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WAEC: COURT RULE AGAINST CANCELLATION OF STUDENT'S RESULT

A Benue state high court has ruled as unlawful and unwarranted, the decision of the West African Examination Council (WAEC) to cancel the result/scores of Isaac Terkuve Agbakor, plaintiff in a suit filed before it against the examination body. Delivering judgement in the suit marked MHC/37/2023, with WAEC as the sole defendant, Justice Tertsea Kume, declared that the unilateral cancellation of the result of the plaintiff in English and Mathematics by the defendant without giving the plaintiff an opportunity to defend himself of any allegation is an infringement on his fundamental right to fair hearing and therefore granted an order, mandating the defendant to restore and release the plaintiff's score/result in English Language and General Mathematics forthwith. The court also directed the defendant to issue a certificate to the plaintiff covering all the nine subjects the plaintiff registered and sat for in the said examination in contention. Earlier in his defence, WAEC through it