{"id":4084,"date":"2013-05-23T07:24:52","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T07:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disnaija.com\/nigeria-news\/one-day-lagos-governor-emerges-for-2013\/"},"modified":"2013-05-23T07:24:52","modified_gmt":"2013-05-23T07:24:52","slug":"one-day-lagos-governor-emerges-for-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/one-day-lagos-governor-emerges-for-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"One-day Lagos governor emerges for 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Citizens Platform<\/p>\n

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In continuation of an annual tradition, the winner of the 2013 Spelling Bee competition which held at Alausa, Lagos and 13th One-Day-Governor of Lagos State has emerged.<\/p>\n

In a tightly contested affair, Master Boadley Juwon Afolarin, 15, from Omole Senior Grammar School emerged first from 52 contestants from 52 public schools in Lagos.<\/p>\n

Abolaji Abudulraman from Community Junior High School, Ayobo, Ipaja, and Master Bio Marvellous Ejiwon from Victoria Island Senior High School came second and third respectively.<\/p>\n

Afolarin was presented with N250,000 prize money, while the second and third winners went home with N150,000 and N100,000 respectively.<\/p>\n

While addressing those at the event, the First Lady of Lagos State, Her Excellency, Emmanuella Fashola who presented the cash prizes and then a trophy to the first prize winner thanked the sponsors for ensuring that the grand finale was a huge success. She stated that she was impressed with Indomie for partnering with the Lagos State Government by being the title sponsors of the competition.<\/p>\n

According to her, I am very glad and grateful to Indomie for coming on board as a major sponsor of this edition of the competition. This contest would encourage other children to emulate the winners of today’s competition by reading and taking their studies seriously. I would also like to use this medium to implore other corporate organisations to partner with the government so as to ensure that there is a continuous boost in the educational sector in Nigeria.<\/p>\n

On his part, the representative of the official sponsor, Dufil Prima Food Plc, its Public Relations\/Event Manager, Mr. Tope Ashiwaju said; Indomie is very proud of what Lagos State is doing in education. It is just the beginning of our partnership with Lagos State.<\/p>\n

Funding of this project will never be an issue, he said, noting that he would ensure that these three best winners become Indomie Ambassadors.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Boadley Juwon Afolarin the winner spoke on his dreams and said he started preparing four months ago.<\/p>\n

Hear him: \u00a0I will like to be a physicist because I am good at Mechanical subjects. I would like Lagos State to build new laboratories, more books in our library and repair our toilets.<\/p>\n

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