West African Examinations Council (WAEC) was established in 1952 following the acceptance of the Jeffery Report by the then colonial Government(s) in the Gold Coast (now Ghana), Nigeria, Sierra-Leone and the Gambia; who passed appropriate ordinances in their Legislative Assemblies in 1951.
The ordinances charged the Council with the responsibility of determining the examinations required in the public interest in West Africa, and empowered it to conduct such examinations and award appropriate certificates. The Jeffery Report had strongly recommended the setting up of a West African Examinations Council in the then four British colonies of Nigeria, Gold Coast, Sierra-Leone and The Gambia. Liberia later joined the Council in 1974.
The Council has the responsibility of determining examinations required in the public interest in West Africa and to conduct such examinations and to award certificates.
STRUCTURE OF THE COUNCIL
The Council which now operates under a new convention signed in 1982 consists of 60 members, representing the Governments, the Universities, Secondary Schools and other interests in the five member countries. Under the Convention, the chairmanship of the Council rotates every three years among present member-countries. Mr. Ousman Alieu Ndow of The Gambia is the current Chairman. The first Chairman under the Convention was Nigeria’s Professor M. 0. Oyawoye whose term spanned from 1985 to 1988
Contact
Headquarters: Examination Loop (Behind Ridge Hospital) P.O. Box GP 125, Accra, Ghana. Tel: 221511 Fax:23321-222905 Telex: 2934 WAEC GH
LAGOS: Research Division, 3 Watchtower Avenue, Onipanu Private Mail Bag 1076. Yaba, Lagos, Nigeria Tel/Fax: (01) 827990
LONDON AGENCY: 27, Lapstone Gardens, Kenton Harrow, Middlesex HA3OEB
NIGERIA NATIONAL OFFICE: 21, Hussey Street, Yaba; Private Mail Bag 1022, Yaba, Lagos. Tel: (01) 3425128 -129, FAX: (01) 342511
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i want to register for neco november/december exams, kindly please help me out? thanks and God bless you.
wen is 2011 waec result gonna b out?mehn me de anxious
waec is out nd can be checked on http://www.waecdirect.org. wish u best of result (agomite class of 2003)