{"id":395558,"date":"2021-09-20T17:19:22","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T16:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=395558"},"modified":"2021-09-20T17:24:46","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T16:24:46","slug":"sit-at-home-fg-takes-decision-on-south-east-candidates-who-missed-2021-wassce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=395558","title":{"rendered":"Sit-at-home: FG takes decision on South East candidates who missed 2021 WASSCE"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Ministry of Education on Monday assured that candidates who missed the 2021 West Africa Senior School Certificate Examinations (WASSCE) in the Southeastern region following the enforcement of sit-at-home by some secessionists, will be given another opportunity to write the examination.<\/p>\n

This was disclosed by the Permanent Secretary of the ministry, Mr Sonny Echono while monitoring some examination centres in Abuja on Monday.<\/p>\n

Echono frowned at the Sept. 13 disruption of examination centres in the South East, particularly in Imo State.<\/p>\n

He, however, expressed satisfaction with the conduct of the examination across the country which was written by over 1.57 million candidates.<\/p>\n

According to Echono, 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 it.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe 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.<\/p>\n

\u201cBesides 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.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are complying with all the standards and ethics of examinations, we are pursuing very hard more cases, incidence or possibilities of examinations malpractice because we have a zero-tolerance for examinations malpractice.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe shall punish any person found culpable and ensure that sanity is restored in our system,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n

Echono further said that the ministry did not encounter challenges in preparing students for the examinations aside from the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll COVID-19 safety protocols are being strictly adhered to in centres across the country,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He said that although some schools were closed in states due to the COVID-19 pandemic, alternative arrangements were made especially for exit classes to take the examination.<\/p>\n

On the possibilities of examination malpractices, Echono said that cases were usually collated at the end of the examination, pointing out that the culprits would also be brought to book.<\/p>\n

He said the ministry was collaborating with relevant examination bodies and Non-Government Organisations to fish out candidates involved in examination malpractices.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is because we have a lot of miscreants who are perpetrating and deceiving people. We are going to undertake a general overhaul for all those offering so-called services to candidates.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe didn\u2019t see much of malpractices in internal examinations like this because these are students who are already in school,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the permanent secretary led the monitoring team to the Federal Government Girls College (FGGC) Bwari and Government Girls Secondary School, Dutse.<\/p>\n

It was also observed that the students of the GGSS, Dutse, were in full compliance with COVID-19 protocols.<\/p><\/div>\n

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