Students slug it out at 2015 Olokun Festival Foundation quiz competition
In a bid to improve on Yoruba culture by promoting true & Yoruba cultures and the language barrier amidst student, the Olokun Festival Foundation is leaving no stone unturned.
It was a celebration galore as this year Olokun Festival Foundation organized a Yoruba quiz competition among students from secondary schools across the country.
Some of the schools that participated in
this year competition which took place on 14th of October, 2015 at All Seasons Plaza around Agidingbi, Ikeja Lagos State include;
Ilupeju Senior Secondary School, Bolade Senior High School, State High School, Army Senior High School, Estate Senior grammar School and community Senior Secondary School.
Questions were picked from Consonant, Syllable and Yoruba numerical system. At the end of the competition, Army Senior High School came first , the second prize went to State High School while Estate Senior Grammar School came third. N70,000, N50,000, N30,000 were won by the schools respectively. Other contestant also went home with consolidated prizes.
Yoruba is one of the four official languages of Nigeria and is a member of the Volta-Niger branch of the Niger-Congo family of languages. It is spoken by about 22 million people in southwest Nigeria, Benin, Togo, the UK, Brazil and the USA.
