CITAD’S 10TH KANO ICT QUIZ FOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS
By  Sufyan Lawal Kabo
The 10th Kano State ICT quiz for secondary schools held on 28th November, 2013 at Rumfa Collage, Kano. Twenty eight (28) schools across the state participated in the competition. They were:
GSS Kunya            GGSS Yargaya
GGC Gezawa            Maitama Sule Science Secondary School, Gaya
GSS Garko              GTC Kano
GGS Dala               GSS Stadium
GSS Rano              GSS K/Mazugal
GSS Gwarzo            Day Science College, Kano (DSCK)
GSSS Giginyu          Day Technical & Science College (DTSC) Kano
GGSS Jogana           GGSS Gwale
GGSS Sani Mainagge    GGSS Kuka Bulukiya
GSS Bichi               GGSS Kwankwaso
D/K Science College    GSS Dala
GGUC Kachako         GSS Bachirawa
GSS Shekara            GSS Minjibir
GTC Ungoggo          GGSS T/Wada
The quiz started with an opening prayer from one of the teachers of participating schools, followed by opening remarks by the representative of CITAD Executive Director, Malam Ahmad Abdullahi Yakasai, the Training Coordinator of CITAD who stood in for the CITAD Executive Director offered the welcome remarks, taking opporutity to explain the objectives of the quiz as a vehicle for the promotion of ICT literacy in the state and sensitization of school communities to the need for computers. He added that quiz was also to build ICT interest and instill in the minds of the students need the important of taking a career in the ICT profession. Equally impriantn he added was the quiz serves as an advocacy tool on the need for school proprietors and governments to provide computers and ICT facilities to the schools.