HISTORY

HISTORY

WAEC was established in 1952. Click here to learn more about our history. WAEC's responsibility is to determine examinations required in the public interest in West African Countries. Click here for details on our profile. The Council consists of sixty members from all the five member countries. Click here to meet the members.				The West African Examinations Council was established in 1952 following the acceptance of the Jeffery Report by the then colonial Government(s) in the Gold Coast (now Ghana), Nigeria, Sierra-Leone and the Gambia; who passed appropriate ordinances in their Legislative Assemblies in 1951. The ordinances charged the Council with the responsibility of determining the examinations required in the public interest in West Africa, and empowered it to conduct such examinations and award appropriate certificates. The Jeffery Report had strongly recommended the setting up of a West African Examinations Council in the then four British colonies of Nigeria, Gold Coast, Sierra-Leone and The Gambia. Liberia later joined the Council in 1974. The ordinances have now been replaced with the Convention which confers legal personality on the Council as an international organisation. CHAIRMEN OF COUNCIL 1952 - 54 Mr. A. N. Galsworthy Briton 1954 - 60 Dr. J. T. Saunders Briton 1960 - 64 Sir John F. Lockwood Briton 1964 - 69 Davidson S. H. W. Nicol Sierra Leonean 1969 - 72 Prof. T. Adeoye Lambo Nigerian 1972 - 77 Dr. S. T. Matturi Sierra Leonean 1977 - 85 Prof. E. A. Boateng Ghanaian 1985 - 88 Prof. M. 0. Oyawoye Nigerian 1988 - 91 Dr. Lenrie W. Peters Gambian 1991 - 94 Dr. E. Evans-Anfom Ghanaian 1994 - 97 Prof. J. A. Kamara Sierra Leonean 1997 - 2000 Dr. Yahaya Hamza Nigerian 2000 - 2003 Dr. Frederick S. Gbegbe Liberian. 2003 - 2006 Mr. Ousman Alieu Ndow Gambian 2006 - 2009 Prof. Jerome S. Djangmah Ghanaian 2009 - date Prof. Jonas A. S. Redwood-Sawyerr Sierra Leonean