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General certificate Examinations (GCE) might have to sit for exams on November if there is no shift in the timetable of the west African Examination Council (WAEC) declared the federal Government.

The F.G said the final year secondary school students may have to sit for GCE as the only option for Nigeria students because of this pandemic in the country, the minister of state for Education said if the country cannot convince WAEC to shift its examinations so there will be a need to sit for GCE. Emeka Nwajiuba, minster of State for Education, disclosed this during the presidential task force (PTF) on covid-19 in Abuja on Thursday.

He also added that there was a negotiation on timeline to move the three local language subject such as Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba behind so that it will allow other countries who are participating needed time to write the general subject at the same time.

Nwajiuba also declare their meeting with the relevant stakeholders which will hold on July 30 to assess preparations towards safe reopening of schools.

However, according to Nwajiuba "WAEC unfortunately, is unable to wholesomely move the exams but we have also worked out a negotiated timeline with WAEC on what we call peculiar Nigerian subjects which in the language of WAEC are subjects that are only held in Nigeria such as Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba".

He also stated that " the Ghanaians are also in the first part of the time table, so they will work out a domestication module that will take peculiar subjects behind after the generals are done". According to Nwajiuba " this will buy us the time we need for all of us to be par with the rest of west Africa and operating at the same time because the unanimity with which WAEC has always worked is still very important to us" stated by minister of Education.

In conclusion he also added that"Nigeria is not moving away from it, the only option would have been to go to November to take the GCE external exams. He also said Nigeria is carefully studying that if in the event everything fails, we may go to that way".