The Nigerian High Commission in the United Kingdom has honoured Miss Chidera Ota who excelled in the 2010 GCSE in the UK with 15 As, the News Agency of Nigeria reports.


Ota, 16, garnered the highest grades in English Literature and English Language; Mathematics, Statistics, French, German, Latin, History, Sociology, Chemistry, Biology, Physics and IT qualifications equivalent to three GCSEs.


Nigeria’s Acting High Commissioner to the UK, Ambassador Dozie Nwanna, described the girl’s feat as exemplary and highly commendable.


“You have wiped our face and brought pride and honour not only to your parents but to the country and other Nigerians living in the UK,” Nwanna said on Tuesday.


He said Nigeria was full of talents and outstanding personalities who continued to excel in various fields at home and abroad, making them deserving of recognition and celebration.


Also, the Head of Chancery, Mr. Ahmed Umar, said the initiative to honour Ota was a further attestation to the high commission’s policy of recognising and celebrating Nigerian achievers in the UK.


Ota, who wants to become a medical doctor, said she studied Latin twice a week during her lunch breaks to meet up with the challenges.


“I stayed home a lot and put in a lot of work for my GCSEs because I want to become a doctor though I know it is a very hard and competitive field, and I know I need to do extremely well to get into medicine,” she said.


Ota has already secured a scholarship to attend King’s School in Canterbury where she will study Chemistry, Physics, Biology, Mathematics and Further Mathematics at A-levels.

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If she were in Naija, she may not achieve that easily.

Bravo *ovation*

supereagle:

If she were in Naija, she may not achieve that easily.

She won't achieve it at all.

If she were in Naija, she may not achieve that easily.

She would be selling recharge cards and pure water cos teachers are on strike.

slap1:

She won't achieve it at all.

supereagle:

If she were in Naija, she may not achieve that easily.

What are you folks talking? You mean no one can score good grades in Nigeria or what? I had a lot of kids i know that did 9 straight A1s in their WASC. The country is bad, but not everything. BTW, Madam Minister for Information said you guys should STOP using the word 'naija'. Compredez?

excanny:

What are you folks talking? You mean no one can score good grades in Nigeria or what? I had a lot of kids i know that did 9 straight A1s in their WASC. The country is bad, but not everything. BTW, Madam Minister for Information said you guys should STOP using the word 'naija'. Compredez?

We've been using the word Nigeria for 96 years now (since 1914 or so) and it's not been favorable. Compredez?