{"id":129527,"date":"2015-06-29T11:43:09","date_gmt":"2015-06-29T11:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=129527"},"modified":"2015-06-29T17:15:39","modified_gmt":"2015-06-29T17:15:39","slug":"bece-resit-underway-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=129527","title":{"rendered":"BECE resit underway [Photos]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Resit of the cancelled Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) papers is currently <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/06\/29\/resit-of-cancelled-bece-papers-begins-today\/#sthash.PYGBTAbo.dpbs\">ongoing in some 1,546 centres<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>across the country.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/BECE-resit-11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-129541\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/BECE-resit-11.jpg\" alt=\"BECE resit (11)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/BECE-resit-11.jpg 640w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/BECE-resit-11-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The West African Examination Council (WAEC) <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/06\/17\/four-bece-papers-cancelled\/#sthash.taMMLGbk.dpbs\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>cancelled five papers<\/strong><\/a><\/span>\u00a0after they went viral on social media.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/BECE-resit-6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-129536\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/BECE-resit-6.jpg\" alt=\"BECE resit (6)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/BECE-resit-6.jpg 640w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/BECE-resit-6-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The subjects were English Language 2, Religious and Moral Education 2, Science 2, Mathematics 2 and Social Studies 2.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/BECE-resit-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-129532\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/BECE-resit-2.jpg\" alt=\"BECE resit (2)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/BECE-resit-2.jpg 640w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/BECE-resit-2-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WAEC has explained that the cancellation was to protect the integrity of the examination.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/BECE-resit-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-129531\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/BECE-resit-1.jpg\" alt=\"BECE resit (1)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/BECE-resit-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/BECE-resit-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>About 438,030 candidates are participating the resit.<\/p>\n<p>In a related development, the Bureau of National Investigations <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/06\/29\/bni-to-monitor-bece-resit-today-minister\/#sthash.bc6RCE0H.dpbs\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>(BNI) is\u00a0heavily involved in the supervision.<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Addressing a gathering at a ceremony in Accra over the weekend the Deputy Minister of Education in charge of Tertiary Education, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa said, \u201cthe National Security and for that matter the BNI investigation we authorized continues. So far significant arrests have been made and the National Security is beginning to have an idea of where the compromises came from. Most importantly, I want to assure the nation that in preparation of the re-run papers the National Security will collaborate with WAEC to administer the exams.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_129539\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-129539\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/BECE-resit-9.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-129539 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/BECE-resit-9.jpg\" alt=\"BECE resit (9)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/BECE-resit-9.jpg 640w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/BECE-resit-9-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-129539\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Deputy Director in charge of Public Affairs at WAEC, Agnes Teye Cudjoe touring some of the centres<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Photos by: Kojo Agyeman\/citimonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Resit of the cancelled Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) papers is currently ongoing in some 1,546 centres\u00a0across the country. The West African Examination Council (WAEC) cancelled five papers\u00a0after they went viral on social media. The subjects were English Language 2, Religious and Moral Education 2, Science 2, Mathematics 2 and Social Studies 2. WAEC has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":129535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[38,16],"class_list":["post-129527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/129535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}