Akpabio Clinches N500,000 Best Principal Prize In Akwa Ibom

Steve Akpabio, a secondary school principal in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, is to receive a cash prize of N500,000 for emerging the best principal in the state.

The award, organised annually by a not-for-profit organisation, Inoyo Toro Foundation, is in its 15th edition. It is meant to boost education in the state.

Steve Akpabio, the principal of Christian Secondary Commercial School, Uyo, was announced the winner of the award at a ceremony on Friday in Uyo.

“We can see this award as our own Nobel Prize,” Mr Akpabio said when he went up to the rostrum to receive the award.

“We know that the Nobel Prize is the highest prize an individual can have here on earth,” he added.

Mr Akpabio said he has so far received over N1million from the Inoyo Toro Foundation since he started taking part in the award.

He said he won the Grand Mentor Award from the foundation in 2013 when he was a teacher.

“Here I am as a principal, I have won it again,” the school principal said with excitement while praising the foundation for complementing the effort of the Akwa Ibom government in promoting excellence in public education.

The Inoyo Toro Foundation Principal’s Award was sponsored by Bassey Ukpong Udo Foundation and the family of the late Simon Etim, popularly known as Akpananang.