Broadoaks Schools Launches Scholarship Programme for Sports
Olawale Ajimotokan in Abuja
A leading Cambridge-accredited international school in Maitama, Abuja, Broadoaks British School has announced the launch of its 2026 academic scholarship programme with specialist focus on sports, among others.
At a media briefing yesterday, the Head of School, Dr Jill Cowie, said the scholarship assessment open to all applicants, will hold on May 16 at the school.
She said sports was becoming a focus of Broadoaks, which was the first school in Abuja to attend the World Schools Games in Doha, Qatar in January, 2026.
“In Doha, the kids got a medal, everybody did their personal best. And we have just actually had the trials for next year and the kids have already started the training programme.
“To support that, we are also bringing in some outside experts. We are also investing in coaches to teach football. And athletics obviously cover sprints, hurdles, high jump, long jump and all the normal things you would expect,” Cowie said.
She added that the school had also received an invitation to attend the next African School Games and is seeking a meeting with the Chairman of the National Sports Commission (NSC), Malam Shehu Dikko for the commission to identify and groom potential talents from the school for the future.
“I think there is a lot we could feed back to the Chairman of the NSC. I play tennis at the Abuja Country Club. And I have been talking to the coach there because obviously they are coaches for the Nigerian tennis team and we are thinking about expanding into tennis as well as holding a tennis competition at the Abuja Country Club,” Cowie, who had a working stint in Azerbaijan and China, before her posting to Nigeria said.
The school administrator, said her projection for the school in the next five years is to use education, in combination with sports, to make the school the citadel of choice in Abuja and a highly selective place of learning.
“We want to grow our numbers, we want to open our new purpose-built campus, that will have not just boarding, but the sports accommodation on campus that we have been talking about. I want our children to have more exposure, to be a name that appears on lists of international competition winners, not just in sport,” she concluded.
