A 22-year-old University of Ghana Business School graduate, Jojo Chartei Quansah, last Friday emerged winner of the Challenge, an educational television reality show, after 12 weeks of exhibiting exceptional intelligence, creativity, true character and leadership qualities.

The Challenge reality TV show is a British Council initiative, designed to give bright and ambitious Ghanaian university graduates the opportunity to pursue post-graduate programme at leading universities in the United Kingdom.

Quansah emerged from four other finalists, Joan Selorm Tsorhe, a research assistant of the University of Ghana; Seth A. Miah, Nana Twum-Barima and Esther B. Quaofio, all graduates of the University of Ghana.

The Challenge started with 12 contestants in November last year of which seven were evicted as a rule of the show. They were given a variety of tasks on social, economic and political issues to brainstorm and solve.

Nana A. Twum-Barima and Seth A.Miah, won the second and third places, respectively.

Quansah receives a 40,000 pound sterling scholarship to pursue a postgraduate course at the University of Westminster in the United Kingdom, a laptop, a Tata Safari saloon car and guaranteed a pre-arranged management position at Milicom Ghana Limited or Zenith Bank after the course.

The runner-ups also receive a one-year post graduate scholarship at the Metropolitan and Thames Valley universities respectively.

Mr. Moses Anibaba, Director of British Council, said all the 12 graduates who took part in the Challenge would be offered complimentary membership of one of the council’s leadership development programmes over the next two years.

He noted that apart from the reward, the Challenge has transformed the participants through the various weekly tasks they undertook during the show.