WASSCE: Don't go ahead without FG’s approval, NUT, NAPTAN tell states
States have been warned not to open schools in their domain and go ahead with this year’s West African Senior Secondary School Examination, WASSCE, without Federal Government's approval. The Nigeria Union of Teachers, NUT, and the National Parent Teacher Association of Nigeria, NAPTAN, gave the directive. The association said that if they go ahead with the examination, it would not only distort the education sector, it would also create chaos that might be very difficult to remediate. National Treasurer of the NUT, Mr Segun Raheem and the National President of NAPTAN, Haruna Danjuma said this. Raheem said there was a stakeholders’ meeting with the Federal Ministry of Education and other government agencies concerned with the COVID-19 pandemic in which NUT was present, adding that it was agreed there that anything that would lead to chaos should be avoided. “We all know that education is on the concurrent list in the constitution and that is why, when the Federal Government said...