A 16-year-old girl from Imo State, identified as Ugboaja Chizobam Stephany has emerged as the best West African Examination Council (WAEC) candidate of 2019 after scoring As in all subjects including data processing, mathematics, further mathematics, physics, chemistry, English and biology.
Stephan graduated from the Jesuit Memorial College in Port Harcourt where she sat for the just concluded Senior Schools Certificate Examination (SSCE).
She has reportedly been offered 100% scholarship to study abroad by a Nigerian living in diaspora.
A total of 1,596161 candidates registered for the examination from 18,639 recognized secondary schools in Nigeria and 1,020,519 of them obtained credits and above in a minimum of five subjects