…As Revenue Service Collaborates With Ministry To Organise Tax Qiuz Competition
By Wole Adedeji, Ilorin
As part of it’s efforts at identifying and helping budding starts to grow among its school pupils, the Kwara State government has organised a ‘Tax Quiz Competition’ for secondary schools students through the state Internal Revenue Service, KW-IRS, in collaborations with the state Ministry of Education and Human Development.
The contest, aimed at encouraging and hunting for gifted children in the areas of finances, featured 231 schools, cutting across the three senatorial zones of Kwara North, South and Central; with semi-finals held at selected schools in the districts.
The tax body, had for about five years now, been organising the competition for the secondary school pupils, thereby developing their potentials in taxation and create future awareness among them the importance of taxes in a growing society and economy. The competition is thrown open to both private and public secondary schools.
Meanwhile, the preliminary stages of the contest, otherwise known as the ‘2023 Tax Club Quiz Competition, TCQC, had been completed with a semi-final of the contest to pick the qualified contesting schools for the finals.
Schools that emerged at this level, which held simultaneously at Ilesha Baruba and Lafiagi in Kwara North; Okeya-Ipo in Kwara South and Ilorin in Kwara Central proceed to the semi-final.
Each district produced six schools, making eighteen schools who get qualified for the semi-finals.
Qualifiers in Kwara North included: Government Secondary School, Lafiagi, with 82 per cent score, Baptist Model High School, Kaiama, 78 per cent; Government Senior Secondary School, Tunga Aboki, Kaiama, 72 per cent; Unique College, Kaiama, 68, Royalseed High School, Jebba, 64 per cent, and Lafiagi Secondary School, Lafiagi, which scored 62 per cent.
In Kwara South senatorial district,qualifying schools are: Government Secondary School, Omu Aran, 80 per cent; Adeola College, Offa, 78 per cent; Iyeru Okin African Church Secondary School, Offa, 68 per cent; Oro Muslim High School, Oro, 66 per cent; UMCA Secondary School, Share, 66 per cent and Apostolic Faith Secondary School, Egosi-Ile with 66 per cent.
From Kwara Central, we have Stepping Stone College, Agbabiaka, Ilorin, a private school, which scored 82 per cent; Ilorin South Local Government Senior Secondary School, Oke-Adini, 74 per cent and Eucharistic Heart of Jesus Model College, Asa Dam, Ilorin which also scored 74 per cent.
Others were Muslim Model Secondary School, Idi-Ori, Ilorin 72 per cent; Government Day Senior Secondary School, Gaa-Akanbi, 66 per cent and Roemichs International School, Offa Garage, Ilorin, 60 per cent.
A statenent by the Corporate Affairs Officer of KW-IRS, Miss Titilayomi Ogunwale, said that tge finals of the competition would hold in November, where the overall best school is expected to win a whopping sum of N2.5 million while other category of prizes would be given to the first and second runner-up schools as well as consolation prizes to others on the ladder.
