Airtel, Pass.ng honour outstanding UTME students

The Pass.Ng award is aimed at
promoting and rewarding academic
excellence among students in Nigeria.
It is scheduled to hold on December 4 in
Lagos, with notable individuals from
the education sector, students and
other stakeholders billed to grace the
occasion.
Leading telecommunications services
provider, Airtel Nigeria, has thrown its
weight behind the maiden edition of the
Pass.Ng Excellence Award 2015,
organized by examination preparatory
and e-testing platform, Pass.ng, to
honour 10 outstanding students in the
2015 Unified Tertiary Matriculation
Examination Joint Admissions and
Matriculations Board examination.
The Pass.Ng award is aimed at
promoting and rewarding academic
excellence among students in Nigeria.
It is scheduled to hold on December 4 in
Lagos, with notable individuals from
the education sector, students and
other stakeholders billed to grace the
occasion.
Commenting on the Award, Chief
Executive Officer of Pass.ng, Samson
Abioye, said the aim of the initiative is
to underscore the importance of
excellence in education to national
development.
Abioye said: “The excellence awards is
geared towards rewarding our users
who not only made us proud but did
excellently well in this year’s UTME
JAMB. This year, about 1.5 million
students wrote UTME and a 100,000 of
them used our platform to prepare for
the exam. We are glad to say that over
60 per cent scored 200 and above. This
is a remarkable achievement. We hope
to increase this figure yearly.
“With the excellence award, we hope to
encourage students to be committed
towards hard work and diligence,
especially in the pursuit of their
careers. We believe the award will
create a healthy competition among
students and also reduce massive
failure rate experienced yearly in the
UTME exams.”
Abioye hoped that the top 10 students
will serve as role models to other
students.
They will each be awarded prices
including laptops and scholarship for
overall best.
It would be recalled that Pass.Ng
emerged one of the winners in the
Catapult-a-Startup initiatives of
Airtel Nigeria, which was aimed at
supporting startup app developers in
Nigeria.
Pass.ng is a web, desktop and mobile-
based Computer Based Test examination
preparatory and testing platform, with
a vision to help candidates excel in all
the major Nigerian examinations and
tests.