Very Reverend Dr Sam Nii Nmai Ollennu, the Head of West African Examination Council, National Head Office, has said that 2, 293 candidates cheated in last year’s West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (WASSCE). He said with the aid of the new anti-malpractice software, Item Differentia Profile (IDP), developed by the West African Examination Council … Read more
Final year students preparing to sit for the West African Senior Secondary Certificate examination (WASSCE) are being charged monies by teachers and authorities of their schools to provide them with ‘apor’ during the sitting, to aid them sail through, Kapital News’ Sani Abdul-Rahman has uncovered. Charging illegal monies from students preparing to sit for WASSCE … Read more
1,393 pupils across the country are taking part in this year’s private Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE). The number include candidates who are rewriting the examination because they did not perform well in specific subjects, as well as those desirous to further their education, and are therefore writing the examination for the first time. This … Read more
The West African Examination Council, (WAEC), has kicked against a proposal by the Education Minister-Nominee, to create a rival examination body for the country. Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh at his vetting on Monday, hinted of the possibility of setting up a rival body to conduct examinations in the country, for the purposes of enabling competition … Read more
The West African Examination Council, (WAEC), has kicked against a proposal by the Education Minister-Nominee, to create a rival examination body for the country. Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh at his vetting on Monday, hinted of the possibility of setting up a rival body to conduct examinations in the country, for the purposes of enabling competition … Read more
The West African Examination Council, (WAEC), has kicked against a proposal by the Education Minister-Nominee, to create a rival examination body for the country. Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh at his vetting on Monday, hinted of the possibility of setting up a rival body to conduct examinations in the country, for the purposes of enabling competition … Read more
The incoming Education Minister Mathew Opoku Prempeh is calling for the monopoly being enjoyed by the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) to be challenged. In the view of the education minister-designate, other examining bodies must be allowed to enter the space in order to engender competition. WAEC with its headquarters in Accra, Ghana, was established … Read more
If you want to hang a dog, you give it a bad name. We have a way of rubbishing our heroes in Africa. Some of you may be too young to remember why Kwame Nkrumah was overthrown or why Patrice Lumumba was humiliated to death. If Mandela was not blessed with long life, he could … Read more
Leading manufacturer and Nigeria’s only total beverage alcohol (TBA) company, Guinness Nigeria Plc, has revived up its commitment to driving responsible drinking behaviour among Nigerian consumers by partnering with the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, to deliver its innovative and trailblazing DRINKiQ training sessions to officials and corps members in a bid to take the … Read more
Results of the candidates who sat for the 2016 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) will be released from September 12, officials have announced. A total of 461,013 candidates from 14,267 public and private junior high schools wrote the exams that was conducted by the West African Examination Council [WAEC] between June 13 and 17, 2016. … Read more
The West African Examination Council (WAEC) is staying with its new strategy to fly examination questions papers to the examination centres in the upcoming Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE), in a bid to avoid the recurrent leakages. The BECE has been scheduled for June 13-17, 2016 “The papers have already been printed outside this country. … Read more