WAEC Bans Candidates, Teachers Over Malpractices

Some of the 51, 876 candidates who were involved in various allegations of examination malpractice at the November/December 2010 West African Senior School Certificate Examination have been banned from writing any WAEC-organised examination for three years.

The acting chairman of the Nigeria Examinations Committee (NEC) of the West African Examinations Council (WAEC), Chief Adeniyi Falade, said this during its 51st meeting held at Excellence Hotel and Conference Centre, Ogba, Lagos.

He said, “After due consideration of the cases of examination malpractice, the committee endorsed appropriate sanctions prescribed by the rules and regulation governing the conduct of the examination.”

According to him, the committee has endorsed the cancellation of the entire results of the candidates involved in the malpractice while some of them have been barred outright from writing any of WAEC-organised examinations.

Though he could not say how many candidates were affected, he noted that many of them, including some teachers involved in the act, were sanctioned.