Ifunanya Obinwa, Valedictorian of Chrisland High School wins 2022 RISE Global Award

Meet Ifunanya Obinwa, Valedictorian of Chrisland High School who won 2022 RISE Global Award after making straight As in all her WAEC papers

In our 45 years of existence, we have built a conveyer belt for high-achieving learners and alumni who have continued to hoist the Chrisland flag high! Winning international laurels and recognition has become second nature to the Chrisland Family. Naomi Ifunanya Marizu Obinwa, the last Valedictorian of Chrisland High School Victoria Garden City, has joined this prestigious group.

The Chrislander, who made straight As in all her papers in the 2022 West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examination, was recently announced as one of the Schmidt Futures and Rhodes Trust’s Rise Global Award recipients. She is part of the five Global Winners hailing from Nigeria.

Rise is a program that finds brilliant people who need opportunity and supports them for life as they work to serve others. The program starts at ages 15–17 and offers a lifetime of benefits, including scholarships, mentorship, access to career development opportunities, funding, and more as Global Winners work toward solving humanity’s most pressing problems. For her project, Ifunanya created a website featuring blogs and videos from medical professionals explaining why healthcare should be important to her fellow Nigerians.

Congratulations Ifunanya.