{"id":224554,"date":"2020-06-09T08:53:46","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T07:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=224554"},"modified":"2020-06-09T08:55:43","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T07:55:43","slug":"covid-19-nigerian-govt-gives-updates-on-waec-neco-exams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=224554","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19: Nigerian govt gives updates on WAEC, NECO exams"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The federal government has said it is working to bring the timetables for the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) and the National Examination Council (NECO) examinations closer.<br \/>\nMinister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, stated this on Monday, while speaking at the Presidential Task Force (PTF) for COVID-19.<br \/>\n\u201cIt requires six weeks to complete the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) and the National Examination Council (NECO) examinations.<br \/>\n\u201cWe are working to bring the timetable closer.<br \/>\n\u201cI have just finished a meeting with the representatives of WAEC and NABTEB and I understand how that worries our parents at the moment and how anxious our children are to know what next,\u201d Nwajiuba said.<br \/>\nIn April this year, the Nigerian government suspended both WAEC and NECO examinations indefinitely, in a bid to contain the spread of Coronavirus.<br \/>\n<!-- -->\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The federal government has said it is working to bring the timetables for the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) and the National Examination Council (NECO) examinations closer. Minister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, stated this on Monday, while speaking at the Presidential Task Force (PTF) for COVID-19. \u201cIt requires six weeks to complete the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":224555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2828,3],"tags":[1151,4797,6605,6946],"class_list":["post-224554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-news","tag-adamu-adamu","tag-fg","tag-neco","tag-waec"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=224554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/224555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=224554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=224554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=224554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}