FG Approves Five-year Jail Term For Exam Cheats

Date: 05-09-2013 7:30 am (10 years ago) | Author: ibagwa utu
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The Federal Executive Council has approved the amendment to an Act of the West African Examinations Council, part of which will make culprits of examination malpractice to be liable to five-year jail term or N200,000 fine or both....


The Minister of Education, Prof Ruqayyat Rufai, announced this in Abuja on Wednesday while briefing State House Correspondents on the outcome of the weekly FEC meeting. He addressed journalists in company with her counterpart in the Health and Environment ministries, Onyebuchi Chukwu and Hadza Mailafia, respectively.

Rufai said the decision of the meeting, which was presided over by President Goodluck Jonathan, was to “give effect to the revised convention of WAEC, 2003 in Nigeria.”

She said the Council had subsequently directed the Ministry of Justice to take further necessary action on the subject.

Rufai had recently presented a memo to FEC, seeking its approval for the enactment of an Act to amend the WAEC Act, CAP W4, Laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 2004 with the aim of giving effect to the revised convention of WAEC, 2003 in the country.

The 2004 Act, “empowers WAEC to take disciplinary action against those who have committed both the offences and penalties for illegally using examination papers and leakage of examination papers.”

Section 19(1) of the Act reads in part, “Such candidate shall not take or be allowed to take or continue the examination; in addition, he shall be prohibited from taking any examination held or conducted by or on behalf of the Council for a period of two years immediately following upon such contraventions.

“If a candidate aforesaid has already taken any papers at the examination, his result therefrom shall be cancelled.

“In addition, the candidate may be prosecuted and if found guilty, shall be liable on conviction to a fine of N200, 000 or imprisonment for a term of five years or to both such fine and imprisonment.”

The sub-continental examination body was established in 1952 following the acceptance of the Jeffery Report by the then colonial governments in Gold Coast (Ghana), Nigeria, Sierra Leone and the Gambia and later joined by Liberia in 1974.
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Posted: at 5-09-2013 07:30 AM (10 years ago) | Newbie
- Sidi24 at 5-09-2013 08:02 AM (10 years ago)
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Na dem sabi
Posted: at 5-09-2013 08:02 AM (10 years ago) | Newbie
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- Shegzan at 5-09-2013 09:13 AM (10 years ago)
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Kk#
Posted: at 5-09-2013 09:13 AM (10 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- DMG17 at 5-09-2013 09:14 AM (10 years ago)
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HOW MANY YEARS DID THEY APPROVE FOR CORRUPTION IN GOVERNMENT? FOOLISH PEOPLE WITH SELF DECEIT.
Posted: at 5-09-2013 09:14 AM (10 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- dickman2 at 5-09-2013 09:17 AM (10 years ago)
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what..5 wetin..
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- Noble12 at 5-09-2013 09:32 AM (10 years ago)
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nawa
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- ebiteck at 5-09-2013 09:47 AM (10 years ago)
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- Tedday6 at 5-09-2013 09:58 AM (10 years ago)
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if I hear !
Posted: at 5-09-2013 09:58 AM (10 years ago) | Upcoming
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- proly at 5-09-2013 10:09 AM (10 years ago)
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- merion at 5-09-2013 10:16 AM (10 years ago)
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- paulohking at 5-09-2013 10:34 AM (10 years ago)
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Posted: at 5-09-2013 10:34 AM (10 years ago) | Hero
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- christianity at 5-09-2013 10:50 AM (10 years ago)
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they ar not serious.y not make it 10yrs.confused bunch of touts dat called themselves leaders.
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- dareper at 5-09-2013 10:54 AM (10 years ago)
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Posted: at 5-09-2013 10:54 AM (10 years ago) | Hero
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- mathzno at 5-09-2013 10:57 AM (10 years ago)
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 Cool Cool Cool Cool Cool Cool Cool Cool Cool Cool Cool Cool Cool Cool All the looting and staching of the Fed. Treasury, how many years them approve for them??? When them loot take off,them go use plea bargin to return back to Nigeria. Roll Eyes Roll Eyes Roll Eyes Roll Eyes Roll Eyes Roll Eyes Roll Eyes Roll Eyes Roll Eyes Na poor man pikin them want to jail now!!!! Cry Cry Cry Cry Cry Cry Cry Cry Cry Cry Cry
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- Solidstonez at 5-09-2013 11:07 AM (10 years ago)
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- Solidstonez at 5-09-2013 11:08 AM (10 years ago)
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5 years? Ok oh
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- vicklove at 5-09-2013 11:18 AM (10 years ago)
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- nigerrun at 5-09-2013 11:49 AM (10 years ago)
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Bunch of criminal government officials... Which of them did not cheat the nation, how manY jail term theY go... Mtcheeeew
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- BlueIxora at 5-09-2013 12:01 PM (10 years ago)
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How about those senators and government officials wey get fake waec result wetin dem go do dem? Huh?
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- naijagaga at 5-09-2013 01:43 PM (10 years ago)
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 FG approves 5-year jail term and N200, 000 fine for exam cheats
The minister of Education, Prof Ruqayyat Rufai, announced yesterday that students caught from now on cheating during exams will face a five year jail term or N200,000 fine or both.

This decision was reached during the Federal Executive Council weekly meeting that held in Abuja yesterday. The new law states in part...

    “(Any candidate caught cheating) shall not take or be allowed to take or continue the examination; in addition, he shall be prohibited from taking any examination held or conducted by or on behalf of the Council for a period of two years immediately following upon such contraventions. If a candidate aforesaid has already taken any papers at the examination, his result therefrom shall be cancelled. In addition, the candidate may be prosecuted and if found guilty, shall be liable on conviction to a fine of N200, 000 or imprisonment for a term of five years or to both such fine and imprisonment.”

The Education Minister said the Ministry of Justice has been directed to take further necessary action on the subject. Students una dey hear? No more exam cheating...read your books!

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