NGO SETS TO MAKE STUDENTS MILLIONAIRE

IMOHIOSEN YVONNE

The Foundation for Effective Leadership and Development (FELD) is out with a programme tagged “My Education Quiz Play”. According to the presenter Mamuzo Ogbeta ,  My Education Quiz play  is an  educational play initiated  for students  in secondary and tertiary institutions to earn money  that will empower  them to acquire  quality education.

“It is our desire to see that students are sent back to school, as some of them are intelligent but do not have money to go back to school .It is either  they are already in school or that they are struggling  to pay their fees or they  do not  even have the means of being in school because of financial challenges.” Ogbeta explained.

For the above reason the FELD NGO, is set to strengthen students financially, on the secondary and tertiary level as this is the most challenging period for parents or guardians. The Quiz play is a television based programme aired on MITV and structured in a way that allows interested candidates or participants to text the word “EXCEL” to a short code 35811.

The initiative which commenced on the 12^th of August 2012 has had four episodes with three in secondary category and one in the tertiary level with the total of ten winners recorded in the episodes.

 Past winners include Chidinma Ezugu N155,000.000,Precious Onowudijo N120,000.00,Adewole Toluwani N 55,000.00,Adidu ObiN55,000.00,Iko Abasi Melodi N 10,000.00,Okoji Donald N35,000.00, A nn Ejiegbu N210,000.00,Alim Dumebi  Favour N190,000.00,Anakwe Godwin N10,000.00 and Gbenga Lawal N40,000.00.

One of the winners Gbenga Lawal, affirmed that the money he won from the quiz play was used to pay his tuition fee for polytechnic degree while Dumebi Favour, a student of Air Force  Secondary school, Lagos said that  the money has helped ease the burden of tuition paying off her parents.