Founder of Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti, (ABUAD), Chief Afe Babalola, (SAN), has said that disallowing students from writing the 2020 WASCE, would cause irreparable damage.
He said that the decision by the Nigerian government to back out of from the examination would notably cause irreparable damage to students sitting for 2020 West African Schools Certificate Examination (WASCE).
According to him, WASCE is an annual examination for final year secondary school students in Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Gambia, of which Nigeria cannot pull out.
He said about 1.5 million Nigerian students, who had registered for admission into various tertiary institutions in the country were earnestly waiting for WASCE results to get admission into universities of their choice.
“Even though the Minister of Education insisted that it was not safe to reopen the various institutions in the face of the increasing wave of COVIDI-19 pandemic, he did not indicate when it will be safe for Nigerian students who have been staying at home since March 23 to participate in the annual examination. “When will COVID-19 disappear? To be sure, it will be with us for a long time to come. Like Small Pox, Malaria, Influenza, flu, Leprosy and Cholera, it may not be wholly exterminated from planet earth.
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