{"id":17805,"date":"2025-10-17T19:30:38","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T19:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/?p=17805"},"modified":"2025-10-17T19:30:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T19:30:38","slug":"eti-osa-lcda-celebrates-young-champions-at-spelling-bee-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/2025\/10\/17\/eti-osa-lcda-celebrates-young-champions-at-spelling-bee-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Eti-Osa LCDA Celebrates Young Champions at Spelling Bee Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It was a moment of pride and celebration as brilliant students from Eti-Osa Local Government dazzled at the recently held Spelling Bee competition hosted at the council secretariat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The event, which brought together pupils and students from 20 schools \u2014 including nine public primary schools and eleven senior secondary schools \u2014 showcased exceptional talent, confidence, and intellectual brilliance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17802 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/65e625fb-617c-4b0e-a9c2-3607bd9b20d9-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/65e625fb-617c-4b0e-a9c2-3607bd9b20d9-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/65e625fb-617c-4b0e-a9c2-3607bd9b20d9-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/65e625fb-617c-4b0e-a9c2-3607bd9b20d9-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/65e625fb-617c-4b0e-a9c2-3607bd9b20d9-640x427.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/65e625fb-617c-4b0e-a9c2-3607bd9b20d9.jpeg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">After a fiercely contested round of spellings, <\/span><span class=\"s2\">Sanni Amira<\/span><span class=\"s1\"> of <\/span><span class=\"s3\">Jamatul Islamiyah Primary School<\/span><span class=\"s1\">emerged winner in the primary category, while <\/span><span class=\"s2\">Igbinedion Dara<\/span><span class=\"s1\"> of <\/span><span class=\"s3\">Agbara Community Senior Secondary School<\/span><span class=\"s1\"> clinched the top spot in the senior category.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Other winners in the primary section include <\/span><span class=\"s2\">Cicilia Moses<\/span><span class=\"s1\"> of <\/span><span class=\"s3\">Ilasan Primary School<\/span><span class=\"s1\"> (2nd place) and <\/span><span class=\"s2\">Ummi Jordan<\/span><span class=\"s1\"> of <\/span><span class=\"s3\">Ikota Primary School<\/span><span class=\"s1\"> (3rd place). In the senior category, <\/span><span class=\"s2\">Olabode Mercy Eyinjuoluwa<\/span><span class=\"s1\">of <\/span><span class=\"s3\">Ilasan Senior Secondary School<\/span><span class=\"s1\"> came second, while <\/span><span class=\"s2\">Bassey Favour Essien<\/span><span class=\"s1\"> of <\/span><span class=\"s3\">Agbara Community Senior Secondary School<\/span><span class=\"s1\"> took third place.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Executive Chairman of Eti-Osa Local Government, <\/span><span class=\"s2\">Omo\u2019ba Adeola Alimot Adetoro<\/span><span class=\"s1\">, congratulated all participants, noting that the competition was aimed at nurturing academic excellence and building confidence among young learners. She also presented prizes to winners of a pre-contest spelling exercise.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17803 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/9aa778f2-6406-4afb-840a-fffbc1110fe5-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/9aa778f2-6406-4afb-840a-fffbc1110fe5-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/9aa778f2-6406-4afb-840a-fffbc1110fe5-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/9aa778f2-6406-4afb-840a-fffbc1110fe5-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/9aa778f2-6406-4afb-840a-fffbc1110fe5-640x427.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/9aa778f2-6406-4afb-840a-fffbc1110fe5.jpeg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Adetoro urged the overall winners to represent Eti-Osa Local Government with pride at the state level and bring home more laurels.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The event ended on a high note, with renewed calls for greater investment in education and youth development across Eti-Osa.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a moment of pride and celebration as brilliant students from Eti-Osa Local Government dazzled at the recently held<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17805","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=17805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17807,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17805\/revisions\/17807"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}