[dropcap]W[/dropcap]orried by the declining standard of education in public schools across the country, particularly in the rural areas, the Grassroots Newspaper Publishers Network(GNPN) has disclosed plans to organize an “Inter Collegiate Quiz & Debate Competition” for public schools in Calabar come 2018.
President of GNPN, Dr Dan Awana made the disclosure Thursday December 7 in an exclusive chat with newsmen shortly after he led other key executives of the association to present Cheque to Mrs. Joy Okon , Principal of one of the beneficiary schools of GNPN end of the year 2017 conference .
The Cheque is for the May/June 2018 WAEC/SSCE enrolment of seventy indigent students of Cross River state.
Grassroots Publishers online learned that a total of 250 indigent students of cutting across secondary schools in southern states have been selected for the GNPN 2018 WAEC/ SSCE enrolment.
In a remark at Cross River, Comrade Ike Abiagom noted that the educational support programme for the underprivileged students is the beginning of a process to encourage the indigent students with a view to boosting the standard of education and he appealed to Nigerians to do the same to our underprivileged students.