By Magnus Emuji / Rukevwe Adugbo
ASABA/Nigeria: Delta State Government has reaffirmed its avowed commitments towards providing the necessary requirements for effective learning so as to enhance the performances of students in all school examinations.
The State Commissioner for Secondary Education, Mrs. Rose Ezewu stated this while monitoring the 2022 West African Senior School Certificate Examinations (WASSCE) in the state.
She described Okowa’s priority attention to the education system in the state as a deliberate strategy to achieve a more developed state considering the overall benefits of investment in the education sector in the sustainable development of any society.
While admonishing candidates writing the ongoing West African Senior School Certificate Examinations to be focused in the examination and put in their best in order to guarantee their success when the result was released.
Mrs. Ezewu, however, urged them to shun examination malpractice, adding that it was one of factors responsible for the decline of the standard of education.
Meanwhile, the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education, Mr. Augustine Ede Oghoro has expressed satisfaction with the conduct of the 2022 West African Examination Council (WAEC) Examination in Delta State, describing the exercise as triumphant.
Mr Oghoro stated this after monitoring some of the secondary schools in Okpanam and Asaba, Oshimili North and South Local Government areas respectively.
While underscoring the importance of the examination, Mr. Oghoro, stated that it was the responsibility of the ministry of Basic and Secondary Education to go round and monitor the conduct of any major examination, otherwise known as external examinations written by both public and private schools in the state.
The PS, who said that he was happy with the seating arrangements in the examination halls, wished the candidates success in the examination.
Mr. Oghoro lauded the management and students of the schools visited for coordinating and conducting themselves in a peaceful manner during examination, just as he enjoined the candidates for the examination to put in their best and shun any form of examination malpractice.
He added that the outcome of the examination would propel them for their future endeavours in life and give them a brighter future.
Examination centres monitored by the PS and his team included Marble Hill Secondary School, Okpanam and Westend Mixed School, Asaba in the state capital.
The Directior of Examination and Standard in the ministry, Mr. Sunday Egomagwuna who also monitored the examination with his team in Delta South and Central Senatorial Districts expressed satisfaction with the conduct of the examination.
Mr. Egomagwuna described the attitude of the candidates and their comportment as well as resilience tbus far as commendable and enjoined them to sustain the tempo even as he advised them to abstain from indulging in examination malpractice.
