(Save-a-Soul team from Regina Pacis Secondary School, Onicha, Biafra ... displays their coveted gold medals in San Jose, US, Thursday 9 August 2018: great Biafran ambassadors...)
Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe
A TEAM of five teenage girls from the Regina Pacis Secondary School Onicha, southwest Biafra, has won the gold medal in the junior division finalists of the 2018 global technovation contest held in San Jose, United States.
The students are Promise Nnalue,
Vivian Okoye, Adaeze Onuigbo, Jessica Osita, and Nwabuaku Ossai. Their team, Save-a-Soul,
came top in the competition involving 9,000 girls from across 115 countries with
their developed app, FD-Detector, which tackles fake pharmaceutical products in southwestcentral region of Africa.
THE Save-a-Soul team had travelled to
the US with their teacher and mentor, Uchenna Onwuameagbu-Ugwu, and beaten the group
of 12 teams’ finalists which included the US, China and Spain to clinch their
gold.
(John Coltrane Quartet, “Equinox” [personnel: Coltrane, tenor saxophone; McCoy Tyner, piano; Steve Davis, bass; Elvin Jones, drums; recorded: Atlantic Studios, New York, US, 26 October 1960])
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