Exam malpractices offenders risk five- year imprisonment

Any candidate caught in exam
malpractices by the West African
Examinations Council ( WAEC) risks a
minimum of five years’ imprisonment
and a N 200,000 fine.
This is based on the Federal Executive
Council ’s ( FEC) approval of a memo
from the Ministry of Education seeking
to amend the WAEC Act 2004 in line
with the 2003 convention in Ghana .
Briefing State House correspondents at
the end of the FEC meeting yesterday in
Abuja, the Education Minister , Prof .
Ruqayyatu Rufa’ I, said the proposal for
the amendment would be forwarded to
the National Assembly towards
domesticating the convention in Nigeria.
The minister , who attended the briefing
with the Minister of Information ,
Labaran Maku, Minister of Health , Prof .
Onyebuchi Chukwu and Minister of
Environment , Hadiza Mailafia , said the
new penalties also involved barring
offenders from sitting for the
examination in future .