The West African Examinations Council has announced the date to conduct the 2021 West African Senior School Certificate Examination, WASSCE, for school candidates.

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This year’s WASSCE, which was earlier scheduled for May/June, will now take place from August 16 to September 30, the head of public affairs of WAEC office in Nigeria, Demianus Ojijeogu, revealed in a statement.

He added that the international timetable for the conduct of the examination would be released in due course.

Ojijeogu explained that the new dates announced by the examination body were in line with the current academic calendar and were done in collaboration with the federal ministry of education.

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The Federal Government has invited the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP), for an emergency meeting scheduled for Tuesday, April 6, 2021, to discuss how to stop the planned industrial action.

A statement released Monday, by Ben Bem Goong, Director of Press in the Federal Ministry of Education, said, the Minister of Education Adamu Adamu, has invited ASUP to an emergency meeting following the threat to begin another round of strike.

Goong recalled that ASUP had issued a notice of strike over what the union described as the refusal of government to execute some of the agreements entered into between them and the Federal Government.

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The looming strike came barely four months after the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) called off a nine-month-old strike over demands for improved remuneration and working conditions.

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Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State has ordered the immediate relocation of a public primary school at Ikun Ekiti in Moba Local Government Area of the state from its present location at the Ero river area to a safer site.
Professor Femi Akinwumi, Chairman of the Ekiti State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), on Sunday made this known during an on-the-spot assessment of the premises of the school and the new site at Ikun-Ekiti.

According to him, the Governor’s decision is a proactive one, premised on the urgent need to curtail the incessant threats of flooding from the Ero River during rainy seasons.

Reports show that the SUBEB Chairman noted that the affected school, United Primary school, Ikun Ekiti, established since 1944, was bedeviled by perennial flooding over the years.

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Professor Akinwumi further explained that the governor’s decision to relocate the school was to guarantee the safety of both the teachers and pupils as well as arrest the continued destruction of public property by flood.

He reiterated the commitment of the current administration to the welfare and wellbeing of people of the state.

The SUBEB Chairman stressed that the administration placed a high premium on the safety and security of pupils and teachers in the state.

He added that Governor Fayemi had also directed the speedy construction of additional classrooms at the school’s new site, adding that immediate work would begin on the erection of the new buildings.

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