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Nigeria’s House of Representatives has drawn a hard line: WAEC has 24 hours to explain why students across the country are writing WASSCE papers at midnight. The ultimatum comes after the exam body snubbed an earlier summons, deepening concerns about what lawmakers call "unprecedented disorganization" in this year’s crucial exams.
  • Legislative Showdown: Committee Chairman Oboku Oforji declared WAEC’s no-show "unacceptable" given nationwide reports of exam chaos.
  • Midnight Exams: Lawmakers cited traumatic cases of students writing papers as late as midnight due to logistical failures.
  • Constitutional Threat: Failure to appear on Friday may trigger House sanctions against WAEC under parliamentary powers.
  • WAEC’s Irony: Exam body claimed it couldn’t attend hearings because it was busy overseeing the very exams under scrutiny.
This isn’t just bureaucratic wrangling—it’s a crisis threatening the credibility of Nigeria’s most important secondary school certification.

When students become casualties of systemic failures, even decades-old institutions must answer for the disruption.