37 YEAR OLD FEMALE TEACHER WINS MALTINA TEACHER-OF-THE-YEAR

37 YEAR OLD FEMALE TEACHER WINS MALTINA TEACHER-OF-THE-YEAR

The mission for the best educator in public secondary schools in Nigeria arrived at a wonderful end at an excellent service in Lagos on Monday as a 37 year-old instructor from Anambra State, Mrs. Rose Nkemdilim Obi, rose victor of the lady version of the Maltina Teacher-of-the-Year. 

Mr. Daniel Sunday Udiong, Second Runner-up, Maltina Teacher-of-the-Year Award; Mr. Nicolaas Vervelde, Managing Director, Nigerian Breweries Plc; Nkemdili Obi, Winner, Maltina Teacher-of-the-Year Award; Prof. Pat Utomi; one of the judges and Mrs Binta Mohammed Lawan of Federal Government College Maiduguri, Borno State, First Runner-Up, Maltina, Teacher-of-the-Year Award. 

Mr. Daniel Sunday Udiong, Second Runner-up, Maltina Teacher-of-the-Year Award; Mr. Nicolaas Vervelde, Managing Director, Nigerian Breweries Plc; Nkemdili Obi, Winner, Maltina Teacher-of-the-Year Award; Prof. Pat Utomi; one of the judges and Mrs Binta Mohammed Lawan of Federal Government College Maiduguri, Borno State, First Runner-Up, Maltina, Teacher-of-the-Year Award. 

Obi, who is similarly a little girl of an instructor, shows Mathematics and Chemistry at the Federal Government Girls College, FGC Onitsha. The year 2000 graduate of Nnamdi Azikwe University, Awka, Anambra State, beat nine different finalists to the pined for prize. The ten finalists who slugged it out at the last lap, were victors from Akwa Ibom, Anambra, Benue, Borno, Delta, Ebonyi, Imo, Lagos, Ogun and Oyo States. 

The main runner-up was Mrs Binta Mohammed Lawan of Federal Government College Maiduguri, Borno State, in the war assaulted North East, while her partner from Akwa Ibom State, Mr. Daniel Sunday Udiong rose as the second runner-up. 

The recompense established by Maltina, the non-alcoholic malt brand from the stable of Nigerian Breweries Plc, is politeness of Nigerian Breweries-Felix Ohiwerei Education Trust Fund. It is gone for restoring the pride of educators and the nobility of the instructing calling. 

For their exertion, the national victor got one million, and one million naira will be paid into her record every year for a long time. Obi will likewise be sent to another country for expert preparing on the bill of Nigerian Breweries/Felix Ohiwerei Education Trust Fund, pretty much as the Federal Government College Onitsha, Obi's school, has additionally turned into a moment recipient of a piece of six classrooms. 

The principal runner-up got one million naira in addition to another five hundred thousand naira finalists' prize cash, while the second runner-up took seven hundred and fifty naira and another five hundred thousand naira for getting to the finals. 

Talking after her assertion as champ, Obi, who talked ex-fleeting for over ten minutes, committed her triumph to God and her kindred instructors. She additionally expressed gratitude toward Nigerian Breweries, for the significant privilege and inspiration done to instructors and the educating calling. "Educating is a respectable calling, it is a calling and it is a pledge to fabricating the country. I express gratitude toward God today for my life, and I say thanks to Nigerian Breweries for restoring the nobility and pride of instructors," she said. 

In his appreciated comment, the Managing Director of Nigerian Breweries, Mr. Nicolaas Vervelde clarified that the organization works with a logic of "winning with Nigeria" and has championed causes that increase the value of the general public since its commencement in 1946. 

"In 1994, we raised the profile of our backing of the training division when we built up the Nigerian Breweries-Felix Ohiwerei Education Trust Fund to empower us to add to the improvement of the part. All over the place on the planet, instructors assume a key part in practical national improvement via preparing, guiding and displaying which is basic to deciding the nature of training, "he said. 

He included that the substantial passages got were subjected to a serious determination and judging procedure by an autonomous, outside board of judges to guarantee straightforwardness, believability and objectivity. 

The Panel of Judges which involved famous Nigerian scholastics and experts, was led by Prof. Pat Utomi, Founder/CEO, Center for Values in Leadership. Others included: Mrs. Mopelola O. Omoegun, Professor of Education, University of Lagos; 

Prof. Thomas I. Ofuya, Vice Chancellor, Wellspring University and Member, Committee of Vice Chancellors of Nigerian Universities; and in addition Mr. Olusegun Adeniyi, Chairman, Editorial Board, ThisDay Newspapers. Different individuals are: Dr. (Mrs.) Abdulrahman Binta Fatima, National President, All-Nigeria Confederation of Principals of Secondary Schools; and Professor Tijjani Abubakar, Dean, Faculty of Education, Ahmadu Bello University.