{"id":332975,"date":"2017-06-30T12:18:17","date_gmt":"2017-06-30T12:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=332975"},"modified":"2017-06-30T12:18:17","modified_gmt":"2017-06-30T12:18:17","slug":"nsmq2017-akufo-addo-congratulates-prempeh-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=332975","title":{"rendered":"#NSMQ2017: Akufo-Addo congratulates Prempeh College"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Akufo-Addo has congratulated Prempeh College for emerging victorious at the 2017 National Science &amp; Maths Quiz.<\/p>\n<p>He also lauded the other finalists in a Facebook post on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Prempeh College beat St. Thomas Aquinas and Adisadel College in a very competitive contest held at the National Theatre on Thursday, June 29, 2017.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-332726\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Prempeh-wins-National-Science-and-Math-quiz-6.jpg\" alt=\"prempeh-wins-national-science-and-math-quiz-6\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Prempeh College, who are now 4-time champions of the annual Science and Mathematics competition have received congratulatory messages from various quarters including rival schools.<\/p>\n<p>President Akufo-Addo, a former teacher at Accra Academy, posted that: \u201cCongratulations to Prempeh College for winning\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hashtag\/nsmq2017?source=feed_text&amp;story_id=10155474274174836\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;*N&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:104}\">#NSMQ2017<\/a>. Favourites from the start; they justified that tag at the end of the contest. Better luck next time to the other schools.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-332979\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Nana-Prempeh.jpg\" alt=\"nana-prempeh\" width=\"470\" height=\"128\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Prempeh College, represented by Wonder Sarfo-Ansah and Daniel Osei Badu, took a commanding lead in the first round, but slip a point behind St. Thomas Aquinas in the second round.<\/p>\n<p>They however came back strongly in the 3rd round during the \u2018Problem of the day\u2019 after impressively working out the question to claim 7 out of the 10 points at stake.<\/p>\n<p>Prempeh College ended the contest with 53 against St. Thomas Aquinas\u2019 51 points. Adisadel College, however ended with 31 points.<\/p>\n<p>For their prize, Prempeh College received GHC40,000 and packages from Tigo and GCB Bank, among other products from sponsors.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Akufo-Addo has congratulated Prempeh College for emerging victorious at the 2017 National Science &amp; Maths Quiz. He also lauded the other finalists in a Facebook post on Friday. Prempeh College beat St. Thomas Aquinas and Adisadel College in a very competitive contest held at the National Theatre on Thursday, June 29, 2017. Prempeh College, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8,3,8760],"class_list":["post-332975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","tag-akufo-addo","tag-ghana-news","tag-prempeh-college"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=332975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=332975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=332975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=332975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}