West African Body, WAEC Increases Examination Fees To N18,000, Blames Inflation, COVID-19 | Sahara Reporters

The registration fees for school candidates of the West African Senior School Certificate Examination , has been increased.

“As can be seen, in the general cost of doing business and the multiplier effect of insecurity in the country which have consequential effects on the cost of our operations, it is no longer possible to continue to provide services with the current fee of N13,950 per candidate. Areghan who gave the breakdown of the 2021's WASSCE, said a total of 1,573,849 candidates registered for the examination from the 19,425 recognized secondary schools in the country.

“The analysis of the statistics of the performance of candidates in the examination shows that out of the 1,560,261 candidates that sat for the examination, 1,398,370, representing 89.62 percent, obtained credit and above in a minimum of any five subjects, that is, with or without English Language and/ or Mathematics.

Even bughary no get waec result

All these increment should always take us back to a review of the minimum wage

Okay nice! this country is getting somewhere. I hope we all know our mistakes? Because that is the only way we can learn

Issorite

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