"1st Prize Winner": Smart Girl, Chioma Blessing Obidigbo Grabs WAEC Top Award For 2022 Examination

"1st Prize Winner": Smart Girl, Chioma Blessing Obidigbo Grabs WAEC Top Award For 2022 Examination

  • A brilliant Nigerian girl, Chioma Blessing Obidigbo, has emerged as the first-prize winner for the 2022 West African School Certificate Examination (WASCE)
  • Chioma sat for her WASCE at the St Paul's Academy, Jos, where she recorded an impressive result in 2022
  • Mrs Augustina Udeozo, the principal of St Paul's Academy, Jos, confirmed the good news to Legit.ng in a short chat

A Nigerian student who sat for WASCE in 2022 is making the headlines because of her excellent performance.

The girl, Chioma Blessing Obidgbo, who is already in the USA, was a student of St Paul's Academy, Jos, where she registered for her WASCE.

Chioma Blessing Obidigbo
Chioma got a merit award from WAEC. Photo credit: The Sun and Facebook/St Paul's Academy.
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Chioma has clinched the 2022 WAEC national distinction/merit award for WASSCE for school candidates.

According to a post on her school's Facebook page, the merit award was presented on Thursday, November 16.

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The post reads:

"The West African Examinations Council Awards Obidigbo Chioma Blessing With a National Distinction/Merit Award For WASSCE for School Candidates 2022, 1st Prize Winner."

Another post earlier made by the school indicates that Chioma scored A1 in all the subjects she sat for in the 2022 examination.

A breakdown of the result shows that Chioma registered for mathematics, English language, chemistry, physics, biology, civic education and French. Others are marketing and agricultural science. She scored A1 in each of the subjects.

When contacted, the principal of St Paul's Academy, Jos, Mrs Augustina Udeozo, told Legit.ng that Chioma is already in the US for her preliminary studies.

Mrs Udeozo said in a brief WhatsApp chat:

"Chioma Blessing Obidigbo was a student of St Paul's Academy Jos Plateau State; she is presently in the USA studying pre-medical (Biological science). Chioma Blessing Obidigbo recorded 9As in both WAEC and NECO SSCE and scored 327 in JAMB-UTME 2022. She won the overall best female student in 2022 WAEC and 3rd best candidate in West Africa. On 16th November 2023, she was awarded the overall winner in Nigeria for 2022 WASSCE Mrs Augustina Udeozo."

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Girl emerges best female student in NECO

Earlier, Legit.ng reported that a brilliant student, Ifebube Chelsea Benson, has emerged as the best female candidate for the 2023 National Examination Council, NECO SSCE.

In a message exclusively sent to Legit.ng, Ifebube showed a letter she got from NECO inviting her to the award presentation.

Also, Ifebube sent a copy of her result, showing that she scored 9A1s in the examination, which she wrote at Renaissance Garden Schools, Lagos.

WAEC certificate seen on the street

Meanwhile, Legit.ng reported that a copy of an original WAEC certificate was used to wrap suya and dropped in the streets.

Information on the certificate shows that it belongs to Oweisana Braduce, who scored A1 in Economics and C4 in the English language.

He sat for the WAEC examination as far back as June 2011, and he was born in 1991.

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The candidate also scored B3 in Agricultural Science and B3 in Biology. But curiously, the record for mathematics was missing.

Source: Legit.ng

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