The Head, National Office Nigeria of the West African Examination Council, Dr. Iyi Uwadiae, has said candidates for the 2012 May/June West African Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination may not have their results soon.
This, he said, was because the N5,850. 00 examination fee, charged each of the candidates for WASSCE, was too small to conduct the examination.
Uwadiae, who spoke at a briefing to herald the 60th Annual Council meeting of WAEC International to be hosted by Nigeria in Abuja between Monday and Friday next week, therefore called on the Federal Government to urgently release more money for the examination body.
“What we charge, N5,850, cannot conduct the examination. We have to print question papers and answer booklets, provide materials for the examination to schools; supervisors are sent to over 12,000 schools and have to be lodged in hotels, and we pay examiners. We may not have enough to pay examiners this year. We are sending a letter to the Minister of State to give us more money,” he said.
Uwadiae urged the Minister of State for Education, Chief Nyesom Wike, who was at the briefing to “approve more subvention for the body, if not it will be unable to hire examiners for the upcoming May/June WASSCE.”
Expressing similar view, the Registrar, WAEC, Alhaja Mulikat Bello, argued that compared to N6,000 the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board charges the Unified Tertiary Matriculation candidate for its one-day examination, WASSCE lasts for over a month.-punch
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