WAEC 2020 suspended due to Corona Virus

WAEC has cancelled the 2020 WASSCE for school candidates over the raging spread of coronavirus

- WAEC's head of national office in Nigeria, Patrick Ehidiamen Areghan, said that the examination has been postponed indefinitely

- However, Areghan informed candidates that a new date will be made public once the health situation improves in relation to the disease

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has postponed the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for school candidates for 2020 until further notice due to the spread of coronavirus.

Patrick Ehidiamen Areghan, WAEC's head of national office in Nigeria, on Friday, March 20, said that the examination earlier fixed to begin on Monday, April 6, across member nations will no longer be conducted as planned, The Nation reports.

In a statement on Friday, Areghan said: “This decision is a demonstration of the organisation’s concern and support for the various protocols being put in place by the federal and state governments of Nigeria and the governments of the other member countries to check the spread of the disease."

He added that upon the improvement of the global health circumstances that necessitated the postponement, a new date will be fixed and announced to the public.

Meanwhile, updatednaija reported that coronavirus scare in the country hit a frightening phase on Wednesday, March 18, as fives more cases of the global epidemic were reported, barely twenty-four hours after the Ministry of Health announced the third case.

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