WAEC2021· Scholar SC003B

Edeani Godswill Izuchukwu

Overall Best Male — WASSCE 2021 (Public Schools)

The record · educational context

Overall best male candidate from public schools in the 2021 WASSCE Nigeria. Now studying Medicine and Surgery at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. Awarded at the 60th Annual Meeting of the Nigeria National Committee (NNC) of WAEC held in Asaba, Delta State.

Subjects

8 subjects — all distinctions

Record

Exam

WAEC

Year

2021

Position

Overall Best Male — WASSCE 2021 (Public Schools)

Score

8 distinctions (all A grades)

Gender

School

Air Force Comprehensive School, Agbani

State

Enugu

Sources

Tribune Online; WAEC 60th NNC Annual Meeting

https://tribuneonlineng.com/waec-rewards-overall-best-candidates-schools-in-may-june-2021-wassce/amp

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 · Enugu

Enugu 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.