WAEC to stop schools from registering external candidates

The West African Examination Council on Tuesday said it would soon stop the registration of external students by schools. The coordinator of WAEC in Plateau, Mr. Basil Inyang, made the announcement at a stakeholder’s forum on “Eradication of Examination Malpractice’’, organised by the National Orientation Agency (NOA) in Jos on Tuesday.

The coordinator also said that once a student failed the examination, the said student would not be availed the opportunity to register in the succeeding year.

“We shall soon cancel the registration of external candidates by secondary schools. “This is because most students look for miracle centres to register for the examination, constituting the bulk of examination malpractices. “If a student fails the examination in the first sitting and wants to sit for the second time, the students must go back to their former school and register again,’’ the News Agency of Nigeria quoted the coordinator as saying at the forum.