Delta State Government in collaboration with the Chemical Society of Nigeria have organized the preliminary/local government stage of the 2025 Awokoya Memorial competition in Chemistry.
The Awokoya competition in Chemistry, for the senior secondary school students, was conducted simultaneously across the nation.
Speaking during the preliminary stage of the competition, the State Commissioner for Secondary Education, Mrs Rose Ezewu said that Awokoya Memorial competition was an annual competition, designed to encourage students offering chemistry subject in secondary schools in Nigeria.
Represented by the Director of Science Education in Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education, Mrs. Hope Igumbor, the Commissioner disclosed that there were two chapters of Chemical Society of Nigeria in Delta State , namely: The Delta and Asaba Chapters .
She urged the students to put in their best to enable the state get to the national stage of the competition, adding that they should replicate the feat the representatives of Delta State achieved in the 2024 edition of the competition where the State took the first position.
Ezewu explained that her Ministry had assigned some of its officers as supervisors including Dr. Steve Igheghe for Ika centre, Mr. Lucky Iriferi for Warri South and Mrs. Rose Nwokolobia for Asaba centre among other supervisors in charge of other local government areas to conduct the first stage of the competition various local government areas of the state.
The Education Commissioner clarified that there were 20 centres for the conduct of the competition in Delta State and reminded the students that only the three overall best at the national stage would receive prize award.
At the Asaba centre , the treasurer of the Chemical Society of Nigeria, Asaba Chapter, Dr.(Mrs) Patricia Eze and a Principal Education Officer in Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education, Mrs. Rose Nwokolobia stated that AWOKOYA competition was geared towards giving those offering chemistry subject in secondary schools the opportunity to excel in the subject and help to bring out the best in them in chemistry.
Dr.(Mrs) Eze, who noted that there are great opportunities available for chemistry students such as becoming a chemist, pharmacist and industrial chemist among others, disclosed that at the end of of the preliminary stage, 10 best students from each centre would participate in the state final of the competition to get the best 3 among them that would represent Delta State at the national level.
Speaking further, Mrs. Nwokolobia said that Awokoya chemistry competition had been in existence for a very long time, just as she implored whoever that would emerge winners as the state representatives to ensure that they give good account of themselves by putting out outstanding performance that would make them victorious at the national stage .
Nwokolobia recalled that the best 3 students at the national stage of the competition for the 2024 edition were given different prizes and scholarships.
Meanwhile, a Deputy Director in Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education, who was in charge of Warri South centre , Mr. Lucky Uwhanogho Iriferi said that a total of 14 schools comprising 10 public secondary schools and 4 private schools participated in the competition in the local government.
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