Senate queries WAEC over SSCE subject modifications

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The Senate on Tuesday summoned the Minister of Education, Dr. Tunji Alausa, and the Head of the National Office of the West African Examinations Council, Dr. Amos Dangut, to explain sudden changes to the 2025/2026 Senior Secondary Certificate Examination subject structure.

The upper chamber’s action followed a motion by Senator Sunday Karimi (APC – Kogi West), who warned that the revised subject structure could destabilise SS3 students preparing for the May/June 2026 examinations.

The new rules reportedly alter core subject requirements and introduce additional subjects that many schools are not fully prepared to teach.

Karimi cautioned that the abrupt changes risk mass failure next year, noting that students might be required to sit for subjects they neither registered for nor received adequate instruction in. Punch