Otitochukwu Eberendu Ansel, a student-athlete of N-Youth Sport Academy/Nigerian Tulip International Colleges (NTIC), Abuja, made top scorer in the 2023 International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGSCE) examination.
Ansel was among 13 students selected by the Federal Ministry of Sport under the scheme, ‘Future Nigeria’.
He is under the academy’s scholarship scheme due to collaboration that exists between the Federal Ministry of Youth and Sports Development, the NTIC and the academy. This provides a 100% scheme to the student-athletes(players).
However, sport engagement did not distract him from concentrating in his academics as he made the academy/school proud with excellent grades in his IGSCE 2023 examination with 3A+ in all subjects.
He is currently on invitation to World Aquatic Junior Swimming Championship Netanya 2023, billed to hold from September 4 to September 9, 2023 in Israel.
Furthermore, soccer was not left out as another milestone was achieved by NTIC’s student-athlete, who plays football, Solomon Udoh Akpan.
He is currently a team member in the U16 Nigeria national team.
Akpan has made the country proud at national and international competitions most especially in recent games such as; AMAC Unity cup, Coaches Association football competition and youth tournament that took place in Japan amongst others.
The team is scheduled to travel for another competition at Japan in the month of October, 2023.
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