WAEC Bans 2 Imo Schools, Derecognises 28 Others Over Malpractice

With this, the schools are barred from registering as an examination centre or presenting their pupils as candidates in any of its examinations for a period of five years. The Head, Public Affairs of the council, Mr. Demianus Ojijeogu, who made this disclosure in a chat with The Punch on Thursday, added that 28 other schools across the country have been derecognised for two years for engaging in the same act. Ojijeogu, while refusing to name the affected schools, revealed that one of its supervisors was assaulted in one of the schools in Imo, with some of its officials “locked out for more than 30 minutes in the second school obviously to perpetrate examination malpractice.’’  Speaking on the difference between derecognising a school and withdrawing the recognition given to a school, Ojijeogu said the one which had been derecognised by the council could still be used as an examination centre but without the participation of its teachers as invigilators.   He said, “We don’t usually name the schools because we refer to them by their centre numbers. For the derecognised schools, examination can still hold in the school but we will not use their teachers as invigilator.  There are 28 of those schools across the country and they can still reapply after two years, telling us what they have put in place to prevent a recurrence of examination malpractice.”   Speaking on the difference between derecognising a school and withdrawing the recognition given to a school, Ojijeogu said the one which had been derecognised by the council could still be used as an examination centre but without the participation of its teachers as invigilators.