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.

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Soon someone will come here and start talking politics

....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.

check the dates. This girl is surely not a fluke. Kudos dear

Kemi is good, she's a friend and a departmental mate. Congrats !

O.M.E:
Kemi is good, she's a friend and a departmental mate. Congrats !

and you win 2013 famzer of the year award...congrat

I-pledge:
and you win 2013 famzer of the year award...congrat

lol

.db

i am begining to beleive the ET things. girls and not boys are now getting all the prizes. but why?

le bien connu: i am begining to beleive the ET things. girls and not boys are now getting all the prizes. but why?

I am not surprised, when the girls will be inside reading like "daddy's little baby", the boys will be roaming the streets like Robin hood, visiting one girl after another.

O.M.E:
Kemi is good, she's a friend and a departmental mate. Congrats !

help us extend our felicitations to her when you can. We indeed rejouce with her and the others too.