Louisville Girls High School (LGHS) is a private girls' secondary school in Ijebu-Itele, Ogun State, Nigeria. The school was established in 1998 and is run by the Sisters of St. Louis, Nigeria.[1]
Student achievements edit
In 2012, the West African Examination Council (WAEC) announced Iyeyinka Omigbodun of Louisville High as the student with second-best WASSCE results nationally.[2] In 2018, the WAEC announced Louisville High student Adenike Temitope Adedara as having the country's third best examination results.[3] Another student, Ofomata Chinyere, won the national Rising Star short story writing competition in 2018.[4] In 2019, the WAEC announced Louisville Girls as one of the three schools from the Federal Capital Territory with best overall results in the WASSCE.[5] In October 2019, a Year Two student named Adzira Galadima won the Rising Star national poetry competition with a poem about forced marriage.[6] In December 2019 another student at the school, Jolaosho Oluwatoroti Otokini, won the UBA Foundation National Essay Competition.[7] In 2020, a Louisville Girls High School student, Agnes Maduafokwa, gained the highest national score in the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination.[8]
References edit
- ^ A Brief History of LGHS, Ijebu Itele. Accessed 10 January 2021.
- ^ Profile Of Iyeyinka, The Prodigy, The Guardian, 23 May 2012. Accessed 10 January 2021.
- ^ Bayo Wahab, WAEC awards 3 girls as best students in Nigeria, pulse.ng, 23 November 2018. Accessed 10 January 2021.
- ^ Ujunwa Atueyi, Winners of Greenlife’s rising star writing competition emerge, The Guardian, 18 October 2018. Accessed 10 January 2021.
- ^ Meet Peter Arotiba, 18-year-old Nigerian who emerged overall best in WASSCE, pulse.ng, 22 November 2019. Accessed 10 January 2021.
- ^ Kofoworola Belo-Osagie, Teenager on abuse in award-winning poem, The Nation, 17 October 2019. Accessed 10 January 2021.
- ^ Girls Dominate in UBA Essay Competition, This Day, 10 December 2019. Accessed 10 January 2021.
- ^ Iyabo Lawal, Secrets of my attaining highest UTME score, by Agnes Maduafokwa, The Guardian, 2 July 2020. Accessed 10 January 2021.
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