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 “2020 rent canceled for everyone. All the students living in Sungai Pacific Lodge Umudike who paid their rent early this year 2020 before the STRIKE/COVID lockdown, your paid rent have been shifted to 2021, debtors included, any new payment will start counting from 2021,” he said A Nigerian man identified as Steven Ukpabi has become a source of joy to some students in Umudike, Abia state after he canceled the 2020 rent for those staying in his hostel. He has been praised on Facebook for the empathic act, considering how tumultuous the year 2020 has been for many people. Recall that since March 2020, university students have been at home owing to the shutdown of schools caused by the global coronavirus pandemic, and in addition the Academic Staff Union of Universities has been on a 9-month long strike. This means that students have spent a larger part of their learning year, at home hence any rent paid for accommodation in school would have gone to waste. Ukpabi who felt the need t...

West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has cancelled the entire results of some candidates who sat its 2019 private series and 2020 school-based West African Senior School Certificate Examinations (WASSCEs) and also barred them from sitting for its future examinations for a certain number of years. The examination body also banned some schools for life or some years from presenting candidates for its future exams even as it is also planned to formally report all exam officials including supervisors and invigilators with proven cases of malpractice against them during the various exams to their appropriate authorities for sanction. Head of Public Affairs of WAEC, Nigeria, Mr Demianus Ojijeogwu, made this known in a statement, on Monday, without giving statistics nor names of individuals and institutions involved recalls that a total of 215,149 (representing 13. 98 per cent) of 1, 538,445 candidates, who sat the 2020 school-based WASSCE were involved in malpractice according to WAEC’s ...