By Providence Emmanuel

Lumen Christi International High School, Uromi, Edo State, has emerged the overall best performing school in the country by winning the Augustus Bandele Oyediran trophy for producing the best overall results in the 2016 West African Secondary School Certificate Examination, WASSCE.

The school emerged winner with best aggregate, determined on the results of best 50 candidates based on their grades in English Language, Mathematics and a Science subject, to cling the prestigious awards instituted in 1985.

From 1985 till date, only 12 schools have won the award: Queens College, Yaba, Lagos, won the maiden edition, five consecutive times, is Loyola Jesuit College, among others.

There were also awards for individual performance in the international, national and sub-regional categories. The first international award for 1985 examination was presented in Monrovia, Liberia, in 1986, where Nigeria took the maiden award with Ishola Adedapo taking the star prize. Since then the competition for top spots has always been between Nigeria and Ghana but Nigeria was dominant between 1999 and 2008. From 2008, Ghana took over the international category carting away the three top spots except in 2011 when Miss Adeloye Ope, took the third position. And the latest with Ayodeji Oluwafisayomi coming second.

Speaking at the 65th WAEC’s Annual Council meeting in Abuja, Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, said that the current method of teaching was defective as students lack capacity of critical thinking for solution to problems.

Osinbajo added that it was expedient for educators to break from the past by setting a moral and ethical standard to define success.