Steve Akpabio has emerged overall winner of the Inoyo Toro Foundation 2022 Best Principal in Akwa Ibom State award at a ceremony on November 4, 2022 in Uyo.
Steve Akpabio, the principal of Christian Secondary Commercial School, Uyo receives a cash prize of ₦500,000 for emerging the best principal in the state.
The award, which is 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.
In the words of Mr. Akpabio on receiving the award:
“We can see this award as our own Nobel Prize.
We know that the Nobel Prize is the highest prize an individual can have here on earth.”
Mr. Akpabio said he has so far received over one million Naira 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.
According to Mr. Steve Akpabio:
“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.
