WRITTEN BY MAXIM UZOATU
It was indeed an august occasion on Monday, August 27; a date that marked the 27th anniversary of the creation of Anambra State,

when Governor Willie Obiano welcomed home from the United States the world-beating students who won the World Technovation competition.
Anambra State put Nigeria on top of the technology map of the world after a global contest in which students of Regina Pacis Model Secondary School, Onitsha represented Nigeria and Africa in the competition, held at Silicon Valley, San Francisco, USA won the coveted Gold Medal. The stellar girls defeated other contestants from supposedly more technologically-advanced countries, notably host nation, USA, China, Spain, Turkey and Uzbekistan. The golden girls are: Adaeze Onuigbo, Nwabuaku Osai, Promise Nnalue, Jessica Osita, Vivian Okoye and Miracle Igboka. They were led by their teacher, Mrs. Uchenna Onwuamaegbu-Ugwu.
The world champions had spent five months researching and developing FD-Detector, which swept through over 2,000 competing applications to get to the finals. On their participation in the Technovation contest, team leader, Mrs. Onwuamaegbu-Ugwu said that the chances of emerging as finalists seemed very odd because other countries appeared to be more advanced in technology than these girls who were using the internet and opening an email account for the first time in their lives.
No doubt, the determination in them and the passion to solve problems of fake drugs kept their hopes alive as they knew it was a lifetime opportunity. Governor Willie Obiano provided all that was needed for the girls to have a successful outing and good test period in the United States.
Now, the all-conquering girls are back home and have been grandly received by the federal government and a visibly elated Governor Obiano who bestowed a million naira on each of the students. Their instructor, Mrs. Uchenna Onwuamaegbu-Ugwu, got two million naira, the same amount given to the principal of the school, Reverend Father Vincent Ezeaka.
Governor Obiano used the occasion to restate, as ever, his unequivocal commitment to uplift education in Anambra state. To put this tradition of excellence in education in perspective, it needs to be recalled that Obiano himself was the winner of the John F. Kennedy Memorial essay Competition, organized by the American Embassy in 1974 when he was a student of the Christ the King College, (CKC), Onitsha.
In another heroic vein, Miss Tochukwu Anyigbo from Ihiala, who is studying in Lagos, participated in this year’s International Artificial Intelligence Competition in Mexico, courtesy of Governor Willie Obiano, and took the second position.
Generally, the all-encompassing attention given to education by the state government can be understood through the words of Mr. C-Don Adinuba, Anambra State Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment, thus: “A state which has produced the likes of Nnamdi Azikiwe, Alex Ekwueme, Ukpabi Asika, Louis Mbanefo, Odumegwu Ojukwu, Emeka Anyaoku, Arthur Mbanefo, Chike Obi, Kenneth Dike, Francis Cardinal Arinze, Chinua Achebe, the Okigbos, Mbazulike Amaechi, Chuba Okadigbo, and Olaudah Equiano, among other internationally renowned personages, has to be the pacesetter in enlightenment and enthronement of enduring and productive values.”
It is indeed an uplifting epoch in educational accomplishment in Anambra State under Governor Willie Obiano, Akpokuedike Global.

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