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Ayodele Akinkuowo, the 2015 senior category winner of the Cowbellpedia Secondary Schools Mathematics TV Quiz Show, has secured a scholarship to study Aeronautic Engineering at the University of Moscow, Russia.
Promasidor Nigeria Limited, the makers of Cowbell Milk brand sponsors of the Quiz Show also donated the sum of USD $2,500 in appreciation of the feat by a ‘Cowbellpedia Ambassador.’
Akinkuowo was a student of Adeyemi College of Education Demonstration Secondary School, Ondo, Ondo State when he won the Cowbellpedia Mathematics competition in November 2015.
While hosting him in Lagos, Anders Einarsson, Managing Director of Promasidor Nigeria Limited, noted that the company remains proud of the achievement of the young man who has hoisted the Cowbellpedia flag higher by his brilliant outing. Einarsson added that the money was a token of support for his trip and assured that Promasidor would continue to support the academic development of Nigerian children.
Akinkuowo expressed deep gratitude for the gesture and promised not to diminish the Cowbellpedia spirit in all his future endeavours. He disclosed that the competition has not only emboldened him to face the challenges of life, but it has also taught him a big lesson in faith and hope. “The day I won the competition three years ago, my mother wept.
When the then Governor Olusegun Mimiko invited me and my parents to the Government House in Akure for doing the state proud, I wept especially after the Governor shook my hand. I can never forget such moments. God and Promasidor have been kind to me. I will never forget,” he said.
The Cowbellpedia ex-champion said that the process to winning the scholarship to Russia was rigorous, but he was glad to beat the thousands of applicants who went through the various stages of test, examination and elimination. “Actually, I got the information from a friend and I collected the form. The process was tough, but I just had this confidence that I can fly. I told my friends that after Cowbellpedia, nothing can scare me again, especially the fact that we were the first set on the TV Quiz Show,” Akinkuowo said.
STEPHEN ONYEKWELU
