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Weac exam malpractices offenders risk five-year jail terms
« on: September 05, 2013, 09:56:07 AM »
Any candidate caught in exam malpractices by the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) risks a minimum of five years’ imprisonment and a N200,000 fine.

This is based on the Federal Executive Council’s (FEC) approval of a memo from the Ministry of Education seeking to amend the WAEC Act 2004 in line with the 2003 convention in Ghana.

Briefing State House correspondents at the end of the FEC meeting yesterday in Abuja, the Education Minister, Prof. Ruqayyatu Rufa’I, said the proposal for the amendment would be forwarded to the National Assembly towards domesticating the convention in Nigeria.

The minister, who attended the briefing with the Minister of Information, Labaran Maku, Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu and Minister of Environment, Hadiza Mailafia, said the new penalties also involved barring offenders from sitting for the examination in future.

The Nation

 

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