The Federal Government has announced the indefinite postponement of this year’s West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examination and the National Examinations Council because of the disruption of coronavirus pandemic.



The Minister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, reported this at the daily Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 briefing in Abuja on Tuesday.

Both examinations were set for May and June 2020.

The minister stated that 15 states had already commenced electronic learning for pupils on their local television and radio channels following the stay-at-home orders of the federal and several state governments.

Nwajiuba appealed to fathers to collaborate with the government to ensure that their children were made accessible to learn at the allotted hours and channels.

The minister expressed the government was reviewing at what to do for schools to resume.

According to him, nobody can reopen schools until all attempts have been regulated by the government.

He said: “We have declared that WAEC and NECO for the year have been postponed. This postponement is indefinite at the moment. We will also be searching at what we will do for schools to reopen. As you recall, we ordered that schools be vacated in the last part of March 2020 as soon as this pandemic broke out.

“The lockdown in different parts of the country will obviously affect whether students and teachers will come to school or not. So nobody can reopen schools until we have coordinated all efforts. We are again asking parents to support us.

“We have made provisions available online. The Directorate of Information and Communication Technology in partnership with the Universal Basic Education Commission, the coordinating department, will secure an alliance with State Universal Basic Education Boards in all the states so that they can key into our model.

“About 15 states have already begun learning via various channels that are accessible in their states, particularly local TV and radio. All the programmes they are functioning are recommended by the Nigerian Educational Research and Development Commission. Some of those states are Anambra, Lagos, Kaduna, Ondo, Edo, and Ogun. There are different teaching programmes for different times.”

The minister said the biggest test of the government was how to approach pupils who are residing in rural communities without devices to study.

He said, “Our biggest challenge is how to reach children who do not have devices. We re working with the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria to install some of that for primary and secondary school students.”

Both NECO and WAEC student, feels stuck, as they don't know whether to continue reading, or to stop reading pending the time, the exam date will be revealed.

Last week, the minister of education made it known, that they are working diligently to ensure, the release of the 2020 exam timetable, which implies, they are working on how to schedule the exam for the year 2020.



In order for the exam, not to meet you by surprise, as the exam is likely to come up soon, as they are seriously working on the timetable, candidate should take note of the following.

1) Make sure you have covered all the syllabus for the WAEC and NECO exam, as the question can be set from anywhere, but if go have covered at least 80% of the syllabus, then be rest assured that success is yours.

2) In case you have not covered, the syllabus, or you have only covered few, don't bother going through the whole syllabus again, but relax, there is a way, out.

Started making use of past question to read, start the past question based on last year exam(2019) and make use of it to read, after seeing a particular question you can't attempt, then read based on it.

3) Work on your writing, where most student, gets it wrong, is writing, even if you were given expo at the exam hall, and your writing is bad, when you are writing, 1 as i, then there is problem, start working on your writing.

4) Be self-confident, WAEC and NECO exam, is just like any other exam you do write in school, nothing special, don't let exam fear makes you forget the little things you've read.

And lastly, when you get to the exam hall, adhere by their rules, some invigilator will be strict, just comply with them.

I wish you success in your forthcoming exam.

The Federal Government through the Minister for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba has react on waec 2020/2021 time table.

West Africa Examination Council (WAEC) Timetable which is used to determine the waec examination date and time for every subjects is being release by the board some weeks before the examination which before now used to be conducted around May/June would start. As a result of the covid19 pandemic the May/June WAEC examinations have taken a slight shift due to the battle with the disease Covid19.

The Federal Government by its own wisdom previous schedule that school be reopened on June 6, this would have make the Council to come up with the examination timetable.



But according to Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba the government is not going to experiment with the lives of her students. This resolve came after their interactions with the Presidential Task Force on Covid19 (PTF).

Schools will resume as soon as practicable and as soon as the examination timetable is out it will be communicated. But until then, disregard any rumour regarding timetable