It seem the Female WAEC candidates have proven themselves in the 2012 WAEC awards. Congratulations to them all... Punch Newspaper:
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 read more, visit http://www.punchng.com/education/female-pupils-sweep-laurels-at-waec-awards/ |
