WAEC2021· Scholar SC003D

Chinasa Nweze

Overall Best in West Africa — WASSCE 2021

The record · educational context

Emerged the overall best candidate in West Africa, beating 1.5 million+ candidates across five WAEC member countries. Awarded at the 70th Annual Council Meeting of WAEC in Abuja, presented by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo. Second place went to a Ghanaian student from Presbyterian Boy's Senior High School.

Subjects

8 subjects, all A grades

Record

Exam

WAEC

Year

2021

Position

Overall Best in West Africa — WASSCE 2021

Score

8A1s — Best in West Africa (1.5 million+ candidates)

Gender

Age

School

Lagoon School, Lekki

State

Lagos

Sources

NairaLoaded; Siggy.ng; WAEC 70th Annual Council Meeting 2022

https://naijaloaded.com.ng/?p=791279

National education context · 2021

What it took to pass that exam

The realities — political, fiscal, infrastructural — under which Nigerian candidates wrote this examination.

Federal Minister of Education

Mallam Adamu Adamu

2015–2023

Longest-serving Fourth Republic education minister (Buhari, both terms). Tenure includes the record 2020–2022 ASUU strikes (universities shut ~9 months in 2022) and >18m out-of-school children by 2022.

Federal education budget

₦742.5 bn

5.6% of total · ₦13.59 trillion federal

Source: BudgIT 2021 Federal Budget Analysis

https://yourbudgit.com

State education budget · Lagos

Lagos state education budget for 2021 being compiled. Cross-reference the State Appropriation Acts.

Exam-year incidents

WAECExamination cycle held under COVID-19 protocols. ASUU strike disruptions on the tertiary side affected candidates' admissions calendar.
Source: Premium Times 2021
https://www.premiumtimesng.com

Global body response

No documented international body response on file for this year.

Nigeria's global education ranking

Ranking record for this year being compiled.

The kids passed in spite of these realities. The record stands so that the cost of their achievement is not lost.

Methodology

Tier 1 · primary

Courts. Gazettes. National archives.

Tier 2 · corroborating

OCCRP. HRW. BudgIT. TheCable.

Redline

Wikipedia is never a source.