{"id":22963,"date":"2020-03-23T19:16:19","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T19:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=22963"},"modified":"2020-03-23T19:16:19","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T19:16:19","slug":"waec-bars-visitors-from-offices-nationwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/waec-bars-visitors-from-offices-nationwide","title":{"rendered":"WAEC bars visitors from offices nationwide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n<p>The West African Examinations Council (WAEC), Nigeria has barred visitors from its offices nationwide to guard against the Coronavirus disease.<\/p>\n<p>A statement signed by the Head of National Office (HNO), Mr. Patrick Ehidiamen Areghan on Monday noted that some workers would be available to attend to registration for the West African Senior School Certificate Examination for School Candidates 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The statement reads: \u201cIn the light of the global Corona Virus pandemic (COVID-19), The West African Examinations Council (WAEC), Nigeria has followed international protocols, including the recommended health and safety measures by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), for social distancing and keeping the work environment safe for staff and stakeholders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn addition to steps already taken, the Council has decided to take the following extra measures to forestall the spread of the disease:<\/p>\n<p>1. Visitors will not be allowed into the Council\u2019s offices nationwide, beginning from tomorrow, March 24, 2020. The general public is advised to take advantage of available online channels for enquiries, etc; 2. Some staff have been placed on essential duties to accommodate schools registering candidates for the WASSCE for School Candidates, 2020.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria: The West African Examinations Council (WAEC), Nigeria has barred visitors from its offices nationwide to guard against the Coronavirus disease. A statement signed by the Head of National Office (HNO), Mr. Patrick Ehidiamen Areghan on Monday noted that some workers would be available to attend to registration for the West African Senior School [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":22966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29,14],"tags":[1425,1166],"class_list":["post-22963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-policy","tag-ncdc","tag-waec"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>WAEC bars visitors from offices nationwide - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:The West African Examinations Council (WAEC), Nigeria has barred visitors from its offices nationwide to guard against the\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/waec-bars-visitors-from-offices-nationwide\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"WAEC bars visitors from offices nationwide\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:The West African Examinations Council (WAEC), Nigeria has barred visitors from its offices nationwide to guard against the\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/waec-bars-visitors-from-offices-nationwide\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-03-23T19:16:19+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/03\/WAEC-640x375-1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"640\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"375\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/waec-bars-visitors-from-offices-nationwide#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/waec-bars-visitors-from-offices-nationwide\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"WAEC bars visitors from offices nationwide\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-03-23T19:16:19+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/waec-bars-visitors-from-offices-nationwide\"},\"wordCount\":197,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/waec-bars-visitors-from-offices-nationwide#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/03\/WAEC-640x375-1.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"NCDC\",\"WAEC\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/waec-bars-visitors-from-offices-nationwide#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/waec-bars-visitors-from-offices-nationwide\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/waec-bars-visitors-from-offices-nationwide\",\"name\":\"WAEC bars visitors from offices nationwide - 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