{"id":17727,"date":"2025-10-15T15:24:24","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T15:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/?p=17727"},"modified":"2025-10-15T15:24:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T15:24:24","slug":"iganmu-senior-high-shines-at-agricultural-scholars-quiz-as-lagos-celebrates-world-food-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/2025\/10\/15\/iganmu-senior-high-shines-at-agricultural-scholars-quiz-as-lagos-celebrates-world-food-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Iganmu Senior High Shines at Agricultural Scholars\u2019 Quiz as Lagos Celebrates World Food Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">The Lagos State Government has commended the impressive performances of secondary school students who participated in the Lagos Agricultural Scholars\u2019 Quiz Competition, held as part of activities marking this year\u2019s World Food Day celebration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">The keenly contested quiz, which drew a capacity crowd at the Adeyemi Bero Hall, Alausa Secretariat, Ikeja, saw <\/span><span class=\"s1\">Iganmu Senior High School, Apapa<\/span><span class=\"s2\"> emerge as the overall winner. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Government Model Girls College, Agunfoye, Ikorodu<\/span><span class=\"s2\"> clinched second place, while <\/span><span class=\"s1\">Birch Freeman Senior Secondary School, Surulere<\/span><span class=\"s2\"> came third.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Presenting prizes and cash rewards to the winners, the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Systems, <\/span><span class=\"s1\">Mr. Emmanuel Audu<\/span><span class=\"s2\">, said the event was aimed at encouraging Nigerian youths to see agriculture as a viable career path and a key driver of food security in Lagos State and the nation at large.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">He explained that the competition was a deliberate effort by the state to \u201ccatch them young\u201d by exposing students to the numerous opportunities and benefits within the agricultural value chain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Mr. Audu also urged residents to support government efforts and embrace subsistence farming to help reduce hunger and poverty across the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">The grand finale of the World Food Day celebration, the <\/span><span class=\"s1\">Farmers\u2019 Fair<\/span><span class=\"s2\">, will take place tomorrow, <\/span><span class=\"s1\">Thursday, October 16<\/span><span class=\"s2\">, at the <\/span><span class=\"s1\">Police College, Ikeja<\/span><span class=\"s2\">, starting at <\/span><span class=\"s1\">10 a.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">The event will feature an exhibition of various agricultural produce and inputs available for residents to purchase at discounted prices.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lagos State Government has commended the impressive performances of secondary school students who participated in the Lagos Agricultural Scholars\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-from-the-grassroots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17730,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17727\/revisions\/17730"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}