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JAMB2022· Scholar SC042

Nnamdi Chukwuemeka Odogwu

Highest UTME score 2022 — 361/400

The record · educational context

Scored 361 in the 2022 UTME — among the highest in that diet. Applied to study Engineering. JAMB 2022 recorded a total of 1.7 million candidates. JAMB noted that the average UTME score was 140 that year, making 361 an extraordinary outlier.

Subjects

Engineering track

Record

Exam

JAMB

Year

2022

Position

Highest UTME score 2022 — 361/400

Score

361 / 400

Gender

M

School

Enugu State candidate

State

Enugu

Sources

JAMB 2022 Policy Meeting; Legit.ng

https://www.jamb.gov.ng

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 · Enugu

Enugu 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.