A student of Ondo state emerges best in SSCE

A student

of St. Louis Girls Grammar School, Akure, Ondo State, Miss Tolulope Fatokun, has emerged the best in this year’s West African Examinations Council and the National Examinations Council in the country.

A statement by the Ondo State Commissioner for Information, Mr. Kayode Akinmade, on Wednesday, stated that Fatokun had distinctions (A1) in nine subjects and had been admitted to the  Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, to study Law.

The statement also said the last result of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations showed that the state was among the five states whose candidates scored the highest marks.

It quoted the Commissioner for Education, Mr. Remi Olatubora, as saying the achievements was a product of the state government’s focus on the education sector.

Olatubora noted that before the Olusegun Mimiko administration came on board, record showed that only 21 per cent of pupils in the state had five credits including English and Mathematics   in WAEC/NECO.

He however said the figure had risen to 35 per cent, and that the intention of the government was to achieve 70 per cent before the end of tenure of the administration.

The commissioner also said all mega schools built by the state government had been equipped with first class grade computer facility including audio–visual laboratories that would make pupils to be exposed to physical  representation of teaching.