{"id":364123,"date":"2017-10-22T19:43:17","date_gmt":"2017-10-22T19:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=364123"},"modified":"2017-10-22T19:43:17","modified_gmt":"2017-10-22T19:43:17","slug":"literacy-challenge-10-finalists-to-be-announced-on-cbs-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=364123","title":{"rendered":"Literacy Challenge: 10 finalists to be announced on CBS today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ten Junior High School (JHS) students who have made it to the finals of <strong>Citi FM\u2019s<\/strong> Literacy Challenge, will be announced today [Monday] on the <strong>Citi Breakfast Show.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The ten are those who scored highest in Level II[an aptitude test], that was organized on Saturday [October 21] at the British Council in Accra.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;OvevTAfNvzrOtA3FkGSHRunY8lwCP5Vi&#8221;]The contestants, who made it to Level 2 to write the test for 50 students on Saturday, came from various parts of the country.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the test, all 50 students received 500 cedis each, a certificate and a medal for making it to level II of the contest.<\/p>\n<p>On the Citi Breakfast Show tomorrow [Monday], the finalists will be announced, after which they will start preparing for the grand finale.<\/p>\n<p>Level III, which is the final round, will be a quiz competition which will be broadcast live on television.<\/p>\n<p>The Literacy Challenge was launched on July 19, 2017, for JHS students in Ghana to write and suggest to the president how to make Accra the cleanest city in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>After the entries were submitted, external examiners marked the scripts and selected the top 50 who went to the British Council to write the aptitude test.<\/p>\n<p>The Literacy Challenge is sponsored by Bic, Milky Magic, Cowbell and Slydepay.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, the overall winner is expected to receive an amount of Ghc10,000 and other prizes.<br \/>\n&#8211;<br \/>\nBy: Jeffrey Owuraku Sarpong\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Jeffrey Owuraku Sarpong\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<br \/>\n<a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ojsarpong\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @ojsarpong<\/a><br \/>\n<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ten Junior High School (JHS) students who have made it to the finals of Citi FM\u2019s Literacy Challenge, will be announced today [Monday] on the Citi Breakfast Show. The ten are those who scored highest in Level II[an aptitude test], that was organized on Saturday [October 21] at the British Council in Accra. [contextly_sidebar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":363918,"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":[2,11],"tags":[1333,1113,1375,580,273,42,1039],"class_list":["post-364123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-top-stories","tag-british-council","tag-citi-97-3-fm","tag-citi-breakfast-show","tag-citi-fm","tag-education","tag-ghana","tag-literacy-challenge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364123","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=364123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=364123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=364123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=364123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}