AWESOME FEAT: Three Female Students sweep laurels at WAEC awards!
A pupil from Osun State leads other girls in the harvest of laurels at this year’s West African Examination Council awards, CHARLES ABAH writes
Seventeen-year-old Folafoluwa Oginni
has emerged the overall best pupil in the May/June 2012 West African
Senior School Certificate Examination. She led two other girls to lift
the prestigious West African Examinations Council National
Distinction/Merit awards.
The Council honoured them during its
Nigeria National Committee 51st Annual General Meeting held in Owerri,
Imo State on Thursday.
Oginni scored Grade 1 in all her eight subjects, including English Language and Mathematics.
By the feat, the Osogbo, Osun State-born
lad has become the current holder of WAEC’s national distinction/merit
award. The Council instituted the award in 1984 to encourage academic
excellence.
Oginni, who attended Our Lady and St.
Francis Catholic College, Isale-aro, Osogbo, with examination number
4303013/087, also had Grade 1 in Economics, Government,
Literature-in-English, Biology, Christian Religious Knowledge and Yoruba
Language. She has a cumulative score of 653.9318.
Born on December 13, 1995, she attended
Folorunsho Memorial Nursery and Primary School, Oyan, Odo-Otin Local
Government Area between 1999 and 2000 as well as St. Clare’s Nursery and
Primary School, Isale-aro, Osogbo between 2001 and 2006.
With two books -The Joy and Agony of
Reaping (2005) and the Despised Corner Piece (2008) – already to her
credit, the youngster in 2009 came first in the Junior Category of
International Digest Competition entitled “Raising IT champions for
2020.”
She also took the first position in the Caremi Essay Competition to mark the 2010 World Mental Health Day.
The young lad, whose feat has made OSCCO
to become the 2012 winner of the Omo N’Oba Erediauwa trophy for
producing the best female WASSCE candidate, won the second position in
the junior category of the NAFDAC Consumer Safety Club Schools
Competition in 2009.
She also came second in the competition
in 2011 at the SSS category as well as third in the senior category of
the International Digest 2010 contest.
Oginni is at present studying Law at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife.
On the Council’s second placed National Distinction/Merit award chart is 18-year-old, Oluwakemi Olalude.
Olalude, who garnered a cumulative score point of 649.3797, also obtained Grade 1 in all her eight subjects.
The Loyola Jesuit College, Abuja pupil
with examination number 4020617/114, scored Grade 1 in English Language,
Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Geography, Agricultural
Science and the Christian Religious Knowledge.
She had her primary education at Plateau Private School, Jos between 1998 and 2006.
Hitherto, she emerged the LJC’s overall
best graduating pupil for the 2005/2006 academic session, carting away
prizes in French Language, Social Studies, Mathematics, Music and
Vocational Aptitude.
All through her stay at LJC, she was on
the college Honours Rolls having maintained an average of above 85 per
cent in her subjects. She also won the LJC’s academic award for the best
graduating female student of 2012 set.
The youngster, who represented LJC in the
2009 Mathematics Olympiad Competition while in Junior Secondary School
Three, scored 11 distinctions and one credit in the Junior Secondary
Certificate Examination in the same year.
Currently studying Medicine and Surgery
at the University of Ibadan, the youngster born on May 8, 1995 had also
emerged the best in a Mathematics competition organised by the
Nigerian-Turkish International College for states in Plateau, Nasarawa
and Taraba.
The third placed position went to Anambra
State-born Chinelo Ibekwe. She also obtained Grade 1 in eight subjects,
scoring a cumulative point of 647.9675.
She had her pre-primary and primary
education at Home Science Primary School, and St. Saviours British
Primary School, all in Ikoyi, Lagos, respectively.
Ibekwe, who attended Louisville Girls
High School, Ijebu-Itele, Ogun State, scored Grade 1 in English
Language, Mathematics, Further Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology,
Geography and Agricultural Science.
Born on April 17, 1996, the Nimo, Anambra
State pupil in 2009 emerged the second best JSCE candidate with 11A’s
and 1C. She also obtained the third best International General
Certificate of Secondary Education result in2012, scoring four stars
and 2A’s.
The youngster, who received an award in
2012 for being a voluntary student tutor, again in 2011 and 2012 got an
award for outstanding achievement in the American Mathematics contest.
She is at present studying Chemical Engineering at the University of Mississippi, United States.
To be considered for the 29-year-old
distinction award, a candidate must obtain Grade 1 in at least seven
subjects, including English Language, Mathematics, one of Physics,
Chemistry and Biology, and one subject from any of the three
sub-categories of core subjects.
In addition, the candidate must obtain a
minimum of Grade 6 in at least one subject from each of the core subject
sub-categories.
Candidates are considered under the Merit
awards only if enough participants do not qualify for the distinction
awards. The eligibility criteria for the Merit awards are the same as
those of Distinction awards, except that a candidate must obtain a grade
not lower than 2 in English Language.
The results of candidates eligible for an
award should have been obtained at the first attempt and at the same
sitting. The grades would also have been obtained without any hint of
impropriety.
The first National Distinction/Merit
awards were presented in Abeokuta, Ogun State in 1985 to the winners in
the Nov/Dec. 1984 SC/GCE, with Abdulkadir Sarki-Abba, a pupil of
Government Science School, Dawakin-Tofa, Kano State receiving the
excellence award.
Since the first presentation, findings by
our correspondent showed that pupils from Queen’s College, Yaba, Lagos,
have won the prestigious award 10 times. By this accomplishment, the
school has become the highest-winning institution as well as the highest
recipient of the Oba Erediauwa trophy for presenting the best female
candidates.
Suleja Academy, Suleja is the second
highest-winning institution, picking the prize four times in 1992, 1994,
1997 and 2009, while International School, Ibadan, Oyo State has won it
three times in 1987, 2000 and 2004.
Meanwhile, Queen’s College, Yaba has also
won the Council’s Augustus Oyediran prize six times, while Loyola
Jesuit College, Wuse, Abuja has won it five times in 2002, 2003, 2004,
2005 and 2008.
Suleja Academy, Niger State has won it four times in 1992, 1994, 1996 and 1997.
The Oyediran trophy is given to the
school that has the best aggregate determined on the results of its best
50 candidates in English Language, Mathematics and one science subject.
Result details:
Oginni
English Language 1
Mathematics 1
Biology 1
Economics 1
Literature in English 1
Government 1
Christian Religious Knowlegde 1
Yoruba Language 1
Olalude
English Language 1
Mathematics 1
Biology 1
Chemistry 1
Physics 1
Geography 1
Christian Religious Knowlegde 1
Agricultural Science 1
Ibekwe
English Language 1
Mathematics 1
Biology 1
Chemistry 1
Physics 1
Geography 1
Further Mathematics 1
Agricultural Science 1
