Ogun State-born Oloruntoba
Ogunfolaji leads the pack in this
year’s West African Examinations
Council Academic Excellence Awards,
CHARLES ABAH writes
Nineteen-year-old Oloruntoba
Ogunfolaji has emerged the best
scholar in the 2013 May/June West
African Senior School Certificate
Examination.
The leadership of the West African
Examinations Council honoured the lad
alongside two females on Thursday in
Minna, Niger State. The females are
Ifeoluwapo Fasola and Maureen
Anyanwu, both of who are natives of
Oyo and Imo states, respectively.
For posting outstanding results, the
trio received the WAEC’s prestigious
National Distinction and Merit
Awards. They scored A1 in all their
subjects.
However, Ogunfolaji is considered the
overall best candidate having scored a
total grade of 666.6525 in eight
subjects, including English Language
and Mathematics.
By the feat, the lad becomes the
current holder of the esteemed award
instituted by the council in 1984 to
encourage academic excellence.
Ogunfolaji, who attended the Sacred
Heart Catholic College, Abeokuta,
Ogun State between 2007 and 2013,
with examination number
4280232/098, also obtained A1 in
Physics, Chemistry, Biology,
Agricultural Science, Geography and
Yoruba Language.
Born on October 26, 1995 to Mr./Mrs.
SP Ogunfolaji, the award winner
attended St. Bernadette Nursery and
Primary, Onikolobo, Abeokuta South
Local Government Area, Ogun State
between 1998 and 2006.
The lad, whose feat has placed the
Sacred Heart Catholic College on the
WAEC Excellence honours’ list, was
the best pupil in his fifth and sixth
grade in the school.
Following his success also, the
college becomes the winner of the
Omo N’oba Erediauwa Coronation
Trophy for producing the best male
candidate in the May/June 2013
WASSCE.
Other laurels, awards and prizes in
his kitty include the 2010 overall best
in Junior Secondary School Certificate
Examination (obtaining nine As and
four Cs), best in JSSCE (NECO) in 2010
(10As and 2Cs), and the 2011
champion in African Gifted Foundation
Award in Mathematics.
Ogunfolaji, who represented the South
West Zone in Uganda for the
outstanding achievement in African
Gifted Foundation Mathematics
contest in 2012, also participated in
the 2013 Robotics Academy
competition.
He also clinched the third best
position in the Shell Science Award in
2013 as well as the best Yoruba
Student Award in WASSCE. The Yoruba
Education Resource Centre, Lagos,
organised the award.
The youngster is at present studying
Medicine and Surgery at the nation’s
premier university, the University of
Ibadan, Oyo State.
On the second position in the award is
17-year-old Ibadan, Oyo State-born
Fasola. The lass, who had her
secondary education at the
International School, University of
Ibadan, between 2007 and 2013, had a
total score of 664.0075. Her WASSCE
registration number was 4310824/089.
She obtained A1 in English Language,
Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry,
Biology, Agricultural Science, French
and the Yoruba Language.
Her success enabled her school to
become the holder of the Omo N’oba
Erediauwa Coronation Trophy for
producing the best female candidate in
the May/June 2013 WASSCE.
Born on July 8, 1997, Fasola, who
attended the Junior International
School, Oluyole Estate, Ibadan
between 1998 and 2007, won many
awards, including the Prof. Olufemi
Bamiro and Prof. Ayodele Falase
Awards, which earned her scholarship
throughout her senior secondary
school education.
Fasola, who represented the
International School at various
competitions, was its second best
graduating pupil in the 2006/2007
academic session.
Like Ogunfolaji, Fasola is currently
studying Medicine and Surgery at UI.
On the WAEC’s National Distinction
and Merit Awards third position is
Miss Anyanwu, who attended the
Loyola Jesuit College, Abuja.
The Mbaise, Imo State-born lass with
a cumulative score of 656.5480 also
posted an excellent result in all her
eight subjects.
Anyanwu, who sat for the examination
with registration number 4020617/017,
obtained A1 in English Language,
Mathematics, Further Mathematics,
Physics, Chemistry, Biology,
Agricultural Science and Geography.
Born on April 23, 1996 to Dr/Mrs.
Emmanuel Anyanwu, the youngster
who attended the Montessori
International School, Port Harcourt,
Rivers State, between 1998 and 2006
is also no stranger to academic
success.
The 18-year-old not only emerged the
overall best in her primary school, she
also secured admission on merit to
the LJC in 2007.
Anyanwu, who throughout her stay at
LJC was on the honours and merit
rolls for academic accomplishments,
scored 12 distinctions and one credit
in the Junior Secondary School
Certificate Examination in 2010.
In her set at LJC, she also won the
best graduating pupil award in
Agricultural Science and Chemistry.
Due to her academic feat, she was
appointed the Academy Probation
Prefect, a position that empowered her
to assist and tutor other pupils on
academic probation at the LJC.
Anyanwu, currently studying Chemical
Engineering with focus on Clinical
Research at the Cooper Union for the
Advancement of Science and Arts,
New York, United States, is on full
scholarship valued at $160, 000. She
passed Scholastic Aptitude Test with
a score of 2380 out of 2400 in both
Mathematics levels I and II.
Besides, the lad is good in sports,
winning gold, silver and bronze in
tracks and field events.
To be considered for the 30-year-old
distinction award, a candidate must
obtain Grade 1 in at least seven
subjects, including English Language,
Mathematics, one of Physics,
Chemistry and Biology, and one
subject from any of the three sub-
categories of core subjects.
In addition, the candidate must obtain
a minimum of Grade 6 in at least one
subject from each of the core subject
sub-categories.
Candidates are considered under the
merit awards only if enough
participants do not qualify for the
distinction awards. The eligibility
criteria for the merit awards are the
same as those of distinction awards,
except that a candidate must obtain a
grade not lower than 2 in English
Language.
The results of candidates eligible for
an award should have been obtained at
the first attempt and at the same
sitting. The grades would also have
been obtained without any hint of
impropriety.
The first National Distinction/Merit
awards were presented in Abeokuta,
Ogun State in 1985 to the winners in
the Nov/Dec. 1984 SC/GCE, with
Abdulkadir Sarki-Abba, a pupil of
Government Science School,
Dawakin-Tofa, Kano State receiving
the excellence award.
Since the first presentation, findings
by our correspondent showed that
pupils from Queen’s College, Yaba,
Lagos, have won the prestigious award
10 times. By this accomplishment, the
school has become the highest-
winning institution as well as the
highest recipient of the Oba Erediauwa
trophy for presenting the best female
candidates.
Suleja Academy, Suleja is the second
highest-winning institution, picking
the prize four times in 1992, 1994,
1997 and 2009, while the International
School, Ibadan, Oyo State has won it
three times in 1987, 2000 and 2004.
Meanwhile, Queen’s College, Yaba
has also won the Council’s Augustus
Oyediran prize six times, while Loyola
Jesuit College, Wuse, Abuja has won it
five times in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005
and 2008.
Suleja Academy, Niger State has won
it four times in 1992, 1994, 1996 and
1997.
The Oyediran trophy is given to the
school that has the best aggregate
determined on the results of its best
50 candidates in English Language,
Mathematics and one science subject.
In a related development, Nigerian
Turkish International College, Kaduna
took home the Oyediran trophy for
producing the best overall results in
the May/ June 2013 WASSCE.
The Council on Thursday also
honoured the New Era College,
Mokwa, Niger State as the winner of
the WAEC Endowment Fund Prize Book
for producing the best aggregate
results in the May/June 2013 WASSCE
in the state.
While the PHCN Staff Secondary
School, Jebba, Niger State won the
second position, El-Amin International
School, Minna took the third position
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