The Northern Regional Director of Education, Mrs Elizabeth De-Souza, has advised students in northern Ghana to be assertive and strive for excellence since the competitive global economy has no place for mediocrity. She asked students from the north not to lose confidence in themselves or underrate their capabilities, because they equally had the potential to make meaningful contributions to national development Making the remarks at a ceremony to hand over prizes of the Tamale Senior High School (TAMASCO) to the Northern Regional Directorate of Education in Tamale, Mrs De-Souza advised the students not to allow the environment in which they studied to serve as a limitation towards achieving their ambitions. The prizes were given to TAMASCO when the school represented the region at the project citizen national competition in Accra in May, 2009. She, therefore, cautioned them against laziness, haziness and craziness, which she said were the three enemies of progress. "If you are able to avoid all these negative practices, then you will be able to compete favourably with your colleagues who are in well- endowed areas and schools", Mrs De-Souza noted. She commended students of TAMASCO for their achievement and observed that their feat was a clear manifestation of the high standards of the school and the caliber of both teaching and non-teaching staff. The Headmaster of the school, Alhaji Tahiru Mahama, noted that the project citizens concept would help to broaden the knowledge of students and deepen their understanding of how "we work together to make communities better". Source: Daily Graphic