A beauty queen Princess Omowunmi Agunbiade,  has advised youths to focus more on their academics as schools resume after the long vacation.

Agunbiade said that this would  earn them success in the new academic session.

Agunbiade, the current Miss Multiverse Nigeria, spoke ahead of  her second edition Spelling Bee competition for children in public schools.

She is optimistic for the states and regional edition of the Spelling Bee competition to commence sometimes in the year 2023.

Miss Multiverse Nigeria is a national franchise holder for Miss Multiverse International.

The event has being her pet project from the days of her career in pageantry and was meant to challenge children in public schools to improve on their skills in spellings, effectively.

The competition, tagged, “Princess Agunbiade Spelling Bee” is a spelling competition aimed at bringing out the best in the students through spelling.

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” We will be rewarding academic excellence and also encouraging  the students to take their studies seriously.

” Students no longer have good communication skills because they have deprioritized properly learning the English language thereby weakening their communication skills.

The 26 -year-old queen noted that Spelling Bees help in building the vocabulary of students which is a major requirement for good reading and communication skill which was fast declining among school children.

This Spelling Bee aims at making learning fun and engaging for students and potentially helping expand their vocabulary hence improving their confidence.

Teachers and parents are advised to stimulate good reading culture in the children, by encouraging them to read novels and other literature texts.

The program is set to cut across so many states in Nigeria, where winners would have the opportunity to represent their individual states at the National finals.