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WAEC Cancellation Puts Nigeria At More Risk – Atiku Abubakar
Former Vice President of Nigeria, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has reacted after the Minister of Education announced that Nigerian students won’t be taking the 2020 WAEC examination due to the coronavirus pandemic.
According to Atiku, the cancellation will do more harm than good to the country.
Read all he wrote below…
As a parent and investor in the education sector, I wish to register that the Nigerian government’s policy of unilaterally cancelling the West African Senior School Certificate Examination, held annually by the West African Examinations Council, is not in Nigeria’s best interest.
— Atiku Abubakar (@atiku) July 10, 2020
1.5 million Nigerian youths write the West African Senior School Certificate Examination annually. To abruptly cancel this examination is to set back our nation’s youth, and place them behind their contemporaries in other West African countries.
— Atiku Abubakar (@atiku) July 10, 2020
Already, Nigeria lags behind other African nations in crucial indices, like school enrolment, pass rates, and out of school children. This action will further create chaos in the public education system and exacerbate an already bad situation.
— Atiku Abubakar (@atiku) July 10, 2020
We could mobilise all available public & private infrastructures, including primary schools, stadia, and cinemas, for the examinations. In the alternative, the Federal Government can prevail on WAEC to have staggered examinations with a different set of questions for each shift.
— Atiku Abubakar (@atiku) July 10, 2020
Doing so will allow WAEC Nigeria to implement social distancing and achieve the goal of carrying out the examinations. A win-win scenario.
— Atiku Abubakar (@atiku) July 10, 2020
because if this policy is not reversed, tens of thousands, and possibly hundreds of thousands of Nigerians, will breach social distancing rules to cross over to neighbouring West African nations to write their WASSCE, rather than miss a year.
— Atiku Abubakar (@atiku) July 10, 2020