The Economic Confidential Magazine has revealed the candidates with highest JAMB scorers hours after Mmesoma Ejikeme was accused of fraud.
The 19 year old was accused by JAMB of falsifying her 2023 UTME result and claiming the highest score.
The highest scorers recognized by JAMB in 2023 is Anambra’s Umeh Nkechinyere who had an aggregate score of 360.
Economic Confidential Magazine assesses JAMB results from 2013 to 2022 and lists 56 candidates who scored an average of 290 and above, crowning them as the best UTME candidates of the last ten years.
The magazine explains that due to tied scores, it selects an average of five candidates as the best each year, occupying the positions from first to fifth.
Out of the 56 highest scorers, 16 students scored between 290-339, while 40 candidates scored between 340-363.
In 2013 and 2014, no candidate reached a score of 300, with the highest marks being 299 in both years.
Economic Confidential reveals that only four candidates achieved scores above 360 in the past ten years. Anambra-born Maduafokwa Agnes secured the top spot in 2020 with a score of 365, followed by Galadima Zakari from Borno State, who claimed the best overall score in 2018 with 364.
The third position over the decade went to David Okwuchukwu Nwobi, another Anambra native, who was the second highest scorer in 2020 with 363 marks. Adebayo Eyimofe from Ekiti State, who achieved the best UTME score in 2022 with 362, stands as the fourth highest scorer in ten years.
According to the Economic Confidential’s findings, male students constitute 71% of the 56 best candidates, while female students make up the remaining 29%.
