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A Nigerian speller has distinguished himself as the best speller in Africa after emerging the Champion in the African Spelling Bee 2017.

Sheriff Muhammad of Kings College, Lagos who was part of the team of spellers representing Nigeria at the African Spelling Bee 2017 held in South Africa spelt his way through to the 7th Round of the contest.

He was followed by another Nigerian, Benebo Nchege of Deeper Life High School Port-Harcourt in a Joint 2nd place with Zameer Dada of South Africa.

Both Sheriff and Benebo competed in the Nigeria Spelling Bee and excelled in their respective states and regional competition and went on to be National Finalists. Benebo clinched the title of National Champion in the National Finals held at Nile University, Abuja on the 1st of July.

ALERT: Registration is ongoing for the 2017/2018 Season of Nigeria Spelling Bee. CLICK www.nigeriaspellingbee.com/register to register spellers for your State Qualifier. Winners of this edition will win up to N1,000,000 and represent Nigeria at 2018 African Spelling Bee in Kenya

As part of prizes won in the competition is a Full Scholarship to Monash South Africa worth $20,000. Monash South Africa is ranked among the Best 100 Universities in the world. Other prizes include promotional items sponsored by MTN, Makro and Planet Fitness.

The African Spelling Bee championship tested the spellers on indigenous languages spoken in Africa as the Round 1 (non-elimination). After which, other rounds followed such as the words from the pre-scribed reading materials. These included “I am an African” by Thabo Mbeki, “Kingdom of Mapungubwe” and the “Constitutive Act of the African Union”

Round 3 was made up of words taken from the spellers’ visits to Maropeng and Sterkfontien Caves heritage sites. These words were “fossil fuelled”.

Other rounds included the English words from African Origin, Names of African Cities, Loan words and names of Cities around the world.

All the spellers in the Nigerian Team at the African Spelling Bee did the country proud. These spellers will be returning to Nigeria on Sunday the 17th of December through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos. We invite all stakeholders in the education sector to welcome these spellers as they arrive back to Nigeria at 8pm.

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proudly Nigerian

Sheriff Muhammad

Congratulations

them try

Finally , some good news

He is a Northerner, Just so you all know.

He has broken through your stereotypes.

To all those quoting, I am not being a tribalist or whatever, I am just so proud that Northern Muslims are proving you all wrong.

You all who only believe your tribes are better.

Nice one!

Congratulations to our future leaders!

Land for sale

News like this make u proud of being a Nigerian, but when its news abt em drug dudes, kidnapprs and their likes, i feel like doing what wole soyinka promised 2 do when donald trump wins the US election bt faild to fufill.
(i no talk o na waka pass crew i be)

Ehiscotch:
He is a Northerner, Just so you all know.

He has broken through your stereotypes.

hmmm

Amen

congs

Good one lads

learn2luvlove:

He is actually Yoruba from Lagos State.
Meanwhile, Northerners are also doing well in the Nigeria Spelling Bee

Boooohari as a case study.

Congratulations to us.
#proudlyaNigerian

Oya where is ncan peeps to start d tribal war

Congrats

U v done well for the country, ur family and for urself. I pray the future holds amazing things for u


But if u av any chance to run away from Naija (even to togo,) ,run and neva look back


From a patritotic citizen
I promise to do so too

Obviously they can spell better than most nairalanders.

Globally competitive! Nice!

Yoruba muslim, making Nigeria proud

Before nko?

Who for win am?

Before Nko?

Who for win?

With all these Einsteins whey dey NL!

Afonjas and spelling, that's all they are good for because they're used to people dictating to them.

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Kings college has been making history since BC

congratulate

All these people bringing out ethnicity in everything ..He was recognized as a Nigerian ooo

Ehiscotch:
He is a Northerner, Just so you all know.

He has broken through your stereotypes.

Your thinking Mr is primitive, so much remote.. Jeez! who is this guy?

These are the sterling outliers that require gargantuan brand endorsements, not the harebrained crackpot noisemakers.

Keep soaring young people . May your parents, guardians and teachers remain blessed.

Nb:
The brief-sized dark young chap in the mix made me smile.

This is not the solution...

Nobody is talking about d fact dat it's been almost a week now dis event happened and it's just gracing d front page today.

Nobody even talked about d event at all b4 now. Since it ain't BBN and
Since it ain't about Tonto,Tboss or Snake.
This kinda news is what is supposed to b gracing d 4rnt page not BOBRISKY called HERSELlf an Ashewo
Or Tonto displays her body in a new picture.