2023 UTME top scorer, Nkechinyere Umeh has shown her academic brilliance as she scored 8 A1 and a B2 in the just concluded West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE).
The 16-year-old Nkechinyere Umeh of Deeper Life High School in Mowe, Ogun state, in a breakdown of her result showed that she got A1 in English Language, Mathematics, Chemistry, Biology, Further Mathematics, Economics, Civic Education, Computer Studies as well as Dyeing and Bleaching.
Her academic excellence has made scholarship offerers jostle for her.
Charles Soludo, the governor of Anambra state, recently granted her a full scholarship to study any course of her choice at Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University (COOU).
She was also given a scholarship to study any course of her choice at Anchor University, owned by Deeper Life Bible Church. The student applied to study Chemical Engineering at the University of Lagos (UNILAG).
Patrick Areghan, WAEC head in Nigeria, recently said 1,287,920 — representing 79.81 per cent of the total candidates — obtained credits and above in a minimum of five subjects including English Language and Mathematics in this year’s WASSCE.
