..Promasidor Nigeria Limited, maker of the quality “Cowbell, Our Milk” last weekend, celebrated Nigerian teachers with a special edition of Cowbellpedia Mathematics Quiz Show to mark the 2016 World Teachers Day.
The competition featured twelve teachers who piloted their students to the finals of the 2015 edition of the Cowbellpedia Mathematics Quiz Show.
United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation, UNESCO proclaimed 5th October to be World Teachers’ Day in 1994, celebrating the great step made for teachers on 5th October 1966, when a special intergovernmental conference convened by UNESCO in Paris adopted the UNESCO/ILO recommendation concerning the Status of Teachers, in cooperation with the International Labour Organsation.
In the last 18 years, Promasidor has been involved in education development programmes, especially the sponsorship of Mathematics competition in Secondary Schools in Nigeria. The objectives, according to the Managing Director of the company, Mr. Olivier Thiry, have been to awaken the consciousness and interest in mathematics among Junior and Senior secondary school students in Nigeria; and to improve students’ performance in Mathematics Pan Nigeria.
These were reiterated during the press briefing marking the commencement of the 2016 Cowbellpedia secondary School Mathematics TV Quiz competition in March, 2016.
Thiry also informed that the company significantly increased the prize money for the finals for both students and teachers. This year, the teacher of the top prize student winner will be awarded N400, 000 with teachers of 1st runner-up and 2nd runner-up will go home with N300,000 and N200,000 respectively for both categories. Also, teachers of Top 3 students at state level are given cash rewards. This is to encourage these unsung heroes that their rewards are not only in heaven but from this world too.
Emotion was high at the special Teacher’s edition of the Cowbellpedia Mathematics Television Quiz show that was aired last weekend when Mr. Isaac Oyegbile of Hallmark Secondary School, Ondo, Ondo State beat his former Mathematics teacher, Mr. Peter Olayiwola Oyewole to win the 2016 Cowbellpedia Mathematics Teachers’ edition (Senior Category).