Politics | Sit -At- Home: Federal Government considering another opportunity for candidates who missed WAEC examination
Sit -At- Home: Federal Government considering another opportunity for candidates who missed WAEC examination
Candidates who missed last Monday's WAEC examination due to the Sit at home in parts of the South Eastern part of the country might just be breathing a sigh of relief as the Federal Government of Nigeria is considering/making arrangements for such candidates to have their papers written at a latter date.
In a statement credited to the Federal Ministry of Education Permanent Secretary, Mr Sonny Echono. The Permanent Secretary made this known while monitoring some examination centres in Abuja on Monday,the 20th of September,2021.
Echono frowned at the Sept. 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. He promised that 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.
It could be recalled that on Monday 13,2021, candidates who were seating for the WAEC exams in some schools in Imo state particularly, Community Secondary School Nkuma, Njaba LGA had their exams disrupted by unknown gun men who also set ablaze their motorcycles and bicycles on fire for not complying to the sit -at- home order.
Out of fear of the unknown,many rural schools in the South East hardly come out for exams on Mondays due to the fear of being attacked.
