Young Nigerian Wins Best Performing Teacher Award, Gets N20,000 Money Reward, Photo Stirs Reactions
- A dedicated Nigerian teacher, Adekoya Raheem, has been awarded a monetary reward of N20,000
- Taking to Facebook, the young man appreciated his teacher and mother for how they have impacted his life
- Many people congratulated Raheem as some argued that the money given to him should have been more to celebrate him
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A young brilliant Nigerian, Adekoya Raheem, has been celebrated online after he emerged as the best performing teacher at Education District IV in Lagos state.
Raheem who is a teacher from Sanya Senior Grammar School Ijeshatedo Surulere, Lagos, shared a photo of himself holding a celebratory cheque of N20,000 presented to him by Action for Change and Empowerment, an organisation affiliated with the government.
Source: Facebook
Teacher dedicates award to mother
The young teacher, who was visibly happy in his photo, dedicated the award to his teachers and lovely mother.
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Many Nigerians took to his comment section to rejoice with him as some said the N20,000 is too small to honour a teacher.
On being a teacher
On why he chose to be a teacher, the University of Ado Ekiti graduate said:
"My teacher Mrs LATIFAT GANIU BAMGBOSE gingered my love the teaching profession, through her various motherly cares and mentoring skills despite been a street rice seller in Ijora Oloye."
The young man revealed that this will not be the first award he is getting. Raheem mentioned Best Teacher Lagos Education District Iv 2020, Award of special recognition 2019, Great Teacher award, 2021, among others.
See his post below:
Legit.ng compiled some of the comments below:
Akande Mutiu said:
"Congratulations my dear brother."
Bello Hakeem said:
"Congratulations, may the sky be your stepping stone and never the end of your success. Sincerely speaking, you worth more than this because we are witness to what they give to the winners in the nonsense they call BBNAIJA, when will our so-called leaders wake up from their slumber, enough of eulogizing fornicators, if they give 5:000,000 each to the best teacher in each district, I don't believe it's too much..."
Abdulrahman Oluwatobi Abdulkarim said:
"This is too bad this token is small for his contribution."
Adio Kender said:
"God will lift you to better places that you'll forget this was even an award... 20k??? Allah.... This bad na in this times... That's wickedness... Teachers are less appreciated i swear."
Best teacher rewarded with a car
Meanwhile, Legit.ng earlier reported that a Nigerian school teacher, Fauziyah Adegeye, who employed TikTok to encourage learning, was rewarded by the Lagos state government with a car.
The woman posts videos under the TikTok handle @teacher_sade. Her clips always have her correcting some wrongly used expressions in English language.
On her Facebook page, Fauziyah appreciated people for supporting her with prayers as she posed with the car she was given by the government.
Source: Legit.ng
