The West Africa Examination Council (WAEC) in the South East have been given a new hope to candidates who missed the 2021 WASSCE by the Ministry of Education.
The education ministery said it would give the affected candidates another opportunity to write the examination.
The Permanent Secretary of the ministry, Mr Sonny Echono revealed this while monitoring some examination centres in Abuja on Monday.
Echono frowned at the September 13 disruption of examination centres in the South East.
He, however, expressed satisfaction with the conduct of the examination across the country which was written by over 1.57 million candidates.
According to him, “the ministry will put modalities in place to ensure that the candidates who missed the examination in the South East are given other opportunities to write the examination.”
“We are very pleased that all around the country; examinations are going on peacefully as we have a total of over 19,000 exams centres across the country with over 1.57million registered candidates.”
“Besides the disruptions we had on Sept.13 in the South East where some candidates were stopped from doing the exams, it is a peaceful examination.”
On the possibilities of examination malpractices, Echono said that cases of examination malpractices were usually collated at the end of the examination, pointing out that the culprits would also be brought to book.
“The ministry was collaborating with relevant examination bodies and Non Government Organisations to fish out candidates involved in examination malpractices.”
“This is because we have a lot of miscreant who are perpetrating and deceiving people. We are going to undertake a general overhaul for all those offering so called services to candidates.”
“We didn’t see much of malpractices in internal examinations like this because these are students who are already in school,” he said.
It was gathered that the permanent secretary led the monitoring team to the Federal Government Girls College (FGGC) Bwari and Government Girls Secondary School, Dutse.
It was also observed that the students of the GGSS, Dutse, were in full compliance with COVID-19 protocols.