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GCE1967· Scholar SC030

GCE Nigeria — Historical Record

First GCE Examination in Nigeria

The record · educational context

The General Certificate of Education (GCE) / A-Level examinations in Nigeria are administered by WAEC and the National Examination Council. GCE O-Level has been available since the colonial era, with GCE A-Level offered as an alternative route to university admission. Comprehensive best-student records by year are not in the public domain. Submit additions.

Subjects

N/A

Record

Exam

GCE

Year

1967

Position

First GCE Examination in Nigeria

Score

N/A

School

[Individual records not public]

State

N/A

Sources

WAEC History; GCE Act

https://waec.org.ng

National education context · 1967

What it took to pass that exam

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

Federal Minister of Education

A.Y. Eke

c.1967

Federal Commissioner for Education, Gowon military government.

Federal education budget

Being compiled.

State education budget · N/A

N/A state education budget for 1967 being compiled. Cross-reference the State Appropriation Acts.

Exam-year incidents

Documented incidents for this year being compiled.

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.