This Young Female Student Sweeps Laurels At WAEC Awards

The good works of Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State in the education sector is beginning to manifest in so many ways. A pupil from Osun State leads other girls in the harvest of laurels at this year’s West African Examination Council awards, Punch's Charles Abah writes.

Seventeen-year-old Folafoluwa Oginni emerged the overall best pupil in the May/June 2012 WAEC. She led two other girls to lift the prestigious West African Examinations Council National Distinction/Merit awards.

The Council honoured them during its Nigeria National Committee 51st Annual General Meeting held in Owerri, Imo State on Thursday.

Oginni scored Grade 1 in all eight subjects, including English Language and Mathematics...
By the feat, the Osun State-born lad has become the current holder of WAEC’s national distinction/merit award. The Council instituted the award in 1984 to encourage academic excellence.

Oginni, who attended Our Lady and St. Francis Catholic College, Isale-aro, Osogbo, with examination number 4303013/087, also had Grade 1 in Economics, Government, Literature-in-English, Biology, Christian Religious Knowledge and Yoruba Language. She has a cumulative score of 653.9318.

Born on December 13, 1995, she attended Folorunsho Memorial Nursery and Primary School, Oyan, Odo-Otin Local Government Area between 1999 and 2000 as well as St. Clare’s Nursery and Primary School, Isale-aro, Osogbo between 2001 and 2006.

With two books -The Joy and Agony of Reaping (2005) and the Despised Corner Piece (2008) – already to her credit, the youngster in 2009 came first in the Junior Category of International Digest Competition entitled “Raising IT champions for 2020.”

She also took the first position in the Caremi Essay Competition to mark the 2010 World Mental Health Day.

The young lad, whose feat has made OSCCO to become the 2012 winner of the Omo N’Oba Erediauwa trophy for producing the best female WASSCE candidate, also won the second position in the junior category of the NAFDAC Consumer Safety Club Schools Competition in 2009.

She also came second in the competition in 2011 at the SSS category as well as third in the senior category of the International Digest 2010 contest.

Oginni is at present studying Law at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife. Congrats to her!