Candidates now bring guns to exams halls – WAEC


The Registrar, West African Examination Council (WAEC) Dr Iyi Uwadiae, has raised alarm that some private candidates writing its examinations have devised notorious acts of drugging supervisors while some even bring guns to examinations halls.

Uwadiae raised the alarm at a briefing in Lagos to announce the convocation of an international summit on examination malpractice between October 19 and 20, 2017.

According to Uwadiae, while the examination body will not be requesting permission from government to arm its personnel, it has nonetheless become expedient to cry out to let the populace understand the danger the examination body and its supervisors are facing from candidates who are hell bent in perpetrating examination malpractices.

Sources : DailyTrust