WAEC to purnish candidates involved in exam mal-practice

Out of 1,695,872 candidates who sat for the May/June 2012 West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examination in Nigeria, 101,398 candidates were alleged to have been involved in examination malpractice.
This was disclosed to journalists by the National President, All Confederation
of Principals of Secondary Schools, Hajiya Fatima Abdulrahman, on Thursday at the West African Examinations Council’s 54th Meeting of the Nigeria Examinations Committee in Lagos.
Abdulrahman said “the committee has approved that appropriate sanctions as prescribed by the rules and regulations governing the conduct of the examination be applied.
“The committee has approved that the entire results of candidates involved in proven cases, which attract cancellation of entire results be cancelled, while results, in proven cases, which attract cancellation of subject results be similarly cancelled. In addition, some candidates will also suffer other sanctions such as barring them from sitting for the council’s examinations for certain number of years,” she concluded.
Abdulrahman assured that names of all candidates and schools involved in malpractices would be made available on WAEC website.
Commenting on the issue, the Head of WAEC National Office, Mr. Charles Eguridu emphasised that the council would put in place different measures to ensure that exam malpractices become almost impossible for candidates.
He said, “Examination malpractice has made things difficult for the council. We plan to introduce biometric feature in the registration process for candidates. Aside this, we would also update the features of our certificate so that it would be almost impossible to duplicate
Source :Daily post