Federal Government has announced date for the 2020 West African Senior School Certificate Examination . The Minister of State for Education , Emeka Nwajiuba , stated this on Monday at a briefing by the Presidential Task Force on COVID - 19 in Abuja . He said the examination will hold from August 4 th to September 5th 2020 . Nwajiuba said , “ From the 4 th of August to the 5 th 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’ ve 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 5 th 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 . ”