Turkish College offers scholarship to Nigerian schoolgirls who won tech competition in US

A Turkish College has said it want to offer scholarship for the five Nigerian girls from Anambra State who recently won gold at the World Technovation Challenge in the Silicon Valley, San Francisco, United States of America.

The brilliant African Golden Girls, from Regina Pacies Secondary School Onitsha; Promise Nnalue (14), Jessica Osita (14), Nwabuaku Ossai (14), Vivian Okoye (14) and Adaeze Onuigbo (15) had on August 9, took the world by surprise as they turned the table against world technological powers like USA, Spain, Turkey, Uzbekistan and China to clinch the gold in the contest entered into by a total of 116 countries.

The golden girls who returned to the country on Monday after a week rest at in the US have become the toast of many world technology incline institutions, as many of them including a Turkish College have offered them scholarships, Sunnewsonline reports.

Confirming this, on Wednesday, Mr. James Eze, the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Willie Obiano of Anambra State said that the latest offer was from a Turkish College, which wrote the state government, asking for the girls to be released to them for scholarship award if they wished.

Eze said the state government has not taken any decision, as it was more occupied with giving the girls a befitting welcome.