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WAEC releases 2024 WASSCE private candidates’ results
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has released the results of the 2024 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for private candidates, second series. A total of 2,577 candidates had their results withheld due to allegations of examination malpractice. This was disclosed in a statement on Sunday by WAEC’s Acting Public Affairs Officer, Mrs. Moyosola Adesina. According…
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Sit-at-home: WASSCE peaceful in Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu
The sit at home order by the proscribed Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) was partially observed in Anambra, Ebonyi and Enugu states as some residents went about their normal businesses. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that IPOB had designated every May 30, as “Biafra Hero Day Remembrance”, ordering people of the South-East to respect and observe the day…
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WAEC introduces CBT as option in Nov. 2024 WASSCE
West African Examinations Council (WAEC) says candidates for the November West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) will have the option of choosing between Computer Based Tests (CBT) and Paper Based Tests. Head of National Office, WAEC, Nigeria, Dr Amos Dangut, stated this in Ibadan on Wednesday while monitoring the ongoing WASSCE, along with some principal officers of the council.…
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WASSCE: 8,350 private candidates sit for WAEC’s maiden CBT nationwide
Lagos, Feb. 3, 2024 (NAN) The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) said on Saturday that its maiden computer-based test (CBT) for the WASSCE first series, for private candidates, would eliminate the major source of examination malpractice. The council’s Head of National Office (HNO), Dr. Amos Josiah Dangut, stated this while monitoring the examination in some centres in Lagos. Recall that…
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FG to reconsider South East candidates who missed 2021 WASSCE
The Ministry of Education has assured that candidates who missed the 2021 West Africa Senior School Certificate Examinations (WASSCE) in the South East, will be given another opportunity to write the examination. Mr Sonny Echono, the Permanent Secretary of the ministry, made this known while monitoring some examination centers in Abuja on Monday. Echono frowned at the Sept. 13 disruption…
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Nigeria
Ekiti Govt says only students in SSS 3 classes will resume
Ekiti governor , Dr Kayode Fayemi, on Wednesday during a state broadcast said that only students in SSS3 classes would resume revision classes on Aug.10,due to the prevailing Coronavirus pandemic. He said that pupils in Junior Secondary School (JSS3) and primary six classes would not be resuming on that date . Fayemi said that the state was making arrangements for…
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NEWS
Students in exit classes resume in Abuja
About 95 per cent of students in the exit classes of the secondary schools in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), resumed on Tuesday, in preparation for the 2020 West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (WASSCE). Majority of the teachers and students said they were happy to resume after lockdown, which lasted for about five months, due to the ravaging Coronavirus…
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WASSCE: Nigeria, WAEC agree on September 5
A week after disagreeing with the August 4 date given by the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) for examination students to come write their exams, the Federal Government and the council have agreed for the students to return on September 5, 2020. Minister of State for Education Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, who made this known on Friday in Abuja, said the decision…
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NEWS
WAEC fixes School Certificate Examinations for August 4
After three months of postponement, the West Africa Examination Council (WAEC) has announced that the 2020 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for internal candidates will now begin on August 4, 2020 and end on September 5, 2020. Minister of State for Education Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, who revealed this at the routine Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 briefing on Monday…
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