Board refuses to allow company reward students until they pay N1.8m

14:37 - 22 February 2016

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Reports have surfaced which showed that WAEC is demanding over N1m before they can provide list of brilliant students for commendation.

The West African Examination Council, WAEC, has been accused of demanding money before they can submit list of brilliant students to a company who wants to reward them.

According to reports, Edubox, a company which seeks to encourage brilliant students by rewarding them with such things as schorlarship, cash prizes, etc, on December 8, requested that WAEC sends them a list of students who did very well in the May/June West African Senior Secondary Examination for the year, 2014/2015 in each states in Nigeria.

WAEC responded to this letter on January 20th, saying the cost of processing such data will be N1, 850, 000. 00 (one million eight hundred and fifty thousand naira only).

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This means that the exam board will be denying dozens of students a chance to be rewarded and assisted in continuing their education.

Representative of Edubox confirmed this incident to Pulse.ng, saying, "Yes the information was correct. WAEC requested 1.8m to bank draft cheque from our company. I called the number on the letter to confirm if it's was just a joke but I was told that it was the standard amount."

The exam board is yet to release a statement confirming or denying the issue.