WASSCE: Private, State Schools Can Decides When To Write Exams – FG

The Federal Government of Nigeria says it cannot decide for state and private schools on whether or not to participate in the 2020 West African Senior School Certificate Examinations. The Minister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, clarified this in Abuja on Monday during the briefing of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19.

The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, had, last Wednesday, said schools would remain closed until it was certified that the situation was safe, emphasising that this was not the right time to open schools. He had also said the government would not mind forfeiting the WASSCE earlier scheduled to begin on August 4 to save the lives of students. But Nwajuiba said on Monday that there was no policy somersault on the government’s decision to stop students in the 104 unity schools nationwide  from writing this year’s WASSCE. “The PTF never said here that they were reopening any school.

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