By Modupe Gbadeyanka
The duo of Ayoola Oguntade and Juliet Eko have emerged winner of the 2016 edition of Cowbellpedia, a mathematics quiz competition sponsored by Promasidor Nigeria.
While Ayoola was announced winner of the senior category of the quiz show, Juliet took the lead in the junior cadre.
Interestingly, both winners are students of The Ambassadors College Ota, Ogun State, but went home with N1 million each provided by sponsor of the programme, Promasidor.
Also, the first and second runner ups in each category of the competition were given N750,000 and N500,000 respectively.
Venue of the event, Just Media Studios, Ogba, Lagos, was filled with important dignitaries, who witnessed the show.
Some of them were the Registrar of National Examination Council, (NECO), Professor Charles Uwakwe; Managing Director, Promasidor Nigeria, Mr Olivier Thiry; Category Manager, Dairy, Promasidor, Mr Abiodun Ayodeji; and many others.
Also at the occasion were parents and teachers of the contestants from different schools.
One of the highlights of the show was when Oluwatunmise Idowu, a 13-year old student of Scholars Universal Secondary School, Ota, Ogun State came up for her special recognition award. Oluwatunmise had earlier won the Cowbellpedia 60 Seconds of Fame online contest beating thousands of others to correctly solve tough mathematics questions in only 60 seconds.
Modupe Gbadeyanka