The Kwara State Government has camped its secondary school pupils ahead of the World Schools Debate Championship, which will be held in the Netherlands later this year, according to a statement issued by Aminat Atere, Press Secretary of KWSUBEB on April 22nd, 2022.
Governor AbdulRahman Abdulrazaq approved the camping exercise, according to the Chairman of the Kwara State Universal Basic Education Board (KWSUBEB), Prof. Sheu Raheem Adaramaja, in a statement issued in Ilorin, the state capital.
It will be noted that the Kwara contingent, made up of public school kids, won the national schools debate in the finals in Lagos, highlighting the Abdulrazaq administration’s efforts and investments in basic education.
Adaramaja said, “Our children are the ones representing Nigeria in the Netherlands. Everything is being done to make sure they excel at the world schools debate championship. We have engaged various tutors, including native speakers of English language who are involved in the KwaraLEARN programme, to hone the skills of the students to be at their best.”
“We do have very good and committed local tutors who have been training these children. The idea of also getting native speakers, who incidentally are working on our KwaraLEARN project, is to expose the children to different intonations they might encounter at the championship. We are confident that they will represent Nigeria well, just as they have recently done us proud in Kwara State at the national level,” he added.
