A budding athlete, Desmond Ojieh has taken over from ambitious footballer, Daniel Aribatishe as the new sports prefect at Will-B Excellence Secondary School, Ikotun, Lagos.
This follows the inclusion of Ojieh’s name on a roll call of 14 new prefects of the school that was announced Wednesday afternoon by the proprietor, Elder Williams Folorunsho Olaoye.
While making the announcements on the assembly ground in the presence of all teachers, staff and students of the renowned citadel of learning, Elder Olaoye thanked the outgoing prefects, which had his son, Toluwani, as head boy and Miracle ‘Mimi’ Innocent as head girl.
Olaoye, who is also the secretary of Alimosho Zone of National Association of Proprietors of Private Schools (NAPPS), also thanked the outgoing sports prefect for leading the revival of football in the school.
Indeed, Aribatishe was captain of the squad that won Baale of Ije-Ododo Coronation Cup earlier this year, with assistance from the head boy and the social prefect, Victor Adeshola among ten others, who all played key roles in bring a golden trophy back to the school, much to the delight of Olaoye.
The list was arrived at from a collation of individual nominees submitted by all the teachers, coordinated by the principal, Mr Gboyega Tosin Adeuyi, with asistance from the vice-principal, Mrs Queency Omojola Onyeka, after which it was authorised by the proprietor.
The proprietor went on to point out that the new games’ prefect at Will-B School is already a trainee in the athletics academy of Sydney 2000 Olympic Games’ gold medalist, Enifiok Udo-Obong at Teslim Balogun Stadium, Surulere, Lagos.
Ojieh already showed his leadership qualities by leading a number of Will-B students to training sessions in athletics and table tennis at the stadium every Saturday, until their examinations put the schedule on halt two weeks ago.
Leading the delegation to Surulere was made easier for him due to the fact that he was the only member of the group of boys that was in Senior Secondary School Class Two (SS2), but he will be in SS3 when the new session starts in September, while the others were in Junior Secondary School Class Three) JS3.
Those in JS3, now going to SS1, are Daniel Hassan and Anthony Chukwuzubelu (table tennis) as well as Samuel Clifford (athletics), but three other boys in SS3, Abiola Sultan, Awal Shuaib and Blessed Onyedinma, who are also registered for ping-pong, as well as Precious Okereke (athletics) reasoned that they should start fully after their final year exams in September.
Incidentally, they were all recommended for weekly training sessions at the stadium in Surulere following their superlative performances during Will-B Excellence Secondary School’s mini-sports festival, in which Ojieh won the senior boys’ 100m and Clifford won that for junior boys.
Okereke also won the senior girls’ 100m, while Onyedinma won senior boys’ table tennis by beating Awal in the final and Sultan was third, with Chukwuzubelu winning that for juniors, and they were all declared by the array of erudite sports writers in attendance as quite promising.
Although Hassan placed fourth in the table tennis event, he qualified for selection into the roll call of high-profile training at Teslim Stadium by virtue of being Will-B school’s junior football team’s captain as well as coordinator of the daily chess development project that he introduced to the ‘excellent institution’ located at Adejonwo Street, off Abogunloko Street, Ikotun, Lagos.
Hassan, who is already working on a sports tour to Lekki Conservation Centre, where some of the students will play chess and table tennis competitions during an excursion early September, will now be expected to join hands in supporting Ojieh to succeed more than Aribatishe.
