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WAEC releases timetable for 2018 first series candidates

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/253863-waec-releases-timetable-2018-first-series-candidates.html/attachment/img_20171228_200326 The West African Examination Council, WAEC, has released timetable for 2018 first series private candidates. The Council released the timetable on its official twitter page @waecnigeria on Thursday night. The council has fixed January 12, 2018 as the closing date of registration for the first series of private candidates which was earlier scheduled to close December 29. The council said candidates are expected to pay a registration fee of N13,950 and a commission of N500 to banks and accredited agents. According to the timetable, the examination is scheduled to start on January 29 and end on February 12,2018. Below is the time table : https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/253863-waec-releases-timetable-2018-first-series-candidates.html/attachment/img_20171228_200326

WAEC to be 100 per cent technology driven in 2018, says head national office

The council’s Head, National Office (HNO), Mr Olu Adenipekun disclosed this in an interview on Saturday in Lagos. According to him, the council has organised series of retreats for both management staff and the workforce in preparatory to deploy technology in its operations. “We have worked hard in sensitising the workforce of the council and prepare their minds because it is one thing for one to strive to do something “But if the people who drives the system are not attuned psychologically, to doing that all such efforts will be fruitless. “So, we want to prepare our psyche on the need to sharpen our tools in preparation to move over to a 100 per cent technologically driven WAEC and of course we have done that and we are going full blast,’’ he said. The HNO noted that already, the council’s budget for 2018 had been fully designed to support the introduction of technology into the various aspects of its operation in Nigeria. He explained that the move would put WAEC at the level it was...