NECO honors Igbinedion school for producing BECE 2022 best student Chimamanda Onochie

The National Examinations Council has honoured 15-year-old  Chimamanda Onochie of Igbinedion Education Centre in Benin for emerging as the overall best candidate in Nigeria during the 2022 Basic Education Certification Examination.

Chimamanda scored 11As in the 2022 BECE to emerge as the best in the country.

A letter of invitation for the award was on Monday presented to the school by the state coordinator of NECO, Dr Moses Oladipupo, who represented NECO Registrar, Prof. Ibrahim Wushishi.

Responding, the proprietress of the school, Lady Cherry Igbinedion, said the achievement of Chimamanda was the dream she had for the school when it was founded about 40 years ago.

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She said, “It is moments like this that we declare that my eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord. This was what I envisaged when my husband, Chief Gabriel Igbinedion and I, laid the foundation 40 years ago.

She said Chimamanda Onochie had set a standard among her equals which would now motivate for her classmates to emulate her.

In his remarks, Dr Moses Oladipupo appealed to the parents and the school to keep encouraging the student in order to surmount the challenges ahead, noting that the girl had a very bright academic future.

For Chimamanda Onochie, who hails from Anambra State, she said she would like to be a surgeon.