Emeka Nwajiuba, the Minister of State for Education said during the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 briefing on Thursday, July 23, in Abuja that if Nigeria is unable to convince WAEC to shift its examinations, sitting for the GCE may be the only option for Nigerian students.
The Minister of State for Education added that if Nigeria is able to meet up with the WAEC timetable, there is already a negotiated timeline to move local language subjects such as Ibo, Hausa, and Yoruba behind to enable all participating countries the needed time to write the general subjects at the same time.
Furthermore, he said the ministry will be meeting with relevant stakeholders on July 30 to assess preparations for the safe reopening of schools.
Nwajuiba said:
"The Ghanaians will take examinations peculiar to them. But they are all in the first part of the time table so we will work out a domestication module that will take our peculiar subjects behind after we have done generals."This will buy us the time we need for all of us to be at par with the rest of West Africa and operating at the same time because the unanimity with which WAEC has always worked is still very important to us."Nigeria is not moving away from it, the option would have been to go to November to take the GCE external exams. Nigeria is carefully studying that if in the event everything fails, we may go to that way."
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