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  • WAEC cancels results

    WAEC cancels results

    THE National Examinations (NEC) Committee of West African Examination Council (WAEC) yesterday said it had cancelled results of candidates involved in examination malpractices at the 2014 examinations.

    Mr. Damianus Ojijeogu of the Public Affairs Department of WAEC spoke in a statement in Lagos.

    He said the decision was taken at the 59th meeting of the committee.

    The statement noted that the committee reviewed a report on irregularity and special and clemency cases arising from the conduct of the May/June 2014 West African Senior School Certificate (WASSCE) at the meeting.

    The statement added that the committee considered a report on the conduct of the November/December 2014 WASSCE, including irregularity cases arising from the conduct of the examination.

  • Malpractices: WAEC dismisses three in Rivers

    Three officials supervising the ongoing West African Examination Council (WAEC) examinations in Rivers State have been dismissed.

    The Zonal Coordinator of WAEC in the state, Mr. Humphrey Obaka, told reporters in Port Harcourt that the officials were sacked for their alleged involvement in examination malpractices.

    Obaka said he would clampdown on teachers extorting money from students sitting for WAEC examinations.

    Obaka said: “Actually, it is true that is not only WAEC permanent staffers that are on the field, we have ad hoc staff as supervisors.

    “We recruited them from public schools all over the state. We have briefed and warned them not to go there and collect money.

    “And whenever we find any case of exam malpractice by our ad hoc or permanent staff, we will sack such person immediately.”

     

  • What hope for WAEC’s customer service centre?

    What hope for WAEC’s customer service centre?

    It was with fanfare that the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) launched its first customer service centre penultimate week.

    The centre is to act as a clearing house for all issues clients may have.  It is expected to give special attention to their requests – whether simple enquiries or issues related to certificate verification or corrections and the like.

    Its inauguration was graced by top echelons of WAEC, both present and past, who lauded the initiative because of its potential to address the concerns of candidates and other clients effectively.

    However, they also acknowledged the concern that the centre may not be effective if the poor culture of customer service delivery that is typical in public institutions is allowed to take root in the running of the facility.

    Prof Pius Obanya, former chairman of WAEC, was apt in describing the front desk officer from hell in his speech, hoping that the new centre would not be manned by such people.

    He said: “The best way not to advertise a company is to put terrible people in the front desk – those people who think they are doing you a favour and not earning their salaries.”

    Anyone who has seen the film, The Meeting, immediately understands the kind of person Obanya described.  Rita Dominic depicted that person in the movie and I loved it.  She acted as a middle-aged secretary to a minister of the federal republic of Nigeria who treated guests badly.  Rather than screen and send genuine people to the minister, she delayed and exploited them.  However, she allowed a girlfriend (who had bribed her with gifts), and the chief of the minister’s village to go in.

    When I watched the film, I felt like I had met that secretary many times – unfortunately, mostly in public institutions (schools and hospitals).  The way Rita Dominic chewed gum, fail to look up at people beyond a condescending glance, and talked so rudely was, sadly, familiar.

    We meet such secretaries (or other officials) regularly in schools, particularly tertiary institutions, where they sit in departmental offices, exams and records, alumni offices, among others.  You greet them; they do not respond. If they do; then grudgingly. You ask questions; they ignore you.  You ask for clarifications; they snap at you.  Their looks tell you that you are not relevant.  They are so intimidating that you might even stutter in their presence while trying to explain your mission.  If you lose your cool, then, to put it in Pidgin, ‘your own don finish’, because you are unlikely to achieve your aim.

    I remember arguing with a records officer once in the hospital over an ‘attendance’ list.  The list was created so that people were seen on a first come, first serve basis.  But what usually happened was that people paid the workers to write their names. So, no matter how early you arrived, you may not be among the top five on the list – even if you met no other person in the waiting area.  On that day, I told the lady to discard the list and create a fresh one based on the few people that were around but she refused, telling me I could not teach her how to run her office.  I proceeded to write my name where I thought it deserved to be.  By doing so, I challenged her authority.  She reported me to a superior, who confronted me. But I stood my ground; and he ‘dealt’ with me.  My file was declared missing and I was delayed for some time.  But for the intervention of a senior nursing officer, that day may not have ended well for me.  That was bad customer service.  As far as those workers were concerned, they were employed to do favours, not work to earn their keep.

    We hope that those that run WAEC Customer Service centres (there are plans to establish more of them in all branch and zonal offices) will not be like the secretary in the movie, or the clerical workers in the hospital.

    The Head of National Office, Mr Charles Eguridu, assured us at the event that the workers deployed to the centre underwent special training on how to attend to customers courteously .  He also said they would be monitored.  Our fingers are crossed in anticipation that they will not disappoint us.

  • WAEC to end delays with customer service centre

    WAEC to end delays with customer service centre

    The West African Examinations Council (WAEC), has taken delivery of a customer service centre donated by Media Concepts International.

    With the facility, which is located at the council’s Nigerian headquarters in Yaba, candidates and other clients should expect better and faster responses to issues regarding its examinations.

    At its inauguration last Thursday, chairman of the occasion, Prof Pai Obayan, who ended his tenure as the chairman of the governing council of WAEC International, expressed hope that the centre would fulfil the purpose for which it was established – to offer quality customer service to candidates.

    He said: “The concept of this type of thing is that first of all the customer who is coming from outside gets service; quick, efficient service delivery.  So the prayer is that from today, this will be a place where our clients will have excellent service and go away with a good image of WAEC.

    “What you then do that adds value to the building, the equipment is the well informed, well behaved courteous colleagues who will be working there.  And that makes working in the tall building more efficient.  The person should be well informed enough to solve as many problems as possible there.  So, this is a beginning.  We thank God for the building; we thank those who donated it; but we thank you in advance for running it properly.”

    The Head of Nigerian National, Mr Charles Eguridu, credited Alhaja Mulikat Bello, former Registrar to Council, for muting the idea of the centre.

    He was optimistic that the facility, which has office spaces equipped with computer and internet service, waiting area and conveniences, would improve the council’s relationship with its clients.

    “It is heart-warming to note that the problem of delay in response to candidates’ enquiries will soon fade away as it is now possible for a crop of our trained staff and candidates to interact real time. I am sure that our candidates will make the best use of the centre. It is also my hope that this centre will facilitate a favourable interface between the Council and its various publics,” he said.

    Eguridu added that the workers to man the centre have undergone training and would be monitored.

    He also said there are plans to replicate same in all zonal and branch offices of WAEC nationwide.

    On her part, Alhaja Bello, said she hoped that soon, clients would be able to interact with the centre online real time and get results without physically coming to Yaba.

    Managing Director of Media Concepts, Mr Tope Agbeyo, said the firm, which is a service provider to WAEC, endowed the centre as its corporate social responsibility to the council.

    “Our objective for constructing and furnishing this centre is to help the Council achieve its overall customer relationship management strategy which is in synch with WAEC’s strategic plan,” he said.

    Dignitaries at the event included past and present top officials of WAEC, including the Registrar, Dr Iyi Uwadiae; former Registrars, Chief S.A Ezesobor and Dr Silva Boye; former Heads of National Office, Chief J.A. Fagbemi, among many others.

  • WAEC should educate beyond academic excellence

    WAEC should educate beyond academic excellence

    Making good grades is good, but not enough, the Liberian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Augustine Ngafuan, has said.

    Ngafuan who delivered the 20th Endowment Fund lecture of the council last Monday, which was part of the 63rd annual Council Meeting of the West African Examinations Council (WAEC), said the time has come for the council to conceptualize new ways to reward excellence beyond just making A1.

    Speaking on the topic: “What Else Are We Writing on the Slate? A Call for a Holistic Preparation of the Youth”, the Minister said that the high level of illicit funds flowing out of Africa, insurgencies and violence that have underdeveloped the continent could only be addressed by an education that enthrones morals, team work, leadership and other virtues.

    In a lecture that was hailed by many as excellent, Ngafuan showed how academic excellence alone cannot help to produce good leaders.

    He said: “What are the ideal outcomes we seek on the WAEC exams? Obviously, an outcome where every candidate sitting the exams would master the various subjects so well that they would earn an ‘A’ and fall in the ‘Division One’ category.  We call these top performers in public exams ‘excellent students’.  But again I ask, is academic excellence in and of itself sufficient in getting the youth of today prepared for the multifarious challenges of today and the future? It is often said that the young people are the future leaders, but are we preparing them so that they can be good future leaders of our countries, our region, our continent, and our one world?”

    Ngafuan stunned the audience when he said some of his former classmates were among the rebels that unleashed mayhem during the 14-year Liberian civil war.  He equally said there are many brilliant people responsible for Africa’s loss of about $50 billion yearly in illegal funds.

    To adequately prepare youth for future leadership roles, Ngafuan said “all players including the family, the peer group, the government, and faith-based institutions must play their part.”  However, he made a case for proper treatment of teachers.  He noted that as strong influencers, teachers must be adequately rewarded so they can teach without being tempted to compromise.

    Ngafuan said: “To help close the integrity gap in the system, we need to address a host of challenges that undermine the strength and integrity of the system, not the least of which is the dismal plight of teachers and other education workers. This will require increased and sustained financial support to the education sector from governments, the private sector, donors, and ordinary citizens.

    “Students in their impressionable years do not only learn from what the teacher says in the classroom but also what he actually does in and out of the classroom.   Therefore, we should never cause these teachers, examiners, invigilators, test markers and support staff,all positive contributors to the forward march of our countries,to become so desperate for survival that they could easily yield to the slightest temptations.  We must change the situation where to pursue a career as an educator is to sign a perpetual contract with poverty.”

    The four-day meeting, which should have held in Liberia, culminated in the election of Dr. Evelyn Kandakai and Mrs. Hawa Goll-Kotchie, both of Liberia, as the chairman and vice-chairman of the WAEC Council.  It is the first time in the 63-year history of the council it would be chaired by a woman.

    She took over from Prof Pius Obanya, a renowned Nigerian educationist.

  • Unaudited accounts: WAEC denies malpractice

    The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has denied reports that it has a case to answer for unaudited accounts running into billions.

    A statement by the council’s Public Affairs Officer, Ojijeogu Demianus, in Lagos, said the claims of fraud, lack of records and misappropriation published in some national dailies (not The Nation) were all false.

    “The West African Examinations Council (WAEC), wishes to draw the attention of the general public to the reports on page 14 of the Monday, November 3, 2014 edition of the Vanguard newspaper titled “MISAPPLICATION OF FUNDS: Reps say WAEC has case to answer” as well as on the front page and on page 5 of the Monday, November 3, 2014 edition of the National Mirror newspaper titled “CBN, WAEC, others for probe over N168 billion unaudited accounts.

    “The allegations of ‘misapplication of several billions of naira’, ‘monumental fraud,’ ‘lack of records’ and ‘financial improprieties’ in the newspaper reports are baseless and unfounded,”the statement read in part.

    Contrary to the reports, WAEC noted that the council has audited its account up to December 2013.

    It continued: “The Council wishes to state that the convention, which guides its activities and operations in the five-member countries contains adequate provision for the audit of the Council’s accounts and the appointment of external auditors. In line with the Council’s convention the Council’s accounts of the Nigeria National Office have been audited up to December 2013 as required by the Law.

    “At the 200th meeting of the Nigeria Administrative and Finance Committee of the Council held in Minna, Niger State, on November 25, 2014, the Committee, while considering the external auditors’ report on the accounts of the Nigeria National Office for the year 2013, noted the report on the false and damaging publications in the Vanguard and National Mirror newspapers.

    “After listening to the Head of National Office’s presentation and studying the extracts showing the adoption of the Council’s audited accounts for 2011 and 2012, and considering the professional comments of the external auditors on the damaging publications in the newspapers, the Council, passed a vote of confidence on the Head of National Office and the Management of the Nigeria National Office.

    “Subsequent to presentation of its up-to-date audited accounts and explanations by the Council, the Public Accounts Committee of the House of Representatives, where the damaging allegations supposedly originated, has since dismissed them as unfounded.”

     

  • Our Girls, Gumsuri; GE Marinho;  29% WAEC pass, 71% Nigerian education failure; MEXAHNYIA

    Our Girls, Gumsuri; GE Marinho;  29% WAEC pass, 71% Nigerian education failure; MEXAHNYIA

    Our Girls missing since April 15 joined by Gumsuri Dec 12 victims kidnapped by Boko Haram who murdered 33. Christmas Day will be empty for many. Let us all buy a present and a meal for an Internally Displaced Person, IDP and send them through your pastor or imam.

    Nigeria survives because of the sacrifice of millions. Permit me to pay tribute to Mrs Grace Ebun Marinho who joined the saints triumphant at 78 years. She had six children: Bisi, Nike and Tunji Osuntokun whose father Major Osuntokun, senior brother of late distinguished Professor BO Osuntokun, died when they were infants and Yinka, Funmilayo and Laolu Marinho with my father Dr Abayomi Marinho whom she married and supported through the rest of his life. She had a successful nursing career with Lagos State. I was sort of number one childas I was 17 or so years old when we met and all the children still have nightmares about me making them finish their food ‘because many children have no food to eat’. Sorry O, aburos! Now they have children they are singing the same song. I wonder why? I also used to take them to the cinema as compensation.

    Aunty Ebun was a uniquely warm hearted person, welcoming, smiling and offering all a meal and an invitation to stay, sometimes for years. She ran one of the last truly open houses in Nigeria. She had memory for family history and an excellence in the kitchen. Her Saturday moin moin was original ‘leaf wrapped and ready by 9am’ to be dispatched from her home where she presided as Mama Gbagada especially at Christmas, New Year and Easter-. My visits from Ibadan were completed by at least two moin moin, gariice block water and no sugar pls. Any moin moin affectionado knows that good moin moin always leaves the best tasting morsels hidden between the leaves. Her moin moin melted in the mouth. The lessons from Aunty’s life include patience, perseverance in the face of death and adversity and peaceful coexistence. Another lesson is that people, especially elderly relations, must be taken for regular completemedical check-ups. She will be missed particularly tomorrow, the first Christmas without her in Gbagada. May her gentle soul RIPP- Rest In Perfect Peace. Amen.

    We have cause to worry and not only about the absence of electric power growth since 1999 when it was 3000Mw and still is 3,000Mw 15+years and $?billions later. And the worry is not even at Fulani and Boko Haram Wars or the coming election violence war. We must worry that even in non-war torn parts there is routine disgraceful mass exam failure. The pass rate at the recent WAEC examination in key subjects is 29% pass or 71% failure.  The failures will enter the ‘market’ as cannon fodder for politicians who ‘mistakenly sent their own children abroad to study’ and some will join Boko Haram as examples that western education fails.

    The mass failure for young citizens is horrendous. It is a disgrace to government institutions where the vast majority of these failures occur in spite of N100 billion+ in the accounts of oversight bodies. Most schools lack basic education facilities, like good books and good teachers. The good student will study in a pigsty and still succeed. However, the majority of students worldwide are plodders needing prodding by good books and good teachers. American books tend to simplify complex problems better than traditional British books. The art and science of mental arithmetic has been lost to the calculator leaving the brain unchallenged, feeble and unable to add, let alone remember a telephone number. When I did the school run with eight or nine children we did mental arithmetic while I drove. Mental arithmetic is not WAEC mathematics but it helps.  As soon as you want to add 1+1 those around you immediately produce some IT device like an I-Pad. We require ‘Annual LGA, State and National Mental Arithmetic Prizes’ to revitalise our youth brains. Even our health officials were mathematically challenged as to whether there were 10 or 11 Ebola Victims.

    Note that 29% of anything is failure and each government level has responsibility. Education is a conveyor belt, so far with poor products. This failure requires a strategic  ‘Education War’ to counter Boko Haram. Our abysmal education fuels their propaganda. Government should learn from and not destroy private education. We should embrace and visit what is good. Visit Afe Babalola University AdoEkiti, ABUAD to get an honest education yardstick and work backwards to primary school. Every town has good private primary and secondary schools to measure against. God bless these great Nigerians proprietors, organisations and religious bodies which provide alternatives to failure, at a cost, yes. Government must provide better fast, for the current students on the education conveyor belt. Cutting class sizes, increased quality and dedication of teachers, more and better books and facilities are not nuclear physics, but the essential ingredients of education success and rights of the youths.

    Remember that in 2015 politicians will spend billions on millions of posters towards ‘election success’ but will never approve 10million educational posters for one million empty bare-walled classrooms in Nigeria for ‘exam success. Shame. A picture is worth 1000 words except in Nigeria.

    Ps: It is not too late to buy a present and a meal for an Internally Displaced Person and send them through pastors or imams. MEXAHNYIA.

  • Kudos to WAEC for e-marker scheme

    I was pleasantly surprised to learn of the e-marking scheme of the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) last Friday.  The examining body has been marking the theory part of three subjects for three years now.  It only made the initiative public when it discussed the work with some examiners at a seminar in Lagos.  It was refreshing to learn that the examining body is making efforts to enhance the quality of the assessment of its examinations in line with accepted standards worldwide.  Given the amount of work involved in getting the scheme started – constraining test questions/answers, developing the ICT software and the online platform to host it, training examiners, providing logistics, among others – WAEC deserves commendation for its efforts.

    The scheme is a step in the right direction.  To learn that research showed that there was wide discrepancy in the scores awarded manually by examiners was quite disheartening.  It meant that in the past, candidates could get various grades for giving similar answers.  Though there was a system put in place to check the practice – vetting of the scores by the chief marker – it was not rigorous enough so only few of the scripts were vetted eventually.

    With the e-marking of theory scripts online, the gaps between marks awarded by various examiners have been greatly reduced if not closed.  Examiners can no longer award unfair scores because computers have been programmed to raise alarm when the grading is wrong.  All the examiner has to determine is if a question is answered rightly or wrongly.  The computer awards the mark and adds up the total score for the candidate, which is good.

    However, since the pilot started in 2011, only three subjects out of the 37 that WAEC tests have been marked online – and that is only for the November/December version of the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) which has significantly lower candidature than the May/June (an average of about 300,000 compared to 1.6 million).  It means that for some time to come, many subjects would still be marked manually.

    While WAEC gradually transits to the e-marking of all its subjects, it is necessary that it should put machinery in place to check the failings of the manual process.  Since research has shown that inter-rater reliability of scores awarded by examiners cannot be totally trusted, then efforts should be made to adequately vet what examiners do.  Examiners should be made aware of the findings of this research and trained to do their work professionally.

  • WAEC: E-marking of theory scripts begins

    WAEC: E-marking of theory scripts begins

    The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has revealed plans to extend the online marking of theory papers to more subjects taken in the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE).

    At a seminar to interact with examiners on the e-marking scheme last Friday held at WAEC International Office, Agindingbi, Lagos, the council’s Head of National Office, Mr Charles Eguridu, said the scheme is part of the five-year strategic plan of WAEC to improve the reliability of test scores in line with international best practices.

    The pilot scheme started in 2011 with Biology theory papers of the November/December WASSCE.

    “It is part of the five-year strategic plan of WAEC approved by the international board in March 2012.  The pilot scheme started in 2011 after we came back from an international conference in Australia in 2010.  There was a need to embrace the e-marking in line with international practice.  In 2011, the pilot scheme started.  Last year, we went fully online for Biology, Building Technology and Agricultural Science,” said Eguridu, who was represented by the Director of Administration, Mr Stephen Taiwo.

    Delivering a paper on a study carried out by the council to determine the views of 373 examiners that participated in the pilot e-marking scheme, Dr Modupe Oke, a Deputy Registrar, WAEC International Office, said the aims of the e-marker is to improve standardization of test scores while reducing cost and saving time.  She said following research that showed wide discrepancies in the grades given by examiners in manual scoring, it became important for the council to device a means of ensuring that candidates are graded the same way by all examiners.

    Dr Oke said: “A major challenge of manual scoring of essay and practical tests is reliability in scoring.  WAEC (1993) investigated the inter-rater reliability of Oral English assessment in the Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE).  The findings showed a wide discrepancy in the scores awarded by the examiners to the same set of students.”

    However, with the e-marking, Dr Oke said in the paper she co-authored with Dr Iyi Uwadiae, Registrar and CEO, WAEC Headquarters, Accra, that many of the lapses of the manual marking are corrected.

    Throwing more light on the e-marker, Mr Chukwumaeze Oforha, a retiree of the council, who is credited for coordinating the start of the scheme, said it makes vetting of the examination scores even more real, eliminates the problem of missing scripts, and saves time, among other benefits.

    “This system of marking does not give an examiner physical script of the candidate. Candidates’ scripts are scanned and uploaded to the server or cloud from where the examiners access them. With this innovation the issue of scripts misplacement is totally erased.

    “Vetting is becoming more real with e-marking.  I used to be involved in manual marking and I know senior markers play truancy.  Some will claim they have vetted scripts marked by junior team members without doing so.  E-marking is following the conventional technique where there is always a moderation session, where the marking scheme is produced, where the standard is set.  The senior markers provide samples of what the scripts should look like.  The junior markers first mark those scripts before they are given the real scripts.  If they get three out of five questions wrong, they are disqualified.

    “While marking, once a junior marker marks more than one question wrongly, the computer shuts him down.  He cannot continue until a senior marker intervenes,” he said.

    Presently, the Computer Based Testing (CBT) facility of the WAEC International office in Lagos is the only e-marking centre in the country.  However, Dr Olusanya Da-Costa, Head of the E-marking Scheme, said there are plans to open regional centres in other parts of the country.

    He also said the other subjects would be added to the three that are being marked online once their answers have been constrained (limited to specific details).

    “Ultimately, all our subjects will be e-marked.  It will affect the way we develop test questions which is in line with best practices worldwide,” he said.

    Also To facilitate their work, Da-Costa said the examiners involved in the scheme have been provided with modems and internet connection to mark in their comfort of their homes. He said this convenience improves their ability to mark more scripts and be paid accordingly.

    “If you are able to mark 4,000 scripts at N18 per script, you know what you can get.  In the history of marking scripts, we have not had someone earn up to N100,000 before.  But it happened last year,” he said.

    Chief examiner for Biology, Mr. Johnson Olufemi Asa, who teaches at Phemark Comprehensive College, Egbeda, said the initiative is faster and more accurate.

    He said: “It is different from the manual marking; it is faster and more accurate. If an examiner makes one or two mistakes it stops him/her from marking.  But when it was manual, if an examiner makes mistake the best we could do is to at least look at 10 per cent of all the script the examiner has marked and then correct them. But this system will stop an examiner immediately it detects error.”

     

  • ABUAD introduces incentives for undergraduates, others

    THE Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD) has released a package of incentives for its undergraduates, parents, academic and non-academic workers.

    This was contained in a statement announcing the university’s scholarships for the 2014/2015 academic session.

    The  Founder, ABUAD, Aare Afe Babalola (SAN), was quoted as saying the incentives and scholarships were designed to “promote quality, equity and relevance in education.”

    The statement indicated that undergraduates, who attain a Cumulate Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 5.0 and above will enjoy scholarships valued at N500.000 each.

    Their counterparts with between 4.75 and 4.99 CGPA will  be accorded scholarship worth N200.000 each, while those with 4.74 will get N100,000 each.

    Beside those in the above categories, merit award plus N100.000 cash will be presented to the ‘Most disciplined student’; ‘Best dressed student’; ‘Outstanding student leader’; ‘Sports man of the year’; ‘Sports woman of the year’; as well as the ‘Cleanest hostel user’ (male and female).

    Prospective students, who choose to study Agriculture, would enjoy 50 per cent reduction in tuition.

    Also, work and study opportunity will be available for such students to earn extra cash for services rendered on ABUAD farm, cafeteria, library and hostel. Upon graduation, ABUAD also promises graduates financial assistance to facilitate self-employment.

    The largesse is also extended to parents and workers.

    Workers with biological children in the university would enjoy 25 per cent discount in tuition, ditto for parents with more than one child in the institution.

    Lecturers and prospective lecturers will enjoy full payment of their salary once   permission is obtained from ABUAD  management to attend postgraduate courses in any Nigerian university.

    The university is also giving monetary help to lecturers who wish to study abroad, attend conferences or undertake research, among others.

    Like students, lecturers, who in the outgoing year, have also distinguished themselves will be presented with merit awards in various categories:  ‘Best dressed lecturer’; ‘Most disciplined lecturer’; ‘Lecturer of the year’ ‘Most engaged lecturer’; ‘Most punctual lecturer’; ‘Most persevering lecturer’;  ‘Outstanding non-teaching staff’; as well as ’Most dutiful non-teaching staff.’

    Prospective indigent but brilliant students with proof of their poor financial background will be given free scholarships, comprising tuition and accommodation.

    Similarly, in line with ABUAD’s tradition since inception, undergraduates who lose parents or guardians while still studying in the university would automatically enjoy full scholarships.

    The indigent students must have six distinctions (A1) in WAEC or NECO, in addition to being offered admission into his selected course.