...It's First Of Its Kind In Lagos - Deputy Governor
...It'll Promote Creative Provision of Nutritious, Affordable, Hygienic Meals For All - EDDI Perm. Sec., Dr. Ayandele
...I'll Consider Catering As A Career - Winner
Lagos State Education District 1, Agege has scored another first in the drive to make education dynamic, interesting and imparting in the state.
This time, it was in the area of ensuring hygiene, nutritious and cost effective feeding for students as management of the district on Monday, held the grand finale of its Y2018 Cooking Competition inside the premises of the district's headquarters, Agege.
The epoch making event tagged: "Low Cost Meals for Teenagers; Promoting Creativity, Hygiene And Wellness", marked another milestone in the history of the district as students demonstrated their culinary creativity alongside food vendors of the district with sumptuous delicacies.
The grand finale was keenly contested by six students and six schools food vendors after the preliminaries held across the zones under the district.
After careful consideration of the cooking skills and taste of the delicacies prepared, Monday Ajodo of Shasha Community Senior High School was adjudged winner in the students category while Mrs. Olufunke Falaya of Iju Senior Grammar School claimed best cook in the food vendors category.
According to the chief judge of the contest, Professor Pat Mbah, the winners emerged through their level of creativity, appearance, nutritional adequacy, cleanliness amongst others.
Prof. Mbah while announcing the winner of the competition asserted that competitions of such magnitude is inevitable to encourage the ability to prepare balanced food with low cost. She urged students to embrace Home Economics as a course and career due to its possibilities of making students successful entrepreneurs after school days.
She hailed Dr. Yinka Ayandele for the invaluable initiative to herald balanced diet in students meals while in school.
Earlier in a statement, Deputy Governor of Lagos State, Dr. Idiat Oluranti Adebule ably represented by Mrs. O.A. Giwa lauded the cooking competition initiative amongst students and schools food vendors as another stride towards ensuring quality food consumption of students. She described the competition as first of its kind in the history of Lagos.
She said, "this is a great idea which will bring about students' passion towards what will bring food to their table after graduation."
On her part, the brain behind the Initiative, the Tutor General cum Permanent Secretary of EDDI, Dr. Yinka Ayandele stated that the Y2018 Education District I Cooking Competition is targeted at creating nutritious, affordable, balanced and hygienic meals for staff and students in all the 99 secondary schools across the three zones (Agege, Alimosho, Ifako Ijaye) under its jurisprudence through keen contests. She revealed that the competition had 220 contestants that were made up of Food Vendors and students in the pioneer edition of the competition.
She said, the idea is to make schooling more interesting to students and turn students' passion into career opportunity.
As usual, Dr. Ayandele thanked Gov. Akinwunmi Ambode for investing heavily in education and creating serene environment for quality learning, adding that the governor has given privileges to making learning interesting for students.
She noted that the competition would be an annual event while promising that next year's edition will accommodate more contestants and be more dramatic.
AgegePulse in a brief chat with the winners, Monday Ajodo expressed his joy for winning the maiden edition of the competition adding that he would consider catering as a career in the future. On her part, Mrs Falaya promised to remain committed to the delivery of quality, tasty, balanced and hygienic meal to students with varieties at affordable cost.
