WASSCE To Start August 4 -FG

…… FG to commence decontamination of Schools by Tuesday

The Federal Government on Monday announced the date for the 2020 West African Senior School Certificate Examination.

The Minister of State for Education, Emeka Nwajiuba, who announced the date at the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 briefing in Abuja, said the examination would hold from August 4 to September 5.

He said the examination will hold from August 4th to September 5th 2020.

The minister said: “From the 4th of August to the 5th of September. Parents please take note.

“Last week, the PTF chairman announced that school facilities will be available for those who want to go into revision classes.

“As soon as we conclude WAEC, we will take up the NABTEB and NECO exams.

“The idea is that we have a 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.

“We have done the most we can to talk with our representatives at WAEC and this afternoon, we confirmed dates allotted for the exams will be from the 4th of August through to the 5th of September.

“Local timings will be published.
“From tomorrow, this is what we are taking into our concluding stakeholder meetings with NCDC, Nigerian Union of Teachers, everybody will be at the stakeholders meeting tomorrow and this date is what we are going to look at.

“We will be asking that those who are not prepared yet should please go and prepare.

“We are continuing with registration for NECO. For those who have not concluded registration along those lines, this is the time to update and get your registration done.”

Recall that the federal government had late last month ordered students in transition classes to return to school ahead of their examination

Meanwhile, the Minister of Environment, Muhammad Mahmood, has disclosed that the decontamination of schools ahead of the resumption of academic activities would begin on Tuesday.

Mahmood, who made this known on Monday during the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 briefing in Abuja, assured Nigerians that the ministry had enough hands on ground to carry out the disinfection exercise.

He said, “Earlier I told you that we have sat with the Ministry of Education and we have the list of all the schools that need to be disinfected before resumption.

“Well, what we plan to do now is to do (decontaminate) the centres that will be used.”

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The minister added that the decontamination was delayed to ensure that the chemicals to be used for the exercise are effective enough when the schools resume.

Mahmood added that, “The delay is because it is better to disinfect and decontaminate within a short period of time, so that the kids will be going back into these classes when they have been freshly decontaminated.



“This is because the chemicals we use are chemicals that are not long-lasting; they have short contact time to do their job.

“So, we will be getting this done before Monday when they (school children) will be back to use these classes.”

He assured parents that the schools would be safe for learning activities.