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WAEC2022· Scholar SC002

Oyediran Akinloye

Overall Best Student — WASSCE 2022

The record · educational context

Awarded N500,000 cash prize by WAEC and Vatebra Limited at the 61st WAEC Annual Meeting in Lafia, Nasarawa State.

Subjects

Sciences and Humanities

Record

Exam

WAEC

Year

2022

Position

Overall Best Student — WASSCE 2022

Score

Multiple A1s

Gender

M

School

Not publicly released

State

Not disclosed

Sources

Schooliberia; Punch Nigeria; WAEC Annual Meeting 2022

https://www.schooliberia.com/best-waec-result-nigeria/

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 · Not disclosed

Not disclosed 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.