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🇳🇬 WHICH NIGERIAN STATES HAVE THE STRONGEST STUDENT ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE? — 2026

State — Learning Outcomes Score (out of 100):

1 🟤 Rivers — 76.6
2 🟤 Cross River — 74.0
3 🟢 Ebonyi — 71.4
4 🟢 Enugu — 70.5
5 🟢 Anambra — 70.2
6 🟢 Abia — 69.8
7 🟤 Bayelsa — 69.6
8 🟢 Imo — 68.7
9 🟠 Benue — 67.6
10 🟤 Edo — 65.9
11 ⚫ Taraba — 63.1
12 🟠 Nasarawa — 62.6
13 🟤 Delta — 62.5
14 🟠 Kogi — 62.4
15 🟤 Akwa Ibom — 61.2
16 🔴 Kano — 60.7
17 ⚫ Adamawa — 60.5
18 🟣 Lagos — 59.5
19 🔴 Kebbi — 58.5
20 🟠 Plateau — 58.0
21 🟣 Ogun — 57.8
22 🟣 Ondo — 54.1
23 🟣 Ekiti — 53.0
24 🟠 FCT — 52.1
25 🔴 Kaduna — 50.8
26 ⚫ Gombe — 48.3
27 🟣 Oyo — 46.8
28 🔴 Sokoto — 46.4
29 🟠 Niger — 44.6
30 🔴 Katsina — 39.8
31 🟠 Kwara — 35.3
32 🔴 Jigawa — 33.6
33 ⚫ Yobe — 32.1
34 ⚫ Bauchi — 31.8
35 🟣 Osun — 29.3
36 ⚫ Borno — 26.2
37 🔴 Zamfara — 0.0

🟤 SS 🟢 SE 🟠 NC ⚫ NE 🔴 NW 🟣 SW

Rivers recorded the highest score at 76.6, leading Cross River by 2.6 points. Southern states account for 17 of the 37 listed, while Northern states account for 20.

NB: Scores are out of 100, with higher scores indicating stronger student academic performance. The index is based on WAEC pass rates (five credits, including English and Mathematics) from 2019–2021 and JAMB admission rates from 2018. Coverage includes all 36 states and the FCT.

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Keep it up boys.

Anambra used to be number one for close to 17 years, but since Soludo came in, the man has focused more on politics instead of governance, thereby dragging the state to the mud..



As for the south west, they know where they belong. Nobody rated them from the onset. Everything about them is propaganda and lies.. Internet is the worst thing that has happened to them..

Rankings like this are interesting, but the real story is usually underneath them: states that invest in teacher recruitment, pay salaries on time and keep public schools functional tend to produce stronger results year after year. It is rarely about the students being naturally smarter in one place. It would be good to also compare how many candidates each state presents, because a small state with few, well-prepared candidates can top percentage tables while a big state carries thousands of struggling public school students. Context matters before we argue.

franklyntech:
Rankings like this are interesting, but the real story is usually underneath them: states that invest in teacher recruitment, pay salaries on time and keep public schools functional tend to produce stronger results year after year. It is rarely about the students being naturally smarter in one place. It would be good to also compare how many candidates each state presents, because a small state with few, well-prepared candidates can top percentage tables while a big state carries thousands of struggling public school students. Context matters before we argue.

What are you defending man


What are you talking about?

Some people no send you o

What is the basis and the source of this?

What is Taraba state doing in that particular position? Must everything be manipulated and rigged under Tinubu?

SS and SE leading while SW and the North ...

I pray many of those intelligent students used their brain with honesty and not disaster to destabilized the masses with fake products.

I pray many of those intelligent students used their brain with honesty and not disaster to destabilized the masses with fake products. . Congratulations to the academians

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Akwa ibom and delta went from top 5 to this.

APC eh. Tụfiakwa

Its always been this way...they just used propaganda to lie that they are the sophisticated group...but now stats have let out the truth ... the u groups that have been ruling the country for decades , look at their position, the other group that havnt been given a chance ...look at their position, and u wonder why the country is a mess

Ezeama400:
Keep it up boys.

Anambra used to be number one for close to 17 years, but since Soludo came in, the man has focused more on politics instead of governance, thereby dragging the state to the mud..

Shinedu im sure its politics Dave is playing that makes anambra comes behind eboyin right?

The South leads others follows

One STATE palm 0 ZERO FLAT, it should be CALLED STATE of EMERGENCY

And it still favours the land of the rising sun though there is still more room for improvement

Looking at the statistics, Pa Awo will be weeping by now.These kids leading in education today,, their grandparents did not go to school for three years because of the Civil, and they final dropped out of school to pursue trade as they couldn't afford the pay school fees after the war while their mates in the west continued to enjoy free education, which produced the aging professors of today. Regrettably, that system was not sustained. It is heartbreaking that in some Universities in the west, they use Yoruba language to teach students.

How come zamfara got zero percent does it mean they don't have the ability to study and learn?

Hope these students did exam on their own or with support of their teachers and even examiners.


We all read, students taken waec exams that was kidnapped, the kind of school premises, the location and reason why students rushing to the school to take exam.

Make I no talk....they won't come here n say anything again....

See them,21 22 23 27 34..... sophisticated koneheadded structures ... Even Lagos there it is cos of the Shinedus in their schools as all their Mukaila are all chasing danfo shouting OWOMI DA!!!!!!!!

Devoid of malpractice and special cen

My state is on average. And that isn't good enough

The south east is no one's mate in terms of education....those ibadan media will say it is miracle center...
.always using politics for everything

greatiyk4u:
What is Taraba state doing in that particular position? Must everything be manipulated and rigged under Tinubu?

What do you know about Taraba?
You just sit in your primitive enclave without going anywhere and just spew thrash online.

"Here we are on a resort claimed from erosion, and you want to compare the brain of this man(Pastor Bassey Eno) to that of Obi? he ran away from erosion in Anambra, and he wants to be President, President of where??"

- President Bola Tinubu in Akwa Ibom State… pic.twitter.com/0Kq92JfTKM

— Daddy D.O🇳🇬 (@DOlusegun) November 6, 2026

i wonder what's going in Osun, Borno and Zamfara. Perhaps just dancing. Na 2019–2021 sha.

I also don't agree with where Taraba is, Oyo is better than some of those listed above her

greatiyk4u:
What is Taraba state doing in that particular position? Must everything be manipulated and rigged under Tinubu?

Chikel20000:
The south east is no one's mate in terms of education....those ibadan media will say it is miracle center...
.always using politics for everything

Not everything is for chest beating. It's well known documented fact that Nigerians are smart people compared to other countries around. We can also see the effects of decades in investments in education in Southern Nigeria compared to Northern Nigeria. It's not much to do with tribe but political will and priority.
In this kind of stats, SW is expected to suffer for the whole country due to overwhelming migration from all over. Any success will of course be diluted compared to other regions where not many people are migrating to. Logic

greatiyk4u:
What is Taraba state doing in that particular position? Must everything be manipulated and rigged under Tinubu?

What do you mean by manipulated? Is it because of the geographical location of the state or what? Some of you are ill- informed about the Nigeria state. Travelling is part of education. Endeavour to travel and explore some part of Nigeria. Don't depend on social media as a basic of your perception. Taraba state is one the highly educated State in Nigeria. I hope you know the present Governor Kefas Agbu is a PhD holder. Tell me the qualification of your state Governor.

Mrexcell:
How come zamfara got zero percent does it mean they don't have the ability to study and learn?

It can't be so. Probably the state did not provide the data needed to rate them. Still, zamfara is educationally lagging compared to other states.

The top eight states were from the defunct Eastern region. Before the civil war, the Eastern region was reckoned as one of the fastest growing economy in the world, growing faster than most countries in Asia including China.

Good job guys.

Do keep this up.