Samuel Kwaku Gyamfi Gariba of D and D Academy in Kumasi, Ashanti Region came out on top of the 2022 edition of \u2018The Literacy Challenge\u2019, organized by Citi FM<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n This was after the first year Junior High School (JHS) student beat nine others with his spectacular performance in the grand-finale of the competition held on Saturday, September 10, 2022 at the Alisa Hotel, North-Ridge Accra to bag the bragging rights.<\/p>\n Samuel did creditably well garnering 66 points at the end of the five-rounds of the grueling quiz, in a showcase of competitive academic grit to be crowned the champion.<\/p>\n \u201cI never expected it\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n The fiercely contested quiz, moderated by co-host of the Citi Breakfast Show<\/strong>, Kokui Selormey Hanson covered a number of areas, namely literature, social studies or current affairs; general knowledge or applied knowledge and mathematics.<\/p>\n For the first time however, in the history of the competition, there was a novelty \u2013 a round of science and technology was introduced where contestants were made to build a circuit as a practical test planned and supervised by Dex Technology Limited.<\/p>\n Coming in second was Nana O. Adu-Bonsaffoh of Bishop Bowers School.\u00a0<\/span>The third position went to University of Ghana Basic School\u2019s Nana Offei Awere Addison.<\/p>\n They scored 64 and 60 respectively.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Samuel K Gariba \u00a0was presented with a GH\u00a210,000 cash prize and winning trophy.<\/p>\n In addition, Samuel will be named the Vodafone Instant School Ambassador.\u00a0 He also received a a laptop and a free one year data subscription from the Vodafone Ghana Foundation.<\/p>\n InvestCorp Asset Management Limited provided the winner a GHS 2,000 pre-funded investment account.<\/p>\n Nana O. Adu-Bonsaffoh\u00a0went home with a tablet and a free 6 months data subscription while Nana Offei Awere Addison receive a tablet and a free 3 months data subscription for coming second and third respectively.<\/p>\n The first and second runners up also received GHS 1, 000 and GHS 700 respectively as pre-funded investment accounts from InvestCorp Asset Management Limited.<\/p>\n The rest received a month\u2019s data subscription from Vodafone Ghana Foundation and a GHS 100 pre-funded investment accounts each for placing fourth and tenth.<\/p>\n There were other prizes such as customized school bags with learning materials and five exercise books each for all 10 finalists. They also got a medal and a certificate of participation and freebies from sponsors.<\/p>\n 1ST \u2013 <\/strong>Samuel K. G. Gariba \u2013 66 points<\/p>\n 2ND \u2013 <\/strong>Nana O. Adu-Bonsaffoh \u2013 64 points<\/p>\n 3RD \u2013 <\/strong>Nana Offei Awere Addison \u2013 60 points<\/p>\n 4TH \u2013 <\/strong>Litgjhep N. T. Amarh \u2013 59 points<\/p>\n 5TH \u2013 <\/strong>Ekua Boa Enchill \u2013 57.5 points<\/p>\n 6TH \u2013 <\/strong>Alan-Clifford K. Buaka \u2013\u00a0 57 points<\/p>\n 7TH \u2013 <\/strong>Kudomor Selorm Korbla\u00a0 \u2013 56 points<\/p>\n 8TH \u2013 <\/strong>Abena Asabea Adjei \u2013 50 points<\/p>\n 9TH \u2013 <\/strong>Ampong N.K Boahen \u2013 49 points<\/p>\n 10TH \u2013 <\/strong>Jael Owusua Anim-Sarfo \u2013 34\u00a0 points<\/p>\n The Literacy Challenge\u00a0is a\u00a0three-level,\u00a0nationwide, contest-style campaign that promotes Literacy in Ghana and which targets\u00a0Junior High School (JHS) students, in Ghana.<\/p>\n The challenge targets a wide range of audiences and actively engages students from all 16 regions of Ghana.<\/p>\n The finalists made it through the first two stages of the competition, where they first wrote an essay with a huge number of people on a given topic.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n This was followed by an aptitude test by the top 50, quizzing them on general knowledge and current affairs, after which the ten finalists were picked.<\/p>\n The topic for participation in the 2022 edition was:<\/p>\n \u201cYou have been appointed as an advisor to the Minister of Communications and Digitalization. In not less than 600 words, you are required to write to the Minister, advising on how Ghana can deploy technology for poverty reduction and national development.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n As an annual nationwide campaign, The Literacy Challenge is powered by 97.3 Citi FM<\/strong>, with support from\u00a0Citi TV<\/strong>.<\/p>\n The 2022 edition was sponsored by Vodafone Ghana Foundation as part of the Kindred Partners, Prospectus Ghana Ltd, Dext Technology, Alife Soap and InvestCorp Asset Management Limited.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Samuel Kwaku Gyamfi Gariba of D and D Academy in Kumasi, Ashanti Region came out on top of the 2022 edition of \u2018The Literacy Challenge\u2019, organized by Citi FM.\u00a0 This was after the first year Junior High School (JHS) student beat nine others with his spectacular performance in the grand-finale of the competition held on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1201975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1201974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1201974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1201974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1201974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1201974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/TLC-2022.jpeg\")
<\/p>\nAwards<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Roll of honour<\/strong><\/h4>\n
The Literacy Challenge journey\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Sponsors<\/strong><\/h4>\n