…Exercise beset by malpractice …WAEC to sanction perpetrators By Adesina Wahab and Elizabeth Osayande NOT a few Nigerians heaved a sigh of relief when the Federal Government finally confirmed that the country would take part in this year’s West African Senior Secondary School Certificate Examinations, WASSCE, conducted across the subregion by the West African Examinations Council, […]

Students who tested positive for COVID-19 during the ongoing 2020 West African Senior School Certificate Examination have returned to classes after treatment and discharge. The Minister of State for Education, Mr Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, made this known on Monday in Abuja at the 62nd Joint National Briefing of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19. According […]

By Adesina Wahab In a bid to ensure safety in schools as the West African Senior School Certificate Examinations (WASSCE) began, the DIrector General, Office of Education Quality Assurance, Lagos State Ministry of Education, Mrs. Abiola Seriki-Ayeni and her team have embarked on COVID-19 safety and hygiene compliance monitoring exercise to ensure that schools adhere […]

Seven students of Government Girls Secondary School, Doma, Gombe State, have tested positive for COVID-19. The Federal Government had permitted schools to reopen partially on August 4 for graduating classes to write their examinations. Speaking yesterday, Commissioner for Education, Habu Dahiru, said the government had conducted 1,100 tests on the final-year students following their resumption. […]

As part of efforts to affirm strict compliance with COVID-19 guidelines by Senior School Students will be writing West African Senior School Certificate Examination, WASSCE, Lagos State House of Assembly has promised to embark on a facility tour of both public and private schools to affirm strict compliance with COVID-19 guidelines.