A 17-year-old student of Oritamefa Baptist Model School, Ibadan, Oyo State, Master David Babalola has emerged the best Nigeria’s candidate in the 2015 May\June Senior Secondary School Certifate Examaninations conducted by the West African Examinations Council, WAEC.

He was announced winner yesterday in Lagos at the opening ceremony of the 54th annual meeting of the Nigeria National Committee of WAEC alongside the first and second runners-up in the exam, Master Toluwale Alabi from Our Lady and St Franscis Catholic College, Osogbo, Osun State and Miss Lewechi Nkata from Loyola Jesuit College, Abuja, respectively.

Interestingly, all the three students who are of the same age were from christain faith-based schools and none from government schools.
The Lagos State Governor, who was represented at the event by his Special Adviser on Education, Mr. Obafela Bank-Olemoh presented the prizes to the trio on behalf of WAEC and urged them to continue to strive for excellence in their studies and other legitimate engements.

Babalola, who is now studying Medicine and Surgery at the University of Ibadan together with the first runner-up had distinctions all round in nine subjects including English Language, Mathematics, Further mathematics, Chemistry, Biology and Physics to clinch the first position. And he and his mates were rewarded accordingly by the council with cash, plaque and certificates.

In his remark, the Nigeria’s Head of National Office of WAEC, Mr. Olu Adenipekun said the essence of the awards was to arouse healthy competition among students for the sake of education development in the country.
“And the awards has been yielding positive results since it was instituted in 1984 with students from Government Science School, Dawakin-Tofa, Kano, Sarki Abdulkadir and Queen’s School Lagos, Ekanem Effiom and Boladale Esan came first, second and third in that edition,” he added.

On the side line of the event, Adenipekun told our correspondent that WAEC would not release the results of state governments’ sponsored candidates for this year’s May\June diet over three months after official release of the results.

He also discloded that WAEC would not accept individual parents of the affected candidates coming forward to pay for their children exam fees since the exam body had no agreement with them but with their schools and governments.

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