18-Year-Old Nigerian Girl Emerges WASSCE Overall Best In 2021 (Photos)
Chinasa Nweze, an 18-Year-Old former student of Lagoon School, Lekki, Lagos State, on Tuesday emerged the best overall in West Africa in the May/June 2021 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE), Siggy reports.
She won the first prize in the International Excellence Award Winners for the WASSCE for School candidates, 2022 category and National Distinction/Merit Award Winners for 2022 WASSCE category, while another Nigerian, Godswill Izuchukwu Edeani, emerged 3rd best candidate in West Africa.
The second prize was clinched by Brako Kwame Asante from Ghana. Asante, a former student of Presbyterian Boy’s Senior High School, Legon-Accra, Ghana, is currently studying Computer Science at Ashesi University College, Accra, Ghana.
Another 18-year-old Nigerian, Edeani Godswill, obtained eight As in May/June 2021 WASSCE.
The Vice President acknowledged the outstanding performance of the three students and urged other SS111 students to emulate the best students.
Osinbajo said by the performance of Nweze and Edeani in the May/June 2021 WASSCE, they have done the country proud.
Osinbajo presented the international and national awards to the best WASSCE students. The Minister of State for Education, Mr. Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, said the awards to the outstanding students would spur others to do well in the May/June 2022.
President Muhammadu Buhari who was excited by the excellent performance of the two candidates from Nigeria, coming top in West Africa in 2022 WASSCE, presented the awards to them during the opening ceremony of the WAEC 70th Annual Council meeting on Tuesday in Abuja.
Buhari who was represented by the Vice-President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, insisted that the war on examination malpractices must not only be stepped up, it must also be won.
He congratulated WAEC for its principled stand against examination malpractice, saying this agrees totally with the government’s anti-corruption policy.
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