16-year-old female student to be governor of Lagos state for one day after winning Spelling Bee competition

The 16-year-old female student who won this year's Spelling Bee competition is to be a governor of Lagos State for one day. Bukola Zoffun, of the Awodi-Ora Secondary School Ajegunle, also won the sum of N250,000. The competition organised by the state Ministry of Education, which began since 2001, has the tradition of giving winners a chance to act in the capacity of the governor of the