The West African Examination Council is set to release a new timetable for the 2020 West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examination(WASSCE) scheduled to commence on August 4th.
The Minister of State for Education, Emeka Nwajiuba announced this on Monday at the briefing of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 in Abuja .
The Minister said the exam will run from August 4 through September 5 noting that school facilities will be made available for those who want to go into revision classes.
“The idea here is that we have a whole month from now till then, those who can and those who are willing; the states who are willing should make their schools available for their children to revise”the minister added.
According to him, the ministry will publish the local timings for the examinations after a meeting with authorities of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) and the Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT), among other stakeholders.
