Today, we concluded another partnership with Sterling Bank to launch the Sterling Bank National Mathematics Quiz. A nationwide competition designed to discover, reward, and celebrate Nigeria’s brightest young minds.
Starting Saturday, June 20, 2026, students from Primary 1 to SS3 across Nigeria will compete online every two weeks for the prizes.
1st Prize – ₦500,000
2nd Prize – ₦300,000
3rd Prize – ₦200,000
That’s ₦1,000,000 every two weeks and ₦24,000,000 every year dedicated solely to rewarding academic excellence among Nigerian children.
But this is not just about winning money.
It is about building a culture where intelligence is celebrated.
It is about giving every child, whether in Lagos, Enugu, Kano, Bayelsa, Maiduguri, Aba, or a remote village, an opportunity to compete on a national stage.
Competition Schedule
• Every two weeks
• Saturdays
• 6:00 PM – 6:20 PM
• Online nationwide
The top performers will then advance to a live championship session streamed online next day same time, where Nigerians can watch some of the country’s brightest students solve challenging mathematical problems in real time.
To ensure fairness and give more students the opportunity to benefit, every student can only win once.
And here’s what makes it even better:
Every participant will be able to review their questions after the competition, identify their weaknesses, learn from their mistakes, and prepare for the next challenge.
This means that even students who don’t win become better mathematicians.
Parents, teachers, school owners, and students should begin preparing immediately.
The questions will be tough and the competition will be fierce.
Registration is now open:
https://t.co/5dGxuzgLU1
Please share this with every child, parent, teacher, school owner, principal, and education stakeholder you know.
Let’s make academic excellence prestigious again.
A student enters university and quickly realizes that with ₦20,000, he can “sort” his way to an A.
Immediately, the hunger to study dies.
The desire to compete dies.
Curiosity dies.
Discipline dies.
Why spend sleepless nights reading when corruption can buy the same result?
After 4–5 years, that same student graduates with a certificate that says “excellent”, but with a mind that was never trained to solve problems, think critically or build anything valuable.
Then millions of such graduates flood the labour market every year and we keep shouting:
“There are no jobs.”
But the harder truth is this:
Many employers are no longer just looking for certificates. They are desperately looking for competence.
UNN, UNILAG, FUTO, ABSU and IMSU all use the same NUC-regulated curriculum.
The difference has never really been curriculum.
The difference is standards.
Where corruption becomes culture, excellence dies quietly.
And when excellence dies in universities, the entire country eventually pays for it.
This is no longer “school problems.”
This is a national emergency.
If we don’t fix corruption inside our education system, no political reform in Nigeria will ever truly work.
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