Tag: WAEC
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Exams will hold as earlier scheduled despite Eid-el-Kabir holiday – WAEC
The West African Examinations Council, WAEC, has announced that the examinations earlier slated for Monday, September 4 will hold despite the public holidays. TheNewsGuru.com reports that the Federal Government had on Tuesday declared September 1 and 4 as public holidays to mark the 2017 Eid-el-Kabir festival. However, WAEC while answering questions from candidates partaking in…
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WAEC withholds 15,000 results of SSCE candidates
The West African Examination Council (WAEC) has withheld the results of over 15,000 candidates that sat for the May/June senior school certificate examinations. The affected candidates are from Niger State. The decision to hold on to the results was reportedly because the state government failed to pay the examination fees on behalf of the candidates.…
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JUST IN: WAEC releases 2017 May/June WASSCE results
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has released the May/June WASSCE results for this year. 13.79% of the candidates that wrote the exams had their results withheld, while a 59.22% pass in English Language and Mathematics was recorded. Speaking at a press briefing held at its corporate office in Yaba, Lagos on Monday, Head of…
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Collect your certificates within 4 years or pay ‘custody fee’, WAEC warns candidates
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has urged GCE candidates to endeavour to collect their certificates within four years of writing the examination or pay extra custody fee. Demianus Ojijeogu, the Head of Public Affairs Department, WAEC, Nigeria disclosed this in a telephone interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Abuja.…
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Establish more schools for better performance, WAEC advises FG
The Head, West African Examinations Council International, Mr Adelowo Maliki, has advised the Federal Government to open more schools to accommodate millions of school-aged children roaming the streets. Maliki told the newsmen on Wednesday in Lagos that building more schools and equipping them with latest facilities and professional teachers would help in improving the state…
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WAEC reviews conduct of ‘GCE’, exam to now hold twice a year
The West African Examinations Council, WAEC, says it will soon begin the conduct of its examination for private candidates, popularly called GCE, twice in a year with effect from 2017. The council Registrar, Iyi Uwadiae, spoke with newsmen on the sidelines of the council’s “Registrar’s Staff Appraisal Committee’’ meeting on Wednesday in Accra, Ghana. Mr.…
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WAEC Registrar says no “special centres’’ for its examination
Dr Iyi Uwadiae, Registrar, West African Examinations Council (WAEC), says there are no “miracle’’ or “special’’ centres used anywhere for the council’s examination as speculated by some members of the public. Uwadiae made the assertion at a News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) forum on in Lagos. According to him, rather than say there are miracle…