Ogun State-born Oloruntoba Ogunfolaji
leads the pack in this year’s West African
Examinations Council Academic
Excellence Awards, CHARLES ABAH
writes

Nineteen-year-old Oloruntoba Ogunfolaji
has emerged the best scholar in the 2013
May/June West African Senior School
Certificate Examination.
The leadership of the West African
Examinations Council honoured the lad
alongside two females on Thursday in
Minna, Niger State. The females are
Ifeoluwapo Fasola and Maureen Anyanwu,
both of who are natives of Oyo and Imo
states, respectively.

For posting outstanding results, the trio
received the WAEC’s prestigious National
Distinction and Merit Awards. They scored
A1 in all their subjects.

However, Ogunfolaji is considered the
overall best candidate having scored a
total grade of 666.6525 in eight subjects,
including English Language and
Mathematics.
By the feat, the lad becomes the current
holder of the esteemed award instituted
by the council in 1984 to encourage
academic excellence.
Ogunfolaji, who attended the Sacred
Heart Catholic College, Abeokuta, Ogun
State between 2007 and 2013, with
examination number 4280232/098, also
obtained A1 in Physics, Chemistry,
Biology, Agricultural Science, Geography
and Yoruba Language.

Born on October 26, 1995 to Mr./Mrs. SP
Ogunfolaji, the award winner attended St.
Bernadette Nursery and Primary,
Onikolobo, Abeokuta South Local
Government Area, Ogun State between
1998 and 2006.

The lad, whose feat has placed the Sacred
Heart Catholic College on the WAEC
Excellence honours’ list, was the best
pupil in his fifth and sixth grade in the
school.
Following his success also, the college
becomes the winner of the Omo N’oba
Erediauwa Coronation Trophy for
producing the best male candidate in the
May/June 2013 WASSCE.
Other laurels, awards and prizes in his
kitty include the 2010 overall best in
Junior Secondary School Certificate
Examination (obtaining nine As and four
Cs), best in JSSCE (NECO) in 2010 (10As
and 2Cs), and the 2011 champion in
African Gifted Foundation Award in
Mathematics.
Ogunfolaji, who represented the South
West Zone in Uganda for the outstanding
achievement in African Gifted Foundation
Mathematics contest in 2012, also
participated in the 2013 Robotics
Academy competition.
He also clinched the third best position in
the Shell Science Award in 2013 as well as
the best Yoruba Student Award in
WASSCE. The Yoruba Education Resource
Centre, Lagos, organised the award.
The youngster is at present studying
Medicine and Surgery at the nation’s
premier university, the University of
Ibadan, Oyo State.

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