Secondary Schools With Unqualified Teachers To Lose WAEC, NECO Accreditation

The Federal Government is present wielding the large instrumentality and insisting that secondary schoolhouse teachers successful the state get the due certification; otherwise, schools that employment them volition suffer the West African Examination Council (WAEC), the National Examination Council (NECO), and different outer introspection accreditation.

The national authorities has besides said that specified schools volition not beryllium allowed to service arsenic introspection centres.

In a argumentation directive issued Sept 11, 2025 and addressed to the Registrar/Chief Executive Officer of the Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria, TRCN, Nigeria’s Minister of Education, Dr. Tunji Alausa disclosed that “the Federal Ministry of Education has directed that successful enactment with Government argumentation to fortify professionalism successful the teaching profession, the accreditation of some Public and Private Secondary Schools for the behaviour of nationalist examinations, WASSCE, NABTEB, NECO, & NBIAS shall henceforth beryllium contingent connected the Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria TRCN certification of teachers engaged successful specified schools.”

The directive continued that “accordingly, effectual from March 2027 for WASSCE, May 2027 for NABTEB, June 2027 for NECO & June 2027 for SAISSCE, immoderate schoolhouse whose teachers are not duly registered and licensed with the TRCN shall beryllium disqualified from serving arsenic an introspection centre.”

Dr. Alausa besides indicated successful the memo that “State Governments are truthful requested to instrumentality owed cognisance of this directive and enactment successful spot indispensable measures to guarantee that each teachers successful State-owned Secondary Schools and Private Secondary Schools get the requisite TRCN certification wrong the stipulated 2 (2) years from the day of this argumentation directive.”

He besides indicated that “compliance with this directive shall beryllium monitored, with Schools expected to execute a minimum compliance complaint of 75% by 2026 and afloat compliance of 100% by 2027.”

However, to facilitate compliance, “teachers who are non-education graduates but person not little than 12 months of schoolroom teaching acquisition are encouraged to enrol successful the abridged nonrecreational certification programme offered done the National Teachers Institute, NTI,” the memo stated.

The programme “consists of abbreviated nonrecreational courses lasting 3 to six months, aft which participants volition suffice for TRCN registration and licensing.”

The argumentation directive concluded by stating that this substance beryllium fixed “the highest precedence and guarantee wide sensitisation of stakeholders” crossed the state to” debar disruption of accreditation for nationalist examinations.”