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| Minister Of Education Gives Strict Guidelines For Commencement Of WAEC Examinations On August 4 |
The Federal Government of Nigeria has taken a new decision of the await West Africa Examination Council (WAEC) exams.
The minister of state for education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba has announced that all students and parents should take note that the exam will commence on August 4, 2020 and will end on September 5, 2020.
Nwajiuba made this know during the presidential task force on COVID-19 briefing on Monday. He added that timetable for the examination will be made available in due course.
The minister also confirmed that the National Examinations Council (NECO) and the National Business and Technical Board (NABTEB) exams will still hold.
“Last week, the chairman of the PTF announced that school facilities would be available for those who want to go into revision classes," he said.
"As soon as we conclude WAEC, we’ll take up the NABTEB and NECO examinations.”
“We’ve done the most we can with our representative at WAEC and we have this afternoon confirmed that the dates allotted for the exams will be from the 4th of August through to the 5th of September. Local timings will be published.
“From tomorrow, this is part of what we’re taking into our concluding stakeholders’ meeting tomorrow with NCDC, Nigerian Union of Teachers.
Everybody will conclude this stakeholders’ meeting tomorrow and these dates are what were going to take into those. We’ll be asking that those who are not prepared yet should please go and prepare.”
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