realestniggah:


It not about personal brilliance it more about the level and standard of education they have received since the day they were born. Did you see the names of those schools.. Those are reputable school.. You hardly find children from government schools in these competitions. If you want your child to be brilliant lay the proper foundation for them

Meanwhile some people will come to Nairaland and be saying the parents of the children in those schools are wasting their money or trying to show off.

TSRC:

Naturalwaves, list the schools that have consistently performed over the years.

It could help parents make informed choices.

The Ambassadors College Ogun

Ota Total Academy Ogun

Topfaith PH

Graceland school PH

Marist Brother Juniorate Abia

Loyola Jesuit College Abuja

Jesuit Memorial Rivers

Bibo Oluwa Osun

Nigerian Turkish International/ Nigerian Tulip International Colleges

Federal Government Academy, Suleja

Reality High school Osun

Scholars Universal Ogun
Hallmark Secondary school, Ondo.

Deeper Life school, Delta has really been trying too recently and a host of others but those schools listed there are so consistent

For example, all the students presented for National examination for the senior category from Marist Brothers Juniorate, Uturu, Abia state all qualified for the quiz show. All of them scored between 98% to 100%. None scored even a 97 %..... and there are about 5 of them.

There was a year Ambassadors College had multiple contestants even at the game show final. There was a year Ambassadors College won both the Junior and Senior categories of the finals to emerge National champions.That same year, they were 1st,2nd and 3rd in both Junior and Senior categories

naturalwaves:


There will be at least 13 episodes in all and the show will be aired in 6 local stations, Dstv African Magic as well as AIT network from August 10.So, keep tabs on them. Moreover, in case you miss any of the series, just go to YouTube and you can watch from the cowbellpedia channel. Betterstill, subscribe to the channel and click on the notification bell so that you will be notified once a fresh episode is uploaded. This is a link to the Cowbellpedia channel below:

https://m.youtube.com/channel/UC0cpyv-4619wm0Qy11wrP7Q

This year's edition is season 5 so when it starts, the videos will be in these format... SE05E1(Season 5 episode 1), S05E2(Season 5 Episode 2) and so on. This way, you will be able to keep tabs on which one you have watched and which one has been newly uploaded.

On the YouTube channel, I think fresh episodes are usually uploaded on Fridays around afternoon time. Once you follow the channel you should be good.

With 12 Junior national qualifiers scoring a perfect score of 100% in the qualifying exams, this is not an episode one should ever miss. I cannot wait to see how the young lads battle for honors both in the Junior and senior categories.

Here is a trailer for Season 5 also....... Enjoy!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heZc574jTvw

...

naturalwaves:

I dislike the quota system thing so bad. One of my boys in Lagos scored 81% in the national exams for the junior category and will not be going for the quiz show because he was not top 17 nationwide and did not emerge as a state champion but about 10 or more people that got far lower than him will make the quiz show. You need to see the terrible scores they had..... Those who scored 60% and less from the North even made it whereas, if you score 90% in Lagos, you may not make it.
See some here that made the Senior category despite low scores.

Na wa o
I'm angry

ise82:
Better than bbnaija. We nid promote this.

A white man is behind this and that's why it's working(Cow Bell)

Bbbwings:

Na wa o
I'm angry

Lolz

Chinedu Mgbemena the winner of Cowbellpedia 2018



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBTIti2noH4

TSRC:

Big big money school.

When I served in ota, I met with the proprietor of ambassadors college, ota.
He told me jokingly that he does not want parents from ota because they can't pay school fees.

Good education is an expensive investment.

Lolz. He wants those from Lekki right?
Good education cannot be free. In my school, pupils in Primary 2 work perfectly well on Excel.... Can gather data, launch the program, put them into cells and even use pictograms and different graphs to represent the information. In the secondary school, students pack A1 in WASSCE like beans. Imagine having up to 10 Mathematics teachers in a Primary school alone and having multiple teachers to teach you as well in the secondary. Imagine having at least 2 teachers to teach you Physics and the likes. How you no go score A1 when dem no swear for you. . Don't ask me for the name though.

DemonInSiege:


Chinedu Mgbemena the winner of Cowbellpedia 2018



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBTIti2noH4

Chinedu is on another level. Chinedu is a walking Mathematics. Chinedu is a genius. If you check out his semi final performance for the 60 seconds of fame, you will be awed. Dude came with beast mode. The boy is too good
Watch the video below. You can jump to time frame 45:23 to see his beast mode activated

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBsOGzQqmyQ&t=2909s

naturalwaves:

I dislike the quota system thing so bad. One of my boys in Lagos scored 81% in the national exams for the junior category and will not be going for the quiz show because he was not top 17 nationwide and did not emerge as a state champion but about 10 or more people that got far lower than him will make the quiz show. You need to see the terrible scores they had..... Those who scored 60% and less from the North even made it whereas, if you score 90% in Lagos, you may not make it.
See some here that made the Senior category despite low scores.

Quotas have never worked anywhere to uplift a group to prosperity. Whether by clamouring for more women in politics or business or advocating for affirmative action in admissions or federal character. In Malaysia, Chinese Malays earn more than ethnic Malays even though the government policies favour ethnic Malays. In Nigeria, after the civil war that had 3MN+ Igbos massacred and left them in penury. Today, same Igbos top academic tables (UTME, WASSCE, SSCE etc) whereas northerners who got preferential treatment (aka federal character) constitute the vast majority of young Nigerians who are out of school. In the US, early in the 20th century, there were more white students of Jewish heritage at New York's elite high school - Stuyvesant. However, currently there are more Asian students in the school than whites and blacks combined. But they (Asian students) didn't achieve that through affirmative action, which in my opinion promotes mediocrity. So when I see folks support quota system, I shudder at it because it does more harm than good to the group. The bad thing about the federal character is that: no school in the north will ever produce a winner in Cowbellpedia because the bar has been set too low for them to compete against the best. How can they (where the cut-off is 60) compete against persons whose cut-off point is 97?

On Cowbellpedia, my sister has participated thrice at the state's level but intense competition didn't see her get to the regional stage. It's an edutaining competition and I hope it continues. Ever since Zain African Challenge and WWTBAM weren't sponsored, only Cowbellpedia has been Nigeria's intellectually stimulating programme.

Regarding the juxtaposition to BBN, I believe it's out of place. Simple economics state that companies will sponsor programs where they can churn out profit over others where profits don't exist. The vast majority of Nigerians prefer BBN to Cowbellpedia. As a result, it gets more sponsorship. It's the free market. Anyone who desires for more intellectual programs should create them.

naturalwaves:
This year's cowbellpedia 2019 TV game show will commence soon and I cannot but notice a particular boy called Jesse Uche-Nwichi whom I have been following closely after his triumph at the 2017 Junior category where he blazed through the rounds and finals and dusted everyone to become the National winner in the Junior category. I know for sure that he would not disappoint and will be back for the Senior category. So, when the results of the written examinations came out, I rushed to check if his name will appear as one of the qualified candidates and I was not very much surprised to see that he is coming back as he scored a total of 98% in the written exams.

It was the manner in which he won that was surprising.......he was very cool, calm and focused and supplied answers as though they were right in front of him. I remember that he once said that he does not feel anyone is a threat to him

This year's episode is going to be a serious cracker and I cannot wait for the fireworks to begin.

Jessey is a student of Graceland International School, Port-Harcourt. He will also meet some of his familiar foes at the senior school edition.His pictures are attached below.

Jessey will be attempting to equal the records of Munachi Earnest-Eze of Loyola Jesuit College Abuja who won both the Junior and Senior categories of the competition in 2015 and 2017 espectively.

This is the kind of stuffs that we need not some clueless reality show

naturalwaves:

Chinedu is on another level. Chinedu is a walking Mathematics. Chinedu is a genius. If you check out his semi final performance for the 60 seconds of fame, you will be awed. Dude came with beast mode. The boy is too good
AWatch the video below. You can jump to time frame 45:23 to see his beast mode activated

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBsOGzQqmyQ&t=2909s

"I almost passed out"
"What you did to me, was it fair?"
"That was huge"



There was an edition where a dude in the final stage didn't look at the screen neither did he try to calculate to arrive at the answers. I think he got about one or two questions wrong. I was stunned that day!

naturalwaves:



NNPC uses same quota system for recruitment. If you score 85% and you are from SW, you may not smell the next stage whereas, another person from the North may get 50% and go on to the next stage.

Jeez! This is painful and evil. How can we grow when merit is not encouraged

naturalwaves:

Thank you bro. Had to take my time to come up with the write- up so we can shift focus to something more sensible. It is even possible to have a reality show for smart children where they will be in the house and they will garner followership as well. Something like a Summer school challenge but useless stuffs and immorality is now the order of the day.

I even observe that a bulk of Nigerian youths are now so useless. 80%+ of them smoke cannabis and Marijuana and do so much alcohol. Young irresponsible parents with no clue on how to raise a child are springing up. They give birth to children they cannot take care of and then pour them on the government. It is such a shame! Whereas, parents and teachers of these young ones are putting in enormous effort to guide and gaurd their future well. I remember the ever gentle, smiling, Ayodeji Akinkuowo from Ondo state who is now studying Aeronautics Engineering in Russia on scholarship based on his performance at the show when he won in 2015. Munachin Earnest-Eze is having a shot at MIT as well and so many others.

See the 60 seconds of fame of Ayodeji here and how he blazed the questions.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdA5roiLedc

I admire his demeanour. So calm. He already looks like a researcher sef. It's good to know these folks are obtaining their education at top institutions. Hopefully, one or some will win the Fields Medal or the Wolf's Prize in Mathematics one day. Something which no black person has ever won.

Gerrard59:



Quotas have never worked anywhere to uplift a group to prosperity. Whether by clamouring for more women in politics or business or advocating for affirmative action in admissions or federal character. In Malaysia, Chinese Malays earn more than ethnic Malays even though the government policies favour ethnic Malays. In Nigeria, after the civil war that had 3MN+ Igbos massacred and left them in penury. Today, same Igbos top academic tables (UTME, WASSCE, SSCE etc) whereas northerners who got preferential treatment (aka federal character) constitute the vast majority of young Nigerians who are out of school. In the US, early in the 20th century, there were more white students of Jewish heritage at New York's elite high school - Stuyvesant. However, currently there are more Asian students in the school than whites and blacks combined. But they (Asian students) didn't achieve that through affirmative action, which in my opinion promotes mediocrity. So when I see folks support quota system, I shudder at it because it does more harm than good to the group. The bad thing about the federal character is that: no school in the north will ever produce a winner in Cowbellpedia because the bar has been set too low for them to compete against the best. How can they (where the cut-off is 60) compete against persons whose cut-off point is 97?

On Cowbellpedia, my sister has participated thrice at the state's level but intense competition didn't see her get to the regional stage. It's an edutaining competition and I hope it continues. Ever since Zain African Challenge and WWTBAM weren't sponsored, only Cowbellpedia has been Nigeria's intellectually stimulating programme.

Regarding the juxtaposition to BBN, I believe it's out of place. Simple economics state that companies will sponsor programs where they can churn out profit over others where profits don't exist. The vast majority of Nigerians prefer BBN to Cowbellpedia. As a result, it gets more sponsorship. It's the free market. Anyone who desires for more intellectual programs should create them.

Your analysis is top notch and right on point. When I was in secondary school, a smart friend of mine left Lagos and registered in a Northern school in a Northern state. He was the State Champion and wrote the National exam with about 35 other candidates. That time, it was just 1 per state. If he had written in Lagos, he may not have even made top 50 talk more of emerging as a state winner.

We should say NO to quota system. It has done more harm than good. It broke my heart that WWTBAM is no more. I was always a regular member of the audience. I made a couple of 20ks from the show as an undergraduate. Show really helped me. Imagine having about 17k to buy food stuff and provisions in school as an undergraduate years ago. In fact, I got my first laptop from my WWTBAM audience play winnings.

Gerrard59:



I admire his demeanour. So calm. He already looks like a researcher sef. It's good to know these folks are obtaining their education at top institutions. Hopefully, one or some will win the Fields Medal or the Wolf's Prize in Mathematics one day. Something which no black person has ever won.

If you watch his documentary, you will notice how calm and humble he is. He is popularly called Professor. His small table at home where he reads is filled with books as though he is a university lecturer. His sister said that his food gets cold as he never eats when it is served. Rather, he must finish solving whatever he is doing before he does anything else. He talks about God every time. A couple of times, he could not pay his school fees at Adeyemi College of Education Demonstration school, Ondo but the school usually intervene due to his brilliance according to his dad. He is from a humble background but here he is in far away Russia studying Aeronautics Engineering. He will definitely take proper care of his parents when he gets out of school and gets a good job. He was studying Civil Engineering at University of Ibadan before he got his scholarship. I doubt if he had spent up to 1 year at University of Ibadan before the scholarship came.

naturalwaves:

Your analysis is top notch and right on point. When I was in secondary school, a smart friend of mine left Lagos and registered in a Northern school in a Northern state. He was the State Champion and wrote the National exam with about 35 other candidates. That time, it was just 1 per state. If he had written in Lagos, he may not have even made top 50 talk more of emerging as a state winner.

We should say NO to quota system. It has done more harm than good. It broke my heart that WWTBAM is no more. I was always a regular member of the audience. I made a couple of 20ks from the show as an undergraduate. Show really helped me. Imagine having about 17k to buy food stuff and provisions in school as an undergraduate years ago. In fact, I got my first laptop from my WWTBAM audience play winnings.

Nigerians need to petition the private sector to bring back WWTBM.

NLNG, Total or any of those oil companies can sponsor it as part of their CSR.
Even Glo or the Tier 1 banks like Zenith, First bank, GTB or Access can sponsor it.

100 million should be enough to rum the program for a year which is chicken feed compared to their yearly profits in Nigeria.

naturalwaves:

Your analysis is top notch and right on point. When I was in secondary school, a smart friend of mine left Lagos and registered in a Northern school in a Northern state. He was the State Champion and wrote the National exam with about 35 other candidates. That time, it was just 1 per state. If he had written in Lagos, he may not have even made top 50 talk more of emerging as a state winner.

We should say NO to quota system. It has done more harm than good. It broke my heart that WWTBAM is no more. I was always a regular member of the audience. I made a couple of 20ks from the show as an undergraduate. Show really helped me. Imagine having about 17k to buy food stuff and provisions in school as an undergraduate years ago. In fact, I got my first laptop from my WWTBAM audience play winnings

You don tey for this game oh. I only wished to be part of the audience as I wasn't in Lagos. Three years ago, I attempted to be part of the contestants for FFF. I got called and asked which number was Obama as the US president. Few months later, the show got desponsored.

Igbo Amaka..... Igbo's making this yeye country proud since 1489

nams77:


Jeez! This is painful and evil. How can we grow when merit is not encouraged

If the spot to be filled is 120, they will do 120/6 and that will be 20 per Geo political zone.
SW ....20.
SE....20 etc etc

You may even score 90% in the exam and not be part of those 20 selected from the zone. You may not even be part of top 50 in the zone. Someone will now score 54% in another zone and qualify

naturalwaves:

If you watch his documentary, you will notice how calm and humble he is. He is popularly called Professor. His small table at home where he reads is filled with books as though he is a university lecturer. His sister said that his food gets cold as he never eats when it is served. Rather, he must finish solving whatever he is doing before he does anything else. He talks about God every time. A couple of times, he could not pay his school fees at Adeyemi College of Education Demonstration school, Ondo but the school usually intervene due to his brilliance according to his dad. He is from a humble background but here he is in far away Russia studying Aeronautics Engineering. He will definitely take proper care of his parents when he gets out of school and gets a good job. He was studying Civil Engineering at University of Ibadan before he got his scholarship. I doubt if he had spent up to 1 year at University of Ibadan before the scholarship came.

Yet another case of not being financially buoyant. I really need to get there so I can institute a scholarship program for intelligent folks in Nigeria. Good that he got sponsored to study abroad and hopefully, he leaves Russia to the US as that where such intellect is highly rewarded financially.

Gerrard59:


You don tey for this game oh. I only wished to be part of the audience as I wasn't in Lagos. Three years, I attempted to be part of the contestants for FFF. I got called and asked which number was Obama as the US president. Few months later, the show got desponsored.

Frank and the whole production crew sef sabi my face. Omo, guys use that thing hustle o. About 20 of my deparmental mates and friends do travel to Lagos every Friday to enter studio first thing on Saturday morning. I dey send myself invite sef if I no get invite. Don't ask me how
The memo in my wallet is filled with ABCD(Alphabet things). I dey always recite ABCD like say I dey Nursery because na my hustle be that o and dey fit talk say make we arrange words according to the right alphabetical order on Saturday . I chop wella sha

naturalwaves:

Emmanuel Mebude is now at the University of Lagos where he is studying Systems Engineering.

I almost wept when he did not make the finals. He missed just 1 question in the objective section of the semi final and scored 55/60. 3 of the other contestant scored 60/60.So,they advanced to the 60 seconds of fame while he bowed out. Had he made the finals, Munachi would have it so hot. These kids are just too good. All of them!

He even said it then that he wanted unilag.

It pained me too that he didn't make it.

It's like they have past questions they use to read and it will definitely come out during the quiz.

I am also a graduate of mathematics, back then I would pretend as if I were them and to know my speed accuracy on answering questions, but were are dam too fast.


During primary and secondary, the brain is always sharp and fast because your parents will support and care for you, but when at the university or school, men!! you will reason reasons like;
How will I eat today?

How will I pay my house rent?

How will I buy hand outs?

How much will I give this my Gf?

How shall I tell my parents I need another money?

many more.....

That's just the way life is.

TSRC:

Nigerians need to petition the private sector to bring back WWTBM.

NLNG, Total or any of those oil companies can sponsor it as part of their CSR.
Even Glo or the Tier 1 banks like Zenith, First bank, GTB or Access can sponsor it.

100 million should be enough to rum the program for a year which is chicken feed compared to their yearly profits in Nigeria.

I am telling you. However, they will argue that they cannot be coerced into sponsoring any project. We can only appeal. There are enough ideas for intellectually stimulating games but no sponsor. If you want to air a show for just say 1 hour on a local station, it will not be less than 2 million naira. Meanwhile, that is just 1 station in 1 week o. 4 weeks = 8 million. 5 stations equals 40 million naira per month. ..............and that is just airtime alone o.

Gerrard59:


You don tey for this game oh. I only wished to be part of the audience as I wasn't in Lagos. Three years ago, I attempted to be part of the contestants for FFF. I got called and asked which number was Obama as the US president. Few months later, the show got desponsored.

EEyah. I tried to get to the hot seat as well and read like mad............geography o, oscars o, grammy o etc. I could recite all the past presidents of America , all the Oscar award winning movies and the amount they won etc. I read like mad but never got called up. My roomate was called because I also used his number to dial and I told him to mention my name if he ever gets a call since he was not prepared for the hot seat. When he was called, he forgot and mentioned his name. He was asked that, how many stars are on the US flag. He said 2 instead of 50 and that was how he blew his shot at FF. You do not have to get the answer correct though. If they call 8 people, they will first pick those who are the closest to the answer and begin to call others.

I don't know why my brain keeps telling me that those kids in the final have Liverpool, Tottenham and Man city amongst them. At least this should be a breather from the BBnonsense.

kings59:



He even said it then that he wanted unilag.

It pained me too that he didn't make it.

It's like they have past questions they use to read and it will definitely come out during the quiz.

I am also a graduate of mathematics, back then I would pretend as if I were them and to know my speed accuracy on answering questions, but were are dam too fast.


During primary and secondary, the brain is always sharp and fast because your parents will support and care for you, but when at the university or school, men!! you will reason reasons like;
How will I eat today?

How will I pay my house rent?

How will I buy hand outs?

How much will I give this my Gf?

How shall I tell my parents I need another money?

many more.....

That's just the way life is.

They do not use past questions to prepare for the 60 seconds of fame o. They trained for it. They know what to look out for in a question. They do not listen to the quiz master,they read on their own and begin to solve fast. Hence, the speed. I have seen a couple of them preparing with their teachers and it is a whole lot of hardwork.

You are right about the brain. When I started work and started post graduate studies, I thought I had offended someone in the Village . When I was an undergraduate, I can say "no sleep today" or "I am reading for 8 hours straight" and my body, mind and everything will cooperate. Now, I cannot even read for 3 hours straight without getting tired

naturalwaves:

I am telling you. However, they will argue that they cannot be coerced into sponsoring any project. We can only appeal. There are enough ideas for intellectually stimulating games but no sponsor. If you want to air a show for just say 1 hour on a local station, it will not be less than 2 million naira. Meanwhile, that is just 1 station in 1 week o. 4 weeks = 8 million. 5 stations equals 40 million naira per month. ..............and that is just airtime alone o.

It is expensive.
But if MTN can do it, I don't see why others can't.

Gerrard59:


"I almost passed out"
"What you did to me, was it fair?"
"That was huge"



There was an edition where a dude in the final stage didn't look at the screen neither did he try to calculate to arrive at the answers. I think he got about one or two questions wrong. I was stunned that day!

No vex
It was after that semi final I concluded that the guy was going to win the competition and he won!

TSRC:

It is expensive.
But if MTN can do it, I don't see why others can't.

Yeah right.

CHUKS:

Chinedu is on another level. Chinedu is a walking Mathematics. Chinedu is a genius. If you check out his semi final performance for the 60 seconds of fame, you will be awed. Dude came with beast mode. The boy is too good
Watch the video below. You can jump to time frame 45:23 to see his beast mode activated

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBsOGzQqmyQ&t=2909s

I have watched the video more than 50 times since last year.

The guy di too much

naturalwaves:


There will be at least 13 episodes in all and the show will be aired in 6 local stations, Dstv African Magic as well as AIT network from August 10.So, keep tabs on them. Moreover, in case you miss any of the series, just go to YouTube and you can watch from the cowbellpedia channel. Betterstill, subscribe to the channel and click on the notification bell so that you will be notified once a fresh episode is uploaded. This is a link to the Cowbellpedia channel below:

https://m.youtube.com/channel/UC0cpyv-4619wm0Qy11wrP7Q

This year's edition is season 5 so when it starts, the videos will be in these format... SE05E1(Season 5 episode 1), S05E2(Season 5 Episode 2) and so on. This way, you will be able to keep tabs on which one you have watched and which one has been newly uploaded.

On the YouTube channel, I think fresh episodes are usually uploaded on Fridays around afternoon time. Once you follow the channel you should be good.

With 12 Junior national qualifiers scoring a perfect score of 100% in the qualifying exams, this is not an episode one should ever miss. I cannot wait to see how the young lads battle for honors both in the Junior and senior categories.

Here is a trailer for Season 5 also....... Enjoy!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heZc574jTvw

Thanks so much for this breath of fresh air. I suggest you post updates of the weekly show on this platform. I believe nairaland mods would push it to the front page.