Education
International Debate: Anambra team wins 2023 international debate championship in Malaysia
Pupils of the Anambra State Debate Team have won the 2023 international debate championship held in Malaysia.
The team, which represented Team Nigeria at the championship, defeated Team Malaysia 1, represented by Pin Hwa High School 3-0 by unanimous decision at the semi-finals before reaching the final.
The team thereafter defeated their counterparts from the Hin Hua High School Debate team in the finals, beating them 2-1 to emerge overall winners of the competition, which ended early on Thursday.
The Anambra State debate team which represented Team Nigeria at the competition, comprised of pupils who were drawn from various secondary schools across Anambra.
A pupil of St. Michael’s Model Comprehensive Secondary School, Nimo in Njikoka LGA, Promise Mbachu, emerged as the Best Speaker of the Debate Round.
The state Commissioner for Education, Prof. Ngozi Chuma-Udeh, described the feat as a “thing of great joy, great happiness and a sense of wholesome achievements”.
Anambra team
Chuma-Udeh said, “Coming home with the trophy has brought a lot of smiles to our faces. It is also a demonstration of how the state governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, who sponsored the trip is passionate about education in Anambra State.
“The governor has brought total reconstruction in every facet of education in the state. Today, we are bringing back this trophy, it is a mark of his achievement and glory.
“Team Anambra became Team Nigeria and as they became Team Nigeria, they went to the championship and became Team World. It is to the glory of God that for days, the children battled their counterparts from one country to another and winning with huge margin both in presentation and logic.
“They excelled until the last moment when they took on their hosts, Malaysia, on their own soil and they triumphed. They took the world by storm and now they are bringing the trophy to Anambra and to Nigeria.”
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