The West African Senior School Certificate Examination has been scheduled to commence in August.

The Minister of State for Education, EMEKA NWAJIUBA, announced this at the briefing of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 in Abuja.

According to him, the ministry will publish the local timings for the examinations after a meeting with authorities of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) and the Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT), among other stakeholders.

NWAJIUBA disclosed that as soon as WAEC examinations were concluded, the government would take up the National Examination Council (NECO) and the National Business and Technical Examinations Board (NABTEB) examinations.