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Rivers Indigent Student Breaks UTME Record

A 17-year-old indigent Rivers student, Holy Destiny Ike, from Egi clan, has shattered the records in Showers International Secondary School in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, by scoring 334 points in the 2020 uniified Tertiary Matriculation Exams.
The record was held by one of the schools’ most brilliant students, Emmanuel Anyanwu, who scored 317 in 2017.
The Tide gathered that Ike who hails from Amah in Ogba/Egbema in Ndoni Local Government Area of Rivers State, also had best result in the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) Rivers State in 2017 examination for junior secondary schools where he scored distinctions in all the 14 subjects he entered.
A product of the Catch Them Young (CDY) scheme of Showers in conjunction with Total E&P Education Initiative, wants to study Mechanical Engineering in the University of Lagos.
Ike’s result is among the best so far released from Rivers State and Nigeria with a student from Ahoada scoring 361 and another from the north topping the national chart with 366, The Tide gathered.
Reacting, the founder and CEO of Showers Group, Ekama Emilia Akpan, thus thanked the state government for providing enabling environment for education and businesses to return. She also commended Total E&P for the initiative to fish out a lot of young brains that were wallowing in very poor rural schools to an elite college in the Garden City where they have overtaken the world. stating that this is a sign that most of the boys now carrying guns in the communities could be world beaters in academics and industries, if harnessed.
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