WAEC releases withheld results


... Sanctions candidates, others for malpractices

THE West African Examinations Council, WAEC, has announced the immediate release of withheld results of candidates, who were exonerated of malpractices during the conduct of West African Senior School Certificate Examination, WASSCE for Private Candidates, 2020-Second Series and WASSCE for Private Candidates, 2021- First Series.

This is as the body at the end of the 72th meeting of the Nigeria Examinations Committee, NEC, vowed to sanction those indicted of any malpractice during the conduct of the examinations. 

The Committee is the highest decision-making organ on examinations related matters in Nigeria.

WAEC, in a statement by its Acting Head of the National Office, Moyosola Adeyegbe, said: "At the 72nd Meeting, the Committee received reports on Irregularity, Special and Clemency Cases arising from the conduct of WASSCE for Private Candidates, 2020-Second Series and WASSCE for Private Candidates, 2021- First Series earlier considered at the 71st Meeting of the Committee. 

"The Committee also received and considered reports on the conduct of WASSCE for School Candidates, 2021 as well as Irregularity Cases arising from the conduct of the examination.

"In the course of considering the various reported cases of malpractice, the Committee, after diligent deliberations, approved appropriate sanctions in all established cases of malpractice, as prescribed by the Rules and Regulations governing the conduct of the Council’s examinations. It authorized that the entire results of candidates proven to have been involved in malpractice cases which attract the penalty of Cancellation of Entire Results (CER) be cancelled, while subject results of Candidates proven to have been involved in malpractice cases which attract the penalty of Cancellation of Subject Results (CSR), be similarly cancelled. 

"Furthermore, some candidates will also suffer other sanctions such as being barred from sitting for the council’s examinations for two years."





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