The education reforms introduced by the administration of former Anambra State governor, Mr Peter Obi have continued to yield results, as schools in the state emerged the overall best in the 2014 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE), a repeat of the feat recorded last year.

The official WAEC result, made available to the media, showed that Anambra State scored 65.92%, Abia State 58.52%, and Edo State scored 57.82% to emerge the best three states.

Nevertheless, eight out of the 36 states in Nigeria recorded scores less than 10%. These states include Adamawa, Jigawa, Sokoto, Zamfara and Kebbi. Others are Gombe, Bauchi and Yobe.

The percentage of the total number of candidates that obtained a minimum of five credits, including English Language and General Mathematics, was 31.21% as against 30.90%, 37.66% and 36.57% for the 2011, 2012 and 2013 WASSCE examinations. This, according to WAEC, implies that the average performance of the candidates in the May/June 2014 WASSCE was lower than that of 2013.

Commenting on the feat by Anambra State, education experts from and outside the state linked it to the courageous return of schools, hitherto thought to be impossible, to the Missionaries in 2010 by the former governor, Mr Peter Obi, who thereafter continued to pay the salaries of tutorial and non-tutorial staff and provided direct funding to the missionaries that enabled them to rehabilitate the schools and provide learning materials and facilities.

The minister of state for education, Barr Nyesom Wike, predicted what is happening in Anambra State when he visited the state under Governor Obi, during the launching of the distribution of 25,000 computers, 450 nos of 50 KVA generators and 500 school buses to schools in the state.”

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Am begining to suspect that this easterners re more brainy...

Up Anambra!

Not surprising those guys are good