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JAMB2022· Scholar SC012

Best UTME Scorer — 2022

Overall Highest Scorer — UTME 2022

The record · educational context

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Record

Exam

JAMB

Year

2022

Position

Overall Highest Scorer — UTME 2022

Score

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School

[Record to be verified]

State

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National education context · 2022

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

₦923.79 bn (universities, basic & technical combined)

5.4% of total · ₦17.13 trillion federal

Still below UNESCO 15% benchmark. ASUU strike ran February–October 2022.

Source: BudgIT 2022 Federal Budget Analysis

https://yourbudgit.com

State education budget · [Pending]

[Pending] state education budget for 2022 being compiled. Cross-reference the State Appropriation Acts.

Exam-year incidents

  • WAECWASSCE held under power-supply disruptions in many states. ASUU strike (Feb–Oct 2022) closed federal universities for ~9 months, paralysing the admissions cycle for that year's candidates.

    Source: Punch; ThisDay 2022

    https://punchng.com
  • JAMB1.76 million candidates wrote UTME 2022. Multiple CBT centre power outages reported.

    Source: JAMB 2022 Policy Meeting

    https://www.jamb.gov.ng

Global body response

No documented international body response on file for this year.

Nigeria's global education ranking

  • UNESCO out-of-school children

    Nigeria with over 20 million out-of-school children — the highest figure globally at that time.

    Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics 2022

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.