Zuweira Baba Mohammed has been judged as the best female contestant in the National Science and Maths Quiz competition.

Prempeh College won the competition with just two points ahead of St. Thomas Aquinas and Adisadel College in Accra last Thursday.

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But it was Zuweira Mohammed's starling performance, whose school, Tamale Senior High, couldn't make it to the quarter finals, that caught the eyes of the organisers.

She was awarded with the first ever "Prof. Ewurama Addy award" with a cash price of GHC2000.

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The "Prof. Ewurama Addy ward" was instituted to encourage young girls to study science

Prof. Ewurama Addy was the first mistress of the NSMQ.

She died in 2014 at age 72.