2004 Ijso: Nigerian Student Wins Bronze Medal

This Day (Lagos)

January 18, 2005
Posted to the web January 18, 2005

Lagos

History was made in far away Jakarta, Indonesia, recently where the 2004 International Junior Science Olympiad (IJSO) was concluded where Nigeria placed amongst the top teams in the world by winning a bronze medal at the global contest.

In addition to this, Nigeria fielded the youngest team at the competition and was also adjudged the most colourful during the cultural presentation to close the annual event. The competition had in attendance 200 students representing 30 countries world wild.

Miss Adedoyin Adegboye of Grace High School, Lagos, was the history maker becoming the first Nigerian student to win a medal at a global science Olympiad. In the words of the Nigerian Ambassador to Indonesia, M. Buba Ahmed, who received the Nigerian team after the glorious outing, "You have demonstrated great courage in a contest where other countries presented higher qualified students."

Nigeria also scored a boardroom victory with the election of Kingsley Nosakhare Imade as the Secretary-General of the IJSO for the next five years. By this feat, Mr. Imade become the first African to have reached this height within the global science Olympiads family.