FG has announced new dates for commencement of West Africa School Certificate examinations.
The examinations will now start on August 4 and end on Septemeber 5 2020.
The Minister of State for Education, Mr Emeka Nwajiuba, disclosed this yesterday, in Abuja, at the briefing of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19.
He urged the general public to take note of the announcement.
He pointed out that last week, the Chairman of the PTF announced that school facilities will be available for those who want to go into revision classes, expressing desire to utilize the opportunity of the school reopening to write the examinations as it is long overdue.
He further observed that students have one month from now till then, for those who can and are willing, urging states that are willing, to make their schools available for their children to revise.
He contended that the Education Ministry have done the most it can, and has, after much deliberations with the representatives from WAEC, agreed that the dates allotted for the exams are feasible.
According to him, the ministry would publish the local timings for the examinations after a meeting with authorities of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) and the Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT), among other stakeholders.
Nwajiuba disclosed that as soon as WAEC examinations were concluded, the government would take up the National Examination Council (NECO) and the National Business and Technical Examinations Board (NABTEB) examinations.
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