The federal government has reversed its earlier announcement on the resumption of schools. It also said no Nigerian school will participate in the West African Senior School Certificate Examinations earlier scheduled for August 5 to September 5. This year’s examination, administered by the West African Examinations Council (WAEC), was postponed indefinitely in April after it [...]
The West African Examination Council is set to release a fresh timetable for the 2020 West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examination. This followed an announcement by the Federal Government that the examination would commence from August 4 through September 5. Speaking at a Presidential Task Force Briefing on COVID-19 in Abuja on Monday, the Minister [...]
The West African Examinations Council, WAEC, Wednesday explained why it would release the results of the , May/June 2015 West African Senior School Certificate, WASSCE, that was earlier withhold due to indebtedness by the states, saying it was because of the prevailing economic challenges facing the country. Head of the Nigeria National Office of WAEC, [...]
Many candidates who sat for the May/June West African Senior School Certificate Examination may not have their results released in the next two weeks, the West African Examinations Council has announced. No fewer than 19 states of the federation owe the council about N4bn examination registration fees. The WAEC Head of National Office, Lagos, Mr. [...]
The West African Examinations Council, WAEC, has disclosed, it’s high time secondary school students started preparing to write the West African Senior School Certificate Examinations, WASSCE, through Computer Based Test, CBT. This came as the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Liberia, Mr Augustine Ngafuan urged WAEC to introduce Group-Work in classroom into their marking [...]
Gov. Idris Wada of Kogi, said on Wednesday that the state government would prosecute officials involved in the inflation of WAEC examination fees for final year secondary school students in the state, NAN reports. The governor, who spoke shortly after inspecting work on some projects in Lokoja, said that the officials had inflated the money [...]
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has revealed plans to extend the online marking of theory papers to more subjects taken in the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE). At a seminar to interact with examiners on the e-marking scheme last Friday held at WAEC International Office, Agindingbi, Lagos, the council’s Head of National [...]
An Ikeja High Court on Thursday sentenced a 20-year-old student, Abiodun Raheem, to eight months imprisonment for creating a Website to facilitate examination malpractices. According to Vanguard's report, Justice Kudirat Jose handed the sentence to Raheem after he pleaded guilty to the offence during his re-arraignment. The convict had entered a plea bargain agreement with [...]
The National Head of the West African Examinations Council, WAEC, office in Nigeria, Mr. Charles Egurudu, has said the body is saddened by the failure of candidates that write its examinations. Egurudu, who spoke yesterday at the award-giving ceremony to the best three Benue State schools in the 2011 WAEC examinations, in Makurdi, insisted that [...]
The West Africa Examination Council, WAEC has released its May/June 2014 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) results, recording mass failure in Mathematics and English Language. Announcing the results, Monday, at WAEC office, Yaba, the Head of National Office, WAEC, Mr. Charles Eguridu said: “A total of 529,425 candidates, representing 31.28%, obtained credits in [...]