Nigerian Breweries, on Monday, released the list of the top 10 finalists for this year’s edition of its annual Maltina Teacher of the Year Award competition.
The Corporate Affairs Director of the company, Sade Morgan,
released the list to newsmen in Lagos.
A female teacher from Lagos State, Blessing Lydia Titiloye
and a teacher from Oyo State, Olanrewaju Olubunmi Olayemi made the list that
included Luga Cyprian Toryila (Benue State), Musa Saidu(Borno State), Ifeoma
Stella(Enugu State).
Others are Garba Abraham (Niger State), Adewale Kayode
Abayomi (Ogun State), Alaku Ayiwulu (Plateau State), Zainab Gambo(Yobe State)
and Kabir Musa (Zamfara State).
Morgan said the finalists were chosen from a pool of 1, 027
entries received and assessed by an independent panel of judges constituted for
the purpose.
She said all the finalists would now proceed to the final
stage where they would be subjected to one-on-one interviews to determine whose
head this year’s Maltina Teacher Award crown fit and the runners-up.
She said they would all be unveiled at an award ceremony in
Lagos scheduled for this Friday.
Maltina Teacher of the Year Award Competition is domiciled
by Nigerian Breweries under its social arm-Felix Ohiwerei Education Trust Fund,
as a platform to identify and reward exceptional teachers from both public and
private secondary schools teachers nationwide.
The competition with this year’s eighth edition has produced
seven overall winners so far with each of them rewarded with an N6 million
money prize and other numerous benefits.
Now in its 8th edition, the Maltina Teacher of the Year
competition is a platform created to identify, showcase, and reward exceptional
teachers in both public and private secondary schools across the country. It is
funded by the Nigerian Breweries-Felix Ohiwerei Education Trust Fund, which was
set up in 1994 towards advancing the quality of education at all levels in
Nigeria in line with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal, SDG No.4.