It is with great pleasure that I address this gathering and welcome members of the Council of West African Examinations Council, WAEC to Nigeria and to 65th Annual Council Meeting. I welcome you all to Abuja, Nigeria’s capital. I would also like to thank the Chairman and Members of Council for the privilege given to Nigeria to host this year’s meeting.

Perhaps needless to say, WAEC needs no introduction in Nigeria or indeed anywhere within English-Speaking West Africa. It’s widely known and widely respected even though it doesn’t blow its own trumpet. It doesn’t need to do so, because most or perhaps all of us here are evidence of its successes. We are all children of WAEC, and we are therefore its trumpets and blowers all rolled into one. We are the fruit of WAEC and we can confidently say it has been true to its mandate.