UNIZIK Partners With NOA To Counter Exam Malpractice

The Vice-Chancellor, Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka, Professor Charles Esimone, has described examination malpractice as one of the major challenges facing the Nation’s education system.

Speaking while playing host to the Anambra State Director of the National Orientation Agency, Mr Charles Nwoji who called on him in his office, on Friday, Professor Esimone said that examination malpractice is something the university has not relented in fighting.

Professor Esimone, who equally said that the Drug abuse is causing depression among members of the society, assured that the university will partner the National Orientation Agency in the fight against drug abuse, examination malpractice and cultism.

Briefing, the Vice-Chancellor on the motive behind the visit, the Director of National Orientation Agency, Mr Nwoji, said that the agency, in March last year, obtained permission from the Anambra State Commissioner for Basic Education to interact with Secondary School students in the state on the inherent dangers of cultism, examination malpractice and drug abuse.

The Director who said that he has been following the activities of the University with keen interest maintained that what he came for has to do with the newly admitted students of the University on the need to desist from drug abuse, exam-malpractice and cultism.

He said that the agency commenced the programme since 2014 with the University of Calabar, adding that he equally wants the programme to start with the Premier Universities in the state and urged the Vice-Chancellor to give the agency a chance to interact with the new students during their orientation programmes with a view to sensitising them on the dangers of drug abuse, examination-malpractice and cultism.

In a related development, the Anambra state government in partnership with Nnamdi Azikiwe University Business School, Awka has commenced the training of three hundred