The Minister of
State for Education, Emeka Nwajiuba, said this during the Presidential Task
Force (PTF) on COVID-19 briefing on Thursday, July 23, in Abuja.
He said if Nigeria
cannot convince WAEC to shift its examinations, sitting for the GCE may become
the only option for Nigerian students.
He added that if
Nigeria is able to meet up with the WAEC timetable, there is already a
negotiated timeline to move local language subjects such as Ibo, Hausa and
Yoruba behind to allow all participating countries the needed time to write the
general subjects at the same time.
Nwajiuba also said
the ministry will be meeting with relevant stakeholders on July 30 to assess
preparations towards safe reopening of schools.
The Minister said:
"The Ghanaians will take examinations peculiar to them. But they are all
in the first part of the time table so we will work out a domestication module
that will take our peculiar subjects behind after we have done generals.
"This will buy
us the time we need for all of us to be at par with the rest of West Africa and
operating at the same time because the unanimity with which WAEC has always
worked is still very important to us.
"Nigeria is not
moving away from it, the option would have been to go to November to take the
GCE external exams. Nigeria is carefully studying that if in the event
everything fails, we may go to that way."
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