FGGC Abuloma Wins Education Champions’N15m Quiz Competition Cash Prize

Federal Government Girls’ College Abuloma, Port Harcourt, at the weekend emerged champions of the 2026 edition of the annual Education Champions League (ECL) quiz competition for secondary schools in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital.

At the grand finale of the competition held in Port Harcourt on Saturday, FGGC, Abuloma scored 94 points to cart away a cash prize of N15 million and trophy sponsored by a philanthropist and governorship candidate of the Nigeria Demoratic Congress (NDC), Dumo Lulu-Briggs.

They beat Government Comprehensive Secondary School, Port Harcourt, which scored 84 pionts and Enitona High School, Port Harcourt, which scored 79 points to first and second runners-up, respectively.

For the runners-up, Government Comprehensive Secondary School Port Harcourt, won N7.5 million sponsored by Engr. Adokiye Ibierele Ikpoki while the second runner-up, Enitona High School got N5 million offered by Engr. Adokiye Tombomieye.

The 2026 ECL season, which had as it theme; “Our Environment, the Scar, the Challenge, Our Responsibility” opened on May 30, 2026 with 48 registered schools and progressed through qualifying rounds, to the quarter final and the semi-final.

At each stage, students were challenged to prepare carefully, work as a team and demonstrate their command of the prescribed materials and wider knowledge. Speaking on the sidelines of the competition, Iniruo Wills, Vice Chairman of the ECL Board expressed disappointment with the absence of the frontline governorship candidates even though they were all invited to the competition.

He said; “There’s only one regret that I have for today’s event. That none of the frontline governorship candidates, especially the top three or four appeared here even though they were invited and it was important because the theme of today’s edition was the environment. “The environmental challenges, which as you know the Niger Delta and Rivers State are quite invested with and it would have been a learning opportunity for the governorship candidates to make a commitment on dealing with the challenges when one of them emerges as the next governor”.

He however, was delighted with the 2026 edition of the competition, describing it as a re-enactment of hope. Wills stated; “What happened today at the 2026 Education Champions League Final, which is the 3rd edition is the re-enactment of hope. There are lots of problems and challenges that we justifiably complain and bellyache about in Nigeria and those problems need to be taken on.

“But today through the voices and eyes of these young children we saw hope and what accentuates the hope is that all three finalist schools are government-run secondary schools.

“Government Comprehensive Secondary School, which I’m an old boy of, Enitona High School, possibly one of the oldest secondary schools in Port Harcourt and of course Federal Girls College Abuloma, which emerged overall champions. These three schools gave us hope.

“They have not only reminded us of how we were, when we were back in school. But they told us that they are now better, much better than us, and that means that there is hope for this country. I just shared with someone the sentiment that this event should now become government driven. It’s been individually driven so far but with what we have seen today and with the maturation of this championship being in the 3rd year, this now needs to be a full blown Port Harcourt city and Rivers State-wide event.

“This venue of today’s event should be too small for this event and I think it’s a challenge to us as people in Port Harcourt and Rivers state to co-own it so that we can showcase the brilliance of our children and also encourage many more others to also cultivate the habit of reading, critical thinking, which will eventually inform the quality that goes into industry, enterprise, governance and so on.

“For all particiting students, they’re all champions, they make Nigeria proud. It is time to find a way to present these brilliant kids to the world as being the true icons of Nigeria and it’s future”, said the ECL Board vice chairman.