The Federal Government has stopped Nigerian students from participating in the West African Senior School Certificate Examinations (WASSCE) earlier scheduled to hold between August 4 to September 5.
It has also suspended its plan to allow final year students in federal schools to resume.
The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, made this known after a meeting of the Federal Executive Council presided over by the President Muhammadu Buhari.
Adamu said federal schools would remain closed until it is safe to reopen them, while urging state governments to suspended their scheduled resumptions.
Adamu maintained that the West African Examinations Council could not determine the resumption date of Nigerian schools, adding that he would prefer that Nigerian students lose an academic year than to expose them to the danger of coronavirus pandemic.
