activities at home.
•    Parents’ perceptions of the school are improved and there are stronger ties and commitment to the school.
•    Parents are more aware of, and become more active regarding, policies that affect their children’s education when parents are requested by school to be part of the decision-making team.
Benefits for the Educators
•    When schools have a high percentage of involved parents in and out of schools, teachers and principals are more likely to experience higher morale.
•    Teachers and principals often earn greater respect for their profession from the parents.
•    Consistent parent involvement leads to improved communication and relations between parents, teachers, and administrators.
•    Teachers and principals acquire a better understanding of families’ cultures and diversity, and they form deeper respect for parents’ abilities and time.
•    Teachers and principals report an increase in job satisfaction.
Benefits for the School
•    Schools that actively involve parents and the community tend to establish better reputations in the community.
•    Schools also experience better community support.
•    School programs that encourage and involve parents usually do better and have higher quality programs than programs that do not involve parents.

By G. Olsen|M.L. Fuller —
Pearson Allyn Bacon Prentice Hall

5 Ways To Know The Teacher’s Exam Questions In Advance

For most students, nothing will match that moment when they look down at their test questions and find questions they’ve never thought of staring back at them. But as the same moment some are some other students in the same class room feeling smug satisfaction at having fussed the exact questions in advance. How can figuring out what’s going to come out in tests and exams dramatically increase your chances of acing them? Here are 5 hints from behind the scenes;

1: Teachers test what they talk. Students think teachers are out to trick them by testing prickly, obscure issues. Nothing can be farther from the case. teachers try to teach the most important material and see if the students have mastered it. Does that make sense?  Think about it. Look over your notes and see what the lecturers spent the most time on; that’s likely to provide the most fodder for his/her test or exam questions.
2: Teachers ask what interests them. in many cases you can detect some issues that really excite your teachers so much that he/she brings it up again and again. It’s a bet that your lecturers obsession will pop up in the test or exam questions.
3: Teachers drop clues. Much as they try to keep mum, most lecturers can’t help themselves. So take seriously comments such as, “wow, this would make a really good test question”. It might all sound like a joke, but it’s not
4. Assemble past questions of that particular teacher, so that you will be able to find out the kind of questions he/she is likely to set. Because some teachers don’t like to go out of their way to manufacture entirely new questions.
5. Pay keen attention to those little illustrations and examples the teachers give  while teaching, for instance the teacher likes to throw a particular joke as it relates to a certain question or topic, so just make sure you read between the lines of the joke. You never know what could happen. In conclusion just make sure you read and prepare very well and with these tips, you are sure to have a good grade. CHEERS




By Kingsley Charles

How You can Achieve a Successful Term

With the thought of beginning a new term daunting for some and challenging to others, how should you effectively prepare for a new term?
Writing lists to stay organized is key. Make a plan for a success based on what worked well last term and what you can do differently in order to achieve excellence.
 Invest in a diary in order to write down assignments and stay on top of deadlines. Not only will this help you achieve good grades but organizational skills and the ability to prioritize are transferable skills that will help you in the future workplace environment.
Start your reading early in order to stay one step ahead of the game. Setting up a study is an essential preparation towards starting a new school term. That way, you can fall straight back into it and get a head start. It is not advisable to learn in bed; the amount of information absorbed will be reduced drastically due to your mind set transforming into relaxation mode.
Reconcile your sleeping patterns. At least eight hours sleep is needed for optimum brain functionality.

More importantly, your choice of friends will either make or mar you. Choose friends that will sharpen you academically and separate from friends that are negative influences.
Additionally, note that there is so much expectation over you from your parents, teachers and society at large; be open to change with regards to your learning process.



By Lauren Cox

EXAM MALPRACTICE

Years ago, I witnessed a mother who came to the Exam Centre along side her daughter. She followed her down to meet with a malpractice team who paraded the surroundings of the Exam Centre. O yes! It  has actually gotten this bad in our society. But corruption is not part of our culture, so I was pleased when passer-byes alerted the police and she was arrested.

Examination malpractice ranks as one of the major problems in our education sector. There is no doubt that it has become a canker worm in our society. It has also made nonsense of the education system by undermining the very purpose of education: instructions or training by which young people learn to develop and use their mental, moral and physical abilities.
Examination malpractice plants a seed of unethical values in the fertile minds of students, thereby giving this multi-faceted monster a free reign to corrupt the conscience of our future leaders, bankers, politicians, journalists, etc. A society where human resource potentials are built on fraudulent foundations is doomed. It can be argued that this evil has helped to re-produce many of the corrupt persons who find their way into important public and private sector parastatals of our economic system.
It is important to note that students involved in examination malpractice are unqualified for higher education, and bad for job skills and future workplace tasks.
What becomes of a system with exam grades that may lead to promotion or hiring of persons that do not match the actual skill levels needed? These people lack the education necessary to succeed in their future academic paths or their eventual work-related projects. Low self-esteem and questionable principles becomes a norm. 

Now imagine a nation where students do not value the significance of exam scores because others who have cheated or misled participants through examination malpractice were still given academic honors, awards, promotions or job opportunities without questions. Examination malpractice can therefore lead to a culture of encouraging citizens to get ahead through any means possible.

By Osigbeme Enike

WHY ESSAY WRITING?

It is said that when the purpose of a thing is not known, abuse is inevitable. Most students think of essay writing as a boring and valueless activity. Nevertheless, essay writing tends to hold much value.
Simply put, an easy is a short piece of writing that tells a person’s thoughts or opinions about a subject. Essay types include narrative, descriptive, argumentative and expository. Essay writing is an essential part of an academic year. Let’s look at some of the importance of essay writing.
First, essay writing helps you learn how to express yourself in a more logical way. It is a practical way to develop your writing skills, vocabulary and your own unique style.
Knowing how to write convincingly and how to construct a written report that has elements like an interesting introduction, body and conclusion is a useful skill to know. It is also useful to know how to construct sentences, form an argument and persuade a reader.
Reason being that when you leave school, you may have to write something; a job application letter,  a report,  a policy or some other thing that requires writing; then you may need to show that you can string together ideas in a logical and convincing manner.

Also, frequent practice of essay writing can help you grow to become a very creative writer or speaker. Excellent writers and great orators were not made in a day; they were involved in lots of reading and writing at  an early stage.
Some students are very obsessed about essay writing because they want to make an “A” by all means. If that’s the only push, the result may prove futile. It’s not just all about obtaining a grade, it is about taking pride in your own work and creation.


Writing is an activity you are going to do all your life; some day, you will need to give an information in writing; you may need to even argue a point in writing or describe a person, place, thing or event in writing; if you have not mastered the art and skill of writing, it’s is going to be a huge struggle for you in the future. Why not  dare to start making a practice of essay writing today?

By Emily Ofide

NIGERIAN CHILD GENIUSES: Esther Okade & Others

Nigerians, since the amalgamation era have always been recognized as a people with high IQ. We have been able to make our mark on the world stage with individuals like Emeka Emegwale (the computer genius), Ngozi Okonjo Iweala (former World Bank President), Chimamanda Adichie (the renowned writer) and many others. Quite interestingly, in this generation, we can identify our future world record breakers at their early stage in life. We are pleased to present some of these child rarities who are causing great admiration, all over the world-

1.    Esther Okade: Home schooled from the age of 3 by her mother, this marvelous mathematical mind, at age six wrote her first high school qualification exam normally meant for 16 year olds and made a C. The following year, at the age of 7 she made an ‘A’ on second attempt. Her first book, ‘Yummy Yummy Algebra’ designed to help other children who find maths difficult will soon be on bookshelves around the world.
This amazing child has been invited as a guest to the white house by then president Barak Obama and has also been interviewed on several global news desk. On CNN she is described; “At first glance Ester Okade seems like a normal 10 years old. She loves dressing up as Elsa from “Frozen,’ playing with Barbie dolls and going to the park or shopping.
Born to Efe and Paul Okade from Delta state, Nigerian, this citizen of Britain, from Walsall, an industrial town in the UK west Midland, is one of the country’s youngest college freshmen At 10. She will be 12 year old in 2017 and she is already top of the class with 100% scores in recent exams. In her words concerning her excellent scores, “its so interesting. It has the type of maths I love. Its real maths –theories, complex numbers, all that type of stuff,” she giggled. “It was super easy. My mum taught me in a nice way.”
She said she wants to finish the course before her 13th birthday and immediately advance to do her PHD in financial maths. She is actually aiming to own her own bank at 15 years old. She also disagreed that it was her parents who pushed her into starting university at such early age.
Esther will remain a phenomenon through out her lifetime and will no doubt set records and pace that may remain unshakable for many decades to come.

2.    Peter and Paula Imafidon: These Sixteen year-old twins, were only 9-years-old when they made history as the youngest children in British history to attend high school. They later participated in the Excellence in Education program and became the youngest teens to ever pass the University of Cambridge’s advanced mathematics exam. Based in London, Peter and Paula Imafidon’s parents are Nigerians. They are globally known as “the Wonder Twins,” and are Great Britain’s current highest achievers. They will turn 17 years old in their next birthday in 2017.

3.    Chimelum Tasi- Amadi: He took this nation by storm when he astounded ardent observers in the educational environment with award-winning performances at both the Cowbell Mathematics Competition and the American Mathematical Competition. This 13-years old Nigerian (to be 14 later this year) is recognized for his new academic record after sitting for the Cambridge Checkpoint Examination. His academic accomplishment has placed him a spot at Phillips Academy Exeter USA- a world distinguished Prep School that trains students specifically for the IVY League Universities in the USA. His school, Knowledge Academy Ijebu Ode, Ogun State is so proud of him.

4.    Chioma Delia Innoma: Painting is actually a complex art form that becomes more complex and interesting with experience and age. Chioma who is yet 10 is believed will soon make it to the Guinness Book of Records with her abilities to use the paintbrush so brilliantly; she is a wonder to behold. Lives in Germany, she has produced a large number of beautiful collections of artwork already as a child. It is very clear that with right supervision and motivation, Chioma is destined to become world famous.

By Osigbeme Enike