WAEC2020· Scholar SC004B

Yinka-Banjo Victoria Morenike

Top Scorer — WAEC 2020 (Total score: 606.3196)

The record · educational context

COVID-19 year — WAEC was delayed but conducted. NGAcademics records Victoria Morenike Yinka-Banjo of Princeton College, Surulere, Lagos as the 2020 top scorer.

Subjects

Multiple A grades

Record

Exam

WAEC

Year

2020

Position

Top Scorer — WAEC 2020 (Total score: 606.3196)

Score

Total score: 606.3196

Gender

School

Princeton College, Aguda, Surulere

State

Lagos

Sources

NGAcademics

https://ngacademics.com/best-waec-results/

National education context · 2020

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

₦691.07 bn

6.5% of total · ₦10.59 trillion federal

Below the UNESCO-recommended 15–20% of national budget. Revised mid-year due to COVID-19.

Source: BudgIT Federal Budget Analysis 2020

https://yourbudgit.com

State education budget · Lagos

Lagos state education budget for 2020 being compiled. Cross-reference the State Appropriation Acts.

Exam-year incidents

WAECCOVID-19 pandemic delayed the May/June WASSCE. Exams rescheduled to August–September 2020; FG initially withdrew Nigerian participation before reversing the decision.
Source: Premium Times (June–August 2020)
https://www.premiumtimesng.com
JAMBUTME 2020 conducted in March before the COVID-19 lockdown. 1.95 million candidates registered.
Source: JAMB 2020 Policy Meeting
https://www.jamb.gov.ng

Global body response

UNESCO
Nigeria reported among countries with the largest pandemic-era learning disruptions; an estimated 39 million learners affected by school closures.
Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics — COVID-19 Education Response

Nigeria's global education ranking

World Bank Human Capital Index 2020
Score 0.36 — among the lowest globally; a child born in Nigeria reaches 36% of productive potential by age 18.
Source: World Bank HCI 2020

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.