WASSCE suspension: Nigeria at risk — Atiku
By Iyabode Ishola Former Vice President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar has said that cancellation of the 2020 West Africa Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) by the Federal Government will put Nigeria at more risk. Atiku said this at a press statement recently, pointing out that 1.5 million Nigerian youths write the West African Senior School Certificate Examination annually, adding, “the sudden cancellation of the examination is to set back our nation’s youth, and place them behind their contemporaries in other West African nations.” “I urge this administration to take into account that the lives they are trying to save will be further put at risk, 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 said that the move by the Nigerian government to curb the COVID-19 pa...