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 ... Read more

The West African Examination Council, on Tuesday, released guidelines for the conduct of the 2020 West African Senior School Certificate Examination. The Minister of State for Education, Emeka Nwajiuba, had on Monday at a briefing by the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 in Abuja announced that the 2020 WASSCE would hold between August 4 ... Read more

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has reacted to the abrupt U-turn made by the federal government on the resumption of schools across the country, and its earlier announcement of dates for the commencement of the 2020 May/June diet of the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE). The regional examination body ... Read more

Some education stakeholders on Thursday expressed divergent viewpoints on Federal Government’s postponement of the Senior Secondary Certificate Examination in Nigeria due to the raging COVID-19 pandemic. In separate interviews with Newsmen in Lagos, the stakeholders also spoke on the suspension of partial resumption of certain categories of ... Read more

The House of Representatives has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to reverse the decision of the Federal Ministry of Education to withdraw Nigeria from participating in the West African Senior School Certificate Examination and other similar examinations. The lawmakers also urged the Minister of Education to immediately implement the health safety measures outlined by the Federal Executive ... Read more

The founder of Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD), Chief Afe Babalola, has condemned the decision of the Federal Government of Nigeria with respect to their withdrawal from this year's WASSCE. Babalola said it was wrong for the country to have made such sole decision due to the fear of Covid-19 when other participating nations have not withdrawn from the annual examination. The ... Read more

Recall that the Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, had last week stated that Nigerian schools would not be reopened soon and final year secondary school students would not write the West African Senior School Certificate Examinations (WASSCE) expected to start August 5 to September 5, due to the increasing number of COVID-19 infections, adding ... Read more

The Federal Government has given school proprietors in the nation up to July 29, 2020, to meet explicit rules towards the reopening of schools at a date to be declared soon. The new development came after the Ministry concluded with four countries on a new date for the previously annulled West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE). Minister of State for Education, Hon. ... Read more

Recall that the Minister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, had said the government would consult with the four other countries under WAEC to set a new date, while announcing COVID-19 mandatory guidelines for schools which must be met before July 29. However, The Academic Staff Union of Universities through its National President, Professor Biodun Ogunyemi in an Interview with ... Read more

A non-governmental organisation, OpenFees, has told the Nigerian Government and other stakeholders in the education sector to stop playing politics and take a stand on the 2020 West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examination for the sake of students whose future were at stake. OpenFees is a philanthropy organisation whose aim is to support children's basic education. They believe ... Read more