CMS Student won #500,000 Lagos State schools’debate

The Lagos State Commissioner for Education, Mrs. Olayinka Oladunjoye, stated that the state’s schools debate is created to push its pupils to the global stage.
Oladunjoye reported on Thursday at the sixth edition of the programme, where the CMS Girls Grammar School, Bariga, Lagos, emerged as winner.
She noted that the initiative had gone a long way to develop and improve the public speaking skills among pupils in the state.
According to the commissioner, a former pupil of the Senior Model College, Igbokuta, Lagos, Oluwatomisin Atolagbe, now a student at the Cameron University, Oklahoma, United States was a winner of the first season of the programme.
She said that another winner, Surakatu Jumoke, also a former pupil of the state Senior Model College is now studying Medicine at the University of Lagos.
A pupil of Badagry Senior Grammar School, Badagry, Sherifat Fagbenro won in the individual speaker’s debate while Adesuyi Adetutu and Seidu Marvellous, representing CMS Girls Senior Grammar School, Bariga came first in the school’s debate.
While the pupils of CMS received N500,000 and a trophy, Fagbenro received a plaque, gifts and N75,000.