This is a cheery news for candidates seeking admission into tertiary institutions but did not make their O’Level results at one sitting, as the Head of the National Office of the West African Examinations Council, Mr. Olu Olanipekun, has disclosed that the Council had plans to organise multiple diets of the Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE) for private candidates, which usually takes place November/December every year.
Addressing journalists recently during the release of the 2016 WASSCE results for private candidates at the WAEC National office, Yaba, Lagos, Olanipekun said WAEC was a systematic organisation and that the plan for multiple diets of the examination was already before the Board of the Council for necessary approval.
Olanipekun added that there was the possibility of starting the multiple diet next year after the National Executive Council must have met.
He said that the conduct of the examination for private candidates took place in all the five member countries of WAEC from August 16 to October 7, 2016, when the last paper was taken while the coordination meetings for examiners and marking of candidates’ scripts took debts and most often negotiations had always left the countries poorer.
“One of the negative effects of man’s activities has been the increasing rate at which the desert is advancing in the Sudano-Sahara region of West Africa. It is a process of land degradation in arid, semiarid, dry sub-humid areas caused by changes in climatic factors, human and animal activities”, he said.
Omotayo also suggested that government should constitute a national conference on environmental law and sustainable development, adding that this meeting would help to resolve “several conflicts that people face in the enactment of environmental law, the judicial process and the natural law as they really are.
“Another step for government to take is to eradicate poverty, especially as it exists in rural areas and for government to begin a re-industrialisation of the country along safe and sustainable development paths.
We must state that the countries that will make it in future are those that will benefit from the use of free renewable energy sources that nature bequeaths us.” place between October 26 and November 14 at 13 marking venues in different parts of the country.
According to him, a total of 176,621 candidates registered out of which 172,699 candidates, comprising 88,290 males and 84,409 females, representing 51.12 percent and 48.88 per cent, respectively, sat for the examination.
A breakdown of the results is as follows: 149,651 candidates, representing 86.65 percent obtained credits and above in two subjects; 134,152, representing 77.6 percent obtained credits and above in three subjects while 116,133, representing 67.25 percent obtained credits and above in four subjects and 95,294, representing 55.18 percent obtained credits and above in five subjects while 72,229 candidates, representing 41.82 obtained credits and above in six subjects.
A total of 66,497 candidates, representing 38.50 obtained credits in five subjects and above, including English Language and Mathematics which is an improvement compared to 2014 that recorded 29.37 percent and 2015; 20.59 percent.
However, results of 13,488 candidates, representing 7.81 percent are being withheld in connection with various cases of examination malpractices
