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

"First 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 Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE)
  • Chioma sat for her WASSCE at the St Paul's Academy, Jos, where she recorded an impressive result in 2022
  • A post on her school's Facebook page shows that she scored A1 in all the nine subjects she sat for in the examination

A Nigerian student who sat for the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) 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 WASSCE.

Chioma Blessing Obidigbo
Chioma got a merit award from WAEC. Photo credit: The Sun and Facebook/St Paul's Academy.
Source: UGC

Chioma has clinched the 2022 WAEC national distinction/merit award for WASSCE for school candidates.

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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.

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The duo attended and studied the same course in a Ghanaian senior high school, where they wrote the West African Examinations Council's (WAEC) WASSCE before heading to the same university.

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She won the title over her peers with a Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 4.0 at the university's graduation ceremony.

The Voice of UCC took to Twitter to accentuate the accomplishment of the hardworking lady.

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